{"id":226395,"date":"2025-12-03T00:49:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/the-unique-architecture-of-umbrella-toxins-permits-a-two-tiered-molecular-bet-hedging-strategy-for-interbacterial-antagonism"},"modified":"2025-12-03T00:49:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:49:51","slug":"the-unique-architecture-of-umbrella-toxins-permits-a-two-tiered-molecular-bet-hedging-strategy-for-interbacterial-antagonism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/the-unique-architecture-of-umbrella-toxins-permits-a-two-tiered-molecular-bet-hedging-strategy-for-interbacterial-antagonism","title":{"rendered":"The unique architecture of umbrella toxins permits a two-tiered molecular bet-hedging strategy for interbacterial antagonism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-unique-architecture-of-umbrella-toxins-permits-a-two-tiered-molecular-bet-hedging-strategy-for-interbacterial-antagonism2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Umbrella toxin particles produced by Actinobacteria contain five spokes tipped with variable lectin domains. Here, Zhao et al. show that these lectins mediate species-specific binding to a previously unrecognized cell surface carbohydrate polymer and propose that the modular nature of umbrella particles enables bet hedging against unpredictable competitor encounters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Umbrella toxin particles produced by Actinobacteria contain five spokes tipped with variable lectin domains. Here, Zhao et al. show that these lectins mediate species-specific binding to a previously unrecognized cell surface carbohydrate polymer and propose that the modular nature of umbrella particles enables bet hedging against unpredictable competitor encounters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}