Many types of bacteria produce a protein complex that injects toxins into neighboring cells to eliminate competitors. For the ...

Bacteria operate by a pretty simple set of biological commands: survive and reproduce. But a recent study is highlighting ...

When food runs low, some bacteria kill and eat their neighbors. Study shows a survival strategy that changes how we think ...

Researchers at the Harvard Medical School had discovered the T6SS machinery in 2006 and studies had since then shown that ...

Even tiny organisms can be brutal – not only eliminating potential competitors for resources but also using their neighbours as a source of nutrition ...

Among the specialized transport systems responsible for the export of such factors are so-called Type VI secretion ... weak points in this bacterial secretion system, we need to obtain further ...

Scientists have discovered a gruesome microbial survival strategy: when food is scarce, some bacteria kill and consume their neighbors.

revealed that the type IV secretion system differs substantially from other bacterial secretion systems, in both its molecular structure and the mechanism for secretion. Professor Waksman said ...

Type IV secretion systems (T4SSs) are multiprotein complexes that transport effector proteins and protein–DNA complexes through bacterial membranes to the extracellular milieu or directly into ...

For the TAU study, the researchers used a toxin injection system known as a “Type 6 Secretion System.” It’s usually deployed by pathogenic (“bad”) bacteria. They introduced the system into a “friendly ...