TWiM #28: Not un­or­ga­nized bags of en­zymes

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Hosts: Vin­cent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, and Michael Schmidt.

Vin­cent, Michael, and Elio re­view how com­pe­ti­tion within a host dri­ves vir­u­lence of Strep­to­coc­cus pneu­mo­niae, and the ex­pand­ing uni­verse of the bac­te­r­ial cy­toskele­ton.

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