The virulence factor MgtC is essential for intracellular macrophage survival of Salmonella enterica. Here, the authors show that MgtC targets the PhoB/PhoR regulatory system leading to phosphate uptake inside macrophages and that both phoR mutation and phoB deletion renders Salmonella hypervirulent in mice.
- Soomin Choi
- Eunna Choi
- Eun-Jin Lee
