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No Change, No Life? What We Know about Phase Variation in Staphylococcus aureus

Phase variation (PV) is a well-known phenomenon of high-frequency reversible gene-expression switching. PV arises from genetic and epigenetic mechanisms and confers a range of benefits to bacteria, constituting both an innate immune strategy to infection from bacteriophages as well as an adaptation...

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Autores principales: Gor, Vishal, Ohniwa, Ryosuke L., Morikawa, Kazuya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7911514/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33503998
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9020244