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The Transcriptional Regulator Lrp Contributes to Toxin Expression, Sporulation, and Swimming Motility in Clostridium difficile.
Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology - 1 Jan 2019
Chen Kuan-Yu, Rathod Jagat, Chiu Yi-Ching, Chen Jenn-Wei, Tsai Pei-Jane, Huang I-Hsiu
Abstract excerpt
Clostridium difficile is a Gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium, and major cause of nosocomial diarrhea. Related studies have identified numerous factors that influence virulence traits such as the production of the two primary toxins, toxin A (TcdA) and toxin B (TcdB), as well as sporulation, motility, and biofilm formation. However, multiple putative transcriptional regulators are reportedly encoded in the...
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