Early initiation of three-drug #combinations for the #treatment of #carbapenem-resistant #Acinetobacter baumannii among #COVID19 patients https://academic.oup.com/jac/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jac/dkad042/7069111?rss=1

Cross-protection and cross-feeding between #Klebsiella pneumoniae and #Acinetobacter baumannii promotes their co-existence | Nature Communications

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36252-2

A conserved zinc-binding site in #Acinetobacter baumannii PBP2 required for elongasome-directed bacterial cell shape | PNAS

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2215237120

Duloxetine, sertraline, fluoxetine, + bupropion—but not escitalopram + agomelatine—increased the ability of #acinetobacter baylyi to uptake a plasmid in the lab. This effect is associated with membrane permeability and gene expression changes; scavenging reactive oxygen species (#ROS) and anaerobic conditions reduces effects. Drug persistence in bodies and the environment may increase #AMR

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43705-022-00147-y

@oneabstractaday

DNA modifications impact natural #transformation of #Acinetobacter baumannii | bioRxiv

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.09.527895v1

AbTFM is the only known example of a putative tautomerase superfamily member linked to a type VI secretion system. But what biological role does it play? #Acinetobacter #OxalocrotonateTautomerase #TautomeraseSuperfamily #openaccess https://doi.org/10.1107/S2053230X22011414

Awesome to be involved in a small way in another fun long RSH story with amazing coauthors 🥂

RT @hauryliuk@twitter.com

Another amazing collaboration with Abel Garcia-Pino lab: a full-length structure of SpoT! And, as predicted 10 years ago by
@gem__atkinson@twitter.com, Acinetobacter baumannii SpoT is SYNTH-deficient. Stay tuned for the next one out very soon! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-022-01198-x

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/hauryliuk/status/1599803834598948874

#structuralbiology #ppGpp #ribosome #xray #molecularevolution #acinetobacter #microbiology #bacteria

Second try!
#Science #Introduction
Based in beautiful #Lyon #France we study #bacterial #pathogens

Our focus: the intracellular sneaky pathogen #Brucella abortus; and the multi-drug resistant (not so sneaky) #Acinetobacter baumannii.

We want to know how they interact with cells, how they hide inside and what they inject into them to make all this happen.

This is our lab account, an international, inclusive, fun team with #microbiology, #InfectionBiology and #biochemistry expertise

While I'm very happy I made the decision to swap from #Pseudomonas to #Acinetobacter for my #Ecology and #experimentalEvolution study system and #research, trying to set everything up from scratch is such a pain.

Turns out you take a lot for granted when working on P. aeruginosa... So any advice or resources people have for studying #microbiology using A. baumannii would be much appreciated 🦠