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  <http://id.crossref.org/issn/2041-1723> dct:title "Nature Communications (Nat Commun)" .
  <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29206-7> dct:abstract "A central question concerning natural competence is why orthologs of competence genes are conserved in non-competent bacterial species, suggesting they have a role other than in transformation. Here we show that competence induction in the human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus occurs in response to ROS and host defenses that compromise bacterial respiration during infection. Bacteria cope with reduced respiration by obtaining energy through fermentation instead. Since fermentation is energetically less efficient than respiration, the energy supply must be assured by increasing the glycolytic flux. The induction of natural competence increases the rate of glycolysis in bacteria that are unable to respire via upregulation of DNA- and glucose-uptake systems. A competent-defective mutant showed no such increase in glycolysis, which negatively affects its survival in both mouse and Galleria infection models. Natural competence foster genetic variability and provides S. aureus with additional nutritional and metabolic possibilities, allowing it to proliferate during infection." ;
    dct:date "2022-03-21" ;
    dct:isPartOf <http://id.crossref.org/issn/2041-1723> ;
    dct:title "The induction of natural competence adapts staphylococcal metabolism to infection" ;
    <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/issue> "13" ;
    <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/volume> "2022" ;
    a <http://purl.org/spar/fabio/ResearchPaper> .
  orcid:0000-0002-1481-2996 <http://schema.org/affiliation> <https://ror.org/0259fwx54> ;
    foaf:name "Konrad U. Förstner" .
  orcid:0000-0002-6937-6394 foaf:name "Julia García-Fernández" .
  orcid:0000-0002-7355-0674 foaf:name "Ana Eulalio" .
  orcid:0000-0002-8627-3813 foaf:name "Daniel Lopez" .
  orcid:0000-0003-2705-4781 foaf:name "Ivan C. Acosta" .
  <https://ror.org/0259fwx54> foaf:name "ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences: Cologne, DE" .
  sub:author-list rdf:_1 orcid:0000-0002-1481-2996 .
  sub:author-list__1 rdf:_2 orcid:0000-0002-7355-0674 .
  sub:author-list__2 rdf:_3 orcid:0000-0002-8627-3813 .
  sub:author-list__3 rdf:_4 orcid:0000-0002-6937-6394 .
  sub:author-list__4 rdf:_5 orcid:0000-0003-2705-4781 .
}