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Chemical conditionality: a genetic strategy to probe organelle assembly.
Cell - 22 Apr 2005
Ruiz Natividad, Falcone Brian, Kahne Daniel, Silhavy Thomas J
Abstract excerpt
The assembly of the Escherichia coli outer membrane (OM) is poorly understood. Although insight into fundamental cellular processes is often obtained from studying mutants, OM-defective mutants have not been very informative because they generally have nonspecific permeability defects. Here we show that toxic small molecules can be used in selections employing strains with permeability defects to create...
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