V. Mutalik

Surface architecture of the bacterial envelope determines phage adsorption route in pathogenic Escherichia coli O157:H7

The outermost surface layers of Gram-negative bacteria determine phage access to terminal receptors, yet their genetic basis has been mapped almost exclusively in laboratory strains that lack them. Here we apply genome-wide RB-TnSeq fitness profiling to four Escherichia coli O157:H7 strains from distinct phylogenetic c...