Microbial collaborations and conflicts: unraveling interactions in the gut ecosystem

S Wang, L Mu, C Yu, Y He, X Hu, Y Jiao, Z Xu… - Gut …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The human gut microbiota constitutes a vast and complex community of microorganisms.
The myriad of microorganisms present in the intestinal tract exhibits highly intricate …

Mechanisms of bacterial immunity, protection, and survival during interbacterial warfare

NW Kennedy, LE Comstock - Cell Host & Microbe, 2024 - cell.com
Most bacteria live in communities, often with closely related strains and species with whom
they must compete for space and resources. Consequently, bacteria have acquired or …

Identification of type VI secretion system effector-immunity pairs using structural bioinformatics

AM Geller, M Shalom, D Zlotkin, N Blum… - Molecular Systems …, 2024 - embopress.org
The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is an important mediator of microbe–microbe and
microbe–host interactions. Gram-negative bacteria use the T6SS to inject T6SS effectors …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive analyses of a large human gut Bacteroidales culture collection reveal species and strain level diversity and evolution

ZJ Zhang, CG Cole, MJ Coyne, H Lin, N Dylla… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Species of the Bacteroidales order are among the most abundant and stable bacterial
members of the human gut microbiome with diverse impacts on human health. While …

Toxinome—the bacterial protein toxin database

A Danov, O Segev, A Bograd, Y Ben Eliyahu, N Dotan… - Mbio, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Protein toxins are key molecular weapons in biology that are used to attack neighboring
cells. Bacteria use protein toxins to kill or inhibit the growth of prokaryotic and eukaryotic …

Bacterial type VI secretion system helps prevent cheating in microbial communities

A Filloux - The ISME Journal, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In their paper,“Trojan horse-like T6SS effector TepC mediates both interference competition
and exploitative competition”, Song and colleagues (2024) remind us of an important …

[HTML][HTML] Novel insights into flavor formation in whey fermented wine: A study of microbial metabolic networks

Y Yang, H Wang, Q Shuang, Y Xia - LWT, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, the alterations in the flavor components of whey fermented wine (WFW) were
analyzed using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Moreover, the changes …

[HTML][HTML] Intraspecies warfare restricts strain coexistence in human skin microbiomes

CP Mancuso, JS Baker, E Qu, AD Tripp, IO Balogun… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Determining why only a fraction of encountered or applied bacterial strains engraft in a given
person's microbiome is crucial for understanding and engineering these communities 1 …

[HTML][HTML] 鲍曼不动杆菌VI 型分泌系统功能蛋白的研究及应用新进展

王海蓉, 宁年智, 王慧 - 微生物学报, 2024 - actamicro.ijournals.cn
细菌VI 型分泌系统(type VI secretion system, T6SS) 作为一个动态多蛋白复合体,
各元件之间分工明确, 转运各种效应蛋白作用于竞争细菌获得自我生长优势. 鲍曼不动杆菌 …

T6SS-mediated competition by Stenotrophomonas rhizophila shapes seed-borne bacterial communities and seed-to-seedling transmission dynamics

T Garin, A Brault, C Marais, M Briand, A Préveaux… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Seeds harbor diverse microbial communities important for plant growth and health. During
germination, seed exudation triggers intense microbial competition, shaping the …