Cryo-EM structure of the extended type VI secretion system sheath-tube complex.
Wang, J., Brackmann, M., Castano-Diez, D., Kudryashev, M., Goldie, K.N., Maier, T., Stahlberg, H., Basler, M.(2017) Nat Microbiol 2: 1507-1512
- PubMed: 28947741 
- DOI: 10.1038/s41564-017-0020-7
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
5MXN, 5MYU, 5OJQ - PubMed Abstract: 
The bacterial type VI secretion system (T6SS) uses contraction of a long sheath to quickly thrust a tube with associated effectors across membranes of eukaryotic and bacterial cells 1-5 . Only limited structural information is available about the inherently unstable precontraction state of the T6SS ...