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The RpoS sigma factor relieves H-NS-mediated transcriptional repression of csgA, the subunit gene of fibronectin-binding curli in Escherichia coli.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Feb 1993
Olsén A, Arnqvist A, Hammar M, Sukupolvi S, Normark S
Abstract excerpt
Curli encoded by the curlin subunit gene, csgA, are fibronectin- and laminin-binding fibres expressed by many natural Escherichia coli and E. coli K-12 strains in response to low temperature, low osmolarity and stationary-phase growth conditions. Curli expression is dependent on RpoS, a sigma factor that controls many stationary phase-inducible genes. Many commonly used K-12 strains carry an amber mutation in...
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