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devI is an evolutionarily young negative regulator of Myxococcus xanthus development.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Apr 2015
Rajagopalan Ramya, Wielgoss Sébastien, Lippert Gerardo, Velicer Gregory J, Kroos Lee
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: During starvation-induced development of Myxococcus xanthus, thousands of rod-shaped cells form mounds in which they differentiate into spores. The dev locus includes eight genes followed by clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs), comprising a CRISPR-Cas system (Cas stands for CRISPR associated) typically involved in RNA interference. Mutations in devS or devR of a lab...
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