ReviewCurrent opinion in microbiology2020
Kin recognition and outer membrane exchange (OME) in myxobacteria.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.
- Predator avoidance promotes inter-bacterial symbiosis with myxobacteria in polymicrobial communities.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Aggregative chimeric multicellularity in the absence of lethal kin discrimination.The ISME journal · 2026Article
- Engineered kin recognition specificities in the TraA cell surface receptor.The ISME journal · 2026Article
- Predator avoidance promotes interbacterial symbiosis with myxobacteria in polymicrobial communities.The ISME journal · 2026Article
- Milestones in the development ofJournal of bacteriology · 2025Review
- Changes in epistatic green-beard alleles induce domain shift in hypostatic rock-paper-scissors-like green-beard competition.NPJ systems biology and applications · 2025Article
- Myxosortase: an intramembrane protease that sorts MYXO-CTERM proteins to the cell surface.mBio · 2025Article
- Cell-cell transfer of adaptation traits benefits kin and actor in a cooperative microbe.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Group-selection via aggregative propagule-formation enables cooperative multicellularity in an individual based, spatial model.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
- Comprehensive Insights into Potential Metabolic Functions of Myxococcota in Activated Sludge Systems.Microbes and environments · 2024Article
- Genome sequences of Mx1, the firstMicrobiology resource announcements · 2023Article
- Bacterial lipid biophysics and membrane organization.Current opinion in microbiology · 2023Review
- Cell-cell communication in African trypanosomes.Microbiology (Reading, England) · 2023Review
- Two reasons to kill: predation and kin discrimination in myxobacteria.Microbiology (Reading, England) · 2023Review
- The role of recognition error in the stability of green-beard genes.Evolution letters · 2023Article
- Complete Genome Sequence Assembly and Annotation for Myxococcus xanthus Strains DK1050 and DK101.Microbiology resource announcements · 2023Article
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- Why have aggregative multicellular organisms stayed simple?Current genetics · 2021Review
- Genomes of NovelApplied and environmental microbiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Myxobacteria conduct complex social traits that requires populations to be highly related and devoid of exploiters. To enrich for clonal cells in populations, they employ kin discrimination mechanisms. One key system involves a polymorphic cell surface receptor, TraA, which recognizes self by homotypic interactions with neighboring myxobacterial cells. Recent studies revealed that TraA and its partner TraB are fluid outer membrane proteins that coalesce into foci upon recognition of kin. The formation of foci leads to transient membrane fusion junctions and the bidirectional exchange of outer membrane components that facilitates cooperative behaviors. Additionally, expansive suites of polymorphic lipoprotein toxins are exchanged, which act as self-identity barcodes that exquisitely discriminate against nonself to assemble homogenous populations.
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