Ueki Toshiyuki, Xu Chun-Ying, Inouye Sumiko
Department of Biochemistry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 675 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
J Bacteriol. 2005 Dec;187(24):8537-41. doi: 10.1128/JB.187.24.8537-8541.2005.
A new sigma factor, SigF, was identified from the social and developmental bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. SigF is required for fruiting body formation during development as well as social motility during vegetative growth. Analysis of gene expression indicates that it is possible that the sigF gene is involved in regulation of an unidentified gene for social motility.
从社会性发育细菌黄色黏球菌中鉴定出一种新的σ因子SigF。SigF在发育过程中对于子实体形成以及在营养生长期间对于群体运动都是必需的。基因表达分析表明,sigF基因有可能参与调控一个未知的群体运动基因。