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😮 anti-Phage defense papers

The missing piece in the bacterial #ESCRT-III story.. #Vipp1 forms dynamic spiral filaments on membrane! Spirals are springs that drive 3D ring formation in the spiral centre! 😎😵‍💫 Wonderful collaboration with A_Colom Roux Lab… 1/2 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Nature research paper: A new antibiotic traps lipopolysaccharide in its intermembrane transporter go.nature.com/3H7hrKc

Great work by the groups of Liz Sockett (Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN) and Andy Lovering (UoB Biosciences IMIBirmingham)

Scientists solve the mystery of how predatory bacteria recognises prey - new research from Prof Liz Sockett Bdellovibrio Lab UoN Life Sciences and Prof Andrew Lovering UoB Biosciences published Nature Microbiology Read more - ow.ly/F6Hy50QnNIZ

Exciting day. Just found out we not only got the cover we tried for but also got a nice highlight of the beautiful paper by Sundharraman Subramanian cell.com/structure/full…

Now published: The virulence regulator VirB from Shigella flexneri uses a CTP-dependent switch mechanism to activate gene expression A great collaboration with W. Steinchen, @diepold_lab, Timo Glatter, BangeBalcony, Georg Hochberg rdcu.be/dvfXz @SYNMIKRO Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology 1/3

Like protein secretion? Like mycobacteria? Exciting postdoc opportunity 👇 Contact me or Lis Lowe👩🏼‍🔬 if you’re interested! jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastle-…

Latest from our Lab. Cryo-EM studies revealed a unique mode of mycobacterial ribosome hibernation. Reported in Nature Communications rdcu.be/dwu0B Thnaks RCB SERB @DBTindia Rajesh Gokhale @CCAMP_Bangalore @Ribosome_papers @cryoEM_papers Niraj Kumar Shivani Sharma

Cryo-EM structure of the prokaryotic SPARSA system complex (PDB code: 8JL0) #scivis #sciart #proteinimaging #molecularart behance.net/gallery/189824…

Interested in microbiomes, phages, and wastewater? Got a PhD? Thinking of what to do next? We are looking for a postdoc to work on all that fun stuff while collaborating with amazing researchers Simon Roux and Vivek Mutalik at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory! Read more

Bacteria can be pirates too... 🏴‍☠️ Let us introduce you to Captain Aureispira ⛵️ A bacterial pirate ship loaded with canons 💉 and grappling hooks 🪝🌴predating on other bacteria 🦠 Check the preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #predation #T6SS #T9SS #cryoEM #cryoET #teamtomo 🧵1/6

Teaching Nature to Break Man-made Chemical Bonds. For the first time, scientists have engineered an enzyme that can break stubborn man-made bonds between silicon and carbon. caltech.edu/about/news/tea…

My first paper from John Innes Centre with Tung Le is now out! 😃If you like bacteria and mobile genetic elements, consider reading our review on wonderfully weird #genetransferagents below👇sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Jumbo phage proteins co-opt host ribosomes immediately upon infection. We provide a resource for complexes in PhiKZ-infected Pseudomonas cells. #PhageDiversity #PhageComplexes Jörg Vogel Rob Lavigne Bettina Boettcher Universität Würzburg #UniWürzburg Helmholtz Institute Würzburg (HIRI) nature.com/articles/s4156…

Team headed by Andrew Ward determined the cryo-EM structures of the mechanosensitive ion channels OSCA2.3 and OSCA1.2 providing insights into the mechanism of mechanotransduction in OSCA channels The Ward Lab Scripps Research cell.com/structure/full…

Amazing work from Bdellovibrio Lab nature.com/articles/s4146…

Happy and super excited to share our discovery of a protein fractal! We unravel the surprisingly simple emergence of these marvellous structures and show it might have even been an accident of evolution. Read the full story here nature.com/articles/s4158… Or just stick around 🧵

Captain Aureispira - a bacterial pirate ship🦜🏴‍☠️🪝- boarded Science Magazine. Check out the manuscript here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… and have a look on our extended thread below ⬇️We provide new insights on bacterial predation from molecules ⚛️to ocean samples 🌊

Very happy to share our new work about the newly identified SopA protein and its role in the control of type IV pili formation. Paper is now online DOI: 10.1128/jb.00108-24