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Quorum sensing control of Type VI secretion factors restricts the proliferation of quorum-sensing mutants.
eLife - 16 May 2016
Majerczyk Charlotte, Schneider Emily, Greenberg E Peter
Abstract excerpt
Burkholderia thailandensis uses acyl-homoserine lactone-mediated quorum sensing systems to regulate hundreds of genes. Here we show that cell-cell contact-dependent type VI secretion (T6S) toxin-immunity systems are among those activated by quorum sensing in B. thailandensis. We also demonstrate that T6S is required to constrain proliferation of quorum sensing mutants in colony cocultures of a BtaR1...
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