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FliC, a flagellin protein, is essential for the growth and virulence of fish pathogen Edwardsiella tarda.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
He Yang, Xu Tingting, Fossheim Leif E, Zhang Xiao-Hua
Abstract excerpt
Edwardsiella tarda is a flagellated gram-negative bacterium which causes edwardsiellosis in fish. FliC, as a flagellar filament structural protein, is hypothesized to be involved in the pathogenesis of infection. In this study, a fliC in-frame deletion mutant of a virulent isolate of E. tarda was constructed through double crossover allelic exchange by means of the suicide vector pRE112, and its...
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