Erschienen:
American Society for Microbiology, 1998
Erschienen in:Journal of Bacteriology
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1128/jb.180.6.1592-1595.1998
ISSN:
0021-9193;
1098-5530
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<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title>
<jats:p>
A gene (
<jats:italic>comC</jats:italic>
) essential for natural transformation was identified in
<jats:italic>Acinetobacter</jats:italic>
sp. strain BD413. ComC has a typical leader sequence and is similar to different type IV pilus assembly factors. A
<jats:italic>comC</jats:italic>
mutant (T308) is not able to bind or take up DNA but exhibits a piliation phenotype indistinguishable from the transformation wild type as revealed by electron microscopy.
</jats:p>