Secretion systems in Gram-negative bacteria: structural and mechanistic insights

TRD Costa, C Felisberto-Rodrigues, A Meir… - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
Bacteria have evolved a remarkable array of sophisticated nanomachines to export various
virulence factors across the bacterial cell envelope. In recent years, considerable progress …

The Type VI secretion system: a versatile bacterial weapon

S Coulthurst - Microbiology, 2019 - microbiologyresearch.org
The Type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a protein nanomachine that is widespread in Gram-
negative bacteria and is used to translocate effector proteins directly into neighbouring cells …

[HTML][HTML] Helical reconstruction in RELION

S He, SHW Scheres - Journal of structural biology, 2017 - Elsevier
We describe a new implementation for the reconstruction of helical assemblies in the
empirical Bayesian framework of RELION. Our approach calculates optimal linear filters for …

Automated structure refinement of macromolecular assemblies from cryo-EM maps using Rosetta

RYR Wang, Y Song, BA Barad, Y Cheng, JS Fraser… - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
Cryo-EM has revealed the structures of many challenging yet exciting macromolecular
assemblies at near-atomic resolution (3–4.5 Å), providing biological phenomena with …

Aim, load, fire: the type VI secretion system, a bacterial nanoweapon

FR Cianfanelli, L Monlezun, SJ Coulthurst - Trends in microbiology, 2016 - cell.com
Bacteria utilise specialised protein secretion systems to interact with host organisms,
competitor bacteria, and the environment. The Type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a versatile …

Activity, delivery, and diversity of Type VI secretion effectors

D Jurėnas, L Journet - Molecular Microbiology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The bacterial type VI secretion system (T6SS) system is a contractile secretion apparatus
that delivers proteins to neighboring bacterial or eukaryotic cells. Antibacterial effectors are …

Protein-injection machines in bacteria

JE Galán, G Waksman - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Many bacteria have evolved specialized nanomachines with the remarkable ability to inject
multiple bacterially encoded effector proteins into eukaryotic or prokaryotic cells. Known as …

The Pseudomonas putida T6SS is a plant warden against phytopathogens

P Bernal, LP Allsopp, A Filloux, MA Llamas - The ISME journal, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Bacterial type VI secretion systems (T6SSs) are molecular weapons designed to deliver
toxic effectors into prey cells. These nanomachines have an important role in inter-bacterial …

Structure of the T4 baseplate and its function in triggering sheath contraction

NMI Taylor, NS Prokhorov, RC Guerrero-Ferreira… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Several systems, including contractile tail bacteriophages, the type VI secretion system and
R-type pyocins, use a multiprotein tubular apparatus to attach to and penetrate host cell …

Type VI secretion systems in plant‐associated bacteria

P Bernal, MA Llamas, A Filloux - Environmental microbiology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a bacterial nanomachine used to inject effectors into
prokaryotic or eukaryotic cells and is thus involved in both host manipulation and …