Print Email Facebook Twitter On the role of the recipient cell during conjugation in Escherichia coli Title On the role of the recipient cell during conjugation in Escherichia coli Author Gezondheidsorganisatie TNO Gaubius Instituut TNO Hoekstra, W.P.M. Havekes, A.M. Publication year 1979 Abstract To study the role of the E. coli recipient cell in conjugation recipient cell mutants deficient in conjugation (Con-) were isolated. Mutants specific for F-type E. coli donor cells (ConF-) and mutants specific deficient in conjugation with I-type donor cells (ConI-) were isolated. Both ConF- and ConI- mutants were blocked in stable mating pair formation. Biochemical analysis of the mutants suggests that the outer membrane protein coded by the ompA gene and LPS are important for recipient activity in F-type conjugation while LPS is important for recipient activity in I-type conjugation. © 1979 Subject Membrane proteinOuter membraneBiochemical analysisCell mutantDonor cell To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:63ce1a2f-82c6-435c-838f-68d6241fefda DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00400773 TNO identifier 286994 Publisher Springer Source Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 45 (45), 13-18 Document type article Files To receive the publication files, please send an e-mail request to TNO Library.