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The dev Operon Regulates the Timing of Sporulation during Myxococcus xanthus Development.
Journal of bacteriology - 15 May 2017
Rajagopalan Ramya, Kroos Lee
Abstract excerpt
Myxococcus xanthus undergoes multicellular development when starved. Thousands of rod-shaped cells coordinate their movements and aggregate into mounds in which cells differentiate into spores. Mutations in the dev operon impair development. The dev operon encompasses a clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat-associated (CRISPR-Cas) system. Null mutations in devI, a small gene at the beginning of...
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