Activation of the latent PlcR regulon in Bacillus anthracis

Many genes in Bacillus cereus and Bacillus thuringiensis are under the control of the transcriptional regulator PlcR and its regulatory peptide, PapR. In Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax, PlcR is inactivated by truncation, and consequently genes having PlcR binding sites are expres...

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Main Authors: Sastalla, Inka, Maltese, Lauren M., Pomerantseva, Olga M., Pomerantsev, Andrei P., Keane-Myers, Andrea, Leppla, Stephen H.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Society for General Microbiology 2010
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3068694/