TERC and infection: In addition to tellurite resistance, the ter operon is also involved in resistance to infection by various bacteriophages and to membrane-pore forming colicins (Whelan et al., 1995, 1997; Alonso et al., 2000), tolerance to oxidative stresses (Valková et al., 2007), resistance to phagocytosis by macrophages (Ponnusamy and Clinkenbeard, 2015), the ability of cells to adhere to epithelial cells in vitro (Yin et al., 2009), and filamentous bacterial cellular morphology (Whelan et al., 1997).