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The extracellular contractile injection system is enriched in environmental microbes and associates with numerous toxins

The extracellular Contractile Injection System (eCIS) is a toxin-delivery particle that evolved from a bacteriophage tail. Four eCISs have previously been shown to mediate interactions between bacteria and their invertebrate hosts. Here, we identify eCIS loci in 1,249 bacterial and archaeal genomes...

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Autores principales: Geller, Alexander Martin, Pollin, Inbal, Zlotkin, David, Danov, Aleks, Nachmias, Nimrod, Andreopoulos, William B., Shemesh, Keren, Levy, Asaf
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8213781/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34145238
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23777-7