J Bacteriol, February 1998, p. 746-748, Vol. 180, No. 3
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Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
Received 8 May 1997/Accepted 17 November 1997
Haemophilus influenzae Rd is a gram-negative natural transformer. A mutant strain, RJ248, that has normal DNA uptake and translocation but whose transformation frequency is 300 times lower than that of wild-type H. influenzae and whose phage recombination is 8 times lower was isolated. The affected gene, comM, is induced during competence development in wild-type H. influenzae but not in RJ248.
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