288: Cancer and E. coli

<p dir="ltr">TWiM describes a potential connection between a bacterial protein that damages DNA, and human cancers, and how to synthesize antimicrobial natural products from reconstructed bacterial genomes of the Middle and Upper Paleolithic.</p> <p>Hosts: <a href="https://twitter.com/profvrr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vincent Racaniello</a>, <a href= "http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/immunology/Faculty/schmidt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Schmidt</a>, <a href= "https://twitter.com/umichmichele" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Michele Swanson</a>, <a href= "https://biology.wustl.edu/people/petra-levin" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Petra Levin</a>.</p> <p>Become a <a href="http://www.microbe.tv/contribute" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">patron</a> of TWiM.</p> <h2><strong>Links for this episode</strong></h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2080-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colorectal cancer and E. coli</a> (Nature)</li> <li><a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf5300" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Natural products from ancient bacterial genomes</a> (Science)</li> <li><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36277345/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Underexplored bacteria reservoirs</a> of antimicrobial lipopeptides (Front Chem)</li> <li><a href= "https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/03/mammoth-burger-meatball-extinct-vow-cultivated-meat-climate-methane/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fries With That Mammoth Burger?</a> (Mother Jones)</li> <li>25-40 <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7538699/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">million year old spores</a> (Science)</li> <li><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11057666/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">250 million year old bacterium</a> from salt crystal (Nature)</li> <li>1918 influenza with Jeffery Taubenberger (<a href= "https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-966/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">TWiV 966</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://asm.org/twimpoll" target="_blank" rel=