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Author for correspondence: Bruce R. Levin (Email: blevin@emory.edu)
We are grateful to Roberto Kolter and Maria Zambrano not only for their useful comments, suggestions during the early phase of this project, but also for their inspiration.
We also thank Luba Beylina, Nina Walker and Mariastella Tucker for their superb technical support, Julie Cazareth at the cell sorting facility from CNRS UMR-6097 and Grégoire Lauvau at INSERM E-344 (IPMC, Valbonne, France) for invaluable help and suggestions during the FACS experiments, Anne Doye (INSERM, U627) for excellent assistance with the confocal microscopy analysis and for preparing high-quality micrographs, Xin Wang for advice and assistance in constructing glgA and glgP deletions, Lauren Ancel, Mark Jensen, Mary Reynolds, Jeff Smith, Mark Tanaka and Renata Zappala for their comments and suggestions.
We are also grateful to Ivan Matic, Mary Berlyn and her colleagues at the Coli Genetic Stock Center for providing the strains of bacteria used in this investigation, and to Arthur Altenhoefer and Stéphane Méresse for constructs needed for the fluorescent proteins.
We express a particular depth of gratitude for the intellectual and practical (space and facilities) generosity of Ramón Díaz Orejas (CIB, Madrid) in whose laboratory most of the molecular genetic experiments were performed.
This research was supported by grants from the US Nation Institutes of Health, AI40662, GM33782 (B.R.L.), GM59969 (T.R.), CO3/14 of the Spanish Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias and SAF-2002-04649, BFU2005-03911/BMC (R. D. O.), BFU2004-00879 (J.B.) of the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, and a grant from the European Union (QLK2-CT-2001-873, and BIO2005-04278 and LSHM-CT-2005-518152 (F.B.)).
M.L. was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from La Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer.
M.R.B. was in part supported by the Alfonso X el Sabio University in Madrid.
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