Evolutionary Stabilization of Cooperative Toxin Production through a Bacterium-Plasmid-Phage Interplay

ABSTRACT Colicins are toxins produced and released by Enterobacteriaceae to kill competitors in the gut. While group A colicins employ a division of labor strategy to liberate the toxin into the environment via colicin-specific lysis, group B colicin systems lack cognate lysis genes. In Salmonella e...

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Auteurs principaux: Stefanie Spriewald, Eva Stadler, Burkhard A. Hense, Philipp C. Münch, Alice C. McHardy, Anna S. Weiss, Nancy Obeng, Johannes Müller, Bärbel Stecher
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Publié: American Society for Microbiology 2020
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/ab195971950f4951a7576465f9797849
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