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Phosphoenolpyruvate phosphotransferase system regulates detection and processing of the quorum sensing signal autoinducer-2.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Apr 2012
Pereira Catarina S, Santos António J M, Bejerano-Sagie Michal, Correia Paulo B, Marques Joao C, Xavier Karina B
Abstract excerpt
Autoinducer-2 (AI-2) a signal produced by a range of phylogenetically distant microorganisms, enables inter-species cell-cell communication and regulates many bacterial phenotypes. Certain bacteria can interfere with AI-2-regulated behaviours of neighbouring species by internalizing AI-2 using the Lsr transport system (encoded by the lsr operon). AI-2 imported by the Lsr is phosphorylated by the LsrK kinase and...
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