Delighted to have been invited to write this mBio mGem @asm.org Here, I present a summary of the zymocin-like toxin research space. I also put forward my hypothesis that these toxins have been used for hundreds of millions of years across the fungal kingdom 🍄💀: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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mGem: Toxins from killer plasmids as a universal killing system in the fungal kingdom | mBio
Fungal species compete with each other and with other organisms for nutrients, and
one of the mechanisms that fungi often use to give themselves an advantage is the
production of a toxin (1). Some tox...
