New paper now published in #mSystems by Pascal Hols' lab with some help from us (Johann Mignolet) where 3 cool genome-wide #CRISPRi screens are used to study competence in #Streptococcus #salivarius. It finds that #competence increases upon cell wall impairment with a role for #StkP
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msystems.00735-22