Myxococcus xanthus
CrdS and CrdA Comprise a Two Component System That Is Cooperatively Regulated by the Che3 Chemosensory System in Myxococcus xanthus
... ABSTRACT Myxococcus xanthus serves as a model organism for development and complex signal transduction. Regulation of developmental aggregation and sporulation is controlled, in part, by the Che3 ...
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Allopatric integrations selectively change host transcriptomes, leading to varied expression efficiencies of exotic genes in Myxococcus xanthus
... rium Myxococcus xanthus ...M. xanthus might be up to 160 μ g/L- titer [11], the yields in those distantly related hosts were lower than 1 μ g/L, or undetectable [9, 10], probably due to ...
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Site specific receptor methylation of FrzCD in Myxococcus xanthus is controlled by a tetra trico peptide repeat (TPR) containing regulatory domain of the FrzF methyltransferase
... Myxococcus xanthus is a Gram-negative bacterium that has a complex life cycle that involves vegetative swarming, predation and fruiting body formation (Reichenbach, 1999; Shimkets, 1999; Kaiser, 2003; 2004; ...
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Increasing on-target cleavage efficiency for CRISPR/Cas9-induced large fragment deletion in Myxococcus xanthus
... The Myxococcus xanthus DK1622 is a model strain of the myxobacteria and has been developed as an effi- cient host for the expression of secondary metabolites from other difficult-to-handle myxobacteria, ...
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Three-Dimensional Observations of an Aperiodic Oscillatory Gliding Behavior in Myxococcus xanthus Using Confocal Interference Reflection Microscopy
... deltaproteobacterium Myxococcus xanthus is a model for bacterial motility and has provided unprecedented insights into bacterial swarming ...M. xanthus bacteria and show that cells undergo previously ...
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The High-Mobility Group A-Type Protein CarD of the Bacterium Myxococcus xanthus as a Transcription Factor for Several Distinct Vegetative Genes
... In Myxococcus xanthus, CarD has been previously shown to act as a positive element in two different regulatory networks: one for light-induced synthesis of carotenoids and the other for starvation-induced ...
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Bergeler, Silke (2018): Positioning mechanisms in bacterial cells: midcell sensing in Myxococcus xanthus. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Physik
... bacterium Myxococcus xanthus, the proteins PomX and PomY form a cluster on the chromosome that performs a biased random walk to midcell and positively regulates cell division ...
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Two Lipid Signals Guide Fruiting Body Development of Myxococcus xanthus
... ABSTRACT Myxococcus xanthus produces several extracellular signals that guide fruiting body morphogenesis and spore differ- entiation. Mutants defective in producing a signal may be rescued by codevelopment ...
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Cloning and characterisation of developmental genes in "Myxococcus xanthus" using a plasmid based promoter probe
... Cloning and Characterisation of Developmental Genes In Myxococcus xanthus using a Plasmid based Promoter Probe.. of Phi Iosophy..[r] ...
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Feedback and molecular interactions in the process of light induced carotenogenesis in Myxococcus xanthus
... singlet oxygen molecular oxygen triplet protoporphyrin IX base pairs cytidine triphosphate deoxyribonucleic acid dithiothreitol deoxyadenosine triphosphate deoxyguanosine triphosphate de[r] ...
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Genic and allelic interactions in the carotenogenic response of myxococcus xanthus to blue light.
... Mutations at the carR locus and the only mutation known at carA cause constitutive expression of carB and thus remove the light requirement for carotenoid accumula[r] ...
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Transposon Insertions of magellan-4 That Impair Social Gliding Motility in Myxococcus xanthus
... M. xanthus involves the inter- action between two organelles, type IV pili and exopoly- saccharide/fibril material, and is much better ...M. xanthus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Haemophilus influenzae (see ...
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Whole transcriptome analysis and gene deletion to understand the chloramphenicol resistance mechanism and develop a screening method for homologous recombination in Myxococcus xanthus
... Previously, the cat gene was introduced into the genome of M. xanthus via either transposition or site-directed insertion (Mx8) [8]. Subsequently, the cat gene was used as a marker, flanked by two loxP sites, to ...
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Towards the mechanism of carotenogenesis in Myxococcus xanthus
... The xanthus strain designated MR148, isolated by Martlnez-Laborda (1986), has a Car” phenotype due to the insertlonal inactivation of the carB gene. This is currently the only strain available which is deficient ...
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Analysis of a putative crtW gene of Myxococcus xanthus
... It proved impossible to isolate pJAM156 transformants of DK101 and UWM303 despite a number of attempts. A number of putative DK1622 [pJAM156] transformants were however obtained. Ten of these transformants were then ...
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Further genetic studies of the carQRS region of Myxococcus xanthus
... One system often used by bacteria fo r the regulation of response to an external signal is the "two component" system (Stock et al., 1989) and indeed, one such system has already been reported in M. ...
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RECOMBINATION IN THE VICINITY OF INSERTIONS OF TRANSPOSON Tn5 IN MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS
... A small amount of XDNA was also added to the ColEI::Tn5 DNA before nick translation (previous paragraph) to allow radioautographic visualization of the XDNA size standards. x[r] ...
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Synthesis and Assembly of a Novel Glycan Layer in Myxococcus xanthus Spores
... Consistent with the lack of spore coat material observed in our previous study, only approximately 46 µg material per 108 cells ~31% of wild type material could be isolated from the ∆exo[r] ...
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Filamentous proteins of Myxococcus xanthus and Escherichia coli: Evidence for the presence of actin-like proteins in prokaryotes.
... W e have used the procedure o f Minkoff and Damadian [2] to prepare a protein extract o f E. coli B/r that contains bundles o f well resolved filaments (Fig.. 1) as well as clumps o f more dispersed, though obscured, ...
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CRISPR/dCas9-mediated transcriptional improvement of the biosynthetic gene cluster for the epothilone production in Myxococcus xanthus
... by electroporation into M. xanthus ZE9 to obtain the mutant strain YL1611. We inserted different sgRNA sequences, each containing one of the five selected spac- ers Epoact1–Epoact5, into the autonomously ...
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