Spirochetes Unwound
Blogging about those twisty bacteria known as spirochetes
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Monday, December 28, 2009
Leptospira and E. coli caught in the act
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I found this web photo of E. coli mating with the spirochete Leptospira biflexa in a process called conjugation (image source, Mathieu Pi...
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
The genetics of both host and pathogen matter in antibiotic-refractory Lyme arthritis
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The arthritic form of Lyme disease was first reported in the 1970s by Allen Steere, who described the condition in a group of children (and ...
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Telomeres without telomerase in Borrelia spirochetes
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You've all heard by now that the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine will be awarded to Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and J...
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
Baby steps towards unraveling transcriptional regulation in the unculturable syphilis spirochete
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I would never select Treponema pallidum as my experimental model if I had to study gene regulation in a spirochete. The main problem is th...
Monday, August 31, 2009
Protein census of Leptospira interrogans
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A census of proteins in a bacterial cell was conducted for the first time ever. By "census," I don't mean merely identifying ...
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