295: Uncultured and Unmutable

This Week in Microbiology

TWiM explains how phages avoid tRNA-targeting host defenses, and discovery of a new antibiotic from an uncultured bacterium that binds to an immutable target.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Petra Levin,

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Links for this episode

• Phages avoid tRNA-targeting host defenses (eLife)
• Sea phages
• Actinobacteriophage database
• New antibiotic from uncultured bacterium (bioRxiv)
• The age of infection (For Policy)
• Killing bacteria by teixobactin (Nature)
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