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Functional characterization of the competence protein DprA/Smf in Escherichia coli.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Oct 2006
Smeets Leonard C, Becker Stephen C, Barcak Gerard J, Vandenbroucke-Grauls Christina M J E, Bitter Wilbert, Goosen Nora
Abstract excerpt
In several bacterial species that show natural transformation, dprA has been described as a competence gene. The DprA protein has been suggested to be involved in the protection of incoming DNA. However, members of the dprA gene family (also called smf) can be detected in virtually all bacterial species, which suggests that their gene products have a more general function. We examined the function of the DprA/Smf...
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