A Cardiolipin-Deficient Mutant of Rhodobacter sphaeroides Has an Altered Cell Shape and Is Impaired in Biofilm Formation.

doi:10.1128/JB.00420-15

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A Cardiolipin-Deficient Mutant of Rhodobacter sphaeroides Has an Altered Cell Shape and Is Impaired in Biofilm Formation.

Journal of bacteriology - 1 Nov 2015

Lin Ti-Yu, Santos Thiago M A, Kontur Wayne S, Donohue Timothy J, Weibel Douglas B

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UNLABELLED: Cell shape has been suggested to play an important role in the regulation of bacterial attachment to surfaces and the formation of communities associated with surfaces. We found that a cardiolipin synthase (Δcls) mutant of the rod-shaped bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides--in which synthesis of the anionic, highly curved phospholipid cardiolipin (CL) is reduced by 90%--produces ellipsoid-shaped cells...

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Bacterial Proteins
Biofilms
Cardiolipins
Membrane Proteins
Mutation
Rhodobacter sphaeroides
Transferases (Other Substituted Phosphate Groups)

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PMID: 26283770
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00420-15
PMCID: PMC4621061

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