Hosts: 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)
- Image credit
- Letters read on TWiM 105
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