Attenuation of the sensing capabilities of PhoQ in transition to obligate insect-bacterial association.
Sodalis glossinidius, a maternally inherited endosymbiont of the tsetse fly, maintains genes encoding homologues of the PhoP-PhoQ two-component regulatory system. This two-component system has been extensively studied in facultative bacterial pathogens and is known to serve as an environmental magne...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2011-11-01
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| Series: | PLoS Genetics |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3207850?pdf=render |