Role of the two-component signal transduction and the phosphoenolpyruvate:carbohydrate phosphotransferase systems in competence development of Haemophilus influenzae Rd

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作者
Gwinn, ML
Yi, D
Smith, O
Tomb, JF
机构
[1] Department of Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore
[2] Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 505 PCTB
[3] Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville
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10.1128/jb.178.21.6366-6368.1996
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Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
摘要
Haemophilus influenzae Rd becomes competent for transformation by nutritional downshift or transient anaerobic growth through a process that requires cyclic AMP receptor protein and adenylate cyclase. Insertion mutations in crr or ptsI of the phosphoenolpyruvate:carbohydrate phosphotransferase system lowered transformation frequencies, and the effect was reversed by the addition of cyclic AMP. However, insertions into H. influenzae homologs of two-component signal transduction genes had no effect on competence.
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