Actinoplanes Swims into the Molecular Age #MMPMID28348027
Buttner MJ
J Bacteriol 2017[Jun]; 199 (12): ä PMID28348027show ga
The survival strategy of Actinoplanes is fascinating from an evolutionary perspective, combining a short motile phase in an otherwise nonmotile, filamentous life cycle and the somewhat paradoxical concept of spores?normally thought of as a resting stage?that swim. In the first paper to report a molecular genetic analysis of development in Actinoplanes, the authors identify a key regulator of the entry into development (Y. Mouri, K. Konishi, A. Fujita, T. Tezuka, Y. Ohnishi, J Bacteriol 199:e00840-16, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.00840-16).