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Chemosensory regulation of developmental gene expression in Myxococcus xanthus.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 18 Feb 2003
Kirby John R, Zusman David R
Abstract excerpt
The delta-proteobacterium Myxococcus xanthus coordinates its motility during aggregation and fruiting body formation. While searching for chemotaxis genes in M. xanthus, we identified a third chemotaxis-like gene cluster, the che3 cluster, encoding homologs to two methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins (MCPs), a CheW, a hybrid CheA, a CheB, a CheR, but no CheY. Mutations in mcp3A, mcp3B, and cheA3 did not show...
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