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SUBMITTER: Evenhuis JP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2765149 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Evenhuis Jason P JP Lapatra Scott E SE Verner-Jeffreys David W DW Dalsgaard Inger I Welch Timothy J TJ
Applied and environmental microbiology 20090821 20
Here we demonstrate that flagellar secretion is required for production of secreted lipase activity in the fish pathogen Yersinia ruckeri and that neither of these activities is necessary for virulence in rainbow trout. Our results suggest a possible mechanism for the emergence of nonmotile biotype 2 Y. ruckeri through the mutational loss of flagellar secretion. ...[more]