Contractile injection systems are nanomachines used by bacteria to puncture target cell membranes, thereby mediating bacterial competition and infection of eukaryotic cells. Two studies shed light on the structural diversity of these molecular spearguns using advanced multiscale imaging techniques.
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Righetto, R.D., Engel, B.D. Expanding the arsenal of bacterial spearguns. Nat Microbiol 7, 363–364 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-022-01078-z
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