ArticleJournal of bacteriology2011
Role of phase variation in the resistance of Myxococcus xanthus fruiting bodies to Caenorhabditis elegans predation.
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- Spatiochemically Profiling Microbial Interactions with Membrane Scaffolded Desorption Electrospray Ionization-Ion Mobility-Imaging Mass Spectrometry and Unsupervised Segmentation.Analytical chemistry · 2019Article
- Mutants defective in the production of encapsulin show a tan-phase-locked phenotype in Myxococcus xanthus.Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea) · 2019Article
- Filamentation Regulatory Pathways Control Adhesion-Dependent Surface Responses in Yeast.Genetics · 2019Article
- Identification of Functions Affecting Predator-Prey Interactions between Myxococcus xanthus and Bacillus subtilis.Journal of bacteriology · 2016Article
- The biogeography of kin discrimination across microbial neighbourhoods.Molecular ecology · 2016Article
- Biofilm formation protects Escherichia coli against killing by Caenorhabditis elegans and Myxococcus xanthus.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2014Article
- Genetic redundancy, proximity, and functionality of lspA, the target of antibiotic TA, in the Myxococcus xanthus producer strain.Journal of bacteriology · 2014Article
- Phase variation in Myxococcus xanthus yields cells specialized for iron sequestration.PloS one · 2014Article
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Abstract
The phenomenon of phase variation between yellow and tan forms of Myxococcus xanthus has been recognized for several decades, but it is not known what role this variation may play in the ecology of myxobacteria. We confirm an earlier report that tan variants are disproportionately more numerous in the resulting spore population of a M. xanthus fruiting body than the tan vegetative cells that contributed to fruiting body formation. However, we found that tan cells may not require yellow cells for fruiting body formation or starvation-induced sporulation of tan cells. Here we report three differences between the yellow and tan variants that may play important roles in the soil ecology of M. xanthus. Specifically, the yellow variant is more capable of forming biofilms, is more sensitive to lysozyme, and is more resistant to ingestion by bacteriophagous nematodes. We also show that the myxobacterial fruiting body is more resistant to predation by worms than are dispersed M. xanthus cells.
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