Type VI secretion system effector proteins: effective weapons for bacterial competitiveness

RE Hernandez, R Gallegos‐Monterrosa… - Cellular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The Type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a protein translocation nanomachine widespread
among Gram‐negative bacteria and used as a means to deliver effectors directly into target …

Killing in the name of: T6SS structure and effector diversity

LP Allsopp, P Bernal - Microbiology, 2023 - microbiologyresearch.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

J Jumper, R Evans, A Pritzel, T Green, M Figurnov… - nature, 2021 - nature.com
Proteins are essential to life, and understanding their structure can facilitate a mechanistic
understanding of their function. Through an enormous experimental effort 1, 2, 3, 4, the …

Identification of type VI secretion system effector-immunity pairs using structural bioinformatics

AM Geller, M Shalom, D Zlotkin, N Blum… - Molecular Systems …, 2024 - embopress.org
The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is an important mediator of microbe–microbe and
microbe–host interactions. Gram-negative bacteria use the T6SS to inject T6SS effectors …

Activity, delivery, and diversity of Type VI secretion effectors

D Jurėnas, L Journet - Molecular Microbiology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The bacterial type VI secretion system (T6SS) system is a contractile secretion apparatus
that delivers proteins to neighboring bacterial or eukaryotic cells. Antibacterial effectors are …

Bacterial type VI secretion system (T6SS): an evolved molecular weapon with diverse functionality

RP Singh, K Kumari - Biotechnology letters, 2023 - Springer
Bacterial secretion systems are nanomolecular complexes that release a diverse set of
virulence factors/or proteins into its surrounding or translocate to their target host cells …

Presence and absence of type VI secretion systems in bacteria

R Unni, KL Pintor, A Diepold… - Microbiology, 2022 - microbiologyresearch.org
The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a molecular puncturing device that enables Gram-
negative bacteria to kill competitors, manipulate host cells and take up nutrients. Who would …

Structure of a Rhs effector clade domain provides mechanistic insights into type VI secretion system toxin delivery

BK Hayes, M Harper, H Venugopal, JM Lewis… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a molecular machine utilised by many Gram-negative
bacteria to deliver antibacterial toxins into adjacent cells. Here we present the structure of …

Substrate recruitment mechanism by gram-negative type III, IV, and VI bacterial injectisomes

A Meir, K Macé, Y Vegunta, SM Williams… - Trends in …, 2023 - cell.com
Bacteria use a wide arsenal of macromolecular substrates (DNA and proteins) to interact
with or infect prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. To do so, they utilize substrate-injecting …

Combining high throughput and high quality for cryo-electron microscopy data collection

F Weis, WJH Hagen - Biological Crystallography, 2020 - journals.iucr.org
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) can be used to elucidate the 3D structure of
macromolecular complexes. Driven by technological breakthroughs in electron-microscope …