Project description:In response to starvation Myxococcus xanthus initiates a developmental program that culminates in the formation of fruiting bodies inside which the rod-shaped cells differentiate to spores. Fruiting body formation depends on intercellular communication and two intercellular signals are known, the A-signal and the C-signal. Five genes have been identified which are required for A-signal synthesis. To begin to understand the function of the genes required for A-signal synthesis, we have analysed gene expression in the asgA and the asgB mutant. Keywords: Vegetative cells of WT (DK1622) and AsgA mutant (DK5057) and AsgB mutant (DK4398)
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.
