A previously cryptic diguanylate cyclase can be active and allows Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus to become a selective predator on human pathogens

Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus is a small deltaproteobacterium which invades, grows and replicates rapidly inside the periplasm of other Gram-negative bacteria including human pathogens in a Host-dependent (HD) manner. Cyclic-di-GMP is a second bacterial messenger that controls complex processes in bact...

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Main Author: Al-Bayati, Asmaa Mohammed Sulaiman
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2017
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48110/