The Scientist : Bacterial proteins on the move [1/7/2005]

Email: Charles Q Choi - cqchoi@nasw.org
News from The Scientist 2005, 6(1):20050701-02

1 July 2005

Scientists have identified the first known instance of bacterial transfer of cell surface proteins through direct contact, they report in Science this week. Such protein sharing in Myxococcus xanthus helps mobile bacteria get immobile mutants moving, Dale Kaiser at Stanford University in California and colleagues found.

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