ArticleJournal of bacteriology2004
Dynamics of fruiting body morphogenesis.
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- Data-Driven Models Reveal Mutant Cell Behaviors Important for Myxobacterial Aggregation.mSystems · 2020Article
- Myxococcus xanthus truncated globin HbO: in silico analysis and functional characterization.Molecular biology reports · 2019Article
- An iso-15 : 0 O-alkylglycerol moiety is the key structure of the E-signal in Myxococcus xanthus.Microbiology (Reading, England) · 2016Article
- Mechanism for Collective Cell Alignment in Myxococcus xanthus Bacteria.PLoS computational biology · 2015Article
- Continuum modeling of clustering of myxobacteria.New journal of physics · 2013Article
- Interconnected cavernous structure of bacterial fruiting bodies.PLoS computational biology · 2012Article
- Social interaction in synthetic and natural microbial communities.Molecular systems biology · 2011Review
- Statistical image analysis reveals features affecting fates of Myxococcus xanthus developmental aggregates.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2011Article
- Combinatorial regulation of fmgD by MrpC2 and FruA during Myxococcus xanthus development.Journal of bacteriology · 2011Article
- Experimentally guided computational model discovers important elements for social behavior in myxobacteria.PloS one · 2011Article
- Cell flexibility affects the alignment of model myxobacteria.Biophysical journal · 2010Article
- Myxobacteria, polarity, and multicellular morphogenesis.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2010Review
- Uniform categorization of biocommunication in bacteria, fungi and plants.World journal of biological chemistry · 2010Article
- Spatial simulations of myxobacterial development.PLoS computational biology · 2010Article
- Spatial organization of Myxococcus xanthus during fruiting body formation.Journal of bacteriology · 2007Article
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Abstract
Myxobacteria build their species-specific fruiting bodies by cell movement and then differentiate spores in specific places within that multicellular structure. New steps in the developmental aggregation of Myxococcus xanthus were discovered through a frame-by-frame analysis of a motion picture. The formation and fate of 18 aggregates were captured in the time-lapse movie. Still photographs of 600 other aggregates were also analyzed. M. xanthus has two engines that propel the gliding of its rod-shaped cells: slime-secreting jets at the rear and retractile pili at the front. The earliest aggregates are stationary masses of cells that look like three-dimensional traffic jams. We propose a model in which both engines stall as the cells' forward progress is blocked by other cells in the traffic jam. We also propose that these blockades are eventually circumvented by the cell's capacity to turn, which is facilitated by the push of slime secretion at the rear of each cell and by the flexibility of the myxobacterial cell wall. Turning by many cells would transform a traffic jam into an elliptical mound, in which the cells are streaming in closed orbits. Pairs of adjacent mounds are observed to coalesce into single larger mounds, probably reflecting the fusion of orbits in the adjacent mounds. Although fruiting bodies are relatively large structures that contain 10(5) cells, no long-range interactions between cells were evident. For aggregation, M. xanthus appears to use local interactions between its cells.
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