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Melissa Estrada Escobar

University of California, Santa Cruz

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MicrobiologyPLoS PathogensPeer-reviewedMay 27, 2025

The polyadenylase PAPI is required for virulence plasmid maintenance in pathogenic bacteria

Katherine Schubert, Jessica Zhang, Michele E. Muscolo…·Victoria Auerbuch

This study identifies PAPI (encoded by pcnB) as essential for maintaining virulence and AMR plasmid copy number, stability, and bacterial virulence in Yersinia and Shigella.

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