Recently interviewed by Mark Martin for his “Matters Microbial” podcast! m.youtube.com/watch?si=O6w...
Today, Dr. Brian Stevenson of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss a twisty twirling form of life, spirochetes,...
I’m thrilled to announce that Nerina Jusufovic’s manuscript on B. burgdorferi PlzA and cyclic-di-GMP has been accepted for publication in Mol Micro. There’s been a lot to sort out regarding this DNA-binding protein that has more in common with histones than with the classic Lac repressor protein 🧫🦠🧪
Partly fed. Was she questing, or pulled off a host?
"The continuum of transcription factor affinities" Relevant to prokaryotes, as well. The majority of transcription factors in the Lyme spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, more closely resemble NAPs/"histone-like" proteins than they do the classic idea of lac repressor www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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