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Role of RsmA in the regulation of swarming motility and virulence factor expression in Proteus mirabilis.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Jan 2003
Liaw Shwu-Jen, Lai Hsin-Chih, Ho Shen-Wu, Luh Kwen-Tay, Wang Won-Bo
Abstract excerpt
Swarming by Proteus mirabilis involves differentiation of typical short vegetative rods into filamentous hyper-flagellated swarm cells that undergo cycles of rapid and co-ordinated population migration across surfaces and exhibit high levels of virulence gene expression. RsmA (repressor of secondary metabolites) and CsrA, its homologue in Escherichia coli, control many phenotypic traits, such as motility and...
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