The uncertain consequences of transferring bacterial strains between laboratories - rpoS instability as an example

The constancy of global regulation across a species: the concentrations of ppGpp and RpoS are strain-specific in Escherichia coli

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Divergence Involving Global Regulatory Gene Mutations in an Escherichia coli Population Evolving under Phosphate Limitation

(2010) Lei Wang et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Polymorphism and selection of rpoS in pathogenic Escherichia coli

(2009) Tao Dong et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

The Response Regulator SprE (RssB) Modulates Polyadenylation and mRNA Stability in Escherichia coli

(2009) V. J. Carabetta et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Genomic Sequencing Reveals Regulatory Mutations and Recombinational Events in the Widely Used MC4100 Lineage of Escherichia coli K-12

(2009) T. Ferenci et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Magic spot: (p) ppGpp

(2009) Jun Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY

(p)ppGpp: Still Magical?

(2008) Katarzyna Potrykus et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology