A new paper from Cox Lab UoG, Laura Thompson and Tanisha Teelucksingh developed a tool kit to study bacterial efflux pumps and the movement of compounds across the cell envelope to profile efflux pump inhibitors and substrate specificities. Free to read link at rdcu.be/cU1SO

I saw this on LinkedIn and thought it was a handy guide for people like me who have trouble remembering the antibiotic compendium (credit: Atul Kumar).

Excited to share the latest from Team Staph (pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…), led by Allison (not on twitter), who spends most her time trying to make Staph less sticky. Autolysins are a great target for anti-adhesive approaches. CBS Research and Graduate Studies MCB at UofG University of Guelph News University of Guelph

Here's the latest from Team Efflux! Led by MSc student Shawna Zhu, in collaboration with Eric Brown, Genentech and others cell.com/iscience/pdf/S… CBS Research and Graduate Studies MCB at UofG University of Guelph NSERC / CRSNG

Here we used a combination of approaches to fully characterize the last two (known) Klebsiella serotypes O4 and O7. Along the way we discovered some really interesting enzymes, including an α-Kdo transferase forming the new GT137 family. #CAZy #glycotime jbc.org/article/S0021-…