The enemy of my enemy: A bacterial antagonist rescues Chlamydomonas by inactivating a toxin from a rival
Trang Vuong, Constanze Schultz, Harikumar R Suma, Patrick Then, Sankar Jana, Michael Schmitt, Juergen Popp, Pierre Stallforth, Maria Mittag
The paper shows that Pseudomonas fluorescens protects Chlamydomonas reinhardtii from Pseudomonas protegens by inactivating its toxin protegencin in a tripartite microbial interaction.
bioRxiv · Nov 6, 2026 · PreprintMicrobiology