The life of bacteria is challenging, to endure bacteria employ a range of mechanisms to
optimize their environment, including deploying the type VI secretion system (T6SS). Acting …

Bacterial pathogens utilize a myriad of mechanisms to invade mammalian hosts, damage
tissue sites, and evade the immune system. One essential strategy of Gram-negative …

Bacteria need to deliver large molecules out of the cytosol to the extracellular space or even
across membranes of neighboring cells to influence their environment, prevent predation …

Contractile injection systems (CISs) are cell-puncturing nanodevices that share ancestry
with contractile tail bacteriophages. Photorhabdus virulence cassette (PVC) represents one …

Bacteriophages can play beneficial roles in phage therapy and destruction of food
pathogens. Conversely, they play negative roles as they infect bacteria involved in …

Bacteria require a number of systems, including the type VI secretion system (T6SS), for
interbacterial competition and pathogenesis. The T6SS is a large nanomachine that can …

Contractile injection systems are sophisticated multiprotein nanomachines that puncture
target cell membranes. Although the number of atomic-resolution insights into contractile …

Infections led by Acinetobacter baumannii strains are of great concern in healthcare
environments due to the strong ability of the bacteria to spread through different apparatuses …

The bacterial type six secretion system (T6SS) delivers toxic effector proteins into
neighboring cells, but bacteria must protect themselves against their own T6SS. Immunity …

Bacteria utilize type VI secretion system (T6SS) to deliver antibacterial toxins to target co‐
habiting bacteria. Here, we report that Burkholderia gladioli strain NGJ1 deploys certain …