Growth of myxococcus xanthus in continuous-flow-cell bioreactors as a method for studying development

• Main Authors: Smaldone, Gregory T., Jin, Yujie, Whitfield, Damion L., Mu, Andrew Y., Wong, Edward C., Wuertz, Stefan, Singer, Mitchell
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences::Microbiology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100415; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25687
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Nutrient sensors and developmental timers are two classes of genes vital to the establishment of early development in the social soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. The products of these genes trigger and regulate the earliest events that drive the colony from a vegetative state to aggregates, which...