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Complementation of a Clostridium perfringens spo0A mutant with wild-type spo0A from other Clostridium species.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Sept 2006
Huang I-Hsiu, Sarker Mahfuzur R
Abstract excerpt
To evaluate whether C. perfringens can be used as a model organism for studying the sporulation process in other clostridia, C. perfringens spo0A mutant IH101 was complemented with wild-type spo0A from four different Clostridium species. Wild-type spo0A from C. acetobutylicum or C. tetani, but not from C. botulinum or C. difficile, restored sporulation and enterotoxin production in IH101. The ability of spo0A...
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