The Two-Component Signal Transduction System ArlRS Regulates Staphylococcus epidermidis Biofilm Formation in an ica-Dependent Manner

• Yang Wu,

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Public Health, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R. China

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• Jiaxue Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jiaxue Wang, Tao Xu

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Public Health, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R. China

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• Tao Xu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jiaxue Wang, Tao Xu

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Public Health, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R. China

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• Jingran Liu,

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Public Health, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R. China

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• Wenqi Yu,

  Affiliation Microbial Genetics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Qiang Lou,

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Public Health, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R. China

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• Tao Zhu,

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Public Health, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R. China

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• Nianan He,

  Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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• Haijing Ben,

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Public Health, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R. China

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• Jian Hu,

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Public Health, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R. China

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• Friedrich Götz,

  Affiliation Microbial Genetics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Di Qu

  * E-mail: dqu@shmu.edu.cn

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Public Health, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R. China

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