title: Actinoplanes Swims into the Molecular Age.
abstract: The survival strategy ofActinoplanesis 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 inActinoplanes, 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).
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom mark.buttner@jic.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Mark J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Buttner
mesh_terms: D006152:Cyclic GMP / Q000235:genetics*; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
chemical_list: D006152:Cyclic GMP
keywords: c-di-GMP signaling; differentiation; filamentous growth; motility; sporulation; transcriptional regulation