Secretion of sugar polymers modulates multicellularity in the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 - 12:11
in Biology & Nature
Research has revealed that multicellular physiology in the social bacterium Myxococcus xanthus--a bacterium that can actively reorganize its community according to the environment in which it is found -- is modulated by the secretion of two natural sugar polymers in separate zones of a swarm.