A Pyranose-2-Phosphate Motif Is Responsible for Both Antibiotic Import and Quorum-Sensing Regulation in Agrobacterium tumefaciens.

Periplasmic binding proteins (PBPs) in association with ABC transporters select and import a wide variety of ligands into bacterial cytoplasm. They can also take up toxic molecules, as observed in the case of the phytopathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain C58. This organism contains a PBP called...

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Main Authors: Abbas El Sahili, Si-Zhe Li, Julien Lang, Cornelia Virus, Sara Planamente, Mohammed Ahmar, Beatriz G Guimaraes, Magali Aumont-Nicaise, Armelle Vigouroux, Laurent Soulère, John Reader, Yves Queneau, Denis Faure, Solange Moréra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-08-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4526662?pdf=render