| Literature DB >> 22328669 |
Katherine A Rempe1, Angela K Hinz, Viveka Vadyvaloo.
Abstract
The plague bacillus Yersinia pestis can achieve transmission by biofilm blockage of the foregut proventriculus of its flea vector. Hfq is revealed to be essential for biofilm blockage formation and acquisition and fitness of Y. pestis during flea gut infection, consistent with posttranscriptional regulatory mechanisms in plague transmission.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22328669 PMCID: PMC3318476 DOI: 10.1128/JB.06568-11
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Bacteriol ISSN: 0021-9193 Impact factor: 3.490