​ New virulence regulator of diarrhea pathogen discovered

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Source: © Franz Narberhaus

While it was already known that RNA molecules enable direct temperature sensing in the model organism Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, a new study reveals that the Fis protein also plays a regulatory role at the DNA level.

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