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Ben Cooper

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Ben Cooper @bfcoop.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Really pleased to share our latest preprint, the result of a fantastic Anglo-Scots collaboration www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We uncover how the bacterial Rhesus protein NeRh50 diverges from canonical ammonium transporters 👇🧵 #CryoEM #MembraneProteins #MassSpectrometry #AmmoniumTransport
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Ben Cooper @bfcoop.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I've just released a small open-source utility for RELION users: relion_tracker. RELION stores a lot of useful information in the *_optimiser.star files, but I often found myself repeatedly grepping STAR files to see how metrics were changing across iterations.
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Sonja-Verena Albers @archaellum.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Would you expect that Bacteria use an archaellum for swimming? We didn't, but we found that some Chloroflexota do! Find the story here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A little thread below 1/n
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Horizontal gene transfer of the functional archaellum machinery to Bacteria
Motility in Archaea is driven by a nanomachinery called the archaellum. So far, archaella have been exclusively described for the archaeal domain; however, a recent study reported the presence of arch...
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Augustinas Silale @augustsilale.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
New preprint 🚨: with @madejmar.bsky.social we found that the Bacteroidetes beta-barrel assembly machinery is quite different to E. coli. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #cryo-EM
Comparison of B. theta and E. coli BAM machineries. Only BamAD components are shared, and B. theta BAM has five novel components, BamF-I.
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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 23/01/2025
OUT NOW: KorB is a DNA clamp which slides along DNA to mediate long-range gene silencing upon interaction with the clamp-locking KorA protein by Tung Le & co @johninnescentre.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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KorB switching from DNA-sliding clamp to repressor mediates long-range gene silencing in a multi-drug resistance plasmid - Nature Microbiology
Structural and single-molecule analyses show the CTPase, KorB, is a sliding DNA clamp that interacts with a clamp-locking protein KorA to inhibit gene expression over distances of more than 1 kb in th...
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