This Week in Microbiology

TWiM 31: Screen door on a submarine

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jo Handelsman, and Michael Schmidt

Vincent, Jo, and Michael discuss an archetypal protein transport system in bacterial outer membranes, and evidence that gut microbial enterotypes might not fall into defined groups.

Links for this episode:

  • Discovery of a TAM, a new bacterial protein transport system (Nat Struct Mol Biol)
  • Commentary on TAM discovery
  • Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome (Nature)
  • Gut enterotypes might be less clear-cut (Ed Yong)
  • Letters read on TWiM #31
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