Project description:This study addresses the key role of the extracytoplasmic function (ECF) sigma factor DdvS in the Gram-negative bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. It allows us to determine its regulon and it shows that the expression of ddvS and its regulón depends on the global regulatory complex CarD-CarG.
Project description:Dataset of QSM exposure experiments with Myxococcus xanthus and Cystobacter ferrugineus exposed to a panel of acylhomoserine lactones and the quinolone signal HHQ
Project description:To identify CdbA binding sites on Myxococcus xanthus genome in vivo we performed ChIP-seq, using a polyclonal anti-FLAG antibody and a strain endogenously expressing CdbA_3xFLAG. A WT DK1622 strain was used a negative control and a strain endogenously expressing ParB_3xFLAG was used as positive control.
Project description:Proteomes were compared between wild type Myxococcus xanthus (DK6204) and several mutant strains to determine relative changes in protein abundance when grown under normal conditions.
Project description:In Myxococcus xanthus 55% of the more than 250 two-component signal transduction systems (TCS) genes are orphan. We hypothesized that the histidine kinase SgmT and the response regulator DigR, which comprises a DNA binding domain of the HTH_Xer type, function together to regulate gene expression. We performed genome-wide expression profiling experiments to determine wether the same set of genes are differentially expressed in the ΔdigR and ΔsgmT mutants.
Project description:Our ChipSeq analysis show that while FrzCD does not bind DNA specific regions, ParB binds parS consistent with what as been previously shown. The FrzCD chemoreceptor from the gliding bacterium Myxococcus xanthus forms cytoplasmic clusters that occupy a large central region of the cell body also occupied by the nucleoid. FrzCD directly binds to the nucleoid and the FrzCD binding to the DNA leads to the formation of chemosensory complexes. This supra-molecular organization is required for cooperative interactions between clustered receptors, in turn important for the modulation of bacterial social behaviors.