Quorum sensing and the regulation of multicellular behaviour in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

Yersinia pseudotuberculosis is a human enteropathogen and is the direct ancestor of Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague. For its pathogenicity Y. pseudotuberculosis harbours a virulence plasmid (pYV) encoding genes for a type-III-secretion system (T3SS) which inhibits host phagocytosis an...

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Main Author: Wiechmann, Anja
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2016
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31691/