Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson.
The TWiM crew ponders the question of how a bacterium finds its middle when dividing, then divulge the transfer of interbacterial antagonism genes to eukaryotes, where they may function in innate defense.
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Links for this episode
- Size independent symmetric division (Nat Commun)
- How does a bacterium find its middle? (Nat Struct Biol)
- Genes transferred from bacteria augment eukaryotic defenses (Cell)
- Antibacterial gene transfer (eLife)
- Letters read on TWiM 98
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