This episode: New type of secretion system discovered that bacteria use to stab amoeba predators to escape their digestion!
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Microbe of the episode: Avastrovirus 1
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Journal Paper:
Böck D, Medeiros JM, Tsao H-F, Penz T, Weiss GL, Aistleitner K, Horn M, Pilhofer M. 2017. In situ architecture, function, and evolution of a contractile injection system. Science 357:713–717.
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