This Week in Microbiology

TWiM #142: A membrane-thickness caliper


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Vincent, Elio and Michele wind up a year of microbial podcasts with a story about the lack of resistance to a crop antifungal compound, and how a bacterium uses a molecular caliper to measure membrane thickness.

Hosts:

Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, and Michele Swanson.

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Links for this episode
  • Phenylpyrroles: Nearly no resistance (Front Micro)

  • Membrane-thickness caliper (J Bact)

  • Letters read on TWiM 142

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