Regulation of ribosome hibernation controls Legionella survival, infection, antibiotic tolerance, and phenotypic heterogeneity.

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Bacterial virulence is regulated by the growth phase and ribosome activity, implicating the formation of translationally silent ("hibernating") ribosomes. Legionella pneumophila, the causative agent of Legionnaires' disease, is a facultative intracellular bacterium that grows in both environmental amoebae and mammalian macrophages. Thus far, ribosome hibernation factors of L. pneumophila have not been...

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