Episode 295
295: Uncultured and Unmutable
This Week in Microbiology · Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin,
September 22, 20231h 6m
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Show Notes
TWiM explains how phages avoid tRNA-targeting host defenses, and discovery of a new antibiotic from an uncultured bacterium that binds to an immutable target.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Petra Levin,
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Links for this episode- Phages avoid tRNA-targeting host defenses (eLife)
- Sea phages
- Actinobacteriophage database
- New antibiotic from uncultured bacterium (bioRxiv)
- The age of infection (For Policy)
- Killing bacteria by teixobactin (Nature)
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