Short genome report of cellulose-producing commensal Escherichia coli 1094

Abstract Bacterial surface colonization and biofilm formation often rely on the production of an extracellular polymeric matrix that mediates cell-cell and cell-surface contacts. In Escherichia coli and many Betaproteobacteria and Gammaproteobacteria cellulose is often the main component of the extr...

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Main Authors: Joaquin Bernal-Bayard, Laura Gomez-Valero, Aimee Wessel, Varun Khanna, Christiane Bouchier, Jean-Marc Ghigo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-05-01
Series:Standards in Genomic Sciences
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40793-018-0316-0