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SUBMITTER: Pollack-Berti A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3034104 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pollack-Berti Amber A Wollenberg Michael S MS Ruby Edward G EG
Environmental microbiology 20100601 8
Recent evidence has indicated that natural genetic transformation occurs in Vibrio cholerae, and that it requires both induction by chitin oligosaccharides, like chitohexaose, and expression of a putative regulatory gene designated tfoX. Using sequence and phylogenetic analyses we have found two tfoX paralogues in all sequenced genomes of the genus Vibrio. Like V. cholerae, when grown in chitohexaose, cells of V. fischeri are able to take up and incorporate exogenous DNA. Chitohexaose-independen ...[more]