#persister — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #persister, aggregated by home.social.
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Kicking things off at #Microbiology2023
Sophie Helaine discusses #Salmonella #persister formation - the excess DNA bacteria accumulate helps them persist in the face of Antibiotics & prophage induction (part of SOS response) helps survival. Bacteria keep prophage from completing a lytic cycle via a new anti-phage system their lab has identified that leads to tRNA cleavage -
Bacterial #persister resuscitation is a drug-dependent & non-stochastic process. Persisters can partition into healthy &non-viable daughter cells to survive antibiotic treatment ➡️ http://bit.ly/3YlmzQV KR Allison @emoryuniversity #antibioticresistance #dynamics #QBio #SystemsBiology