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Characterization of a novel bile-inducible operon encoding a two-component regulatory system in Lactobacillus acidophilus.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jul 2007
Pfeiler Erika A, Azcarate-Peril M Andrea, Klaenhammer Todd R
Abstract excerpt
Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM is an industrially important strain used extensively as a probiotic culture. Tolerance of the presence of bile is an attribute important to microbial survival in the intestinal tract. A whole-genome microarray was employed to examine the effects of bile on the global transcriptional profile of this strain, with the intention of elucidating genes contributing to bile tolerance. Genes...
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