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The polar and lateral flagella from Plesiomonas shigelloides are glycosylated with legionaminic acid

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Microbiology, June 2015
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Title
The polar and lateral flagella from Plesiomonas shigelloides are glycosylated with legionaminic acid
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Frontiers in Microbiology, June 2015
DOI 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00649
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Susana Merino, Eleonora Aquilini, Kelly M. Fulton, Susan M. Twine, Juan M. Tomás

Abstract

Plesiomonas shigelloides is the unique member of the Enterobacteriaceae family able to produce polar flagella when grow in liquid medium and lateral flagella when grown in solid or semisolid media. In this study on P. shigelloides 302-73 strain, we found two different gene clusters, one exclusively for the lateral flagella biosynthesis and the other one containing the biosynthetic polar flagella genes with additional putative glycosylation genes. P. shigelloides is the first Enterobacteriaceae were a complete lateral flagella cluster leading to a lateral flagella production is described. We also show that both flagella in P. shigelloides 302-73 strain are glycosylated by a derivative of legionaminic acid (Leg), which explains the presence of Leg pathway genes between the two polar flagella regions in their biosynthetic gene cluster. It is the first bacterium reported with O-glycosylated Leg in both polar and lateral flagella. The flagella O-glycosylation is essential for bacterial flagella formation, either polar or lateral, because gene mutants on the biosynthesis of Leg are non-flagellated. Furthermore, the presence of the lateral flagella cluster and Leg O-flagella glycosylation genes are widely spread features among the P. shigelloides strains tested.

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Country Count As %
Mexico 1 4%
Unknown 22 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 3 13%
Student > Master 3 13%
Professor 3 13%
Other 2 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 9%
Other 4 17%
Unknown 6 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 17%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 13%
Environmental Science 2 9%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 2 9%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 9%
Other 4 17%
Unknown 6 26%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 June 2015.
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#14,167,750
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#12,236
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#134,516
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#181
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