Also extremely happy to see work finally published! Kudos to @yushuchen.bsky.social's tenacity and hard work! Read our previous thread and the paper itself for details/updates! Happy to chat if you find our findings interesting! #MicroSky
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Mycolic acids (MAs) are the major component of the mycobacterial outer membrane, a
key contributor to the intrinsic resistance of mycobacteria to e...
Shu-Sin Chng
Happy to share our newest preprint addressing the basis of trehalose essentiality in mycobacteria! This is a story brewing in the lab for the longest time, started by MSc grad Justin Lim, & now completed by the amazing PhD grad-turned-postdoc @yushuchen.bsky.social! #MicroSky #Mycobacteria 1/8
Shu-Sin Chng
Exquisite specificity of Pks13 defines the essentiality of trehalose in mycobacteria https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.03.647003v1
