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Functional characterization of Yersinia pestis aerobic glycerol metabolism.
Microbial pathogenesis - 1 Nov 2014
Willias Stephan P, Chauhan Sadhana, Motin Vladimir L
Abstract excerpt
Yersinia pestis biovar Orientalis isolates have lost the capacity to ferment glycerol. Herein we provide experimental validation that a 93 bp in-frame deletion within the glpD gene encoding the glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase present in all biovar Orientalis strains is sufficient to disrupt aerobic glycerol fermentation. Furthermore, the inability to ferment glycerol is often insured by a variety of additional...
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