PilA localization affects extracellular polysaccharide production and fruiting body formation in Myxococcus xanthus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1500-1513

  Yang, Zhe ^a   Lux, Renate ^a   Hu, Wei ^a   Hu, Chuhong ^a   Shi, Wenyuan ^a  

^a UCLA SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PILA PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BACTERIUM PILUS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FRUITING BODY; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; WILD TYPE; FIMBRIA; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LOCOMOTION; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NEGIBACTERIA; PILA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; LOCOMOTION; MUTANT PROTEINS; MUTATION; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 77953521591     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07180.x     Document Type: Article

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