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Small secreted proteins enable biofilm development in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus.
Scientific reports - 25 Aug 2016
Parnasa Rami, Nagar Elad, Sendersky Eleonora, Reich Ziv, Simkovsky Ryan, Golden Susan, Schwarz Rakefet
Abstract excerpt
Small proteins characterized by a double-glycine (GG) secretion motif, typical of secreted bacterial antibiotics, are encoded by the genomes of diverse cyanobacteria, but their functions have not been investigated to date. Using a biofilm-forming mutant of Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 and a mutational approach, we demonstrate the involvement of four small secreted proteins and their GG-secretion motifs in...
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