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Bacteriophage predation promotes serovar diversification in Listeria monocytogenes.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Jul 2015
Eugster Marcel R, Morax Laurent S, Hüls Vanessa J, Huwiler Simona G, Leclercq Alexandre, Lecuit Marc, Loessner Martin J
Abstract excerpt
Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterial pathogen classified into distinct serovars (SVs) based on somatic and flagellar antigens. To correlate phenotype with genetic variation, we analyzed the wall teichoic acid (WTA) glycosylation genes of SV 1/2, 3 and 7 strains, which differ in decoration of the ribitol-phosphate backbone with N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) and/or rhamnose. Inactivation of lmo1080 or the...
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