ArticleJournal of bacteriology2000
Myxococcus xanthus dif genes are required for biogenesis of cell surface fibrils essential for social gliding motility.
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- A Minimal Threshold of c-di-GMP Is Essential for Fruiting Body Formation and Sporulation in Myxococcus xanthus.PLoS genetics · 2016Article
- Cyclic Di-GMP Regulates Type IV Pilus-Dependent Motility in Myxococcus xanthus.Journal of bacteriology · 2016Article
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- The orphan response regulator EpsW is a substrate of the DifE kinase and it regulates exopolysaccharide in Myxococcus xanthus.Scientific reports · 2015Article
- Cell rejuvenation and social behaviors promoted by LPS exchange in myxobacteria.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
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Abstract
Myxococcus xanthus social (S) gliding motility has been previously reported by us to require the chemotaxis homologues encoded by the dif genes. In addition, two cell surface structures, type IV pili and extracellular matrix fibrils, are also critical to M. xanthus S motility. We have demonstrated here that M. xanthus dif genes are required for the biogenesis of fibrils but not for that of type IV pili. Furthermore, the developmental defects of dif mutants can be partially rescued by the addition of isolated fibril materials. Along with the chemotaxis genes of various swarming bacteria and the pilGHIJ genes of the twitching bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the M. xanthus dif genes belong to a unique class of bacterial chemotaxis genes or homologues implicated in the biogenesis of structures required for bacterial surface locomotion. Genetic studies indicate that the dif genes are linked to the M. xanthus dsp region, a locus known to be crucial for M. xanthus fibril biogenesis and S gliding.
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