This Week in Mi­cro­bi­ol­ogy #105: Real bugs with legs

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The pod­cast about un­seen life on Earth hosted by: Vin­cent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swan­son. 

The TWiM team re­views the mi­cro­bi­o­log­i­cal safety of herbs in the United King­dom, and how a pep­tide from the milk­weed bug binds the ri­bo­some and in­hibits bac­te­r­ial pro­tein syn­the­sis.

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Links for this episode

• Mi­crobes in whole-leaf herbs (J Appl Mi­cro)
• An­timi­cro­bial pep­tide blocks ri­bo­some (Nat Struct Mol Biol)
• Bac­te­r­ial pro­tein syn­the­sis (Mi­cro Mol Biol Rev)
• An­timi­cro­bial pep­tides (Na­ture)
• The bat­tle for tryp­to­phan (Front Cell In­fect Mi­cro)
• Let­ters read on TWiM 105

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