Traxler Lab
@traxlab.bsky.social
From molecules to ecosystems UC Berkeley Plant and Microbial Biology 🧫🧪🧬🔬
Our latest review is now live! Check out our thoughts on how the filamentous lifestyle of Actinomycetes and their ability to make a diverse array of natural products may be connected 👇: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Why Do Filamentous Actinomycetota Produce Such a Vast Array of Specialized Metabolites? | Annual Reviews
Bacteria of the phylum Actinomycetota are extremely diverse: They inhabit niches ranging from soils and ocean sediments to the normal human microbiota, and they cause tuberculosis, one of the most pre...
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Huge congrats to the newly minted Dr. Luis Cantu Morin for graduating and for an incredible finishing talk!!
Our recent work on Actinobacterial G protein system is live on bioRxiv! These regulatory systems are conserved in Actinomycetota and are involved in secondary metabolism, phage defense, and cellular development. Check out the preprint here 👇:
The accessory protein CvnF8 modulates histidine kinase activity in an Actinobacterial G protein system in Streptomyces coelicolor https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.03.663114v1