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Manually curated posts on type III secretion system. A project managed by @e_sotog now at @ccg_unam https://www.ccg.unam.mx/en/jose-eduardo-soto-guzman/
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geiselbiofilm.bsky.social
New in JB: Déraspe, Roy et al. perform a comparative genomics study of the PA7-clade of P. aeruginosa - now recognized as a distinct species, Pseudomonas paraeruginosa. This analysis revealed 2 sub-clades, the lack of T3SS & multiresistance.
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@asm.org #JBacteriology
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tlowepower.bsky.social
First, first-author publication from undergrad Tabitha Cowell is live!

She did some very cool comparisons of putative conjugative T4SS gene clusters and found neat eco evolutionary differences between the wilt pathogen and more environmental species!

I'll make an explainer sometime this week.
biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social
Lifestyle-associated variation in type IV secretion systems between phytopathogenic and environmental Ralstonia https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.26.675681v1
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avishenoy.bsky.social
📢A new effector-triggered immunity role for GBP1! No place for pathogens to hide now that GBP1 can detect extracellular pathogens that hijack the actin cytoskeleton. Surprise*suprise* GBP1 does this independently of LPS! 🧵
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pescoll.bsky.social
New preprint in the lab! How the mitochondrial ETC works during infection of human macrophages with #Legionella or #Salmonella? Spoiler: there are some similarities and also pathogen-specific differences. Work led by Francisco Garcia and Paula Martínez, with @cbuch.bsky.social at @pasteur.fr
Figure 5. Working model for pathogen-specific ETC modulations that preserve the ∆ψm in hMDMs. (A) L. pneumophila: T4SS effectors dampen OxPhos early during
infection and preserve the ∆ψm by engaging the reverse mode of the FOF1 -ATPase. The ∆ψm remains high enough that ANT stays in forward mode, limiting cytosolic ATP
drain. All ETC complexes (I-IV) contribute to maintaining the ∆ψm. Complex I is uniquely essential during WT infection. (B) S. Typhimurium: T3SS SPI-1/2 effectors reduce
respiration and preserve the ∆ψm without inducing the reverse mode of the FO F1 -ATPase. Virulent bacteria rely on Complex I-driven electron entry with obligatory Complex
III/IV proton pumping, while Complex II contributes in all infection conditions. Secretion-defective mutants fail to establish the Complex I-dependent configuration.