ArticleJournal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea)2019
Mutants defective in the production of encapsulin show a tan-phase-locked phenotype in Myxococcus xanthus.
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- Encapsulated Ferritin-like Proteins: A Structural Perspective.Biomolecules · 2024Review
- A widespread bacterial protein compartment sequesters and stores elemental sulfur.Science advances · 2024Article
- Structure and heterogeneity of a highly cargo-loaded encapsulin shell.Journal of structural biology · 2023Article
- Structure and heterogeneity of a highly cargo-loaded encapsulin shell.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Condensation and Protection of DNA by theInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Encapsulins.Annual review of biochemistry · 2022Review
- Structural characterization of the Myxococcus xanthus encapsulin and ferritin-like cargo system gives insight into its iron storage mechanism.Structure (London, England : 1993) · 2022Article
- Bacterial Nanocompartments: Structures, Functions, and Applications.Journal of bacteriology · 2022Review
- Nanotechnological Applications Based on Bacterial Encapsulins.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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- Advances in encapsulin nanocompartment biology and engineering.Biotechnology and bioengineering · 2021Review
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Abstract
Myxococcus xanthus, a myxobacterium, displays phase variation between yellow phase and tan phase. We found that deletion of the encA gene encoding encapsulin and the encF gene encoding a metalloprotease causes formation of tan colonies that never transform into yellow colonies. The encA and encF mutants were defective in the production of DK-xanthene and myxovirescin. They did not produce extracellular polysaccharides; hence, the cells did not aggregate in liquid and showed reduced swarming on agar plates. The mutants had defective sporulation, but were rescued extracellularly by wild type cells. All these traits indicate that the encA and encF mutants are likely to be tan-phase-locked, and encapsulin has a close relationship with phase variation in M. xanthus. The encA and encF genes are localized in the same gene cluster, encBAEFG (MXAN_3557~MXAN_3553). Unlike the encA and encF genes, deletion of other genes in the cluster did not show tan-phase-locked phenotype.
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