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Anthony Vecchiarelli @cellforganized.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

New preprint from the Vecchiarelli Lab! 🧵 Congratulations to first author Dr. Claire Dudley! @claire-dudley.bsky.social Claire uncovered a critical player in the organization for the photosynthetic cytoplasm of cyanobacteria - polyphosphate! #polyP www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Jeremy G Bird @drjeremygbird.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

1/ A new preprint from my lab is out now: “The E. coli DEAD box ATPase, CsdA, is a NAD+ capped RNA binding protein” lead by my graduate student Kaustuv Das with the assistance of @childerslab-pitt.bsky.social -pitt.bsky.social and @schraderlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Kumaran Ramamurthi @ramamurthilab.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

@felixrl.bsky.social reported that PcdA mediates orthogonal cell division in #Staphylococcus aureus: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... But what’s the point? Well, forming staphylococcal abscess communities to evade host immune responses requires this mode of division: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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PcdA promotes orthogonal division plane selection in Staphylococcus aureus - Nature Microbiology

PcdA interacts with DivIVA and FtsZ, promoting Z-ring formation and division plane selection in Staphylococcus aureus, which increases virulence in mice and reduces sensitivity to cell-wall-targeting ...

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