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Cosmid based mutagenesis causes genetic instability in Streptomyces coelicolor, as shown by targeting of the lipoprotein signal peptidase gene.
Scientific reports - 12 Jul 2016
Munnoch John T, Widdick David A, Chandra Govind, Sutcliffe Iain C, Palmer Tracy, Hutchings Matthew I
Abstract excerpt
Bacterial lipoproteins are extracellular proteins tethered to cell membranes by covalently attached lipids. Deleting the lipoprotein signal peptidase (lsp) gene in Streptomyces coelicolor results in growth and developmental defects that cannot be restored by reintroducing lsp. This led us to hypothesise that lsp is essential and that the lsp mutant we isolated previously had acquired compensatory secondary...
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