Bacteria evolving to survive the soil battleground 🦠🛡️
Super glad I got to be part of this fascinating study, led by my friend @jinyi-zhu.bsky.social, who’s equally impressive in the lab and at the gym 💪
Fantin Mesny
Fungi deploy antimicrobial proteins (AMPs) to compete with microbes, including bacteria. But can bacteria fight back?
We @teamthomma.bsky.social found that some AMP-sensitive bacteria can repress AMP deployment, suggesting an unrecognized bacterial–fungal arms race.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
