T2SS ? T4SS ? CDI ? T6SS ? T7SS ?
NO ! The T9SS is also involved in interbacterial competition !!
Great work by Maelle Paillat @maellepllt.bsky.social under the supervision of Thierry Doan @thicoz.bsky.social Congratulations to both ! Glad to see this story out !
Cascales Lab
Very happy to see the second story from my PhD out in @currentbiology.bsky.social
An exciting project where we explored the roles of secretion systems and gliding motility in predatory behavior in F. johnsoniae.
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Paillat et al. show that Flavobacterium johnsoniae combines type VI and type IX secretion
systems with gliding motility to efficiently kill diverse bacterial competitors. They
demonstrate that nutrien...