The podcast about unseen life on Earth hosted by: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson.
Vincent and Michael discuss the highly diverse microbiome of uncontacted Amerindians, and how the composition of human urine plays a role in the battle for iron.
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Links for this episode
- Microbiome of uncontacted Amerindians (Sci Adv)
- Urinary composition controls siderocalin activity (J Biol Chem)
- Urine acidity and UTI susceptibility (Infect Cont Today)
- Image (from pdb file 3cmp) shows siderocalin (magenta) complexed with iron (orange) and enterobactin (sticks)
- Letters read on TWiM 107
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