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Kate Hummels

@katehummels.bsky.social
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Microbiologist | Assistant Professor | Bacteria are cool let’s talk about them | Loves all dogs

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Courtney Ellison @ckellison.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I am pleased to share my lab’s latest publication - Acinetobacter species lack canonical DNA repair pathway activation mechanisms, and we discovered a conserved transcriptional activator that fills this role: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
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A WYL transcriptional regulator activates the DNA damage response pathway in Acinetobacter species
Abstract. The ability to sense DNA damage and activate DNA damage response pathways is critical for repairing DNA damage in all domains of life. The most w
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anna brogan @apbrogan.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Very happy to share that a large part of my thesis work is out today: B. subtilis uses the second messenger c-di-AMP to modulate its turgor pressure in response to the state of its cell envelope. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Cyclic-di-AMP modulates cellular turgor in response to defects in bacterial cell wall synthesis - Nature Microbiology
Brogan et al. uncover a signalling pathway in which levels of the nucleotide second messenger c-di-AMP increase in response to defects in cell wall synthesis. This regulatory pathway decreases turgor ...
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