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Legionella dumoffii Tex-KL Mutated in an Operon Homologous to traC-traD is Defective in Epithelial Cell Invasion.
Biomedical and environmental sciences : BES - 1 Jun 2016
Qin Tian, Ken-Ichiro Iida, Ren Hong Yu, Zhou Hai Jian, Yoshida Shin-Ichi
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OBJECTIVE: To understand the mechanism of invasion by Legionella dumoffii. METHODS: The L. dumoffii strain Tex-KL was mutated using the Tn903 derivative, Tn903dIIlacZ. After screening 799 transposon insertion mutants, we isolated one defective mutant. We then constructed the gene-disrupted mutant, KL16, and studied its invasion of and intracellular growth in HeLa and A549 cells, and in A/J mice survival...
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