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Comparative genomics hints at dispensability of multiple essential genes in two Escherichia coli L-form strains.
Bioscience reports - 31 Oct 2023
Liu Yunfei, Zhang Yueyue, Kang Chen, Tian Di, Lu Hui, Xu Boying, Xia Yang, Kashiwagi Akiko, Westermann Martin, Hoischen Christian, Xu Jian, Yomo Tetsuya
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Despite the critical role of bacterial cell walls in maintaining cell shapes, certain environmental stressors can induce the transition of many bacterial species into a wall-deficient state called L-form. Long-term induced Escherichia coli L-forms lose their rod shape and usually hold significant mutations that affect cell division and growth. Besides this, the genetic background of L-form bacteria is still...
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