Making the Best of Aggression: The Many Dimensions of Bacterial Toxin Regulation

Toxin synthesis and delivery entail significant costs to bacteria.Antibacterial toxin production is under strict regulatory control.Numerous molecular mechanisms of toxin regulation have been elucidated, but the underlying decision-making strategies are often ignored.Decisions behind toxin production aim at maximizing long-term fitness. They rely on inferences about the presence of competitors and the physiological state of the producing...