Deadly syringes: Type VI secretion system activities in pathogenicity and interbacterial competition

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 52-58

  Kapitein, Nicole ^a   Mogk, Axel ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; LYSOZYME; PHOSPHATASE;

BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BIOFILM; BIOINFORMATICS; BURKHOLDERIA THAILANDENSIS; CELL MEMBRANE; COMMENSALISM; CROWN GALL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOSKELETON; EDWARDSIELLA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTIC CELL; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS; IMMUNIZATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PROKARYOTIC CELL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANTIBIOSIS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84875803414     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2012.11.009     Document Type: Review

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