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Virulence gene regulation by peptides in staphylococci and other Gram-positive bacteria
1Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine New York University School of Medicine 540 First Ave 2nd floor New York NY 10016 USA. novick@saturn.med.nyu.edu
Current Opinion in Microbiology
|February 27, 1999
Abstract:
In staphylococci, autoinducing peptides activate agr. a global regulator of the expression of genes encoding virulence factors and other exoproteins. During the past year, there have been major advances in the structure-function analysis of these peptides and the regulation of a virulence factor by an autoinducing peptide in pneumococci has been demonstrated.