Celina Thiel

MTM 03 - Bacillus subtilis

Weiter geht's! Bacillus subtilis ist ein wahrer Tausendsassa unter den Mikroben. Was das Bakterium in den Spülkästen von Raststättentoiletten zu suchen hat und warum wir froh sein sollten, dass es da ist? Das hört ihr in der aktuellen Folge 🦠

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For anyone who wants to follow my latest project MicrobeThingsMacro, it is now on Bluesky!
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Last week, we had the pleasure of welcoming Prof. Syma Khalid. PhD representatives of the IRTG board organised a week of talks & events. Syma shared her expertise in MD simulation, science communication & insights into her own research career. Thank you for such inspiring days! @sykhalid.bsky.social

A short intrinsically disordered region at KtrB’s N-terminus facilitates allosteric regulation of K+ channel KtrAB Nature Communications - KtrAB is a major potassium uptake system that has been linked to the pathogenesis of many infectious bacteria. Here the authors show that KtrB from Vibrio alginolyticus...

This took us a while and I am all the happier it is finally out! I thought that simply adding ATP to purified potassium channel KtrAB should be sufficient to stabilize its active state. I was so wrong...
Read the full story on how an IDR facilitates channel opening upon membrane interaction.