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SUBMITTER: Unterweger D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3988814 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Unterweger Daniel D Miyata Sarah T ST Bachmann Verena V Brooks Teresa M TM Mullins Travis T Kostiuk Benjamin B Provenzano Daniele D Pukatzki Stefan S
Nature communications 20140401
Vibrio cholerae is a Gram-negative bacterial pathogen that consists of over 200 serogroups with differing pathogenic potential. Only strains that express the virulence factors cholera toxin (CT) and toxin-coregulated pilus (TCP) are capable of pandemic spread of cholera diarrhoea. Regardless, all V. cholerae strains sequenced to date harbour genes for the type VI secretion system (T6SS) that translocates effectors into neighbouring eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells. Here we report that the effect ...[more]