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Bacterial competence is a genetically programmed process that is triggered as a response to environmental stimuli. DNA uptake from the extracellular milieu by competence requires the expression of a complex machinery composed of a competence pseudopilus and a DNA translocase. In L. pneumophila, it ...
ORGANISM(S): Legionella pneumophila 
Legionella pneumophila is the causative agent of Legionnaires’ disease, an acute pulmonary infection. L. pneumophila is able to infect and multiply in both phagocytic protozoan, such as Acanthamoeba castellanii, and mammalian professional phagocytes. The best-known virulence determinant used by L. p...
ORGANISM(S): Legionella pneumophila subsp. pneumophila str. Philadelphia 1 
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