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SUBMITTER: Connolly JP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4699771 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Connolly James P R JP Gabrielsen Mads M Goldstone Robert J RJ Grinter Rhys R Wang Dai D Cogdell Richard J RJ Walker Daniel D Smith David G E DG Roe Andrew J AJ
PLoS pathogens 20160104 1
The ability of any organism to sense and respond to challenges presented in the environment is critically important for promoting or restricting colonization of specific sites. Recent work has demonstrated that the host metabolite D-serine has the ability to markedly influence the outcome of infection by repressing the type III secretion system of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) in a concentration-dependent manner. However, exactly how EHEC monitors environmental D-serine is not under ...[more]