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Features of bacterial cellulose synthesis in a mutant generated by disruption of the diguanylate cyclase 1 gene of Acetobacter xylinum BPR 2001.
Applied microbiology and biotechnology - 1 Aug 2004
Bae S O, Sugano Y, Ohi K, Shoda M
Abstract excerpt
The diguanylate cyclase 1 (DGC1) (dgc1) gene in Acetobacter xylinum BPR 2001--a bacterial cellulose (BC) producer--was cloned and sequenced, and a DGC1 gene-disrupted mutant, strain DD, was constructed. The production and structural characteristics of the BC formed by DD were compared with those of the parental strain BPR 2001. BC production by DD was almost the same as that by BPR 2001 in static cultivation and...
Topics
- Cellulose
- Cloning, Molecular
- Colony Count, Microbial
- Culture Media
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Gluconacetobacter xylinus
- Microscopy, Electron
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Phosphorus-Oxygen Lyases