Mucin-binding adhesins: A key to unlocking the door of mutualism. @Goo9Han @ShipraVaishnava highlight work of @tjarrods @GuilleminLab unveiling that mucus binding by bacteria is crucial for host-microbe symbiosis. cell.com/cell-host-microbe/f…
Sticking point for Aeromonas. @tjarrods @GuilleminLab report #zebrafish#symbiont, Aeromonas, uses mucin-reg. adhesin to control its inflammatory character & spatial organization in gut.Analogous Akkermansia adhesins suggest similar mechanisms in human gut cell.com/cell-host-microbe/f…
Congratulations to @SconceMichelle and her fantastic team of co-authors on the publication of this Gnotobiotic Atlas that reveals the impacts of the microbiota on transcriptional programs across all tissues of a model vertebrate, the zebrafish: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Our #SpotlightZebrafish this week is on Dr. Laura Desban @DesbanLaura a #postdoc with #EisenLab & @GuilleminLab@uoregon. She studies how interactions between microbes and chemosensory systems shape animal behavior– specifically in context of olfaction and social behavior (1/2)
ALT An image of a 6 dpf larval zebrafish head immunostained for elav in magenta, SV2 in cyan and pERK in yellow.
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So proud to finally share our finished work describing the membrane busting mechanism of our beloved bacterial BefA protein, out today in @Cell_Metabolism! authors.elsevier.com/a/1fvea…
Also, check out* this Essay in @ScienceMagazine by lead author of the BefA paper, Jennifer Hampton Hill, winner of the 2022 NOSTER & Science Microbiome Prize
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Jennifer Hampton Hill is the winner of this year’s NOSTER & Science Microbiome Prize for her work showing that restoring lost bacterial cues in the gut can stimulate development of insulin producing cells.
Learn more: fcld.ly/28z28x0
I am so proud of @Jen_Suzanne, Grand Prize Winner of the Noster & Science Prize for this essay about her pioneering work:
From bugs to β cells science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
This preprint describes the vast transcriptional responses elicited by the microbiota across every cell of the developing vertebrate body: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Our work on the biochemical mechanism behind a bacterial modulator of host development is out as a preprint. Check it out to learn how both host and microbial membrane perturbing proteins promote the expansion of insulin producing beta-cells. #microbiome#BefA
Our preprint describes how a secreted bacterial protein, BefA, disseminates through the body and stimulates pancreatic beta cell expansion via its membrane permeabilizing activity: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…