328: Capturing Shigella With Filopodia
This Week in Microbiology · Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin, Michele Swanson
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TWiM describes Shigella infection is facilitated by interaction of human enteric α-defensin 5 with a colonic epithelial receptor, and an amino acid change in RNA polymerase that leads to resistance to β-lactams by preventing dysregulation of amino acid and nucleotide metabolism
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson.
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Links for this episode- National Black HIV/AIDS awareness day (CDC)
- Shigella infection and human enteric alpha-defensin 5 (Nature Microbio)
- RNA polymerase amino acid change and resistance to beta-lactams (Cell Rep)
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