The type II secretion system as an underappreciated and understudied mediator of interbacterial antagonism

NP Cianciotto - Infection and Immunity, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Interbacterial antagonism involves all major phyla, occurs across the full range of ecological
niches, and has great significance for the environment, clinical arena, and agricultural and …

Streptomyces use umbrella toxins to gently compete with kin

FS Coskun, E Toprak - Cell Host & Microbe, 2024 - Elsevier
In a recent issue of Nature, Zhao et al. have demonstrated that Streptomyces spp. produce
“umbrella”-shaped polymorphic toxin particles, a novel class of non-lethal toxins that gently …