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.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michele Swanson and Michael Schmidt
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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)
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