New paper out in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social!
Microbes evolving with modern lifestyles 🧬ðŸ¦
S. copri uses PerR to manage oxygen stress, but some strains acquired OxyR via HGT, boosting oxygen tolerance.
These strains are enriched in industrialized populations.
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El Mouali and Tawk et al. characterize the oxygen-tolerance response in the human
gut-residing bacterium Segatella copri. They identified a subset of strains that acquired
an additional oxygen regulat...
