229: Dirt is not simple

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode of TWiM, the hidden biochemical diversity in soil-dwelling</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Actinobacteria</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">that could lead to a second Golden Era of antibiotic discovery, and structures of glideosome components reveals the mechanism of gliding in apicomplexan parasites.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Become a</span> <a href= "http://www.microbe.tv/contribute"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">patron</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">of TWiM.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Links for this episode:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://mbio.asm.org/content/11/5/e02642-20"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Cryptic or silent?</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(mBio)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Streptomyces</span></em> <a href= "https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.genet.40.110405.090639"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">chromosome</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(Ann Rev Gen)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "http://davidhopwoodbiography.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/David-Hopwood-Online-Biography-2.pdf"> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Engineering Nature’s Medicines</span></em></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(pdf)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Apicomplexan <a href= "https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-01283-8">glideosome</a> (Comm Biol)</li> </ul> <p>Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by <a href= "http://ronaldjenkees.com/">Ronald Jenkees</a> and used with permission.</p> <p>Send your microbiology questions and comments to twim@microbe.tv</p>