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GASP phenotype: presence in enterobacteria and independence of sigmaS in its acquisition.
FEMS microbiology letters - 29 Aug 2003
Martínez-García Esteban, Tormo Antonio, Navarro-Lloréns Juana María
Abstract excerpt
The appearance of growth advantage in stationary phase or GASP was originally detected in Escherichia coli. The presence of this phenotype in other enterobacteria such as Enterobacter cloacae, Salmonella typhimurium, Providencia stuartii and Shigella dysenteriae is described in this work. E. cloacae GASP strains presented lower levels of RpoS than the parental strain, although no mutation in the gene or its...
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