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Essential gene deletions producing gigantic bacteria

To characterize the consequences of eliminating essential functions needed for peptidoglycan synthesis, we generated deletion mutations of Acinetobacter baylyi by natural transformation and visualized the resulting microcolonies of dead cells. We found that loss of genes required for peptidoglycan p...

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Autores principales: Bailey, Jeannie, Cass, Julie, Gasper, Joe, Ngo, Ngoc-Diep, Wiggins, Paul, Manoil, Colin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6586353/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31181062
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008195