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SUBMITTER: Chan JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3911173 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chan Jia Mun JM Guttenplan Sarah B SB Kearns Daniel B DB
Journal of bacteriology 20131202 4
Bacillus subtilis swims in liquid media and swarms over solid surfaces, and it encodes two sets of flagellar stator homologs. Here, we show that B. subtilis requires only the MotA/MotB stator during swarming motility and that the residues required for stator force generation are highly conserved from the Proteobacteria to the Firmicutes. We further find that mutants that abolish stator function also result in an overproduction of the extracellular polymer poly-γ-glutamate (PGA) to confer a mucoi ...[more]