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Enterobactin is required for biofilm development in reduced-genome Escherichia coli.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Dec 2011
May Thithiwat, Okabe Satoshi
Abstract excerpt
A variety of bacterial cell surface structures and quorum signalling molecules play a role in biofilm development in Escherichia coli. However, here we show that an engineered reduced-genome E. coli mutant that lacks 17.6% of the parental E. coli genome, including the genes involved in the synthesis of various cell surface structures, such as type 1 fimbriae, curli, exopolysaccharide polymers and the...
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