Evolutionary Stabilization of Cooperative Toxin Production through a Bacterium-Plasmid-Phage Interplay

Evolutionary Stabilization of Cooperative Toxin Production through a Bacterium-Plasmid-Phage Interplay

ABSTRACT Colicins are toxins produced and released by Enterobacteriaceae to kill competitors in the gut. While group A colicins employ a division of labor strategy to liberate the toxin into the environment via colicin-specific lysis, group B colicin systems lack cognate lysis genes. In Salmonella e...

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Main Authors: Stefanie Spriewald, Eva Stadler, Burkhard A. Hense, Philipp C. Münch, Alice C. McHardy, Anna S. Weiss, Nancy Obeng, Johannes Müller, Bärbel Stecher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2020-08-01
Series:mBio
Subjects:
bacteriophage
lysogen
virus
evolution
toxin
bacteriocin
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.00912-20

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https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.00912-20

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