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PilA localization affects extracellular polysaccharide production and fruiting body formation in Myxococcus xanthus.

Molecular microbiology - 1 Jun 2010

Yang Zhe, Lux Renate, Hu Wei, Hu Chuhong, Shi Wenyuan

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Myxococcus xanthus is a Gram-negative bacterium capable of complex developmental processes involving vegetative swarming and fruiting body formation. Social (S-) gliding motility, one of the two motility systems used by M. xanthus, requires at least two cell surface structures: type IV pili (TFP) and extracellular polysaccharides (EPS). Extended TFP that are composed of thousands of copies of PilA retract upon...

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PMID: 20444090
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07180.x
PMCID: PMC2935901

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