Defense systems
This bacterial antiphage pathway is the progenitor of the cGAS-STING pathway
CBASS
This gram-negative enterobacteria is the workhorse of microbiology and a model host for phage defense systems.
E.coli
Reverse transcriptases are often associated with this defense system that is also being used for gene editing.
Retrons
This domain shares a name with a popular Sandwich shop.
SNARF
Bay 1 is often referred to as:
Bdello Den
These bacterial immune proteins produce modified ribonucleotides, and are the progenitors of their interferon-induced counterparts in mammals.
Viperins
You may think of This domain, often associated with bacterial nACHTs, when 2pm rolls around and you havent eaten lunch.
SnachT
This defense system shares evolutionary relationships with bacterial flagella and is named after a slavic phrase for Dawn.
Zorya
This domain is associated with several bacterial immune components, eukaryotic TRP channels, and was also in the name of a now extinct lab slack channel.
SLOG
Bdello is truly the Guy Fieri of bacteria
Bringing all these ECOR strains to flavortown.
Rico Carale
This commonly used growth medium described by Salvador Luria and Guissepe Bertanni often referred to as LB stands for what?
Lysogeny Broth
The plasmid backbone pLOCO stands for:
plasmid low copy