23 Jun 2008

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Cellular microbiology: Synchronized switching Nature Reviews Microbiology 5, 906 (2007). doi:10.1038/nrmicro1807

Author: Sharon Ahmad A new report published in The EMBO Journal presents a mechanism to explain the synchronous polarity switch that occurs in the two motility machineries that are present in Myxococcus xanthus cells and allows this soil bacterium to reverse its direction of movement.M.