by Janie — Some bac­te­r­ial en­zymes have in­ter­est­ing char­ac­ter arcs. DNA poly­merase, cour­tesy of Ther­mus aquati­cus, soaks up the lime­light as an en­zyme pulled out of bac­te­ria and cata­pulted into mol­e­c­u­lar bi­ol­ogy star­dom. One en­zyme that is cer­tainly less-known is FbaB, which helps Strepto­coccus pyo­genes ad­here to and in­vade host cells...