ArticleEmerging topics in life sciences2017
Can't you hear me knocking: contact-dependent competition and cooperation in bacteria.
Article in Emerging topics in life sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- Elongation Factor Tu Acts as a Chaperone to Activate an Antibacterial RNase Toxin.Molecular microbiology · 2026Article
- An interbacterial cysteine protease toxin inhibits cell growth by targeting type II DNA topoisomerases GyrB and ParE.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Contact-dependent growth inhibition (CDI) systems deploy a large family of polymorphic ionophoric toxins for inter-bacterial competition.PLoS genetics · 2024Article
- Nutritional stress induced intraspecies competition revealed by transcriptome analysis in Sphingomonas melonis TY.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2022Article
- Proteolytic processing induces a conformational switch required for antibacterial toxin delivery.Nature communications · 2022Article
- A membrane-depolarizing toxin substrate of theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Target highlights in CASP13: Experimental target structures through the eyes of their authors.Proteins · 2019Article
- Spatial Organization of Expanding Bacterial Colonies Is Affected by Contact-Dependent Growth Inhibition.Current biology : CB · 2019Article
- The Cytoplasm-Entry Domain of Antibacterial CdiA Is a Dynamic α-Helical Bundle with Disulfide-Dependent Structural Features.Journal of molecular biology · 2019Article
- Bifunctional Immunity Proteins Protect Bacteria against FtsZ-Targeting ADP-Ribosylating Toxins.Cell · 2018Article
- Functional plasticity of antibacterial EndoU toxins.Molecular microbiology · 2018Article
- Cell-cell recognition and social networking in bacteria.Environmental microbiology · 2018Review
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Abstract
Microorganisms are in constant competition for growth niches and environmental resources. In Gram-negative bacteria, contact-dependent growth inhibition (CDI) systems link the fate of one cell with its immediate neighbor through touch-dependent, receptor-mediated toxin delivery. Though discovered for their ability to confer a competitive growth advantage, CDI systems also play significant roles in inter-sibling cooperation, promoting both auto-aggregation and biofilm formation. In this review, we detail the mechanisms of CDI toxin delivery and consider how toxin exchange between isogenic sibling cells could regulate gene expression.
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