Streptomyces are filamentous, spore-forming members of the Actinomycetota, renowned for their capacity to produce chemically diverse, specialized metabolites with medically important properties. Tradi...

A secondary metabolite sensitizes competitor Bacillus subtilis to a wide panel of lytic phages by sequestering iron and preventing the activation of Spo0A.

31 March - 03 April 2025

npj Biofilms and Microbiomes - Strain-level variation among vaginal Lactobacillus crispatus and Lactobacillus iners as identified by comparative metagenomics

The authors describe a new crosstalk between a globally disseminated carbapenem resistance plasmid and clinical enterobacteria clones. This crosstalk provides a fitness advantage to the plasmid-carryi...

EF-P plays an important role in overcoming polyproline sequence-induced stalling in bacteria. Here, the authors show that its paralog, EfpL, can also resolve this type of stalling, and also sense cell...