Presence and abundance of bacteria with the Type VI secretion system in a coastal environment and in the global oceans.

ABSTRACT: Marine bacteria employ various strategies to maintain their competitive advantage over others in a mixed community. The use of Type VI Secretion Systems (T6SS), a protein secretion apparatus used as a molecular weapon for interbacterial competition and eukaryotic interactions, is one of the competitive strategies that is least studied among heterotrophic bacteria living in the water column. To get an insight into the temporal and spatial distribution of bacteria with T6SS in this portion of the marine environment, we examine the presence and abundance of T6SS-bearing bacteria at both local and global scales through the use of metagenome data from water samples obtained from the coast of Monterey Bay and the TARA Oceans project. We also track the abundance of T6SS-harboring bacteria through

SUBMITTER: Kempnich MW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7755280 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature