...Séverine Colson; Joachim Stephan; Tina Hertrich; Akihiro Saito; Gilles P. van Wezel; Fritz Titgemeyer; Sébastien Rigali For soil-dwelling bacteria that usually live in a carbon-rich and nitrogen-poor environment, the ability to utilize chitin – the second most abundant polysaccharide on earth...

... are lipoproteins that localize to the cytoplasmic membrane or outer membrane. Disruption of gld genes results not only in loss of motility, but also in resistance to bacteriophages that infect wild-type cells, and loss of the ability to digest the insoluble polysaccharide chitin. Two models that attempt...