Nature Communications (May 2018)

Regulatory protein SrpA controls phage infection and core cellular processes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

  • Jiajia You,
  • Li Sun,
  • Xiaojing Yang,
  • Xuewei Pan,
  • Zhiwei Huang,
  • Xixi Zhang,
  • Mengxin Gong,
  • Zheng Fan,
  • Lingyan Li,
  • Xiaoli Cui,
  • Zhaoyuan Jing,
  • Shouguang Jin,
  • Zhiming Rao,
  • Weihui Wu,
  • Hongjiang Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04232-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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You et al. show that SrpA, a small protein widely conserved among bacteria, controls core cellular processes in response to phage infection and environmental signals in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, including cell motility, chemotaxis, biofilm formation, and virulence.