TWiM #106: Lawn mower disease

06/24/15 • 76 min

Vincent and Michael speak with Katy Bosio about her research on pathogenesis, immunity, and vaccines against Franciscella tularensis, the causative agent of tularemia.

Vincent and Michael speak with Katy Bosio about her research on pathogenesis, immunity, and vaccines against Franciscella tularensis, the causative agent of tularemia.

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TWiM #105: Real bugs with legs

The TWiM team reviews the microbiological safety of herbs in the United Kingdom, and how a peptide from the milkweek bug binds the ribosome and inhibits bacterial protein synthesis.

Links for this episode:

Microbes in whole-leaf herbs (J Appl Micro)
Antimicrobial peptide blocks ribosome (Nat Struct Mol Biol)
Bacterial protein synthesis (Micro Mol Biol Rev)
Antimicrobial peptides (Nature)
The battle for tryptophan (Front Cell Infect Micro)
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TWiM #107: The battle in your bladder

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Michael Schmidt.

Vincent and Michael discuss the highly diverse microbiome of uncontacted Amerindians, and how the composition of human urine plays a role in the battle for iron.

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Links for this episode

Microbiome of uncontacted Amerindians (Sci Adv)
Urinary composition controls siderocalin activity (J Biol Chem)
Urine acidity and UTI susceptibility (Infect Cont Today)
Image (from pdb file 3cmp) shows siderocalin (magenta) complexed
with iron (orange) and enterobactin (sticks)

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