FliC, a flagellin protein, is essential for the growth and virulence of fish pathogen Edwardsiella tarda.

Edwardsiella tarda is a flagellated gram-negative bacterium which causes edwardsiellosis in fish. FliC, as a flagellar filament structural protein, is hypothesized to be involved in the pathogenesis of infection. In this study, a fliC in-frame deletion mutant of a virulent isolate of E. tarda was co...

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Main Authors: Yang He, Tingting Xu, Leif E Fossheim, Xiao-Hua Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3443227?pdf=render