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TWiM #105: Real bugs with legs
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Length:
58 minutes
Released:
Jun 5, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
The TWiM team reviews the microbiological safety of herbs in the United Kingdom, and how a peptide from the milkweek bug binds the ribosome and inhibits bacterial protein synthesis.
Links for this episode:
Microbes in whole-leaf herbs (J Appl Micro)
Antimicrobial peptide blocks ribosome (Nat Struct Mol Biol)
Bacterial protein synthesis (Micro Mol Biol Rev)
Antimicrobial peptides (Nature)
The battle for tryptophan (Front Cell Infect Micro)
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Links for this episode:
Microbes in whole-leaf herbs (J Appl Micro)
Antimicrobial peptide blocks ribosome (Nat Struct Mol Biol)
Bacterial protein synthesis (Micro Mol Biol Rev)
Antimicrobial peptides (Nature)
The battle for tryptophan (Front Cell Infect Micro)
Image credit
Released:
Jun 5, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
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