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SUBMITTER: Choi E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5617274 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Choi Eunna E Han Yoontak Y Cho Yong-Joon YJ Nam Daesil D Lee Eun-Jin EJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20170905 38
Bacteria use flagella to move toward nutrients, find its host, or retract from toxic substances. Because bacterial flagellum is one of the ligands that activate the host innate immune system, its synthesis should be tightly regulated during host infection, which is largely unknown. Here, we report that a bacterial leader mRNA from the <i>mgtCBR</i> virulence operon in the intracellular pathogen <i>Salmonella enterica</i> serovar Typhimurium binds to the <i>fljB</i> coding region of mRNAs in the ...[more]