Gianlucca Nicastro
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RT @fredy_gueiros: My lab and Chuck Farah's at the University of São Paulo (USP) are seeking a postdoc to join an exciting project focused….
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RT @jivarahasya: Extracellular Calcineurin-like phosphoesterases foster and signal altruistic behavior in bacteria. This new work with @Ram….
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RT @NatureMicrobiol: 🦠➗OUT NOW - PcdA promotes division plane selection in #Staph by @RamamurthiLab @felixrl_ @braf_phd @ProteinVerse @Aman….
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Nature Microbiology - PcdA interacts with DivIVA and FtsZ, promoting Z-ring formation and division plane selection in Staphylococcus aureus, which increases virulence in mice and reduces...
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RT @RamamurthiLab: Phenotypic heterogeneity may be ACTIVELY generated (not just passively by stochastic gene expression) in a population of….
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RT @KristaTooTurnt: Baby's first pre-print! The story I've been working on for the past 5 years as a postdoc. In short, I discovered (anoth….
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RT @sokrypton: Started teaching again! This time decided to try use #claude (@AnthropicAI) and @codesandbox for hosting to implement an int….
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RT @Archaeon_Alex: New paper online @PNASNews! Great collab with @Vikram_Alva, @PohlschroderLab, @SchmidLab and inspiring team work within….
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RT @jivarahasya: Growing roles for the NlpC/p60 clade of the Papain-like fold in lipid biochemistry. Nice collaboration with Ethel (@EthelB….
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RT @EthelBS: Excited to share our latest manuscript in which we analyzed 10,000 Salmonella genomes, identifying 128 T6SS effectors, includi….
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Bacteria live in complex communities and use antagonistic strategies to compete for resources. Gram-negatives encode a type VI secretion system (T6SS) that delivers toxins into eukaryotic and...
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RT @jivarahasya: Our new article, “The Prokaryotic Roots of Eukaryotic Immune Systems,” is out. Immune factors from both prokaryotes (e.g.,….
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RT @jivarahasya: Coming soon: A "cheatsheat" of some of the widespread anti-invader(e.g., antiviral) molecular immune processes and their s….
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RT @Micro_Yunha: Introducing the 😱OMG dataset and 🤖gLM2! OMG is a massive Open MetaGenomic corpus totaling 3.1Tbp of data and 3.3B proteins….
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RT @jivarahasya: Wolbachia-mediated Cytoplasmic Incompatibility, transposons and other entanglements. Our new collaborative work with @Dap….
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RT @diorge_souza: We're thrilled to share our new preprint: "Evolutionarily Conserved Principles of ESCRT-III-Mediated Membrane Remodeling….
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ESCRT-III proteins assemble into composite polymers that undergo stepwise changes in composition and structure to deform membranes across the tree of life. Here, using a phylogenetic analysis we...
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RT @jivarahasya: Finally our Psp system paper is out: Apart from uncovering manifold ramifications of the Psp syste….
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RT @jivarahasya: Among other things, talks about Reverse transcriptase-based diversifying FGS domain systems that w….
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Bacterial superorganisms must evolve defenses to fight off infections, and microbiologists found that they use a weapons cache coincidentally similar to that of the human immune system.
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RT @DezielEric: New preprint from the lab! @d_oliveirathays noticed that activity of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing regulator Rh….
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The versatile bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa thrives in diverse environments and is notably recognized for its role as an opportunistic pathogen. In line with its adaptability, P. aeruginosa...
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Multicellular Bacteria Evolve Defenses that Resemble the Immune System
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Bacterial superorganisms must evolve defenses to fight off infections, and microbiologists found that they use a weapons cache coincidentally similar to that of the human immune system.
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RT @diasofmath: Too much of a good thing is a bad thing, even for 'greedy bad guys'. @NatureRevCancer has just published a research high….
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