Microscopic, genetic, and biochemical characterization of non-flagellar swimming motility in marine cyanobacteria


 * J. McCarren. Ph.D. Thesis. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Univ. of California, San Diego. 2005

[[Media:JM_dissertation_Frontmatter_master.pdf |Frontmatter]]

[[Media:JM_dissertation_Chap1.pdf‎ |Chapter I. Introduction]]

[[Media:JM_dissertation_Chap2.pdf‎ |Chapter II. Ultrastructural analysis of SwmA, a protein required for non-flagellar swimming motility]]

[[Media:JM_dissertation_Chap3.pdf‎ |Chapter III. Inactivation of swmA results in the loss of an outer cell layer in a swimming Synechococcus strain]]

[[Media:JM_dissertation_Chap4.pdf‎ |Chapter IV. Transposon mutagenesis in a marine Synechococcus strain: Isolation of swimming motility mutants]]

[[Media:JM_dissertation_Chap5.pdf‎ |Chapter V. SwmB: a highly repetitive 1.12 MDa protein that is required for non-flagellar swimming motility in Synechococcus]]

[[Media:JM_dissertation_Chap6.pdf‎|Chapter VI. Characterization of Synechococcus swimming motility mutants]]


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