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Dennis Claessen Feb 3, 2023

Small Things Considered Feb 2, 2023

x·posting from twitter:
so, Listeria and Enterococcus (Bacillota) join the club of L-formers that avoid phage predation like Kitasatospora (Actinobacteria) 🤩

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-022-01317-3

@claessenlab @GillesvanWezel @KapteijnRenee & friends

https://twitter.com/christo71213435/status/1621283010447286272

L-form conversion in Gram-positive bacteria enables escape from phage infection - Nature Microbiology

Phage-encoded endolysins released from lysed bacteria trigger neighbouring cells to convert into cell wall-deficient L-forms that are resistant to subsequent phage infection.

Nature

Dennis Claessen Feb 2, 2023

Akos T Kovacs Feb 1, 2023

RT @BriegelAriane
So proud of @VeroniqueO5! Her paper on Reversible bacteriophage resistance by shedding the bacterial cell wall is among the top 5 cited articles in Open Biology in 2022! https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsob.210379 @claessenlab @adamsidimabrouk @MECrooijmans

Reversible bacteriophage resistance by shedding the bacterial cell wall | Open Biology

Phages are highly abundant in the environment and pose a major threat for bacteria. Therefore, bacteria have evolved sophisticated defence systems to withstand phage attacks. Here, we describe a previously unknown mechanism by which mono- and diderm ...

Open Biology

Dennis Claessen Jan 31, 2023

Akos T Kovacs Jan 30, 2023

Efficient plasmid transfer via natural competence in a microbial co-culture

@MolSystBiol from @oventurelli2
with @DNAtransport

E.coli➡️B.subtilis HGT

https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/msb.202211406

Dennis Claessen Nov 19, 2022

Oded Rechavi Nov 19, 2022

Moving to Mastodon and looking for my followers

Dennis Claessen Nov 18, 2022

It just happened. Exploring Mastodon after seeing alarming things happening @Twitter