Two temperature-dependent membrane fluidity regimes in gram-positive bacteria
#mSphere by @abarbotin.bsky.social et al
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#MicroSky
new pili for the lilliputians (CPR/Patescibacteria) 👇
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#microsky #glycotimesky #glycotime #microbiomesky
I read “mucin” & I think “sialic acid” ;-)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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 ...
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 ...
#microsky #phagesky
AF3 models of Klebsiella #phage RBPs.
This was done for coliphages and (to a lesser extent) phages against A. baumannii. Field heating up!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#microsky
Always a fan of Fidelma’s work (plus, who wouldn’t love working on a bacterium called “diabolicus”!!!)
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#PhageSky
Check out out the 15 papers that are part of our collction called "The Pseudomonads: Versatile Organisms" - lots to learn about this interesting bug!
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@asm.org #JBacteriol
Emmanuele Severi
Abstract. Streptomycetes are prolific producers of bioactive natural products, but many of the biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) are silent in the laborato
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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...
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...
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. 🦠🔬🚀
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...
Check out out the 15 papers that are part of our collction called "The Pseudomonads: Versatile Organisms" - lots to learn about this interesting bug!
journals.asm.org/topic/sss-ta...
@asm.org #JBacteriol
George O'Toole (he/him/his)
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
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Debnath Ghosal
Kranzusch Lab
Bacteriophage receptor-binding proteins (RBPs) determine bacterial host recognition and are central to phage host-range evolution, yet the structural principles governing how RBPs diversify and expand...
