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  1. #Bacteroides fragilis was hyped for 15 years as a Treg inducer and anti-inflammatory so much so that biotech companies were founded on it to capitalize on the early data . Now? Oops.

    #immunology
    #science
    #gut
    #inflammation

    cell.com/cell-host-microbe/abs

  2. How to sustain energy-costly #proteinsynthesis under #nutrient-fluctuating conditions?
    Weiwei Han, Eduardo Groisman and coworkers show that #bacterial #elongation factor paralog EF-G2 mediates slow #translation without #GTPase activity/#GTP hydrolysis to promote #Bacteroides gut colonization
    #microbiology #hostpathogen
    embopress.org/doi/10.15252/emb