RsmA and AmrZ orchestrate the assembly of all three type VI secretion systems in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

ABSTRACT: The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a weapon of bacterial warfare and host cell subversion. The Gram-negative pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa has three T6SSs involved in colonization, competition, and full virulence. H1-T6SS is a molecular gun firing seven toxins, Tse1-Tse7, challenging survival of other bacteria and helping P. aeruginosa to prevail in specific niches. The H1-T6SS characterization was facilitated through studying a P. aeruginosa strain lacking the RetS sensor, which has a fully active H1-T6SS, in contrast to the parent. However, study of H2-T6SS and H3-T6SS has been neglected because of a poor understanding of the associated regulatory network. Here we performed a screen to identify H2-T6SS and H3-T6SS regulatory elements and found that the posttran

SUBMITTER: Allsopp LP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5530658 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature