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N -Acyl-l-Homoserine Lactone Autoinducers Control Production of an Extracellular Lipopeptide Biosurfactant Required for Swarming Motility of Serratia liquefaciens MG1
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Nonswarming SerratiaEngineeringGeneticsMolecular BiologyMolecular GeneticsProtein SynthesisBiosynthesisSwarming MotilityQuorum SensingLipid ResourceSerrawettin W2 ProductionMolecular MicrobiologyProtein BiosynthesisBiomolecular EngineeringGenetic EngineeringMicrobiologyMedicineGenome EditingMutagenesis
A nonswarming Serratia liquefaciens mutant deficient in serrawettin W2 production was constructed by transposon mutagenesis. Sequence homology indicated that insertion had occurred in geneswrA, which encodes a putative peptide synthetase. Expression of swrA is controlled by quorum sensing.