preLights · @preLights
587 followers · 26 posts · Server biologists.social

Move over IgG: WTA-specific IgM is unexpectedly good at targeting Staphylococcus aureus. 🦠

Insightful and entertaining preLight prepared by Lucy Bowden covering work from the that could inspire new antibody-based therapies & vaccines.

👉 prelights.biologists.com/highl

#byu #vansorgelab #preprint #prelight #antibodies #staphylococcus #microbiology #immunology #therapy #vaccines

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The EMBO Journal · @embojournal
502 followers · 246 posts · Server sciencemastodon.com

structure of transporter QacA from aureus reveals a novel extracellular loop with role
Aravind Penmatsa and colleagues @iiscbangalore
embopress.org/doi/full/10.1525

#cryoem #antibacterial #efflux #staphylococcus #allosteric

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The EMBO Journal · @embojournal
431 followers · 152 posts · Server sciencemastodon.com

protein FtsK coordinates bacterial segregation and daughter cell separation in
Helena Veiga, Mariana Pinho et al show interacts with the and establishes its gradient towards the to promote stability and export of the Sle1.

embopress.org/doi/10.15252/emb

#celldivision #Chromosome #staphylococcus #aureus #ftsk #chaperone #triggerfactor #septum #peptidoglycan #hydrolase

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Akos T Kovacs · @EvolvedBiofilm
435 followers · 1694 posts · Server mstdn.science

Claus Moser finishes with highlighting EuroBioFilms 2024 in Copenhagen: 26-29 June next year ➡️ medical biofilm researchers should take note

#Pseudomonas #burkholderia #staphylococcus #biofilm

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Vivek Mutalik · @vivek_mutalik
648 followers · 748 posts · Server fediscience.org

Growth Arrest of aureus Induces Daptomycin via Cell Wall Remodelling | mBio

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/m

#tolerance #staphylococcus

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onisillos · @onisillos
528 followers · 795 posts · Server scicomm.xyz

The February issue of The Lancet Microbe is now online:

thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/

The journal is , so you are free to explore all of the content, but these hashtags offer a flavour:

#oa #hiv #loiasis #loaloa #AMR #dst #wgs #tb #tuberculosis #mycobacterium #staphylococcus #Bacillus #probiotic #openaccess

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Vivek Mutalik · @vivek_mutalik
636 followers · 672 posts · Server fediscience.org

In Vivo Gene Expression Profiling of aureus during Infection Informs Design of Stemless Leukocidins LukE and -D as Detoxified Candidates | Spectrum

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/s

#microbiology #vaccine #staphylococcus

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Lisa Moore · @Lisa_R_Moore
17 followers · 18 posts · Server genomic.social

Tomorrow I'll be giving a tutorial for the newest curation upgrade to the genome database for aureus NCTC 8325!
Wed, 18th Jan 2023 from 10am-11:30am San Francisco (PST) Time
Go to tinyurl.com/2p8aws6k to register.

#biocyc #staphylococcus

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Vivek Mutalik · @vivek_mutalik
627 followers · 611 posts · Server fediscience.org

for -specific aureus decolonisation in Thailand: a phase 2, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled - The Lancet

thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/

#Microbe #trial #staphylococcus #pathogen #probiotic

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Fabrizio Chiodo · @FabrizioChiodo
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Akos T Kovacs · @EvolvedBiofilm
432 followers · 1600 posts · Server mstdn.science

RT @ScienceMagazine
New discoveries in @scisignal answer how bacteria can tolerate antibiotics and survive acidic conditions—and hint that two enzymes named PknB and Stp could offer therapeutic targets in persisting infections. scim.ag/19i

#staphylococcus #microbiology

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onisillos · @onisillos
517 followers · 677 posts · Server scicomm.xyz

New research article in The Lancet Microbe> for pathogen-specific aureus in : a phase 2, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial

thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/

#saureus #bsubtilis #Bacillus #thailand #decolonisation #staphylococcus #probiotic

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Kim · @kimbustion
197 followers · 766 posts · Server mastodon.lol

Today I learned that staphyl- and strepto- refer to whether grow in clumps or chains, and -bacillus and -coccus refer to whether the cells are spherical or cylindrical.

So means round cells that form clumps and means cylindrical cells that form chains. So simple!

#bacteria #staphylococcus #streptobacillus

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Vivek Mutalik · @vivek_mutalik
573 followers · 470 posts · Server fediscience.org
Vivek Mutalik · @vivek_mutalik
563 followers · 454 posts · Server fediscience.org
Vivek Mutalik · @vivek_mutalik
481 followers · 390 posts · Server fediscience.org

Engineering a “detect and destroy” skin to combat methicillin-resistant aureus

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti

#AMR #MRSA #staphylococcus #probiotic

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Vivek Mutalik · @vivek_mutalik
462 followers · 326 posts · Server fediscience.org

A -throughput cytotoxicity screening reveals agr-independent mutations in bacteraemia-associated aureus that promote intracellular | bioRxiv

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

#highthroughput #genetics #geneticscreening #persistence #staphylococcus #platform #high

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MAHanson · @MarkHanson
199 followers · 201 posts · Server drosophila.social

RT @SarahKWalsh1@twitter.com

First preprint from my PhD looking at the of a across a panel of 64 hosts. We found that the relationship between hosts is an important determinant of susceptibility and replication across hosts🦠🧫🔬

doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.30.518

🐦🔗: twitter.com/SarahKWalsh1/statu

#hostrange #bacteriophage #viral #staphylococcus

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Timothy D Read PhD · @timreadmicro
177 followers · 178 posts · Server mastodon.social

The host phylogeny determines viral infectivity and replication across Staphylococcus host species

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

#bacteriophage #staphylococcus

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Steve Baker · @Bakersm11
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@feargal do enterobacter in the intetinal patch cell diretuculitis microbiome bind any of the same Mscramms as MRSA USA 300 or any other strain ? academic.oup.com/jid/article/2

#bacterial #staphylococcus #atcc

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