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Regulation of the Enterococcus faecalis pAD1-related sex pheromone response: analyses of traD expression and its role in controlling conjugation functions.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Oct 1998
do Carmo de Freire Bastos M, Tomita H, Tanimoto K, Clewell D B
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The Enterococcus faecalis haemolysin plasmid pAD1 (60 kb) confers a conjugative mating response to an octapeptide sex pheromone (cAD1) secreted by plasmid-free strains. The response involves two plasmid-borne regulatory determinants: traE1, whose product positively regulates all or most conjugation-related structural genes; and traA, whose product negatively regulates traE1 by controlling transcriptional...
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