How to sustain energy-costly #proteinsynthesis under #nutrient-fluctuating conditions?
Weiwei Han, Eduardo Groisman and coworkers show that #bacterial #elongation factor paralog EF-G2 mediates slow #translation without #GTPase activity/#GTP hydrolysis to promote #Bacteroides gut colonization
#microbiology #hostpathogen
https://www.embopress.org/doi/10.15252/embj.2022112372

The study suggests that patients with bacteremia caused by #Bacteroides ovatus, Bacteroides uniformis, or #Fusobacterium spp. (excluding F. necrophorum) have a similar risk of CRC and would also qualify for the same colorectal screening, similar to S. gallolyticus