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

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microLife@microLifeJrnl
Mar 20
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📄buff.ly/CdRK14U
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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 👉️ buff.ly/liyQSzM
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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. 👉️ buff.ly/ANbiALo
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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. 👉 buff.ly/90EZoqQ
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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. 👉 buff.ly/sjPk8ZD
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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. 👉 buff.ly/HJOi3E0
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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. 🔬 👉 buff.ly/KW4kVN4
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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. 💊 👉 buff.ly/9UzCwF2
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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. 👉 buff.ly/V36xgMO 👉 buff.ly/T8QE90G
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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. 🧬 buff.ly/dMzcQsP
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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 👉 buff.ly/toApn0c
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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 👉 buff.ly/MFOH2er
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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 buff.ly/kpz0yZ1
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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 ! 👉 buff.ly/0vklJeb
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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 : buff.ly/D0pMhMr
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De-DUFing the DUFs 🧩 @FranzNarberhaus lab uncovers how small DUF1127 proteins regulate #phosphate uptake by binding the sensor kinase PhoR. Their conserved role from Agrobacterium to E. coli highlights how even small DUFs can shape bacterial physiology 🦠 buff.ly/jJd9Eho
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New insights from #CRISPR-Cas systems! 🧬 @CyanolabDE reveals that in the #cyanobacteria Synechocystis, RNase J works with RNase E to mature CRISPR3 RNAs—key for RNA-based immune defense. RNase J can also team up with PNPase in a degradosome-like complex. buff.ly/CrxiQPy
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New tools unlock #Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus’s predatory secrets 🦠. By combining inducible gene expression with #CRISPRi-mediated depletion for precise control of essential genes, @LalouxLab uncovered new insights into its unique lifecycle. buff.ly/FcDzAY4
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VĂ­ctor de Lorenzo@vdlorenzo_CNB
12 Oct 2025
Predatory practices plague science, but the reasons of their success can be spotted—and solutions exist. Instead of blacklists, funding agencies should foster accreditation systems. See analyses & proposals of the EAM Task Force of @FEMSmicro on the matter track.smtpsendmail.com/90321…
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A new subgroup of #CRISPR-associated transposons, V-K_V2, has been discovered in Nostocales #cyanobacteria by @CyanolabDE & colleagues 🧬. Its unique features suggest genetic mobility and V2 tracrRNAs are now included in the updated CRISPRtracrRNA tool. buff.ly/gioIfEB
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