Circulation of a Quorum-Sensing-Impaired Variant of <named-content content-type="genus-species">Vibrio cholerae</named-content> Strain C6706 Masks Important Phenotypes

Circulation of a Quorum-Sensing-Impaired Variant of <named-content content-type="genus-species">Vibrio cholerae</named-content> Strain C6706 Masks Important Phenotypes

ABSTRACT Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of cholera, is a model organism for studying virulence regulation, biofilm formation, horizontal gene transfer, and the cell-to-cell communication known as quorum sensing (QS). As in any research field, discrepancies between data from diverse laboratorie...

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Main Authors: Sandrine Stutzmann, Melanie Blokesch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2016-06-01
Series:mSphere
Subjects:
Vibrio cholerae
luxO mutation
natural competence for transformation
quorum sensing
type VI secretion system
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00098-16

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