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A New Contact Killing Toxin Permeabilizes Cells and Belongs to a Broadly Distributed Protein Family

Vibrio cholerae is an aquatic Gram-negative bacterium that causes severe diarrheal cholera disease when ingested by humans. To eliminate competitor cells in both the external environment and inside hosts, V. cholerae uses the type VI secretion system (T6SS). The T6SS is a macromolecular contact-depe...

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Autores principales: Crisan, Cristian V., Chandrashekar, Harshini, Everly, Catherine, Steinbach, Gabi, Hill, Shannon E., Yunker, Peter J., Lieberman, Raquel R., Hammer, Brian K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8386463/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34287011
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00318-21