MIX-Effectors – T6SS MIX-effectors: secretion, activities and use as antibacterial treatment – ERC
Many bacterial pathogens have acquired resistance to contemporary antibiotic treatments, becoming a public health threat and necessitating the development of novel antibacterial strategies. Thus, as a relatively untapped antibacterial system, studying the T6SS and its MIX-effectors presents a double incentive: 1) previously uncharacterized antibacterial activities of MIX-effectors can illuminate novel cellular targets for antibacterial drug development; 2) the T6SS machinery can be used as a novel toxin delivery platform to combat multidrug resistant bacterial infections, using polymorphic MIX-effectors.
In this proposal, I will focus on T6SS MIX-effectors and elucidate their activities, mechanism of secretion, and utilization as antibacterial agents, by combining microbiology, molecular biology, genetic, biochemical, and proteomic approaches. Specifically, the goal of this proposal is to utilize T6SSs and MIX-effectors to develop a novel T6SS-based, antibacterial therapeutic platform in which a nonpathogenic bacterium will be engineered to carry a T6SS that can secrete a diverse repertoire of polymorphic antibacterial MIX-effectors. This innovative platform has several advantages over current antibacterial strategies, and can be used as an adjustable tool to combat multidrug resistant bacteria.
Keywords: ANTIBACTERIAL; ANTIBACTERIAL TREATMENT; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG RESISTANT BACTERIA; MICROBIOLOGY; MIX-EFFECTORS; PROTEIN DELIVERY; T6SS; TEL AVIV
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 December 2018
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