ReviewMolecular microbiology2014
Molecular recognition in myxobacterial outer membrane exchange: functional, social and evolutionary implications.
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- The Conserved Serine Transporter SdaC Moonlights To Enable Self Recognition.Journal of bacteriology · 2022Article
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- Rapid diversification of wild social groups driven by toxin-immunity loci on mobile genetic elements.The ISME journal · 2020Article
- Kin recognition and outer membrane exchange (OME) in myxobacteria.Current opinion in microbiology · 2020Review
- Kin discrimination and outer membrane exchange in Myxococcus xanthus: Experimental analysis of a natural population.PloS one · 2019Article
- Are CDI Systems Multicolored, Facultative, Helping Greenbeards?Trends in microbiology · 2017Review
- Self-identity reprogrammed by a single residue switch in a cell surface receptor of a social bacterium.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- Reversals and collisions optimize protein exchange in bacterial swarms.Physical review. E · 2017Article
- Kin Recognition in Bacteria.Annual review of microbiology · 2016Review
- Myxobacteria: Moving, Killing, Feeding, and Surviving Together.Frontiers in microbiology · 2016Review
- How Myxobacteria Cooperate.Journal of molecular biology · 2015Review
- 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
- A genetic screen in Myxococcus xanthus identifies mutants that uncouple outer membrane exchange from a downstream cellular response.Journal of bacteriology · 2014Article
- Cooperation and selfishness both occur during molecular evolution.Biology direct · 2014Review
- Myxobacteria produce outer membrane-enclosed tubes in unstructured environments.Journal of bacteriology · 2014Article
- All in the family: kin contact leads to outer membrane exchange.Journal of bacteriology · 2014Article
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Abstract
Through cooperative interactions, bacteria can build multicellular communities. To ensure that productive interactions occur, bacteria must recognize their neighbours and respond accordingly. Molecular recognition between cells is thus a fundamental behaviour, and in bacteria important discoveries have been made. This MicroReview focuses on a recently described recognition system in myxobacteria that is governed by a polymorphic cell surface receptor called TraA. TraA regulates outer membrane exchange (OME), whereby myxobacterial cells transiently fuse their OMs to efficiently transfer proteins and lipids between cells. Unlike other transport systems, OME is rather indiscriminate in what OM goods are transferred. In contrast, the recognition of partnering cells is discriminatory and only occurs between cells that bear identical or closely related TraA proteins. Therefore TraA functions in kin recognition and, in turn, OME helps regulate social interactions between myxobacteria. Here, I discuss and speculate on the social and evolutionary implications of OME and suggest it helps to guide their transition from free-living cells into coherent and functional populations.
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