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    Myxococcus xanthus is a gram-negative, bacillus (or rod-shaped) species of myxobacteria that is typically found in the top-most layer of soil. These bacteria...
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    that M. xanthus and M. virescens were not distinguishable. One notable characteristic of Myxococcus is its formation of fruiting bodies. Myxococcus are known...
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    protein found in Myxococcus xanthus. Its name derives from being the "S" band in an alphabetical ordering of proteins run from Myxococcus xanthus cell contents...
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  • than the normal gut flora. Myxococcus is a genus of gram-negative bacterium in the Myxococcacae family. Myxococcus xanthus specifically, a bacillus myxobacteria...
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  • of sea snail Cephonodes xanthus, a moth of the family Sphingidae Myxococcus xanthus, a proteobacterium Paracirrhites xanthus, a hawkfish from the Eastern...
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    majority of research on adventurous motility has focused on the species, Myxococcus xanthus. The earliest of this research is attributed to Jonathan Hodgkin and...
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    polysaccharide production in gram-negative bacteria like the model Myxococcus xanthus which have four different mechanisms of polysaccharide secretion and...
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    species are called predatory bacteria. These include organisms such as Myxococcus xanthus, which forms swarms of cells that kill and digest any bacteria they...
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    apicomplexans are able to travel at fast rates between 1–10 μm/s. In contrast Myxococcus xanthus bacteria glide at a rate of 0.08 μm/s. Cell-invasion and gliding motility...
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    motility or the production of polysaccharides and development is Myxococcus xanthus. Biosafety Microbes and Man Professional organizations American Society...
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  • Thumbnail for Pxr sRNA
    downregulates genes responsible for the formation of fruiting bodies in Myxococcus xanthus. Fruiting bodies are aggregations of myxobacteria formed when nutrients...
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    that E. coli is the prey of multiple generalist predators, such as Myxococcus xanthus. In this predator-prey relationship, a parallel evolution of both...
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    adaptation to stressful conditions. Sequence comparison of msDNAs from Myxococcus xanthus, Stigmatella aurantiaca, and many other bacteria reveal conserved...
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    among the cellular slime molds. The best known of the myxobacteria, Myxococcus xanthus and Stigmatella aurantiaca, are studied in various laboratories as...
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    biofilms and the structuring of complex life forms in bacteria like Myxococcus xanthus. These polysaccharides are synthesized from nucleotide-activated precursors...
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    well studied in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Myxococcus xanthus. Active movement mediated by the twitching system has been shown to...
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    eavesdropped by other microorganisms, such as the soil bacteria, Myxococcus xanthus, which preys on other bacteria. Eavesdropping, or the interception...
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    as that produced by flagella. However, some bacteria, for example Myxococcus xanthus, exhibit gliding motility. Bacterial type IV pili are similar in structure...
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    proteobacterium Myxococcus xanthus. The bactofilin protein, BacM, is required for proper cell shape maintenance and cell wall integrity. M. xanthus cells lacking...
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  • "Production and characterization of the milk-clotting protease of Myxococcus xanthus strain 422". Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology...
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    W (2012). "DNA builds and strengthens the extracellular matrix in Myxococcus xanthus biofilms by interacting with exopolysaccharides". PLOS ONE. 7 (12):...
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    crescentus. However, other species including Streptococcus pneumoniae and Myxococcus xanthus seem to use positive regulators that stimulate FtsZ assembly at mid-cell...
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    W (2012). "DNA builds and strengthens the extracellular matrix in Myxococcus xanthus biofilms by interacting with exopolysaccharides". PLOS ONE. 7 (12):...
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  • subgroups of the myxobacteria, Myxococcus, Nannocystis, and Chrondromyces, Stigmatella is most closely aligned with Myxococcus. S. aurantiaca, like other...
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    desaturase. Expression and characterization of phytoene desaturase of Myxococcus xanthus". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 273 (22): 13658–13662. doi:10.1074/jbc...
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  • and propagation behavior of the bacterial species Myxococcus xanthus. When starved, the Myxococcus bacteria aggregate together to make fruiting bodies...
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    bacteria such as Myxococcus xanthus are able to move across surfaces in a gliding motion. Close studies of the myxococcus xanthus has proposed ideas...
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    apicomplexans are able to travel at fast rates between 1–10 μm/s. In contrast Myxococcus xanthus, a slime bacterium, can glide at a rate of 5 μm/min. In myxobacteria...
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    professor of microbiology at UCLA, concentrating on the biochemistry of Myxococcus xanthus. In 1970 he has been a member of the academic staff in the Department...
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    prokaryotes, more specifically, Myxococcus xanthus, a gram-negative soil bacteria. Homologues of Nm23 in M. xanthus have been closed and characterized...
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