microLife

The journal of the European Academy of Microbiology (EAM) | An Open Access @FEMSmicro journal covering all aspects of #microbiology

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95 new Fellows join the European Academy of Microbiology🔬

The newly elected Fellows represent a wide range of expertise across microbiology and related disciplines , spanning institutions across Europe and beyond.

Read the full announcement📄https://t.co/AFLonISE5O

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🍄🦠 How do bacteria cross air-filled gaps in soil? Meet the Hyphal Highways Device! 🔬 @thestanleylab tracked bacterial cells and revealed how P. ultimum transports liquid to help P. putida disperse—and how bacteria enhance liquid patch connectivity.
👉️ https://t.co/RYtZHp9iNb

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🦠 How does #Yersinia pseudotuberculosis cause Far East scarlet-like fever? 🔬 @YersiniaUnit uncovered a secretion system that contributes to disease severity by modulating immune responses and promoting tissue damage. 🧫🧬

👉️ https://t.co/6Oj01U0pB5

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How does epithelial polarity shape Chlamydia trachomatis infection? 🦠 🧫
In this review, @lab_rudel highlight this overlooked aspect of host–pathogen interactions and its impact on disease.

👉️ https://t.co/15beeIv2cn

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How do commensal bacteria protect vs. pathogens? Ghigo's lab identified CSAP-1, a pore-forming protein mediating bacterial competition & enhancing infected zebrafish survival—a promising lead for aquaculture antimicrobial strategies.
👉️ https://t.co/GbzjF7r0K4
@institutpasteur

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TraF from a broad-host monoderm plasmid is the first conjugative T4SS component with strong homology to T7SS pseudokinase 🧬 Grohmann & Keller labs elucidate its crystal structure, function and partners. @UniGraz @BHT_bln
👉️ https://t.co/a1xnioYe2n

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Fluorescent labeling extended to 3 streptococcal species 🧫✨ @JWVeening lab & coll. benchmarked 5 proteins and developed multicolor cassettes enabling triple labeling—expanding tools for gene expression, cell dynamics & infection studies.

👉️ https://t.co/5TM5Pbl0kh

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🦠 How does #Salmonella find #iron in the gut? @CunrathOlivier lab shows acidic pH pushes it to switch from using endogeneous to exogeneous #siderophores—revealing a flexible, pH-driven iron uptake strategy.

👉 https://t.co/JLsMFctDR3

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🦠 Beyond classic probiotics:@SchmitzStreits lab reveals diverse #Bacteroidota gut strains that block #biofilms of major pathogens. Many also disrupt quorum sensing & show bile salt hydrolase activity—expanding the #microbiome toolbox against infection.
👉 https://t.co/sXgn1RkVMq

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🧬 Dive into the small proteome of Methanosarcina mazei (across 5 conditions)! A key resource by @SchmitzStreits @kieluni for uncovering #smallproteins functions, motifs and proteoforms in #archaea.

👉 https://t.co/JqJjGrMHs7

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🦠 @LaurentTerradot lab reviews #Brucella’s #T4SS—a key virulence factor—covering its structure, function, and growing effector arsenal. It also explores how effectors enter host cells, opening new paths to understand and target infection. 🔬

👉 https://t.co/UTCMqoUKp8

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@Archaellum lab reveals how #cdiAMP and 4 RCK proteins shape osmotic stress responses in H.volcanii 🧬🦠. In highly halophilic #archaea, c-di-AMP coordinates ion balance and cell volume—mirroring bacterial strategies for environmental stress adaptation.
👉 https://t.co/1hbrcD2SM8

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Review by @JingYuanMarburg, HG Koch & @BorkBerghoff highlights bacterial small membrane proteins (SMPs) 🧫: from regulating membrane targets and insertion pathways to toxin roles. SMPs also offer potential as tools and templates for new antibiotics. 💊

👉 https://t.co/voVWL5UmG1

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As 2026 begins, the EAM, @vdlorenzo_CNB, Paul B. Rainey and many others remind us the urgency of renewing support to Society Journals and, taking action to reward quality research and curb predatory publishing.
👉 https://t.co/0rRkZU6ugG
👉 https://t.co/sUJA2jENGH

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🦠Insight into the resilient world of prokaryotes! Koch lab –@UniFreiburg @sfb138– reveals that E.coli use small membrane proteins (YohP & YncL) to condense their DNA & slow down metabolism, helping them survive to stresses. 🧬
https://t.co/KAh6TE8oNU

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New insights into #Hpylori’s virulence machinery🕵️🧪 Josenhans & coll. unravel new interactions between CagT4SS surface proteins and outer membrane proteins HopQ & HopZ—key for host interaction and #proinflammatory signaling.🦠 @LMU_Muenchen

👉 https://t.co/fRgdgASrSH

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🦠 Small changes, big defense! @Jordan_Vacheron & coll. show specific SNPs in #Pseudomonas protegens CHA0 (algC & ykcC) remodel LPS to block #phage ΦGP100—while growth, competitiveness & root colonization stay intact, in lab conditions. 🧬 @unil
👉 https://t.co/P9dTjgxRFU

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What can an “orphan” #Cas4 do? 🧫 In #archaea M.mazei, Solo-Cas4 cleaves dsDNA in a metal-dependent manner and is upregulated in stationary phase—hinting at roles in stress & DNA metabolism.
Biochemical characterization by Schmitz lab @kieluni
https://t.co/EmKXniSjDH

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#C.albicans invades tissues as hyphae but spreads as yeast, How?
Jakob Sprague & coll. show yeast can reach the bloodstream by hitchhiking with invasive hyphae or by switching forms. 🧫 More clues for understanding systemic infections !
👉 https://t.co/rctsEsSof8

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🔍 From rods to stars, bacteria craft their shapes using bPBPs & GTases. Garcia-del Portillo lab’s global analysis reveals unexpected diversity & flexibility in these morphogenetic complexes. 🦠 @CNB_CSIC
👉 Read more : https://t.co/IRuB5KStTG