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The development of genetic competence is a highly sophisticated process, in which the key transcriptional regulator, ComK, controls the expression of competence genes (van Sinderen et al. 1995; Hamoen 2011).
Lack of expression of competence related genes is expected as THB medium used for propagating S. pneumoniae does not support competence.
The timely expression of competence genes allows the larva to disperse widely before settlement, navigate towards a suitable habitat, detect appropriate inductive cues, and adhere to its chosen substrate.
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Development of genetic competence in Bacillus subtilis results in expression of late competence genes, including comFB.
However, unlike the conceptual competence model, it takes this to be a bias rather than an expression of conceptual competence.
Phosphorylated ComE drives the expression of early competence genes (Claverys and Havarstein 2007).
However, the regulatory processes controlling expression of these competence genes are very different in the different organisms [ 2].
The observed lack of DNA uptake by gut bacteria might also be related to the lack of expression of bacterial competence inside the gut, insufficient free DNA concentrations, suboptimal biochemical conditions for transformation that the use of assay methods were not sensitive enough for detecting low levels of transformation.
Development of genetic competence (Com) in Bacillus subtilis is a highly regulated process that culminates in expression of several late competence genes and formation of the DNA uptake apparatus.
Notably, the genome wide expression profiles of heat-exposed B. subtilis reveal a coherent transcriptional program including known heat shock responses [ 5, 6] and the rapid expression of sporulation and competence genes, the latter only known to be expressed in the stationary growth phase [ 7, 8].
Studies on the expression of the putative competence genes should also yield important clues.
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