Hampered motility promotes the evolution of wrinkly phenotype in Bacillus subtilis
A. Richter, T. Holscher, P. Pausch, T. Sehrt, F. Brockhaus, G. Bange, A. T. Kovacs
The paper shows that non-motile Bacillus subtilis mutants evolve matrix overproducers with a wrinkly phenotype due to SinR mutations, which enhance exopolysaccharide production and biofilm formation in the absence of flagella.
bioRxiv · Aug 9, 2018Microbiology