Article
Effects of luxCDABEG induction in Vibrio fischeri: enhancement of symbiotic colonization and conditional attenuation of growth in culture.
Archives of microbiology - 1 Aug 2008
Bose Jeffrey L, Rosenberg Charles S, Stabb Eric V
Abstract excerpt
Production of bioluminescence theoretically represents a cost, energetic or otherwise, that could slow Vibrio fischeri growth; however, bioluminescence is also thought to enable full symbiotic colonization of the Euprymna scolopes light organ by V. fischeri. Previous tests of these models have proven inconclusive, partly because they compared nonisogenic strains, or undefined and/or pleiotropic mutants. To test...
Topics
- Aliivibrio fischeri
- Animals
- Bacterial Proteins
- Decapodiformes
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
- Luminescence
- Luminescent Proteins
- Mutation
- Operon
- Symbiosis
