Delivery determinants of an Acinetobacter baumannii type VI secretion system bifunctional peptidoglycan hydrolase.
Valeriya Bezkorovayna, Brooke K. Hayes, Francesca N. Gillett, Amy Wright, David I. Roper, Marina Harper, Sheena McGowan, John D. Boyce
This study identifies the molecular function and delivery determinants of the T6SS effector Tae17 in Acinetobacter baumannii, showing it is a bifunctional peptidoglycan hydrolase with lytic transglycosylase and amidase activities.
mBio · Dec 31, 2024Peer-reviewedMicrobiology