Defects in gliding motility in mutants of Cytophaga johnsonae lacking a high-molecular-weight cell surface polysaccharide.

doi:10.1128/jb.173.23.7607-7614.1991

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Defects in gliding motility in mutants of Cytophaga johnsonae lacking a high-molecular-weight cell surface polysaccharide.

Journal of bacteriology - 1 Dec 1991

Godchaux W, Lynes M A, Leadbetter E R

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We previously observed (W. Godchaux, L. Gorski, and E.R. Leadbetter, J. Bacteriol. 172:1250-1255, 1990) that two mutants (strains 21 and NS-1) of the gliding bacterium Cytophaga johnsonae that were totally deficient in motility-dependent colony spreading, movement of rafts (groups) of cells as ob...

Topics

Carbohydrates
Cell Movement
Chromatography, Gel
Cytophaga
Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
Immune Sera
Molecular Weight
Mutation
Polysaccharides, Bacterial

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