ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2010
Myxobacteria, polarity, and multicellular morphogenesis.
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- The soil microbial food web revisited: Predatory myxobacteria as keystone taxa?The ISME journal · 2021Article
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- Mutants defective in the production of encapsulin show a tan-phase-locked phenotype in Myxococcus xanthus.Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea) · 2019Article
- Whole transcriptome analysis and gene deletion to understand the chloramphenicol resistance mechanism and develop a screening method for homologous recombination in Myxococcus xanthus.Microbial cell factories · 2019Article
- Amino acids as wetting agents: surface translocation by Porphyromonas gingivalis.The ISME journal · 2019Article
- Myxococcus xanthus truncated globin HbO: in silico analysis and functional characterization.Molecular biology reports · 2019Article
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Abstract
Myxobacteria are renowned for the ability to sporulate within fruiting bodies whose shapes are species-specific. The capacity to build those multicellular structures arises from the ability of M. xanthus to organize high cell-density swarms, in which the cells tend to be aligned with each other while constantly in motion. The intrinsic polarity of rod-shaped cells lays the foundation, and each cell uses two polar engines for gliding on surfaces. It sprouts retractile type IV pili from the leading cell pole and secretes capsular polysaccharide through nozzles from the trailing pole. Regularly periodic reversal of the gliding direction was found to be required for swarming. Those reversals are generated by a G-protein switch which is driven by a sharply tuned oscillator. Starvation induces fruiting body development, and systematic reductions in the reversal frequency are necessary for the cells to aggregate rather than continue to swarm. Developmental gene expression is regulated by a network that is connected to the suppression of reversals.
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