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The Major Outer Membrane Protein MopB Is Required for Twitching Movement and Affects Biofilm Formation and Virulence in Two Xylella fastidiosa strains.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Nov 2017
Chen Hongyu, Kandel Prem P, Cruz Luisa F, Cobine Paul A, De La Fuente Leonardo
Abstract excerpt
MopB is a major outer membrane protein (OMP) in Xylella fastidiosa, a bacterial plant pathogen that causes losses on many economically important crops. Based on in silico analysis, the uncharacterized MopB protein of X. fastidiosa contains a β-barrel structure with an OmpA-like domain and a predicted calcium-binding motif. Here, MopB function was studied by mutational analysis taking advantage of the natural...
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