Exopolysaccharide production in Caulobacter crescentus: A resource allocation trade-off between protection and proliferation

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Summary

It is shown that in Caulobacter crescentus, presence of an exopolysaccharide capsule provides measurable protection against infection from a lytic paracrystalline S-layer bacteriophage (CR30), but at a metabolic cost that reduces success in a phage-free environment.

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2018-01-02
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Keywords

Caulobacter crescentus, Lytic cycle, Biology, Lysogenic cycle, Microbiology

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