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Review
. 1999 Feb;2(1):40-5.
doi: 10.1016/s1369-5274(99)80007-1.

Virulence gene regulation by peptides in staphylococci and other Gram-positive bacteria

R P Novick  1 , T W Muir
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Review

Virulence gene regulation by peptides in staphylococci and other Gram-positive bacteria

R P Novick et al. Curr Opin Microbiol. 1999 Feb.
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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.

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