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Bacterial secretion: A new front for intermicrobial wars

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Type VII protein secretion systems are most widely associated with virulence in bacterial pathogens. A new study reveals a type VII system-secreted nuclease toxin that specifically affects clonally unrelated strains, thus placing type VII secretion directly into the fray of microbial competition.

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Figure 1: The T7SS is involved in bacterial competition.

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  1. Tatyana A. Sysoeva is in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA.,

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  2. Briana M. Burton is in the Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.,

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Sysoeva, T., Burton, B. Bacterial secretion: A new front for intermicrobial wars. Nat Microbiol 2, 16254 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.254

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