Episode 312
312: Cry Havoc!, and Let Slip the Phages of Healing
This Week in Microbiology · Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson, Petra Levin
June 28, 202453m 14s
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Show Notes
TWiM explains a new mechanism for preventing lysogeny through temperate phage-antibiotic synergy, and Salmonella expansion in the murine gut dependency on aspartate derived from reactive oxygen species-mediated microbiota lysis.
Hosts: Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson.
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Links for this episode- Temperate phage-antibiotic synergy (mBio)
- Salmonella expansion dependent on aspartate (Cell Host Micr)
- Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Wiki)
- A Genetic Switch by Mark Ptashne
- Lysis timing and bacteriophage fitness (Genetics)
- HK97 capsid assembly (Ad Exp Med Biol)
- Mode of action of fluoroquinolones (Drugs)
- Salmonella a foodborne pathogen (CDC)
- Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program (HHMI)
- Sam Kaplan - 30 years of Microbiology (McGovern Medical School)
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