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Reversible and specific extracellular antagonism of receptor-histidine kinase signaling.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 22 Feb 2002
Lyon Gholson J, Wright Jesse S, Christopoulos Arthur, Novick Richard P, Muir Tom W
Abstract excerpt
Staphylococcal pathogenesis is regulated by a two-component quorum-sensing system, agr, activated by a self-coded autoinducing peptide (AIP). The agr system is widely divergent and is unique in that variant AIPs cross-inhibit agr activation in heterologous combinations. Cross-inhibition, but not self-activation, is widely tolerant of structural diversity in the AIPs so that these two processes must involve...
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