A bacterial CARD–NLR-like immune system controls the release of gene transfer agents - Nature Microbiology An immunity-like system functions as a lysis control hub to promote gene transfer agent particle release from host bacterial cells, suggesting that bacterial immune systems may be co-opted to promote ...

Great work run by @emmajbanks.bsky.social and @tunglejic.bsky.social showing that the gta lytic system in caulobacter evolved from a phage antidefence system. It was fun to collect tomo of these at SLAC and segment them with Mai at YSBL. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We identified a new type of what seems to be a gene transfer agent in the most abundant gut microbe. Long read sequencing was the key here, as it showed suspiciously many 4kb and 8kb reads, which fits the smallest T=3 shrinked and T=3 regular capsids. And indeed, GTAs! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Was invited to give a talk about tomography at ccp4 summer school. The most important slide is done

Same screen, three weeks later. At SLAC they sure know how to teach you to fib mill. Now, how to interpret the #tomo data?

My second visit to SLAC-Stanford to learn more about cryoET. Look at the size of that screen! This is going to be fun!

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Could an immune system control release of gene transfer agents? Contributed here with tomograms of Caulobacter (check the beautiful segmentations done by my PhD student Mai) showcasing how the cell envelope changes when the immune system is present vs absent.

What about your Easter Monday? #cryoem #remote #SLAC

First time I am seeing holes in my aromatics, collected at #SLAC temalpha #cryoem. Full story hopefully by the end of the summer!

Penton blooming of Ebor now on the cover of the April issue of mBio. #cryoET of #virus infection in toto

"You cannot take a dewar from York to Leeds without a car!" "Hold my pint, mate!" #cryoEM @astburycentre.bsky.social

Segmentation of a tomogram of the host cell infected by Ebor

In toto #CryoET shows that Ebor, the representative of a single jelly roll fold #virus lineage, uses five receptor-binding protrusions to bring a single #capsid penton closer to the #host membrane, triggering subunits dissociation from the centre - penton blooming.
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#cryoEM #cryoET #virus #assembly PhD project at Uni of York, UK - apply by the end of tomorrow
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