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Silhavy, Thomas J. |
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Princeton University |
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Microbial Biology |
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Genetics |
 Election Citation
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Silhavy was the first to identify a component of the E. coli protein secretion machinery and the first to describe a "two component system", a major family of bacterial regulatory elements that sense a variety of environmental signals and transduce the information to transcriptionally regulate gene expression. |
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