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The Hybrid Histidine Kinase LadS Forms a Multicomponent Signal Transduction System with the GacS/GacA Two-Component System in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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Tetrameric c-di-GMP Mediates Effective Transcription Factor Dimerization to Control Streptomyces Development

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(2014) E. Krol et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Peptidoglycan Synthesis Machinery in Agrobacterium tumefaciens During Unipolar Growth and Cell Division

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A Genome-Wide Screen for Bacterial Envelope Biogenesis Mutants Identifies a Novel Factor Involved in Cell Wall Precursor Metabolism

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Cyclic di-GMP: the First 25 Years of a Universal Bacterial Second Messenger

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Substrate specificity of an elongation-specific peptidoglycan endopeptidase and its implications for cell wall architecture and growth ofVibrio cholerae

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An early cytoplasmic step of peptidoglycan synthesis is associated to MreB inBacillus subtilis

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Flow cytometry-based enrichment for cell shape mutants identifies multiple genes that influenceHelicobacter pylorimorphology

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Independent Activity of the Homologous Small Regulatory RNAs AbcR1 and AbcR2 in the Legume Symbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti

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Dynamic FtsA and FtsZ localization and outer membrane alterations during polar growth and cell division in Agrobacterium tumefaciens

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Bi-modal Distribution of the Second Messenger c-di-GMP Controls Cell Fate and Asymmetry during the Caulobacter Cell Cycle

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Three redundant murein endopeptidases catalyse an essential cleavage step in peptidoglycan synthesis ofEscherichia coliK12

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Peptidoglycan-Modifying Enzyme Pgp1 Is Required for Helical Cell Shape and Pathogenicity Traits in Campylobacter jejuni

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Multiple Peptidoglycan Modification Networks Modulate Helicobacter pylori's Cell Shape, Motility, and Colonization Potential

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Analysis of the HD-GYP Domain Cyclic Dimeric GMP Phosphodiesterase Reveals a Role in Motility and the Enzootic Life Cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi

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Crystal Structure of Outer Membrane Protein NMB0315 from Neisseria meningitidis

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Plasmid electroporation of Sinorhizobium strains: The role of the restriction gene hsdR in type strain Rm1021

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(2009) William Margolin   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Beyond antibiotic resistance: integrating conjugative elements of the SXT/R391 family that encode novel diguanylate cyclases participate to c-di-GMP signalling inVibrio cholerae

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Polar Localization of the CckA Histidine Kinase and Cell Cycle Periodicity of the Essential Master Regulator CtrA in Caulobacter crescentus

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LytM-Domain Factors Are Required for Daughter Cell Separation and Rapid Ampicillin-Induced Lysis in Escherichia coli

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Crystal Structure of the LasA Virulence Factor from Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Substrate Specificity and Mechanism of M23 Metallopeptidases

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Broad-Host-Range Expression Vectors with Tightly Regulated Promoters and Their Use To Examine the Influence of TraR and TraM Expression on Ti Plasmid Quorum Sensing

(2008) S. R. Khan et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Peptidoglycan Sacculus of Myxococcus xanthus Has Unusual Structural Features and Is Degraded during Glycerol-Induced Myxospore Development

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