Modeling Bacterial Toxin Guns (IMAGE)

California Institute of Technology

Modeling Bacterial Toxin Guns

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A structural model of a dynamic machine, called a Type IV secretion system, used by many bacteria in order to inject toxic molecules into cells and also to spread genes for antibiotic resistance to fellow bacteria.

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Caltech

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