Episode Details

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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Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.

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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