Three Orphan Histidine Kinases Inhibit Clostridioides difficile Sporulation

The ability of the anaerobic gastrointestinal pathogen Clostridioides difficile to survive outside the host relies on the formation of dormant endospores. Spore formation is contingent on the activation of a conserved transcription factor, Spo0A, by phosphorylation. Multiple kinases and phosphatases...

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