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Impaired competence in flagellar mutants of Bacillus subtilis is connected to the regulatory network governed by DegU.
Environmental microbiology reports - 1 Feb 2018
Hölscher Theresa, Schiklang Tina, Dragoš Anna, Dietel Anne-Kathrin, Kost Christian, Kovács Ákos T
Abstract excerpt
The competent state is a developmentally distinct phase, in which bacteria are able to take up and integrate exogenous DNA into their genome. Bacillus subtilis is one of the naturally competent bacterial species and the domesticated laboratory strain 168 is easily transformable. In this study, we report a reduced transformation frequency of B. subtilis mutants lacking functional and structural flagellar...
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