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However, transcriptional regulators that directly controlled\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">yggS<\/jats:italic>\n                      had remained unknown. Here, using\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Alcaligenes faecalis<\/jats:italic>\n                      JQ135, PhpR, a previously unrecognized MocR-family regulator, was identified as a transcriptional regulator that directly controlled\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">yggS<\/jats:italic>\n                      . Deletion of\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">yggS<\/jats:italic>\n                      in strain JQ135 impaired cell growth and caused intracellular PLP imbalance. PhpR (PLP homeostasis-related protein regulator,\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">phpR<\/jats:italic>\n                      ) directly repressed\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">yggS<\/jats:italic>\n                      transcription by binding a conserved non-palindromic promoter motif in a PLP-dependent manner. Comparative genomic analyses further revealed that the adjacent\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">yggS-phpR<\/jats:italic>\n                      gene pair was divergently transcribed and highly conserved, but restricted to\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Alcaligenes<\/jats:italic>\n                      species. 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