Metabolic Integration of Bacterial Endosymbionts / Trends in Microbiology (Vol. 25 Issue 9)

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Channel: Cell Press · 2017 · Science & Technology

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In this video, Peter Mergaert discusses how antimicrobial peptides are key players in symbiotic interactions. Endosymbionts often go through genome reduction yielding incomplete metabolic pathways where they then rely on the host for missing enzymes and it was not clear how this exchange could occur with limited transporters in endosymbionts. Mergaert et al. suggest that antimicrobial peptides could permeabilize membranes to allow for metabolic exchange between the host and the endosymbiont.

Check out the related paper at: https://www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/fulltext/S0966-842X(17)30095-1
Mergaert, P., Kikuchi, Y., Shigenobu, S., and Nowack, E.C.M. (2017). Metabolic Integration of Bacterial Endosymbionts through Antimicrobial Peptides. Trends in Microbiology. 25.

And read more great research at Trends in Microbiology: https://www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/home

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