254: Episymbionts Are Good For You

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mark Martin returns to TWiM for a discussion of the observation that Gram’s stain does not cross the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane, and suppression of gingival inflammation and bone loss through host modulation caused by episymbiotic</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Saccharibacteria.</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <h2><strong>Links for this episode</strong></h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25879387/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Gram’s stain does not cross cytoplasmic membrane</a> (ACS Chem Biol)</li> <li><a href= "https://asm.org/getattachment/5c95a063-326b-4b2f-98ce-001de9a5ece3/gram-stain-protocol-2886.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gram stain protocol</a> (pdf)</li> <li><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6195147/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Chemical  mechanism of Gram’s stain</a> (J Bact)</li> <li><a href= "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S193131282100425X?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Episymbiotic Saccharibacteria</a> suppress disease (Host Cell Microbe)</li> <li><a href="https://asm.org/Forms/Listservs" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Microedu listserve</a></li> <li><a href="https://asm.org/twimpoll" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">TWiM Listener survey</a></li> </ul>