Ras GTPase-Like Protein MglA, a Controller of Bacterial Social-Motility in Myxobacteria, Has Evolved to Control Bacterial Predation by Bdellovibrio

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Milner, David S ^a   Till, Rob ^a   Cadby, Ian ^b   Lovering, Andrew L ^b   Basford, Sarah M ^a   Saxon, Emma B ^a   Liddell, Susan ^c   Williams, Laura E ^d   Sockett, R Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BIS(3',5')-CYCLIC DIGUANYLIC ACID; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MGLA PROTEIN, MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; RAS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BDELLOVIBRIO; BDELLOVIBRIO BACTERIOVORUS; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; MGLA GENE; MGLB GENE; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHOTOTROPHIC, GLIDING, SHEATHED, BUDDING OR APPENDAGED BACTERIA; PREDATION; TETRATRICOPEPTIDE REPEAT; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CELL MOTION; GENETICS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BDELLOVIBRIO; CELL MOVEMENT; CYCLIC GMP; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; OPERON; RAS PROTEINS;

EID: 84901345427     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004253     Document Type: Article

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