A view to a kill: the bacterial type VI secretion system

BT Ho, TG Dong, JJ Mekalanos - Cell host & microbe, 2014 - cell.com
The bacterial type VI secretion system (T6SS) is an organelle that is structurally and
mechanistically analogous to an intracellular membrane-attached contractile phage tail …

[HTML][HTML] Harnessing the plant microbiome to promote the growth of agricultural crops

J Zhang, J Cook, JT Nearing, J Zhang… - Microbiological …, 2021 - Elsevier
The rhizosphere microbiome is composed of diverse microbial organisms, including
archaea, viruses, fungi, bacteria as well as eukaryotic microorganisms, which occupy a …

Biogenic Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles Using Phyllanthus emblica Fruit Extract and Its Inhibitory Action Against the Pathogen Acidovorax oryzae Strain RS-2 of …

MMI Masum, MM Siddiqa, KA Ali, Y Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Biogenic synthesis of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) using plants has become a promising
substitute to the conventional chemical synthesis method. In this study, we report low-cost …

Pseudomonas putida mediates bacterial killing, biofilm invasion and biocontrol with a type IVB secretion system

G Purtschert-Montenegro, G Cárcamo-Oyarce… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Many bacteria utilize contact-dependent killing machineries to eliminate rivals in their
environmental niches. Here we show that the plant root colonizer Pseudomonas putida …

Protein-injection machines in bacteria

JE Galán, G Waksman - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Many bacteria have evolved specialized nanomachines with the remarkable ability to inject
multiple bacterially encoded effector proteins into eukaryotic or prokaryotic cells. Known as …

Type VI secretion systems in plant‐associated bacteria

P Bernal, MA Llamas, A Filloux - Environmental microbiology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a bacterial nanomachine used to inject effectors into
prokaryotic or eukaryotic cells and is thus involved in both host manipulation and …

Agrobacterium tumefaciens deploys a superfamily of type VI secretion DNase effectors as weapons for interbacterial competition in planta

LS Ma, A Hachani, JS Lin, A Filloux, EM Lai - Cell host & microbe, 2014 - cell.com
The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a widespread molecular weapon deployed by many
Proteobacteria to target effectors/toxins into both eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells. We report …

Type VI secretion and anti-host effectors

A Hachani, TE Wood, A Filloux - Current opinion in microbiology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•T6SS is a secretion system involved in the virulence of bacterial pathogens.•This
versatile weapon can target both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.•The T6SS tail/spike …

SecReT6 update: a comprehensive resource of bacterial type VI secretion systems

J Zhang, J Guan, M Wang, G Li, M Djordjevic… - Science China Life …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Type VI Secretion System (T6SS) plays significant roles in microbial activities via
injecting effectors into adjacent cells or environments. T6SS increasingly gained attention …

CRISPR-Cas systems restrict horizontal gene transfer in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

RM Wheatley, RC MacLean - The ISME journal, 2021 - academic.oup.com
CRISPR-Cas systems provide bacteria and archaea with an adaptive immune system that
targets foreign DNA. However, the xenogenic nature of immunity provided by CRISPR-Cas …