Phase variation in Myxococcus xanthus yields cells specialized for iron sequestration

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Dziewanowska, Katarzyna ^a   Settles, Matthew ^a   Hunter, Samuel ^a   Linquist, Ingrid ^b   Schilkey, Faye ^b   Hartzell, Patricia L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GENOME RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BINDING PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; HEMIN BINDING PROTEIN; IRON; IRON TRANSPORT PROTEIN; MYXOCHELIN; MYXOVIRESCIN; PIGMENT; PROTEIN KINASE; SIDEROPHORE; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CATECHOL DERIVATIVE; LACTONE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IRON METABOLISM; IRON SEQUESTRATION; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; PHASE VARIATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE; BACTERIAL GENE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CATECHOLS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; IRON; LACTONES; MUTATION; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PHENOTYPE; SIDEROPHORES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84899645702     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095189     Document Type: Article

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