The tgl gene: social motility and stimulation in Myxococcus xanthus.
AUTOR(ES)
Rodriguez-Soto, J P
RESUMO
Mutations in the tgl locus inactivate social gliding motility in Myxococcus xanthus and block production of pili. The tgl locus is distinctive among the genes for social motility because social gliding and pili can be restored transiently to tgl mutant cells by mixing them with tgl+ cells, a process known as stimulation. The tgl locus was cloned with a linked insertion of transposon Tn5 by using the kanamycin resistance encoded by that transposon. A 16-kb segment of chromosomal DNA complemented the social motility defect when introduced into tgl mutant cells to form a tandem duplication tgl+/tgl heterozygote. To delimit the autonomous tgl transcription unit, subfragments of this 16-kb piece were integrated at the ectopic Mx8 prophage attachment site. A 1.7-kb DNA fragment was identified which, when integrated at the Mx8 site, simultaneously rescued social motility and pilus production. The ability to stimulate tgl mutants was also rescued by the 1.7-kb fragment. Because rescue of stimulation from an mgl-deficient donor strain which cannot swarm was observed, this demonstrates that a stimulation donor requires a tgl+ allele but does not require the capacity to swarm actively. The nucleotide sequence of the 1.7-kb fragment revealed two protein coding regions, open reading frame A and open reading frame B (ORFB). ORFB is the tgl gene, because a 613-bp DNA fragment which includes 75% of ORFB rescues tgl-1, -2, and -3 mutants and because disruption of ORFB by deletion or insertion of transposon Tn5lac constitutes a tgl mutation.
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