From Striking Out to Striking Gold: Discovering that Type VI Secretion Targets Bacteria

Publication date: 8 March 2017
Source:Cell Host & Microbe, Volume 21, Issue 3
Author(s): Rachel D. Hood, S. Brook Peterson, Joseph D. Mougous
Specialized secretion systems are infamous for their contribution to host-pathogen interactions. Our discovery that the type VI secretion system delivers toxins between bacterial cells has broadened our understanding of how both pathogens and non-pathogens interact with one another, whether within or outside of the host.

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Specialized secretion systems are infamous for their contribution to host-pathogen interactions. Our discovery that the type VI secretion system delivers toxins between bacterial cells has broadened our understanding of how both pathogens and non-pathogens interact with one another, whether within or outside of the host.


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