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Characterization of the achromobactin iron acquisition operon in Sodalis glossinidius.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 May 2013
Smith Caitlin L, Weiss Brian L, Aksoy Serap, Runyen-Janecky Laura J
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Sodalis glossinidius is a facultative, extra- and intracellular symbiont found in most tissues of the tsetse fly (Glossinia sp.). Sodalis has a putative achromobactin siderophore iron acquisition system on the pSG1 plasmid. Reverse transcription (RT)-PCR analysis revealed that the achromobactin operon is transcribed as a single polycistronic molecule and is expressed when Sodalis is within the tsetse fly....
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