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Gene inactivation of a chemotaxis operon in the pathogen Leptospira interrogans.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Jan 2015
Lambert Ambroise, Wong Ng Jérôme, Picardeau Mathieu
Abstract excerpt
Chemotaxis may have an important role in the infection process of pathogenic Leptospira spp.; however, little is known about the regulation of flagellar-based motility in these atypical bacteria. We generated a library of random transposon mutants of the pathogen L. interrogans, which included a mutant with insertion in the first gene of an operon containing the chemotaxis genes cheA, cheW, cheD, cheB, cheY and...
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