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Requirement of phosphatidylglycerol for flagellation of Escherichia coli.
FEBS letters - 30 Aug 1993
Tomura A, Ishikawa T, Sagara Y, Miki T, Sekimizu K
Abstract excerpt
We report that phosphatidylglycerol is required for flagellation of Escherichia coli. Cells carrying the pgsA3 mutation did not form swarm rings in semisolid agar. P1 transduction experiments revealed that the potential for phosphatidylglycerol synthesis and for the formation of swarm rings was co-transducible. The pgsA3 mutant transformed with the wild type pgsA+ gene cloned into the R-plasmid vector had the...
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