ReviewMicrobiology (Reading, England)2023
Two reasons to kill: predation and kin discrimination in myxobacteria.
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- Genomic insights into novel predatory myxobacteria isolated from human feces.Microbiology spectrum · 2025Article
- Changes in epistatic green-beard alleles induce domain shift in hypostatic rock-paper-scissors-like green-beard competition.NPJ systems biology and applications · 2025Article
- Tad pili with adaptable tips mediate contact-dependent killing during bacterial predation.Nature communications · 2025Article
- The Limits of Our Explanation: A Case Study inBiological theory · 2025Article
- The Predatory Properties of Bradymonabacteria, the Representative of Facultative Prey-Dependent Predators.Microorganisms · 2024Article
- The type II secretion system as an underappreciated and understudied mediator of interbacterial antagonism.Infection and immunity · 2024Review
- The type II secretion system as an underappreciated and understudied mediator of interbacterial antagonism.Infection and immunity · 2024Review
- The type II secretion system as an underappreciated and understudied mediator of interbacterial antagonism.Infection and immunity · 2024Review
- 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
- het-B allorecognition in Podospora anserina is determined by pseudo-allelic interaction of genes encoding a HET and lectin fold domain protein and a PII-like protein.PLoS genetics · 2024Article
- Genetic components ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Myxobacteria are social microbial predators that use cell-cell contacts to identify bacterial or fungal prey and to differentiate kin relatives to initiate cellular responses. For prey killing, they assemble Tad-like and type III-like secretion systems at contact sites. For kin discrimination (KD), they assemble outer membrane exchange complexes composed of the TraA and TraB receptors at contacts sites. A type VI secretion system and Rhs proteins also mediate KD. Following cellular recognition, these systems deliver appropriate effectors into target cells. For prey, this leads to cell death and lysis for nutrient consumption by myxobacteria. In KD, a panel of effectors are delivered, and if adjacent cells are clonal cells, resistance ensues because they express a cognate panel of immunity factors; while nonkin lack complete immunity and are intoxicated. This review compares and contrasts recent findings from these systems in myxobacteria.
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