Some Bacteria Attack Using Spring-Loaded Poison Daggers (IMAGE)

California Institute of Technology

Some Bacteria Attack Using Spring-Loaded Poison Daggers

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A team, co-led by researchers at the California Institute of Technology, has figured out the structure of the type VI secretion system apparatus and proposed how it might work -- by shooting spring-loaded poison molecular daggers.

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<I>Nature</I>/Everett Kane

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