Article
Escherichia coli K12 regains its O antigen.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Jan 1994
Liu D, Reeves P R
Abstract excerpt
Extant Escherichia coli K12 strains are phenotypically rough, their lipopolysaccharide having a complete core structure, but no O antigen. We used DNA hybridization and DNA sequencing to show that the rough phenotype of this strain is due to the presence of one of two independent mutations in the...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Chromosome Mapping
- DNA Transposable Elements
- DNA, Bacterial
- Escherichia coli
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genetic Complementation Test
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Multigene Family
- Mutation
- O Antigens
- Polysaccharides, Bacterial
- Species Specificity