Behind the Paper
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From liking watermelon to liking a watermelon pathogen
This story is about how we diverted research from working on human pathogens to a plant pathogen and discovered a very cool and powerful T6SS that can penetrate into gram-positive cells.
Making bubbles in Veillonella parvula – not child’s play
We analyzed the distribution of outer membrane (OM) attachment mechanisms across the whole tree of Bacteria, and we made a hypothesis on how gram-positives might have emerged. We tested it by perturbing OM tethering in the diderm Firmicute Veillonella. The results surprised us!