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Virulence gene regulation by peptides in staphylococci and other Gram-positive bacteria
February 1999
February 1999
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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.