Outer membrane vesicles derived from myxobacteria can be used as antibiotic drug delivery systems. In this study, we investigate their ability to disrupt and inhibit the growth of bacterial biofilms. Image created with BioRender.com.

Myxobacteria harbor an enormous potential for new bioactive secondary metabolites and therefore the isolation of in particular new groups is of great interest. The diversity of myxobacteria present in two ecological habitats, namely sand from Kiritimati Island and German compost, was evaluated by both cultivation-based and cultivation-independent methods. Phylogenetic analyses of the strains in...

Multicellular animals and plants develop from genetically equivalent cells, yet neighboring cells often adopt different fates. Some well-studied examples are the formation of sensory bristles from a sheet of uniform neuroectodermal cells in Drosophila, and the formation of hair or feathers in the uniform skin ectoderm of vertebrates. This breaking of symmetry within groups of equivalent cells d...

The nutrition of the myxobacteria has received little attention. Beebe (1943) tested various myxobacteria including Myxococcus fulvus, Polyangium erectum, Myxococcus virescens, ChondroCOCCU8 blastic, and Myxococcus xanthus for their utilization of various carbohydrates. He found that these myxobacteria grew moderately well on unsupplemented 1.5 per cent agar without the addition of any other ca...

BACKGROUND Many microorganisms, including myxobacteria, cyanobacteria, and flexibacteria, move by gliding. Although gliding always describes a slow surface-associated translocation in the direction of the cell's long axis, it can result from two very different propulsion mechanisms: social (S) motility and adventurous (A) motility. The force for S motility is generated by retraction of type 4 p...