We #first provided evidence that a fraction of these toxins is released through extracellular vesicles (the vesicular fraction) — a mechanism that requires further investigation since it may play a key ecological role.
Check the following link for more details: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🔍Here we tested whether EVs contribute to the inhibitory effect caused by the Cyanobacteria exudate on algae, and proposed that extracellular saxitoxins released by these microorganisms challenge the conventional assumption that these toxins occur only in dissolved form in the surrounding medium.
🎓🔬This work was developed as part of the Master’s research of Cezar Paiva do Nascimento, within the Pós- Graduação em Ciências Biológicas / Biofísica - UFRJ, under my supervision and Prof. Ana Beatriz Pacheco.
🚨New paper alert!
I’m thrilled to share that our paper characterizing #extracellular vesicles of the toxic #cyanobacterium Raphidiopsis raciborskii has just been published on Algal Research Elsevier
🚨 In our new #preprint we investigated the #extracellularvesicles of the #cyanobacterium Raphidiopsis raciborskii, first reported #saxitoxins released into its EVs and whether they contribute to R. raciborskii #allelopathy on phytoplankton.
More in: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Our latest on the genetic content carried within different populations of DNA-containing particles in the oceans! Vesicles and viruses likely play distinct roles in microbial horizontal gene transfer networks. Grateful to all collaborators
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#MicroSky
New in JB: Hammerl, Mullineaux, Wilde et all explore the role of type IV pili in cyanobacteria in this minireview.
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