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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2016-06-01
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| Series: | PLoS Genetics |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4927155?pdf=render |