TWiM 229: Dirt is not sim­ple

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In this episode of TWiM, the hid­den bio­chem­i­cal di­ver­sity in soil-dwelling Acti­nobac­te­ria that could lead to a sec­ond Golden Era of an­tibi­otic dis­cov­ery, and struc­tures of glideo­some com­po­nents re­veals the mech­a­nism of glid­ing in api­com­plexan par­a­sites.

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

Guest: Mark O. Mar­tin

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Links for this episode

• Cryp­tic or silent? (mBio)
• The Strep­to­myces chro­mo­some (Ann Rev Gen)
• En­gi­neer­ing Nature's Med­i­cines (pdf)
• Api­com­plexan glideo­some (Comm Biol)
• TWiM Lis­tener sur­vey

  

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