Our article on a 🛠️ molecular toolbox 🛠️ in predatory bacterium 🦁🦠 Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus is published in PLOS Genetics (=> tiny.cc/6wuu001). 🎉

This supports the research on this bacterial predator-prey system & future bioengineering efforts.

#MicroSky #SyntheticBiology #PredatoryBacteria

Multiple small, curved, predatory bacteria (Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus) lyse the bacterial prey remnants below. How are they doing this & which predator proteins are involved in this process?

See our newly released research article 📑
=> rdcu.be/eL6gu

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A porin-like protein used by bacterial predators defines a wider lipid-trapping superfamily Nature Communications - This study reveals that an outer membrane protein from the predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus forms a pentameric assembly that traps a lipid monolayer within. This allows...

Learning from bacterial predators on porin-like proteins that trap lipids at rdcu.be/euXWk! Amazing insights by Rebecca J. Parr & Andrew L. Lovering @unibirmingham.bsky.social, and @lalouxlab.bsky.social,‬ as well as all collaborators including Liz Sockett. #MicroSky #predatoryBacteria #porins

Modulating gene expression and protein secretion in the bacterial predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus The predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus kills and consumes other bacteria, thrives in diverse environments and holds great potential to address major challenges in medicine, agriculture, an...

1/ Happy to share our latest preprint on modulating gene expression and protein secretion in predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. #MicroSky #SyntheticBiology #PredatoryBacteria
Short thread below.
(📑 Preprint at: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)

🛠️Toolbox 🛠️ out to modulate gene expression & protein secretion in a predatory bacterium.
📑Preprint from my group below.
Many thanks to L. Mihajlovic @ljmihajlovic.bsky.social, L. Hofacker, F. Lindner, P. Jayakumar & A. Diepold @diepold-lab.bsky.social! #MicroSky #SyntheticBiology #PredatoryBacteria

Tam Mignot - Predatory soil bacteria: from molecular and cellular scales to ecology

#Mycobacteria #PredatoryBacteria #Imaging

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