The vibrio cholerae type VI secretion system employs diverse effector modules for intraspecific competition

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Unterweger, Daniel ^a   Miyata, Sarah T ^a   Bachmann, Verena ^a   Brooks, Teresa M ^a   Mullins, Travis ^a   Kostiuk, Benjamin ^a   Provenzano, Daniele ^b   Pukatzki, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; IMMUNITY PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; CYTOLOGY; EUKARYOTE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; SECRETION; TRANSLOCATION; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; EFFECTOR MODULE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; HOST; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; CHOLERA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84897446549     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4549     Document Type: Article

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