A Negative Feedback Loop That Limits the Ectopic Activation of a Cell Type–Specific Sporulation Sigma Factor of Bacillus subtilis

• Mónica Serrano,

  Affiliation Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Gonçalo Real ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gonçalo Real, Joana Santos

  Affiliation Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Joana Santos ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gonçalo Real, Joana Santos

  Current address: Institute for the Biotechnology of Infectious Diseases, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

  Affiliation Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Jorge Carneiro,

  Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Charles P. Moran Jr.,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Adriano O. Henriques

  * E-mail: aoh@itqb.unl.pt

  Affiliation Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

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