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Manipulating each MreB of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus gives diverse morphological and predatory phenotypes.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Mar 2010
Fenton Andrew Karl, Lambert Carey, Wagstaff Peter Charles, Sockett Renee Elizabeth
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We studied the two mreB genes, encoding actinlike cytoskeletal elements, in the predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. This bacterium enters and replicates within other Gram-negative bacteria by attack-phase Bdellovibrio squeezing through prey outer membrane, residing and growing filamentously in the prey periplasm forming an infective "bdelloplast," and septating after 4 h, once the prey contents are...
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