How do bacteria communicate with neighboring cells?🦠🦠 Excited to share my postdoc work is out! Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We captured a remarkable event of nanotube-mediated cel-cell communication in live bacterial cells and discovered a novel bacterial organelle: the "Tubeosome".

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STCmicrobeblog@stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 4mo ago

it's summer, and time to go to the pool. our post next monday will be about bacteria that swim the backstroke. stay tuned... #MicroSky

Hot off the press! 📣 "A family of endonucleases blocks nanotube-mediated plasmid exchange". @natmicrobiol.nature.com #bacterialnanotube www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A family of endonucleases blocks nanotube-mediated plasmid exchange - Nature Microbiology

The YokF endonuclease provides a donor-controlled mechanism to limit plasmid transfer to recipient bacteria via nanotubes in Bacillus subtilis, with YokF functional homologues found across Gram-positi...

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