General secretion pathway (eps) genes required for toxin secretion and outer membrane biogenesis in Vibrio cholerae

M Sandkvist, LO Michel, LP Hough… - Journal of …, 1997 - Am Soc Microbiol
… Other genes, in addition to the eps genes identified in this study, are most likely also … outer
membrane since expression of the epsC to -N genes in E. coli does not lead to extracellular …

Mutations in the Extracellular Protein Secretion Pathway Genes (eps) Interfere with Rugose Polysaccharide Production in and Motility of Vibrio cholerae

A Ali, JA Johnson, AA Franco, DJ Metzger… - Infection and …, 2000 - Am Soc Microbiol
… protein secretion system (gene designated eps) is involved directly or … gene of the eps
operon abolished the production of rugose polysaccharide, reduced the secretion of cholera toxin …

Role of Vibrio polysaccharide (vps) genes in VPS production, biofilm formation and Vibrio cholerae pathogenesis

JCN Fong, KA Syed, KE Klose, FH Yildiz - Microbiology, 2010 - microbiologyresearch.org
genes encoding matrix proteins drastically altered biofilm formation phenotypes. To determine
which genes within the vps gene … mutants for all the vps genes. Many of these mutants …

Diversity and Genetic Basis of Polysaccharide Biosynthesis in Vibrio cholerae

S Sozhamannan, FH Yildiz - … and Molecular Aspects On Cholera, 2011 - Springer
… of the genetics and regulation of EPS/… gene transfer in generating genetic diversity in wav
cluster in spite of limited structural diversity of the core OS. The differences in the five wav gene

Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor: Identification of a gene cluster required for the rugose colony type, exopolysaccharide production, chlorine resistance, and biofilm formation

FH Yildiz, GK Schoolnik - Proceedings of the National …, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
… glycosyl transferases and polymerases; EPS secretion; and EPS modification by the addition
… to homologues of tyrosine phosphatase genes found in the EPS gene clusters of Ralstonia …

Identification of genes involved in the switch between the smooth and rugose phenotypes of Vibrio cholerae

MH Rashid, C Rajanna, A Ali… - FEMS microbiology …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
… RocS, our finding that the rocS mutant is unable to produce an EPS-like material is more
consistent with a diguanlylate cyclase (dgc) mutant that is unable to produce cellulose and V. …

Endochitinase Is Transported to the Extracellular Milieu by the eps-Encoded General Secretory Pathway ofVibrio cholerae

TD Connell, DJ Metzger, J Lynch… - Journal of …, 1998 - Am Soc Microbiol
cholerae, we cloned a gene encoding chitinase activity. Here we report the nucleotide
sequence of a cloned endochitinase gene and establish that the protein encoded by that gene is …

Exopolysaccharide protects Vibrio cholerae from exogenous attacks by the type 6 secretion system

J Toska, BT Ho, JJ Mekalanos - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
… were altered in T6SS effector and EPS genes, we were able to directly measure the effect
of … In this study, we also observed that changes in EPS gene expression result in a …

Genes required for extracellular secretion of enterotoxin are clustered in Vibrio cholerae

LJ Overbye, M Sandkvist, M Bagdasarian - Gene, 1993 - Elsevier
… The gene, epsM, responsible for … cholerae genome, containing the epsE gene that was
previously shown to be required for secretion of cholera toxin [Sandkvist et al., Gene 123 (1993) …

Quorum sensing controls biofilm formation in Vibrio cholerae

BK Hammer, BL Bassler - Molecular microbiology, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
cholerae regulates the transcription of genes involved in exopolysaccharide production (EPS),
and variants that produce EPS and form biofilms arise at high frequency from non-…