Evenhuis Jason P, Lapatra Scott E, Verner-Jeffreys David W, Dalsgaard Inger, Welch Timothy J
National Center for Cool and Cold Water Aquaculture, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Kearneysville, West Virginia 25430, USA.
Appl Environ Microbiol. 2009 Oct;75(20):6630-3. doi: 10.1128/AEM.01415-09. Epub 2009 Aug 21.
Here we demonstrate that flagellar secretion is required for production of secreted lipase activity in the fish pathogen Yersinia ruckeri and that neither of these activities is necessary for virulence in rainbow trout. Our results suggest a possible mechanism for the emergence of nonmotile biotype 2 Y. ruckeri through the mutational loss of flagellar secretion.