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The sugar phosphotransferase system of Vibrio fischeri inhibits both motility and bioluminescence.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Mar 2007
Visick Karen L, O'Shea Therese M, Klein Adam H, Geszvain Kati, Wolfe Alan J
Abstract excerpt
Magnesium-dependent induction of Vibrio fischeri flagellar (Mif) biogenesis depends upon two diguanylate cyclases, suggesting an inhibitory role for cyclic di-GMP. Here, we report that cells defective for the sugar phosphotransferase system (PTS) exhibited a magnesium-independent phenotype similar to that of mutants of the Mif pathway. Unlike Mif mutants, PTS mutants also were hyperbioluminescent.
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