Induction of natural competence in Bacillus cereus ATCC14579

Natural competence is the ability of certain microbes to take up exogenous DNA from the environment and integrate it in their genome. Competence development has been described for a variety of bacteria, but has so far not been shown to occur in Bacillus cereus. However, orthologues of most proteins...

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Main Authors: Mirończuk, Aleksandra M., Kovács, Ákos T., Kuipers, Oscar P.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2008
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3815884/