This Week in Microbiology

• 363: Why Vegetables Are Good for Your Heart

  TWiM the finding that Bunsen burners do not decrease deposition of microbe-containing particles, and how gut microbiota generate dinitrosyl iron complexes with cardiometabolic benefits.

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  • Bunsen burners don’t do what you thought they did (Micro Spectrum)

  • How does air circulate in passenger planes? | AFP

  • How germs travel on planes | Raymond Wang

  • Gut bacteria and cardiometabolic health (Cell)
    

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• 362: When Gut Bacteria Share Chromosomes

  TWiM explains how movement of DNA among gut bacteria drive large-scale genome mosaicism, and validation of a method for detection of Cyclospora cayetanensis in outbreak-linked fresh produce.

  Hosts:  Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson, and Petra Levin

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  • Natural DNA transformation in the gut (ISME J)

  • The transformation factor (J Exp Med)

  • Validating cyclospora assay (J Food Prot)

  • Cyclosporiasis (CDC)

   

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• 361: Bacteria and Colon Cancer Recurrence

  TWiM explains the discovery of an avirulent bacterial signature associated with the development of recurrence following colorectal cancer surgery, and phage-derived proteins and conjugates that induce pilus detachment.

  Hosts:  Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Petra Levin

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  Links for this episode:

  • Bacterial signature is associated with colon cancer recurrence (Nat Comm)

  • Phage-derived proteins induce pilus detachment (J Bact)

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• 360: Nitrogen Fixation Goes Eukaryotic

  TWiM explains major implications of the link between plastic pollution and antimicrobial resistance, and the discovery of a new organelle, the nitrogen-fixing nitroplast.

  Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson

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  Links for this episode

  • Plastic pollution and antimicrobial resistance (Appl Envir Micro)
  • The great Pacific garbage patch (YouTube)
  • Rumen microbiome (Nat Biotech)
  • Nitrogen-fixing organelle in marine alga (Science)
  • This cell just changed biology (YouTube)
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• 359: Kin Killing and Metal Hunger

  TWiM explains how cannibalism shapes biofilm structure and composition in Bacillus subtilis, and the importance of manganese uptake in uropathogenic E. coli during urinary tract infection.

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  • Cannibalism shapes biofilm structure (mBio)

  • Manganese and uropathogenic E. coli (mBio)

  • Regulation of Bacterial MntH Genes (NLM Bookshelf)
    
    

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