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SUBMITTER: Ruhe ZC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3648609 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Trends in microbiology 20130307 5
Bacteria cooperate to form multicellular communities and compete against one another for environmental resources. Here, we review recent advances in the understanding of bacterial competition mediated by contact-dependent growth inhibition (CDI) systems. Different CDI+ bacteria deploy a variety of toxins to inhibit neighboring cells and protect themselves from autoinhibition by producing specific immunity proteins. The genes encoding CDI toxin-immunity protein pairs appear to be exchanged betwee ...[more]