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Legionella pneumophila OxyR Is a Redundant Transcriptional Regulator That Contributes to Expression Control of the Two-Component CpxRA System.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Mar 2017
Tanner Jennifer R, Patel Palak G, Hellinga Jacqueline R, Donald Lynda J, Jimenez Celine, LeBlanc Jason J, Brassinga Ann Karen C
Abstract excerpt
Nominally an environmental organism, Legionella pneumophila is an intracellular parasite of protozoa but is also the causative agent of the pneumonia termed Legionnaires' disease, which results from inhalation of aerosolized bacteria by susceptible humans. Coordination of gene expression by a number of identified regulatory factors, including OxyR, assists L. pneumophila in adapting to the stresses of changing...
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