Sotaro Takano

Enhanced respiratory electron dissipation promotes mycobacterial biofilm longevity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.08.681301v1

DYK most P. aeruginosa carry filamentous phage(s) that don't need to kill the cell to reproduce?

We 👉🏻@nanamikubota.bsky.social show that these Pf phages can go ROGUE.

"Filamentous cheater phages drive bacterial and phage populations to lower fitness"

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Droplet-based Random Barcode Transposon-site Sequencing (Droplet RB-TnSeq) to characterize phage-host interactions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679331v1

Enrichment of horizontally transferred gene clusters in bacterial extracellular vesicles via non lytic mechanisms Abstract. Bacterial extracellular vesicles are emerging as key mediators of horizontal gene transfer, enhancing microbial adaptability. A critical factor d

Our paper is out in The ISME Journal!
“Enrichment of horizontally transferred gene clusters in bacterial extracellular vesicles via non-lytic mechanisms”
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We used droplet sequencing to dive into bacterial extracellular vesicles and found they’re packed with HGT genes.

Diversification of single-cell growth dynamics under starvation influences subsequent reproduction in a clonal bacterial population Abstract. Most of the microbes in nature infrequently receive nutrients and are thus in slow- or non-growing states. How quickly they can resume their grow

Our paper is now out in ISMEJournal. “Diversification of single-cell growth dynamics under starvation influences subsequent reproductivity of progeny cells in a clonal bacterial population” academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...