Mutant Bacterial Receptor Could Point to New therapies against Opportunistic Pathogen (IMAGE)

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Mutant Bacterial Receptor Could Point to New therapies against Opportunistic Pathogen

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RhlR* stimulates colony biofilm formation in P. aeruginosa in the absence of an autoinducer. Colony biofilm phenotypes of the designated P. aeruginosa strains following growth for 120 hours on tryptone Congo-red medium. Scale bar is 2 mm for all images. Images are representative of three biological replicates and two technical replicates for each biological replicate.

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McCready AR, et al. (2019)

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