Article
Vibrio fischeri outer membrane protein OmpU plays a role in normal symbiotic colonization.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Nov 2001
Aeckersberg F, Lupp C, Feliciano B, Ruby E G
Abstract excerpt
The nascent light-emitting organ of newly hatched juveniles of the Hawaiian sepiolid squid Euprymna scolopes is specifically colonized by cells of Vibrio fischeri that are obtained from the ambient seawater. The mechanisms that promote this specific, cooperative colonization are likely to require a number of bacterial and host-derived factors and activities, only some of which have been described to date. A...
Topics
- Adhesins, Bacterial
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
- Decapodiformes
- Electric Organ
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
