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AstR-AstS, a new two-component signal transduction system, mediates swarming, adaptation to stationary phase and phenotypic variation in Photorhabdus luminescens.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Apr 2004
Derzelle Sylviane, Ngo Saravuth, Turlin Évelyne, Duchaud Éric, Namane Abdelkader, Kunst Frank, Danchin Antoine, Bertin Philippe, Charles Jean-François
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Photorhabdus luminescens is an insect-pathogenic bacterium that forms a symbiosis with specific entomopathogenic nematodes. In this bacterium, a symbiosis-'deficient' phenotypic variant (known as the secondary variant or form II) arises at a low frequency during prolonged incubation. A knock-out...
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