Bacterial viruses (known as "phages") shape the ecology and evolution of microbial communities, making them promising targets for microbiome engineering. However, knowledge of phage biology is constrained because it remains difficult to study phage transmission dynamics within multi-member communities and living animal hosts. We therefore created "Phollow": a live imaging-based approach for tracking phage replication and spread in situ with single-virion resolution.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMicrotubules are polymeric filaments, constructed of α-β tubulin heterodimers that underlie critical subcellular structures in eukaryotic organisms. Four homologous proteins (γ-, δ-, ε- and ζ-tubulin) additionally contribute to specialized microtubule functions. Although there is an immense volume of publicly available data pertaining to tubulins, it is difficult to assimilate all potentially relevant information across diverse organisms, isotypes, and categories of data.
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