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326: I Have One Word For You: PETase!

326: I Have One Word For You: PETase!

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TWiM explores the discovery of microbial enzymes, PETases, that can degrade ubiquitous plastics, and how exogenous peptidoglycan is a danger signal to trigger biofilm formation.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson.

Guest Mark O. Martin.

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Links for this episode
  • Discovery of PET depolymerases (Science)
  • Exogenous peptidoglycan triggers biofilm formation (Nat Micro)
  • What is a biofilm? (Vimeo)
  • Peptidoglycan as a PAMP/MAMP (Immunol Rev)
  • Light organ formation triggered by peptidoglycan (Science)
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