Bacterial cells are spatiotemporally highly organised with proteins localising dynamically to
distinct subcellular regions. Motility in the rod-shaped Myxococcus xanthus cells represents …

Rod-shaped Myxococcus xanthus cells are polarized with proteins asymmetrically localizing
to specific positions. This spatial organization is important for regulation of motility and cell …

Dynamic control of cell polarity is of critical importance for many aspects of cellular
development and motility. In Myxococcus xanthus, MglA, a G protein, and MglB, its cognate …

Motile cells have developed a large array of molecular machineries to actively change their
direction of movement in response to spatial cues from their environment. In this process …

The rod-shaped Myxococcus xanthus cells move with defined front–rear polarity using
polarized motility systems. A polarity module consisting of the small GTPase MglA, its …

Phenotypic heterogeneity in bacteria can result from stochastic processes or deterministic
programs. The deterministic programs often involve the versatile second messenger c-di …

Mutual gliding motility A (MglA), a small Ras-like GTPase; Mutual gliding motility B (MglB), its
GTPase activating protein (GAP); and Required for Motility Response Regulator (RomR), a …

Background The gut microbiota and their hosts profoundly affect each other's physiology
and evolution. Identifying host-selected traits is crucial to understanding the processes that …

The rod‐shaped bacterium Myxococcus xanthus moves on surfaces along its long cell axis
and reverses its moving direction regularly. Current models propose that the asymmetric …

Fluorescence live-cell imaging of bacterial cells is a key method in the analysis of the spatial
and temporal dynamics of proteins and chromosomes underlying central cell cycle events …