Regulation by cyclic di-GMP attenuates dynamics and enhances robustness of bimodal curli gene activation in Escherichia coli

• Olga Lamprecht ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Olga Lamprecht, Maryia Ratnikava

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Blood Transfusion Service Zurich, Swiss Red Cross (SRC), Schlieren, Switzerland

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology and Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO), Marburg, Germany

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• Maryia Ratnikava ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Olga Lamprecht, Maryia Ratnikava

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology and Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO), Marburg, Germany

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• Paulina Jacek,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology and Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO), Marburg, Germany

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• Eugen Kaganovitch,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology and Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO), Marburg, Germany

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• Nina Buettner,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology and Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO), Marburg, Germany

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• Kirstin Fritz,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology and Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO), Marburg, Germany

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• Ina Biazruchka,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology and Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO), Marburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3308-5181

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• Robin Köhler,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology and Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO), Marburg, Germany

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• Julian Pietsch,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology and Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO), Marburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9992-2384

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• Victor Sourjik

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: victor.sourjik@synmikro.mpi-marburg.mpg.de

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology and Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO), Marburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1053-9192

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