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Chapter 7<br />

Abstract<br />

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Efficient nutritional gene <strong>regulation</strong> is essential for bacteria <strong>in</strong> order to susta<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong> and<br />

adapt to their cont<strong>in</strong>uously chang<strong>in</strong>g niches. Transcriptional regulators play a crucial role <strong>in</strong><br />

orchestrat<strong>in</strong>g gene expression as a reaction to their direct environment. In Gram-positive<br />

bacteria, nitrogen metabolism has been studied extensively and key transcriptional regulators<br />

have been identified. In addition to metabolic genes, these regulators also affect expression of<br />

virulence genes, suggest<strong>in</strong>g that these processes are <strong>in</strong>tertw<strong>in</strong>ed <strong>in</strong> bacteria and tightly<br />

controlled to <strong>in</strong>crease fitness while resid<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> a particular niche. In this review, we discuss<br />

the role of two transcriptional regulators, GlnR and CodY, <strong>in</strong> nitrogen metabolism of Gram-<br />

positive bacteria <strong>in</strong> general, and <strong>in</strong> the context of virulence <strong>in</strong> <strong>Streptococcus</strong> <strong>pneumoniae</strong> <strong>in</strong><br />

particular.

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