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SUBMITTER: Michaux C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4187846 | biostudies-other | 2014 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Michaux Charlotte C Hartke Axel A Martini Cecilia C Reiss Swantje S Albrecht Dirk D Budin-Verneuil Aurélie A Sanguinetti Maurizio M Engelmann Susanne S Hain Torsten T Verneuil Nicolas N Giard Jean-Christophe JC
Infection and immunity 20140609 9
Candidate small RNAs (sRNAs) have recently been identified in Enterococcus faecalis, a Gram-positive opportunistic pathogen, and six of these candidate sRNAs with unknown functions were selected for a functional study. Deletion mutants and complemented strains were constructed, and their virulence was tested. We were unable to obtain the ef0869-0870 mutant, likely due to an essential role, and the ef0820-0821 sRNA seemed not to be involved in virulence. In contrast, the mutant lacking ef0408-040 ...[more]