Mutations in Novel Lipopolysaccharide Biogenesis Genes Confer Resistance to Amoebal Grazing in Synechococcus elongatus.

Abstract excerpt

In natural and artificial aquatic environments, population structures and dynamics of photosynthetic microbes are heavily influenced by the grazing activity of protistan predators. Understanding the molecular factors that affect predation is critical for controlling toxic cyanobacterial blooms and maintaining cyanobacterial biomass production ponds for generating biofuels and other bioproducts. We previously...

Topics

• Amoeba
• Animals
• Bacterial Proteins
• Biomass
• Cell Membrane
• Cyanobacteria
• Herbivory
• Ligases
• Lipopolysaccharides
• Models, Molecular
• Mutation