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Quorum sensing by the Lyme disease spirochete
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Quorum sensing by the Lyme disease spirochete
Microbes Infect.
2003 Sep.
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Abstract
The Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, utilizes a LuxS/autoinducer-2-dependent quorum sensing mechanism to control a specific subset of bacterial proteins. It is hypothesized that this system facilitates transmission of B. burgdorferi from feeding ticks into warm-blooded hosts.
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