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Phage-selected lipopolysaccharide mutants of Pectobacterium atrosepticum exhibit different impacts on virulence.
Journal of applied microbiology - 1 Aug 2010
Evans T J, Ind A, Komitopoulou E, Salmond G P C
Abstract excerpt
AIMS: To positively select Pectobacterium atrosepticum (Pa) mutants with cell surface defects and to assess the impact of these mutations on phytopathogenesis. METHODS AND RESULTS: Several phages were isolated from treated sewage effluent and were found to require bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) for infection. Two strains with distinct mutations in LPS were obtained by transposon mutagenesis. Along with a...
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