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McsA and B mediate the delocalization of competence proteins from the cell poles of Bacillus subtilis.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Apr 2009
Hahn Jeanette, Kramer Naomi, Briley Kenneth, Dubnau David
Abstract excerpt
During the development of transformability (competence), Bacillus subtilis synthesizes a set of proteins that mediate both the uptake of DNA at the cell poles and the recombination of this DNA with the resident chromosome. Most, if not all, of these Com proteins localize to the poles of the cell, where they associate with one another, and are then seen to delocalize as transformability declines. In this study, we...
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