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The ExsA protein of Bacillus cereus is required for assembly of coat and exosporium onto the spore surface.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jun 2005
Bailey-Smith Karen, Todd Sarah J, Southworth Thomas W, Proctor John, Moir Anne
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The outermost layer of spores of the Bacillus cereus family is a loose structure known as the exosporium. Spores of a library of Tn917-LTV1 transposon insertion mutants of B. cereus ATCC 10876 were partitioned into hexadecane; a less hydrophobic mutant that was isolated contained an insertion in...
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