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Fueling type III secretion.
Trends in microbiology - 1 May 2015
Lee Pei-Chung, Rietsch Arne
Abstract excerpt
Type III secretion systems (T3SSs) are complex nanomachines that export proteins from the bacterial cytoplasm across the cell envelope in a single step. They are at the core of the machinery used to assemble the bacterial flagellum, and the needle complex many Gram-negative pathogens use to inject effector proteins into host cells and cause disease. Several models have been put forward to explain how this export...
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