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

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 3627-3632

  Chatzidaki Livanis, Maria ^a   Geva Zatorsky, Naama ^a,b   Comstock, Laurie E ^a   Hooper, Lora V ^c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial competition; Bacteroides; Gut microbiota; T6SS; Type VI secretion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GNOTOBIOTICS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTESTINE FLORA; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA SEQUENCE; TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEM; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTEROIDETES; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BACTEROIDETES; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICE; MUTATION; TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84962124787     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1522510113     Document Type: Article

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