Friendly Fire/ Cell Sept. 8, 2016 (Vol. 167, Issue 1)

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Bacteria use a molecular machine called type VI secretion system like a spear gun to deliver toxins to their targets. Marek Basler and colleagues of University of Basel show that bacteria can exchange components necessary to assemble this molecular machinery by jabbing one another.

Check out the paper at http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674%2816%2931074-1

Andrea Vettiger and Marek Basler (2016). Type VI Secretion System Substrates Are Transferred and Reused among Sister Cells. Cell 166.

And read more great research at http://www.cell.com/cell/home.

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