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The rap and hor proteins of Erwinia, Serratia and Yersinia: a novel subgroup in a growing superfamily of proteins regulating diverse physiological processes in bacterial pathogens.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Nov 1997
Thomson N R, Cox A, Bycroft B W, Stewart G S, Williams P, Salmond G P
Abstract excerpt
The enteric bacterium Serratia marcescens is an opportunistic human pathogen. The strain ATCC39006 makes the red pigment, prodigiosin (Pig), and the beta-lactam antibiotic carbapenem (Car). Mutants were isolated that were concomitantly defective for Pig and Car production. These mutants were found to have a mutation in the rap gene (Regulation of Antibiotic and Pigment). Sequence analysis of the rap gene revealed...
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