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Effect of disruption of a gene encoding an autolysin of Enterococcus faecalis OG1RF.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Nov 1998
Qin X, Singh K V, Xu Y, Weinstock G M, Murray B E
Abstract excerpt
A mutant (TX5127) of Enterococcus faecalis OG1RF was generated by disruption mutagenesis of a previously described autolysin gene. TX5127 formed longer chains (2 to 10 cells per chain) than wild-type OG1RF (mainly single cells) during growth in broth even though it had a growth rate similar to that of the parental strain as measured by turbidity and cell count. Autolysin activity, as defined by the ability to...
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