Austin-UTexas

October 21, 2023

Austin-UTexas # Assa-cin: Controlling bacterial plant pathogens through a modular microcin expression system # Plant pathogens pose a serious threat to agriculture, causing around $220 billion in global crop damages annually. Our project aims to fight bacterial plant pathogens using microcins, an emerging class of antimicrobial peptides that many bacterial species secrete as a weapon for interspecies competition. To protect crops from bacterial pathogens, we engineered a modular system for secreting microcins from a plant symbiont to kill a target pathogen. ...