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SUBMITTER: Perez J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4079745 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pérez Juana J Jiménez-Zurdo José I JI Martínez-Abarca Francisco F Millán Vicenta V Shimkets Lawrence J LJ Muñoz-Dorado José J
Environmental microbiology 20140428 7
Myxococcus xanthus is a social bacterium that preys on prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms. Co-culture of M. xanthus with reference laboratory strains and field isolates of the legume symbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti revealed two different predatory patterns that resemble frontal and wolf-pack attacks. Use of mutants impaired in the two types of M. xanthus surface motility (A or adventurous and S or social motility) and a csgA mutant, which is unable to form macroscopic travelling waves kno ...[more]