TWiM #105: Real bugs with legs
Jun 05, 2015•58 min
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:
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Microbes in whole-leaf herbs (J Appl Micro)
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Antimicrobial peptide blocks ribosome (Nat Struct Mol Biol)
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Bacterial protein synthesis (Micro Mol Biol Rev)
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Antimicrobial peptides (Nature)
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The battle for tryptophan (Front Cell Infect Micro)
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