The TWiM team reviews the microbiological safety of herbs in the United Kingdom, and how a peptide from the milkweek bug binds the ribosome and inhibits bacterial protein synthesis.

Links for this episode:

• Microbes in whole-leaf herbs (J Appl Micro)

• Antimicrobial peptide blocks ribosome (Nat Struct Mol Biol)

• Bacterial protein synthesis (Micro Mol Biol Rev)

• Antimicrobial peptides (Nature)

• The battle for tryptophan (Front Cell Infect Micro)

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