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Protein kinase/phosphatase function correlates with gliding motility in Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Apr 2013
Page Clinton A, Krause Duncan C
Abstract excerpt
Mycoplasma pneumoniae exhibits a novel form of gliding motility that is mediated by the terminal organelle, a differentiated polar structure. Given that genes known to be involved in gliding in other organisms are absent in M. pneumoniae, random transposon mutagenesis was employed to generate mutants with gliding-deficient phenotypes. Transposon insertions in the only annotated Ser/Thr protein kinase gene (prkC;...
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