Survival of the Fittest: The Relationship of (p)ppGpp With Bacterial Virulence
The signaling nucleotide (p)ppGpp has been the subject of intense research in the past two decades. Initially discovered as the effector molecule of the stringent response, a bacterial stress response that reprograms cell physiology during amino acid starvation, follow-up studies indicated that many...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2020-12-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Microbiology |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2020.601417/full |