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209: Resuscitating persisters and flagellotrophic phage

209: Resuscitating persisters and flagellotrophic phage

FromThis Week in Microbiology


209: Resuscitating persisters and flagellotrophic phage

FromThis Week in Microbiology

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Length:
58 minutes
Released:
Nov 14, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The TWiM team reveals how ribosome modification resuscitates bacterial persister cells, and explain how a phage tail fiber protein exploits rotation of flagella to move towards the cell membrane. Become a patron of TWiM. Links for this episode: Ribosome modification resuscitates persister cells (Environ Micro) Flagellotrophic phage targets host with tail fiber (Mol Micro) Hydrodynamics of phage migration along flagella (Phys Rev Fluids) Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission. Send your microbiology questions and comments to twim@microbe.tv  
Released:
Nov 14, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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This Week in Microbiology is a podcast about unseen life on Earth hosted by Vincent Racaniello and friends. Following in the path of his successful shows 'This Week in Virology' (TWiV) and 'This Week in Parasitism' (TWiP), Racaniello and guests produce an informal yet informative conversation about microbes which is accessible to everyone, no matter what their science background.