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No detectable transcriptional response to cytoplasmic bacteria or virulence factors expressed during entry
The loss of virulence associated with the sagA/pel mutant can be reversed by injection of this mutant into the skin of mice and recovering a β-hemolytic positive variant from the kidney 72 hours later.
Our understanding of potential sources of virulence genes will be expanded to include virtually all life on earth - at first glance a frightening prospect.
As the double mutant was susceptible to disease caused by this bacterial strain (data not shown), perhaps this residual gene induction was due to the virulence function of avrRpt2 [ 23 ] . Mutant npr1 plants have previously been shown to be impaired in induction of PR-1 but not PR-5 in response to virulent bacterial pathogen [ 19 ] .
If E. coli can acquire virulence genes from archaea, then potentially any organism is a reservoir of virulence genes for pathogens.