The Myxococcus xanthus lipopolysaccharide O‐antigen is required for social motility and multicellular development
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- 2 October 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Molecular Microbiology
- Vol. 30 (2) , 275-284
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01060.x
Abstract
The gliding bacterium Myxococcus xanthus aggregates to form spore‐filled fruiting bodies when nutrients are limiting. Defective fruiting‐body formation and sporulation result from mutations in the sa...This publication has 46 references indexed in Scilit:
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