Analysis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa diguanylate cyclases and phosphodiesterases reveals a role for bis-(3'-5')-cyclic-GMP in virulence.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on February 13, 2006

Authors

Hemantha Kulasakara1, Vincent Lee, Anja Brencic, Nicole Liberati, Jonathan Urbach, Sachiko Miyata, Daniel G Lee, Alice N Neely, Mamoru Hyodo, Yoshihiro Hayakawa, Frederick M Ausubel, Stephen Lory

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1: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

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