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Manganese scavenging and oxidative stress response mediated by type VI secretion system in Burkholderia thailandensis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 14 Mar 2017
Si Meiru, Zhao Chao, Burkinshaw Brianne, Zhang Bing, Wei Dawei, Wang Yao, Dong Tao G, Shen Xihui
Abstract excerpt
Type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a versatile protein export machinery widely distributed in Gram-negative bacteria. Known to translocate protein substrates to eukaryotic and prokaryotic target cells to cause cellular damage, the T6SS has been primarily recognized as a contact-dependent bacterial weapon for microbe-host and microbial interspecies competition. Here we report contact-independent functions of the...
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