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Isolated fibrils rescue cohesion and development in the Dsp mutant of Myxococcus xanthus.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Dec 1994
Chang B Y, Dworkin M
Abstract excerpt
Extracellular fibrils are involved in cell cohesion and cell development in Myxococcus xanthus. One group of social motility mutants, Dsp, is unable to produce extracellular fibrils; these mutants also lose the abilities to cohere and to develop. Extracellular fibrils isolated from vegetative wild-type cells and added to Dsp cells fully restored the abilities of these cells to cohere and to undergo normal...
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