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Active invasion of bacteria into living fungal cells.
eLife - 2 Sept 2014
Moebius Nadine, Üzüm Zerrin, Dijksterhuis Jan, Lackner Gerald, Hertweck Christian
Abstract excerpt
The rice seedling blight fungus Rhizopus microsporus and its endosymbiont Burkholderia rhizoxinica form an unusual, highly specific alliance to produce the highly potent antimitotic phytotoxin rhizoxin. Yet, it has remained a riddle how bacteria invade the fungal cells. Genome mining for potential symbiosis factors and functional analyses revealed that a type 2 secretion system (T2SS) of the bacterial...
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