Selected Papers in Microbiology

Patrick Linder's choice

Description of interesting papers:

2014:

• A selection for SOS response deficient mutants.
  Antibiotic_induced_SOS_2014
• Absence of replication origins stimulates growth in some archaea.

  Original Title: Accelerated growth in the absence of DNA replication origins. Hawkins M, et al., Nature 503:544-­‐7, 2013

  Stable-replication_2014

2013:

• Frameshifting in a leader ORF (uORF) induces antibiotic resistance virulence.
  Macolides_2013
• Temperature triggers immune evasion by Neisseria meningitidis.
  CssA_2013
• PAAR repeat proteins sharpen and diversify the type VI secretion system spike.
  PAAR_2013
• Wolbachia uses a host microRNA to regulate transcripts of a cytosine methyl-transferase, contributing to dengue virus inhibition in Aedes aegypti.
  Wolbachia_2013
• A CRISPR/Cas system mediates bacterial innate immune evasion and virulence.
  CRISPR_2013