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Identification and characterization of a novel competence gene, comC, required for DNA binding and uptake in
C Link1, S Eickernjäger, D Porstendörfer
1Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany.
Journal of Bacteriology
|March 27, 1998
Abstract:
A gene (comC) essential for natural transformation was identified in Acinetobacter sp. strain BD413. ComC has a typical leader sequence and is similar to different type IV pilus assembly factors. A comC 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.