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Knut Drescher

@knutdrescher.bsky.social

I love science and discovering new things.

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Knut Drescher@knutdrescher.bsky.social · last yr.

Biofilm architecture determines the dissemination of conjugative plasmids: We measured the spatiotemporal spread of plasmids in biofilms and found that plasmids only spread in some biofilm regions! Collab with lab of @sbigot.bsky.social & Christian Lesterlin www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Biofilm architecture determines the dissemination of conjugative plasmids | PNAS

Plasmid conjugation is a contact-dependent horizontal gene transfer mechanism that significantly contributes to the dissemination of antibiotic res...

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Florian Jug@florianjug.bsky.social · 2y ago

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Knut Drescher@knutdrescher.bsky.social · 2y ago

ASM's podcast "This Week in Microbiology" discussed our peptidoglycan danger sensing manuscript in detail: It is a true joy to hear how the paper is perceived through someone else's eyes. The enthusiasm of the speakers is amazing. [From 20 min onwards:] asm.org/Podcasts/TWi...

I Have One Word For You: PETase!

The discovery of microbial enzymes, PETases, that can degrade ubiquitous plastics, and how exogenous peptidoglycan is a danger signal to trigger biofilm formation.

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University of Basel@unibas.ch · 2y ago

How do bacteria sense potential threats in their environment and initiate protective measures? Researchers led by @knutdrescher.bsky.social have discovered that fragments of the bacterial cell wall serve as an alarm signal indicating danger in the environment. @biozentrum.bsky.social

Sophisticated early warning system: How bacteria respond to threats

University of Basel researchers have discovered that bacteria can sense threats in advance through a general danger signal. Bacteria detect when nearby cells are dying and proactively form a protectiv...

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Knut Drescher@knutdrescher.bsky.social · 2y ago

We found that many bacterial species use exogenous peptidoglycan fragments - released by lysis of neighboring cells - as a general danger signal, triggering a danger response that protects bacteria against many dangers: biofilm formation. Details here 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bacteria use exogenous peptidoglycan as a danger signal to trigger biofilm formation - Nature Microbiology

Peptidoglycan released by neighbouring kin or non-kin cell lysis induces physiological changes that protect from a range of stresses, including phage predation.

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