Species name： Myxococcus xanthus
Institut de Microbiologie de la Me´diterrane´e (IFR88)–Laboratoire de Chimie Bacte´rienne, CNRS UPR 9043, Marseille, France Tam Mignot
Although mutants deficient for gltA-H and gltK genes retained intact twitching motility on agar plate, single cell motility was completely deficient. These mutants became completely non-motile both at the colony and single cell levels, when pilA was additionally depleted. While, the mutant of gltH pilA showed a jerky motion (small scales displacements) on occasions.
(2014.08.27)