Huang Biao; Ru K; Yuan Z; Whitchurch Cynthia; Mattick John
(Amer Soc Microbiology, 2004)
Three mutants with Tn5-B21 insertion in tonB3 (PA0406) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa exhibited defective twitching motility and reduced assembly of extracellular pili. These defects could be complemented with wild-type tonB3.