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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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Autores principales: Prudhomme, Marc, Berge, Mathieu, Martin, Bernard, Polard, Patrice
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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