Colony Expansion of Socially Motile Myxococcus xanthus Cells Is Driven by Growth, Motility, and Exopolysaccharide Production.

Colony Expansion of Socially Motile Myxococcus xanthus Cells Is Driven by Growth, Motility, and Exopolysaccharide Production.

Myxococcus xanthus, a model organism for studies of multicellular behavior in bacteria, moves exclusively on solid surfaces using two distinct but coordinated motility mechanisms. One of these, social (S) motility is powered by the extension and retraction of type IV pili and requires the presence o...

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Main Authors: Pintu Patra, Kimberley Kissoon, Isabel Cornejo, Heidi B Kaplan, Oleg A Igoshin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-06-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4928896?pdf=render

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