Function of BriC Peptide in the Pneumococcal Competence and Virulence Portfolio
S. D. Aggarwal, R. Eutsey, J. West-Roberts, A. Domenech, W. Xu, I. T. Abdullah, A. P. Mitchell, J.-W. Veening, H. Yesilkaya, N. L. Hiller
This study identifies BriC as a competence-induced gene in Streptococcus pneumoniae that promotes biofilm development and colonization, with its expression regulated by the ComE master regulator and showing genomic plasticity in some isolates.
bioRxiv · Jul 10, 2018Microbiology