The evolution of the type VI secretion system as a disintegration weapon

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A family of Type VI secretion system effector proteins that form ion-selective pores

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Towards a complete structural deciphering of Type VI secretion system

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All in—Multiple parallel strategies for intracellular delivery by bacterial pathogens

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Antibacterial Weapons: Targeted Destruction in the Microbiota

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Learning from bacterial competition in the host to develop antimicrobials

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Bacterial type VI secretion system facilitates niche domination

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The Pseudomonas putida T6SS is a plant warden against phytopathogens

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TrackMate: An open and extensible platform for single-particle tracking

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Cell-Penetrating Bacterial Effector Proteins: Better Tools than Targets

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Using Force to Punch Holes: Mechanics of Contractile Nanomachines

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Rules of Engagement: The Type VI Secretion System in Vibrio cholerae

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Are CDI Systems Multicolored, Facultative, Helping Greenbeards?

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A Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanism Finely Tunes the Firing of Type VI Secretion System in Response to Bacterial Enemies

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Killing by Type VI secretion drives genetic phase separation and correlates with increased cooperation

(2017) Luke McNally et al.   Nature Communications

The type VI secretion system sheath assembles at the end distal from the membrane anchor

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The Role of Type VI Secretion System Effectors in Target Cell Lysis and Subsequent Horizontal Gene Transfer

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Diversity and distribution of nuclease bacteriocins in bacterial genomes revealed using Hidden Markov Models

(2017) Connor Sharp et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Cryo-EM structure of the extended type VI secretion system sheath–tube complex

(2017) Jing Wang et al.   Nature Microbiology

Type VI Secretion System Substrates Are Transferred and Reused among Sister Cells

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Multifaceted Interfaces of Bacterial Competition

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Human symbionts inject and neutralize antibacterial toxins to persist in the gut

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Bacteroides fragilistype VI secretion systems use novel effector and immunity proteins to antagonize human gut Bacteroidales species

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Type VI secretion system: secretion by a contractile nanomachine

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Established Microbial Colonies Can Survive Type VI Secretion Assault

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Kin cell lysis is a danger signal that activates antibacterial pathways of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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Type VI secretion system effectors: poisons with a purpose

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Tit-for-Tat: Type VI Secretion System Counterattack during Bacterial Cell-Cell Interactions

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A View to a Kill: The Bacterial Type VI Secretion System

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Antibacterial effector/immunity systems: it's just the tip of the iceberg

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‘Drugs from Bugs’: bacterial effector proteins as promising biological (immune-) therapeutics

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Multicoloured greenbeards, bacteriocin diversity and the rock-paper-scissors game

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Diverse type VI secretion phospholipases are functionally plastic antibacterial effectors

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The Type VI secretion system – a widespread and versatile cell targeting system

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Cell Polarity-Driven Instability Generates Self-Organized, Fractal Patterning of Cell Layers

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L-form bacteria, cell walls and the origins of life

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Multicellular Bacteria Deploy the Type VI Secretion System to Preemptively Strike Neighboring Cells

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Type VI secretion requires a dynamic contractile phage tail-like structure

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Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

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Computational Modeling of Synthetic Microbial Biofilms

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A widespread family of polymorphic contact-dependent toxin delivery systems in bacteria

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How antibiotics kill bacteria: from targets to networks

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Dissecting the bacterial type VI secretion system by a genome wide in silico analysis: what can be learned from available microbial genomic resources?

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SYNTHESIS: Evolutionary ecology of microbial wars: within-host competition and (incidental) virulence

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Life without a wall or division machine in Bacillus subtilis

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Bacterial competition: surviving and thriving in the microbial jungle

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