ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017
Self-identity reprogrammed by a single residue switch in a cell surface receptor of a social bacterium.
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- Kin recognition and outer membrane exchange (OME) in myxobacteria.Current opinion in microbiology · 2020Review
- MYXO-CTERM sorting tag directs proteins to the cell surface via the type II secretion system.Molecular microbiology · 2020Article
- Kin discrimination in social yeast is mediated by cell surface receptors of the Flo11 adhesin family.eLife · 2020Article
- Conditional requirement of SglT for type IV pili function and S-motility inMicrobiology (Reading, England) · 2020Article
- Self-identity barcodes encoded by six expansive polymorphic toxin families discriminate kin in myxobacteria.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Variation at an adhesin locus suggests sociality in natural populations of the yeastProceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Direct visualization of a molecular handshake that governs kin recognition and tissue formation in myxobacteria.Nature communications · 2019Article
- Class II contact-dependent growth inhibition (CDI) systems allow for broad-range cross-species toxin delivery within the Enterobacteriaceae family.Molecular microbiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
The ability to recognize close kin confers survival benefits on single-celled microbes that live in complex and changing environments. Microbial kinship detection relies on perceptible cues that reflect relatedness between individuals, although the mechanisms underlying recognition in natural populations remain poorly understood. In myxobacteria, cells identify related individuals through a polymorphic cell surface receptor, TraA. Recognition of compatible receptors leads to outer membrane exchange among clonemates and fitness consequences. Here, we investigated how a single receptor creates a diversity in recognition across myxobacterial populations. We first show that TraA requires its partner protein TraB to function in cell-cell adhesion. Recognition is shown to be
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