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Pneumococcal Competence Coordination Relies on a Cell-Contact Sensing Mechanism
Bacteria have evolved various inducible genetic programs to face many types of stress that challenge their growth and survival. Competence is one such program. It enables genetic transformation, a major horizontal gene transfer process. Competence development in liquid cultures of Streptococcus pneu...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4927155/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27355362 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1006113 |