Synthetic genetic oscillators demonstrate the functional importance of phenotypic variation in pneumococcal-host interactions

Abstract Phenotypic variation is the phenomenon in which clonal cells display different traits even under identical environmental conditions. This plasticity is thought to be important for processes including bacterial virulence, but direct evidence for its relevance is often lacking. For instance,...

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Main Authors: Anne-Stéphanie Rueff, Renske van Raaphorst, Surya D. Aggarwal, Javier Santos-Moreno, Géraldine Laloux, Yolanda Schaerli, Jeffrey N. Weiser, Jan-Willem Veening
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43241-y