The horizontally-acquired response regulator SsrB drives a Salmonella lifestyle switch by relieving biofilm silencing

• Main Authors: Desai, Stuti K, Winardhi, Ricksen S, Periasamy, Saravanan, Dykas, Michal M, Jie, Yan, Kenney, Linda J
• Other Authors: Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Biofilms
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82888; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40363
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A common strategy by which bacterial pathogens reside in humans is by shifting from a virulent lifestyle, (systemic infection), to a dormant carrier state. Two major serovars of Salmonella enterica, Typhi and Typhimurium, have evolved a two-component regulatory system to exist inside Salmonella-cont...