Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michael Schmidt and Michele Swanson
Vincent, Elio, Michael, and Michelle discuss a symbiosis between a bacterium and fungus that increases the virulence of oral biofilms, and the assembly of amyloid fibers, which are needed for biofilm formation.
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Links for this episode:
- My podcast Vinny (TWiV #277)
- Accessory protein for B. subtilis amyloid formation (J Bact)
- Natto
- Microbial amyloids (Trends Micro)
- Functional bacterial amyloid (Cell Mol Life Sci)
- Symbiosis in early-childhood dental caries (Inf Immun)
- Human Dental Plaque showing iodophilic polysaccharide synthesis (photo)
- Letters read on TWiM 75
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