Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4558181 Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 2010 11 Pages PDF
Abstract
► Potassium ion concentrations are crucial for the normal process of phagocytic killing of bacteria in hemocytes. ► Provision of the kdpDE two-component potassium sensor from the facultative intracellular pathogen Photorhabdus asymbiotica is sufficient to transform a harmless laboratory strain of E. coli into a lethal intracellular pathogen. ► Resistance to phagocytic killing can be mediated by the action of the Kdp high affinity potassium transporter alone.
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