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Natural transformation of Campylobacter jejuni requires components of a type II secretion system.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Sept 2003
Wiesner Rebecca S, Hendrixson David R, DiRita Victor J
Abstract excerpt
The human pathogen Campylobacter jejuni is one of more than 40 naturally competent bacterial species able to import macromolecular DNA from the environment and incorporate it into their genomes. However, in C. jejuni little is known about the genes involved in this process. We used random transposon mutagenesis to identify genes that are required for the transformation of this organism. We isolated mutants with...
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