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SUBMITTER: Camara-Almiron J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7171179 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cámara-Almirón Jesús J Navarro Yurena Y Díaz-Martínez Luis L Magno-Pérez-Bryan María Concepción MC Molina-Santiago Carlos C Pearson John R JR de Vicente Antonio A Pérez-García Alejandro A Romero Diego D
Nature communications 20200420 1
Bacteria can form biofilms that consist of multicellular communities embedded in an extracellular matrix (ECM). In Bacillus subtilis, the main protein component of the ECM is the functional amyloid TasA. Here, we study further the roles played by TasA in B. subtilis physiology and biofilm formation on plant leaves and in vitro. We show that ΔtasA cells exhibit a range of cytological symptoms indicative of excessive cellular stress leading to increased cell death. TasA associates to the detergent ...[more]