Myxobacteria: Multicellularity and Differntiation

Contributors * Preface ** MYXOBACTERIAL BIOLOGY 1 From Glycerol to the Genome 3 Dale Kaiser and Martin Dworkin 2 Why Cooperate? The Ecology and Evolution of Myxobacteria 17 Gregory J. Velicer and Kristina L. Hillesland DEVELOPMENT AND MOTILITY 3 Initiation and Early Developmental Events 43 Michelle E. Diodati, Ronald E. Gill, Lynda Plamann, and Mitchell Singer 4 Contact-Dependent Signaling in Myxococcus xanthus: the Function of the C-Signal in Fruiting Body Morphogenesis 77 Lotte S°gaard-Andersen 5 Reversing Myxococcus xanthus Polarity 93 Dale Kaiser 6 Gliding Motility of Myxococcus xanthus 103 Patricia Hartzell, Wenyuan Shi, and Philip Youderian 7 The Frz Chemosensory System of Myxococcus xanthus 123 David R. Zusman, Yuki F. Inclßn, and Tâm Mignot REGULATORY MECHANISMS 8 Chemosensory Signal Transduction Systems in Myxococcus xanthus 135 John R. Kirby, James E. Berleman, Susanne Müller, Di Li, Jodie C. Scott, and Janet M. Wilson 9 Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms during Myxococcus xanthus Development 149 Lee Kroos and Sumiko Inouye 10 Two-Component Signal Transduction Systems of the Myxobacteria 169 David E. Whitworth and Peter J. A. Cock 11 Protein Ser/Thr Kinases and Phosphatases in Myxococcus xanthus 191 Sumiko Inouye, Hirofumi Nariya, and José Mu±oz-Dorado 12 Carotenogenesis in Myxococcus xanthus: a Complex Regulatory Network 211 Montserrat Eløas-Arnanz, Marta Fontes, and S. Padmanabhan STRUCTURE AND METABOLISM 13 Composition, Structure, and Function of the Myxococcus xanthus Cell Envelope 229 Zhaomin Yang, Xue-yan Duan, Mehdi Esmaeiliyan, and Heidi B. Kaplan 14 Metabolic Pathways Relevant to Predation, Signaling, and Development 241 Patrick D. Curtis and Lawrence J. Shimkets 15 Secondary Metabolism in Myxobacteria 259 Helge B. Bode and Rolf Müller MYXOBACTERIAL GENOMICS AND POSTGENOMICS 16 The Genomes of Myxococcus xanthus and Stigmatella aurantiaca 285 Catherine M. Ronning and William C. Nierman 17 A Postgenomic Overview of the Myxobacteria 299 Garret Suen, Barry S. Goldman, and Roy D. Welch STIGMATELLA AND SORANGIUM 18 The Challenge of Structural Complexity: Stigmatella aurantiaca as an Alternative Myxobacterial Model 315 Wulf Plaga 19 Sorangium cellulosum 329 Klaus Gerth, Olena Perlova, and Rolf Müller ANALOGOUS SYSTEMS 20 Bdellovibrio: Lone Hunter "Cousin" of the "Pack Hunting" Myxobacteria 351 K. J. Evans, L. Hobley, C. Lambert, and R. E. Sockett 21 Bacillus subtilis Sporulation and Other Multicellular Behaviors 363 Lee Kroos, Patrick J. Piggot, and Charles P. Moran, Jr. 22 Developmental Control in Caulobacter crescentus: Strategies for Survival in Oligotrophic Environments 385 Deanne L. Pierce and Yves V. Brun 23 Developmental Biology of Heterocysts, 2006 397 Jindong Zhao and C. Peter Wolk 24 Multicellular Development in Streptomyces 419 Marie A. Elliot, Mark J. Buttner, and Justin R. Nodwell 25 A Eukaryotic Neighbor: Dictyostelium discoideum 439 Derrick Brazill and Richard H. Gomer 26 Multispecies Interactions and Biofilm Community Development 453 Paul E. Kolenbrander, Nicholas S. Jakubovics, and Natalia I. Chalmers MYXOBACTERIAL METHODS 27 Myxococcus xanthus: Cultivation, Motility, and Development 465 Penelope I. Higgs and John P. Merlie, Jr. 28 Myxococcus xanthus: Expression Analysis 479 Frank-Dietrich Müller and Jimmy Schouv Jakobsen 29 Genetic Tools for Studying Myxococcus xanthus Biology 491 Kimberly A. Murphy and Anthony G. Garza 30 Sorangium cellulosum Methods 503 Anke Treuner-Lange, Sabrina Doß, and Tina Knauber Index 513