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ORGANISM(S): Vibrio Cholerae O1 Biovar El Tor Str. N16961
SUBMITTER:
Tao Dong
PROVIDER: PXD078046 | iProX | Fri May 01 00:00:00 BST 2026
REPOSITORIES: iProX

Nature communications 20260526
While eukaryotes employ alternative splicing to diversify protein functions, analogous strategies in bacteria remain underexplored. Here we identify a conserved intragenic coding mechanism in Vibrio cholerae that generates two isoforms of the essential scaffold Fha and show that these isoforms cooperate through liquid-liquid phase separation to promote the assembly of the type VI secretion system (T6SS). The full-length isoform, Fha<sup>L</sup>, seeds assembly by engaging the membrane complex, w ...[more]