Bacterial type VI secretion system helps prevent cheating in microbial communities

• Main Author: Filloux, Alain
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Medicine, Health and Life Sciences; Antibacterial toxin; Microbial community
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/180083
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In their paper, “Trojan horse-like T6SS effector TepC mediates both interference competition and exploitative competition”, Song and colleagues (2024) remind us of an important societal principle that everyone contributes to benefit the collective population [1]. This challenging task is reflected i...