The bacterium Myxococcus xanthus undergoes multicellular development when starved.
Thousands of cells build mounds in which some differentiate into spores. This remarkable …

Myxobacteria are renowned for the ability to sporulate within fruiting bodies whose shapes
are species-specific. The capacity to build those multicellular structures arises from the …

Bacteria use proteases to control three types of events temporally and spatially during the
processes of morphological development. These events are the destruction of regulatory …

Myxococcus xanthus is an environmental bacterium that displays a complex life cycle that
includes motility, predation, multicellular fruiting body development, and sporulation. Given …

Bacteria sense and respond to their environment through the use of two‐component
regulatory systems. The ability to adapt to a wide range of environmental stresses is directly …

Myxococcus xanthus undergoes a starvation-induced multicellular developmental program
during which cells partition into three known fates:(i) aggregation into fruiting bodies …

Background Myxococcus xanthus is a Gram negative bacterium that can differentiate into
metabolically quiescent, environmentally resistant spores. Little is known about the …

The 4th ASM Conference on Cell-Cell Communication in Bacteria was held in Miami, FL,
from 6 to 9 November 2011. This review highlights three key themes that emerged from the …

Transcriptional regulatory networks are fundamental to how microbes alter gene expression
in response to environmental stimuli, thereby playing a critical role in bacterial …

Motile predatory Myxobacteria are producers of multiple secondary metabolites and, on
starvation, undergo concerted cellular differentiation to form multicellular fruiting bodies …