TWiM explores the discovery of microbial enzymes, PETases, that can degrade ubiquitous plastics, and how exogenous peptidoglycan is a danger signal to trigger biofilm formation.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson, and Petra Levin
Guest: Mark O. Martin
Right click to download TWiM #326 (86 MB .mp3, 60 minutes)
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Links for this episode
- Discovery of PET depolymerases (Science)
- Exogenous peptidoglycan triggers biofilm formation (Nat Micro)
- What is a biofilm? (Vimeo)
- Peptidoglycan as a PAMP/MAMP (Immunol Rev)
- Light organ formation triggered by peptidoglycan (Science)
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