Extracellular secretion of proteins is regarded as a major virulence mechanism in bacterial
infection. Proteins destined for the extracellular environment of gram-negative bacteria have …

In Gram-negative bacteria, type II secretion (T2S) is one of five protein secretion systems that
permit the export of proteins from within the bacterial cell to the extracellular milieu and/or …

Multiple quorum‐sensing circuits function in parallel to control virulence and biofilm
formation in Vibrio cholerae. In contrast to other bacterial pathogens that induce virulence …

Throughout most of history, epidemic and pandemic cholera was caused by Vibrio cholerae
of the serogroup O1. In 1992, however, a V. cholerae strain of the serogroup O139 emerged …

Reversible phase variation between the rugose and smooth colony variants is predicted to
be important for the survival of Vibrio cholerae in natural aquatic habitats. Microarray …

Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of cholera, is a facultative human pathogen with
intestinal and aquatic life cycles. The capacity of V. cholerae to recognize and respond to …

The rice seedling blight fungus Rhizopus microsporus and its endosymbiont Burkholderia
rhizoxinica form an unusual, highly specific alliance to produce the highly potent antimitotic …

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is an enteric pathogen that causes cholera-like
diarrhea in humans and animals. ETEC secretes a heat-labile enterotoxin (LT), which …

Vibrio cholerae undergoes phenotypic variation that generates two morphologically different
variants, termed smooth and rugose. The transcriptional profiles of the two variants differ …

Phase variation between smooth and rugose colony variants of Vibrio cholerae is predicted
to be important for the pathogen's survival in its natural aquatic ecosystems. The rugose …