Quorum-sensing acts at initiation of chromosomal replication in Escherichia coli.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on December 22, 1998

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H L Withers1, K Nordström

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1: Department of Microbiology, Biomedical Centre, Uppsala University, S-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden. helen.withers@mikrobio.uu.se

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