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SUBMITTER: Xue T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3125826 | biostudies-other | 2011 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Xue Ting T You Yibo Y Hong De D Sun Haipeng H Sun Baolin B
Infection and immunity 20110321 6
The Kdp system is widely distributed among bacteria. In Escherichia coli, the Kdp-ATPase is a high-affinity K+ uptake system and its expression is activated by the KdpDE two-component system in response to K+ limitation or salt stress. However, information about the role of this system in many bacteria still remains obscure. Here we demonstrate that KdpFABC in Staphylococcus aureus is not a major K+ transporter and that the main function of KdpDE is not associated with K+ transport but that inst ...[more]