ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020
The polar Ras-like GTPase MglA activates type IV pilus via SgmX to enable twitching motility in
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- Tad pili with adaptable tips mediate contact-dependent killing during bacterial predation.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- Combinatorial control of type IVa pili formation by the four polarized regulators MglA, SgmX, FrzS, and SopA.Journal of bacteriology · 2024Article
- A deterministic, c-di-GMP-dependent program ensures the generation of phenotypically similar, symmetric daughter cells during cytokinesis.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Tight-packing of large pilin subunits provides distinct structural and mechanical properties for theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Distinct dynamics and proximity networks of hub proteins at the prey-invading cell pole in a predatory bacterium.Journal of bacteriology · 2024Article
- Methods and Measures for Investigating Microscale Motility.Integrative and comparative biology · 2023Review
- A miniTurbo-based proximity labeling protocol to identify conditional protein interactomes in vivo in Myxococcus xanthus.STAR protocols · 2023Article
- Molecular basis and design principles of switchable front-rear polarity and directional migration in Myxococcus xanthus.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Bacterial Motility and Its Role in Skin and Wound Infections.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- FrzS acts as a polar beacon to recruit SgmX, a central activator of type IV pili during Myxococcus xanthus motility.The EMBO journal · 2023Article
- Mathematical modeling of mechanosensitive reversal control inFrontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- A bipartite, low-affinity roadblock domain-containing GAP complex regulates bacterial front-rear polarity.PLoS genetics · 2022Article
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- The differential expression of PilY1 proteins by the HsfBA phosphorelay allows twitching motility in the absence of exopolysaccharides.PLoS genetics · 2022Article
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Abstract
Type IV pili (Tfp) are highly conserved macromolecular structures that fulfill diverse cellular functions, such as adhesion to host cells, the import of extracellular DNA, kin recognition, and cell motility (twitching). Outstandingly, twitching motility enables a poorly understood process by which highly coordinated groups of hundreds of cells move in cooperative manner, providing a basis for multicellular behaviors, such as biofilm formation. In the social bacteria
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