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SUBMITTER: Tomlinson AD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3068688 | biostudies-other | 2010 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Tomlinson Amelia D AD Ramey-Hartung Bronwyn B Day Travis W TW Merritt Peter M PM Fuqua Clay C
Microbiology (Reading, England) 20100624 Pt 9
The ubiquitous plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens attaches efficiently to plant tissues and abiotic surfaces and can form complex biofilms. A genetic screen for mutants unable to form biofilms on PVC identified disruptions in a homologue of the exoR gene. ExoR is a predicted periplasmic protein, originally identified in Sinorhizobium meliloti, but widely conserved among alphaproteobacteria. Disruptions in the A. tumefaciens exoR gene result in severely compromised attachment to abiotic sur ...[more]