MMP006: A fused, single-subunit bacterial ribosome with Alexander Mankin and Michael Jewett

Alexander Mankin –called Shura --of the University of Illinois, Chicago, and Michael Jewett at Northwestern University talk with Jeff Fox about their recent success in joining the 30S and 50S bacterial ribosomal subunits into a single, functioning entity and the implications of that work in terms of making specialized proteins and for studying antibiotics that target the ribosome. This story was featured in the October 2015 issue of Microbe magazine. Visit microbeworld.org/mmp for more.

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MMP006: A fused, single-subunit bacterial ribosome with Alexander Mankin and Michael Jewett is an episode from Microbe Magazine Podcast by American Society for Microbiology.

This episode is 43:13 long.

This episode was published on Nov 5, 2015.

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