laurenpalmer.bsky.social
Asst Prof of Micro and Immuno in Chicago | antimicrobial resistance💊| Acinetobacter baumannii-host interface🦠| views my own | she/her
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@laurenpalmer.bsky.socialI’m excited to share the final two papers from my postdoc with @dweisslab.bsky.social. Together, they reveal two mechanisms of antibiotic heteroresistance (HR) that do not rely on gene copy-number changes, but instead arise from cell-to-cell differences in transcription. A short thread: 1/4
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Show Post#Bacteria Ornithine utilization is important for Acinetobacter baumannii during gut colonization. A protein that regulates ornithine catabolism helps the pathogen to sense and respond to competition for amino acids with the resident microbiota @xiaomeiren.bsky.social @laurenpalmer.bsky.social
Show PostNew from the lab--C. diff uses phase variation to initiate infection in a virulent state but that phenotype presents a fitness cost as disease develops. A programmed reset mechanism primes Clostridioides difficile virulence at the onset of infection | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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