title: What's one phosphate between friends (and foe)?
abstract: Body surfaces are colonized by resident microbes that are remarkably resilient to recurrent immune responses. In the latest issue of Science, Cullen et al. (2015) report that, contrary to prevailing assumptions, bacteria of the colonizing microbiota are resistant to antimicrobial peptides, and identify a common mechanism of resistance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA. Electronic address: clbevins@ucdavis.edu.
authors.forename: Charles L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Bevins
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
authors.forename: Andreas J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Bäumler
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001439:Bacteroides / Q000187:drug effects*; D003092:Colitis / Q000382:microbiology*; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D041981:Gastrointestinal Tract / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D064307:Microbiota / Q000187:drug effects*; D010744:Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases / Q000502:physiology*; D011112:Polymyxin B / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D010744:Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases; D011112:Polymyxin B