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Prebiotics, Probiotics, FMT / Manipulators of the Intestinal Microbiota

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Bacterial secretion systems

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Secreted proteins are important. They help bacteria interact. This includes interactions with the environment and other bacteria. These proteins are diverse. Bacteria have many export pathways. This shows their significance.
Thanassi & Hultgren 2000 Current opinion in cell biology 12: 420-430
Abdallah et al. 2007 Nat Rev Microbiol 5: 883-891
DiGiuseppe Champion & Cox 2007 Cellular microbiology 9: 1376-1384
Cascales 2008 EMBO reports 9: 735-741
Filloux et al. 2008 Microbiology (Reading, England) 154: 1570-1583

Large multi-component secretion systems are important. Type III Secretion Systems (T3SS) and Type IV Secretion Systems (T4SS) are well-studied. They are specialized for exporting e…

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Common themes in the design and function of bacterial effectors
Galan 2009 Cell host & microbe 5: 571-579
Review
Polymorphic toxin systems: Comprehensive characterization of trafficking modes, processing, mechanisms of action, immunity and ecology using comparative genomics
Zhang et al. 2012 Biol. Direct 7: 18
Polymorphic toxins and their immunity proteins: diversity, evolution and mechanisms of delivery
Ruhe et al. 2020 Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 74: 497-520
Recognition and delivery of effector proteins into eukaryotic cells by bacterial secretion systems
Cambronne & Roy 2006 Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark) 7: 929-939
Review
The bacterial type VI secretion machine: yet another player for protein transport across membranes
Filloux et al. 2008 Microbiology (Reading, England) 154: 1570-1583
Review
The type VI secretion toolkit
Cascales 2008 EMBO reports 9: 735-741
Review
Type VII secretion--mycobacteria show the way
Abdallah et al. 2007 Nat Rev Microbiol 5: 883-891
Review

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