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TWiM #21: Symbiotic margheritas

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Elio Schaechter.

On episode #21 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent and Elio discuss an ancient symbiosis between Alphaproteobacteria and catenulid flatworms, and a toxin from Helicobacter pylori that engages the mitochondrial fission machinery to induce host cell death.

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Links for this episode:

• Paracatenula, an ancient symbiosis (PNAS)
• Review on symbiotic diversity in marine animals (Nat Rev Micro)
• Helicobacter pylori vacuolating cytotoxin A (PNAS)
• Review of H. pylori VacA (Nat Rev Micro)
• Viral desserts (Virus Talk)
• Letters read on TWiM #21

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