This Week in Microbiology

312: Cry Havoc!, and Let Slip the Phages of Healing


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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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  • 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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