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Bacterial cell motility of Burkholderia gut symbiont is required to colonize the insect gut.
FEBS letters - 14 Sept 2015
Lee Jun Beom, Byeon Jin Hee, Jang Ho Am, Kim Jiyeun Kate, Yoo Jin Wook, Kikuchi Yoshitomo, Lee Bok Luel
Abstract excerpt
We generated a Burkholderia mutant, which is deficient of an N-acetylmuramyl-l-alanine amidase, AmiC, involved in peptidoglycan degradation. When non-motile ΔamiC mutant Burkholderia cells harboring chain form were orally administered to Riptortus insects, ΔamiC mutant cells were unable to establish symbiotic association. But, ΔamiC mutant complemented with amiC gene restored in vivo symbiotic association. ΔamiC...
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