Emma Sedivy
@emmasedivy.bsky.social
Using cryoEM to learn about the hidden world of bacteriophage with @briankelch.bsky.social. Previously: Grossman Lab @ MIT
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"That telomere phages are so prevalent means that they are a selective force, one that we know little about. We now want to understand how the telomere-toxin is secreted and also understand how this ‘telocin’ wheedles its way into unsuspecting bacterial neighbors”
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Telomere bacteriophages are widespread and equip their bacterial hosts with potent interbacterial weapons
Klebsiella host strains infected with telomere phages can grow to be the dominant lineage in mixed populations.
www.science.org
May 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
"That telomere phages are so prevalent means that they are a selective force, one that we know little about. We now want to understand how the telomere-toxin is secreted and also understand how this ‘telocin’ wheedles its way into unsuspecting bacterial neighbors”
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Emma Sedivy
Did you know that there is so much DNA packed inside a phage capsid that the pressure is 10X higher than in a bottle of champagne? In our latest preprint, we wondered how that is contained in a phage that lives at extremely high temperatures. /1
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Did you know that there is so much DNA packed inside a phage capsid that the pressure is 10X higher than in a bottle of champagne? In our latest preprint, we wondered how that is contained in a phage that lives at extremely high temperatures. /1
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The structure of a thermostable phage's Portal Vertex and Neck Complex illuminates its maturation process www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.14.648768v1 #cryoem
April 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
hey, that's me!
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March 31, 2025 at 8:27 PM