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L-fucose influences chemotaxis and biofilm formation in Campylobacter jejuni.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Aug 2016
Dwivedi Ritika, Nothaft Harald, Garber Jolene, Xin Kin Lin, Stahl Martin, Flint Annika, van Vliet Arnoud H M, Stintzi Alain, Szymanski Christine M
Abstract excerpt
Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli are zoonotic pathogens once considered asaccharolytic, but are now known to encode pathways for glucose and fucose uptake/metabolism. For C. jejuni, strains with the fuc locus possess a competitive advantage in animal colonization models. We demonstrate that this locus is present in > 50% of genome-sequenced strains and is prevalent in livestock-associated isolates of...
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