... two mutants in bacterial clearance might reflectdifferences in the integrity of their outer membrane,binding activity and sensitivity of the murine comple-ment-mediated killing. In conclusion, ... identificationusing primers b1X and b1B, and the inactivated lpxXmutant was verified by sequencing.Cloning of lpxL and construction of the knockoutmutant O35ElpxLA DNA sequence containing the lpxL ... lane 2; Fig. 2D,lane 4), and none was detected in that of O35E(Fig. 2B,D, lane 1), showing a single insertion into thegenome of each mutant.To determine whether the insertion had a polareffect...