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Each of the students went through genome-scale mapping, genome assembly, mRNAseq analysis on an "emerging model organism" (a. k.a "one with a crappy genome", lamprey), resequencing analysis on E. coli, and ChIP-seq analysis on Myxococcus xanthus.

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Myxococcus xanthus, and Acidothermus cellulolyticus, respectively.

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Jakobsen JS, Jelsbak L, Welch RD, Cummings C, Goldman B, et al. (2004) Sigma54 enhancer binding proteins and Myxococcus xanthus fruiting body development.

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Myxococcus xanthus uses a pushing-motor and a pulling-motor to move over soil.

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M. xanthus motility systems, like eukaryotic systems, use an actin-like protein and a small GTPase spatial regulator.

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Gliding motility in the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus uses two motility engines: S-motility powered by type-IV pili and A-motility powered by uncharacterized motor proteins and focal adhesion complexes.

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Image shows swarm of M. xanthus bacteria (left) invading a colony of prey bacteria (right).

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Despite its deadly role in the bacterial world, M. xanthus is harmless to humans and might one day be used beneficially to destroy harmful bacteria on surfaces or in human infections, said John Kirby, PhD, associate professor of microbiology in the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine.

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This adaptive ability to control movement in response to an environmental stimulus is called chemotaxis, and the research team coined the term predataxis to describe M. xanthus behavior in response to prey.

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Myxococcus xanthus DK1622 cells were grown in CTTYE (1% Casitone [Difco], 10 mM

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