Highlight of each workshop at schools are newly isolated phages - and discussions why most plaques exclude each other when they touch. Phage-induced phenotypic resistance! 🧫🧬🛡
#PhageSky
#microsky
Always a fan of Fidelma’s work (plus, who wouldn’t love working on a bacterium called “diabolicus”!!!)
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
new pili for the lilliputians (CPR/Patescibacteria) 👇
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Two temperature-dependent membrane fluidity regimes in gram-positive bacteria
#mSphere by @abarbotin.bsky.social et al
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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I read “mucin” & I think “sialic acid” ;-)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ectoine is a well-established CS used to overcome osmotic stress, produced by a wide
range of bacteria. The demonstration of ectoine biosynthesis and catabolism in V. diabolicus showed that it is cond...
Bacterial defense systems act as barriers to phage infection and plasmid transformation. Here, Garb et al. designed synthetic proteins that disable bacterial defense systems, enabling phages to infect...
outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) of 𝘝𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪 are apparently piñatas full of goodies for its host, 𝘌. 𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘴.
earlier we featured SsrA (tmRNA), now comes SypC protein - both required for proper ldevelopment of the squid's light organ.
#SymbioSky
Ákos T Kovács
How do human cells defend against viruses?
@sgfern.bsky.social discovers that human immune proteins named ISGs target ancient features of replication shared between animal and bacterial viruses – opening analysis of human immunity to the power of bacterial genetics
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Temperature changes affect the physical properties of the plasma membrane. Typically,
a reduction in temperature causes a less fluid and thus more viscous, membrane. It
has been long established that ...
New paper alert!! We just discovered a new filament system that is widespread exclusively within CPR bacteria! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... Short thread below. 🦠🔬🚀
STCmicrobeblog
by Janie — This New Year story begins with newly hatched baby bobtail squids. Each squid is translucent and barely the size of a grain of barley. As they swim around, the six pores on their heads …
The Candidate Phyla Radiation (CPR) represents a bacterial superphylum estimated to include between 15–50% of all bacterial species, yet CPR bacteria remain challenging to culture and have been primar...
The activation of an antiphage defence system relies on host factors targeted by phages, a mechanism analogous to the way that eukaryotic innate immune systems detect pathogen-induced perturbations of...
Cayman enables computational analysis of carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) in microbial community data. It revealed novel mucus-foraging gut microorganisms and differences in gut microbial CAZyme ...
Abstract. Streptomycetes are prolific producers of bioactive natural products, but many of the biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) are silent in the laborato
