The laboratory contaminant strain Noodlococcus was named for its coccoid cells and unusual colony morphology, which resembled a pile of noodles. Along with laboratory characterisation and electron mic...

Co-infection with Staphylococcus aureus and Candida albicans leads to worsened disease severity compared to mono-microbial infection. Because our understanding of the mechanisms driving enhanced disea...

Efforts to transform polyethylene terephthalate (PET) deconstruction products using live cells have been limited by terephthalic acid (TPA) uptake. Here, we used an intracellular carboxylate reduction...

In contrast to living organisms, viruses were long thought to lack protein synthesis machinery and instead depend on host factors to translate viral transcripts. Here, we discover that giant DNA virus...

With an estimated 1.14 million deaths worldwide annually caused by bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics, a University of Leicester-led study shows that in hospital settings antimicrobial resista...

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Viruses encode ribosomal proteins (RPs), but their genomes usually harbor a single RP-coding gene. Here, we reannotate the genome of the jumbo cyanophage PhiMa05 and show that it encodes six RPs, an RP acetyltransferase, and a ribosome biogenesis protein. Evolutionary analyses suggest that these viral RP-coding genes may have been horizontally transferred to certain members of the Vampirovibrionia , a non-photosynthetic basal lineage of Cyanobacteriota , via integration of the viral genome. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. Secretaría de Ciencia, Humanidades, Tecnología e Innovación, Becas de Posgrado para Maestrías y Doctorados en Ciencias y Humanidades en el Extranjero Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 2022-03350, 2022-00329 Phycological Society of America, Norma J. Lang Early Career Researcher Fellowship

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Many species of bacteria produce small-molecule antibiotics that enter and kill a wide range of competitor microbes. However, diffusible antibacterial proteins that share this broad-spectrum activity ...

Nature Microbiology - A deep-learning algorithm unravels a collection of archaeasins, peptides from the archaeal proteome with potential antimicrobial activity and implications for the development...

We are recruiting Faculty microbiologists in three (3) different, complementary, and collaborative areas at the University of Pittsburgh associated with the School of Medicine. 1) Fundamental researc...

This #FEMSmicroBlog explains how the halophile model organism Haloferax volcanii repairs DNA double strand breaks quickly and efficiently. #FascinatingMicrobes