Article
A genetic link between light response and multicellular development in the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus.
Genes & development - 1 Oct 1994
Nicolás F J, Ruiz-Vázquez R M, Murillo F J
Abstract excerpt
The Gram-negative bacterium Myxococcus xanthus responds to blue light by producing carotenoid pigments (Car+ phenotype). Genes for carotenoid synthesis lie at two unlinked chromosomal sites, the carC and the carBA operon, but are integrated in a single "light regulon" by the action of common tran...
Topics
- Carotenoids
- DNA, Bacterial
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genetic Complementation Test
- Light
- Mutation
- Myxococcus xanthus
- Regulon
- Restriction Mapping