Sensory adaptation during negative chemotaxis in Myxococcus xanthus.

doi:10.1128/jb.176.5.1517-1520.1994

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Sensory adaptation during negative chemotaxis in Myxococcus xanthus.

Journal of bacteriology - 1 Mar 1994

Shi W, Zusman D R

Abstract excerpt

Myxococcus xanthus exhibits many tactic movements that require the frz signal transduction system, such as colony swarming and cellular aggregation during fruiting body formation. Previously we demonstrated that the Frz proteins control the chemotactic movements of M. xanthus (W. Shi, T. Köhler,...

Topics

Acclimatization
Chemotaxis
Genes, Bacterial
Genotype
Myxococcus xanthus
Time Factors
Video Recording

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