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Identification and characterization of a polysaccharide deacetylase gene from Bacillus thuringiensis.
Canadian journal of microbiology - 1 Oct 2006
Hu Kun, Yang Haihua, Liu Gang, Tan Huarong
Abstract excerpt
One polysaccharide deacetylase gene was cloned from Bacillus thuringiensis and designated pdaA. Disruption of pdaA did not affect vegetative growth and sporulation but obviously affected spore germination. When L-alanine was added into the spore suspension, the spores of the pdaA disruption mutant showed a slow and partial reduction in absorbance at OD600 and became phase pale gray compared with phase dark of the...
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