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Demonstration of a capsule plasmid in Bacillus anthracis
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Virulent and certain avirulent strains of Bacillus anthracis harbor a plasmid, designated pXO2, which is involved in the synthesis of capsules. Two classes of rough, noncapsulated (Cap-) variants were isolated from the capsule-producing (Cap+) Pasteur vaccine strains ATCC 6602 and ATCC 4229. One class was cured of pXO2, and the other class still carried it. Reversion to Cap+ was demonstrable only in rough variants which had retained pXO2. Proof that pXO2 is involved in capsule synthesis came from experiments in which the plasmid was transferred by CP-51-mediated transduction and by a mating system in which plasmid transfer is mediated by a Bacillus thuringiensis fertility plasmid, pXO12. Cells of Bacillus cereus and a previously noncapsulated (pXO2-) strain of B. anthracis produced capsules after the acquisition of pXO2.
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- Green, B. D., Battisti, L., Koehler, T. M., Thorne, C. B., & Ivins, B. E.
- Venue
- Infection and Immunity
- Publisher
- American Society for Microbiology
- Published
- 1985-08
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 291-297
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- 0019-9567 (ISSN-L)
- 1098-5522
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- W2105077075
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- 3.94
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- en
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