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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2009, p. 5704-5707, Vol. 75, No. 17
0099-2240/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.00198-09
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Role of Flagella in Virulence of the Coral Pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus{triangledown} ,{dagger}

Dalit Meron,1 Rotem Efrony,3 Wesley R. Johnson,4 Amy L. Schaefer,5 Pamela J. Morris,4 Eugene Rosenberg,3 E. Peter Greenberg,5 and Ehud Banin1,2*

The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences,1 the Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel,2 Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv 69978, Israel,3 Marine Biomedicine and Environmental Sciences Center and the Hollings Marine Laboratory, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina 29425,4 Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-72425

Received 28 January 2009/ Accepted 23 June 2009

A recently available transposition system was utilized to isolate a nonmotile mutant of the coral-bleaching pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus. The mutation was localized to the fhlA gene, and the mutant lacked flagella. The flhA mutant was unable to exhibit chemotaxis toward coral mucus or to adhere to corals and subsequently cause infection.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Ramat Gan, Israel 52900. Phone: 972-3-531-7288. Fax: 972-3-738-4058. E-mail: banine{at}mail.biu.ac.il

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 10 July 2009.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://aem.asm.org/.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2009, p. 5704-5707, Vol. 75, No. 17
0099-2240/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.00198-09
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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