An FDA decision is pending on the use of this organism in Mutaflor therapy.
An FDA decision is pending on the use of this organism in Mutaflor therapy. Since 1988 this organism has been studied at a Michigan State University lab where it evolved the ability to use citrate as an energy source. The Meselson-Stahl experiment proved that DNA replication is semiconservative using this organism, and Joshua Lederberg discovered its conjugation mechanism of gene exchange. Humans depend on this organism to produce vitamin K in the colon, though its O157:H7 [zero one five seven h seven] strain can cause deadly food poisoning, such as in contaminated spinach in 2006. Name this rod-shaped gut bacteria, the most important model organism of molecular genetics.
An FDA decision is pending on the use of this organism in Mutaflor therapy.
Escherichia coli