Cyclic diguanylate signaling proteins control intracellular growth of Legionella pneumophila.

abstract：:The human antibody repertoire has an exceptionally large capacity to recognize new or changing antigens through combinatorial and junctional diversity established at the time of V(D)J recombination and through somatic hypermutation. Influenza viruses exhibit a relentless capacity to escape the human antibody response ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Crowe JE Jr

更新日期：2012-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Mobile elements-plasmids and phages-are important components of microbial function and evolution via traits that they encode and their capacity to shuttle genetic material between species. We here report the unusually rich array of mobile elements within the genome of Arsenophonus nasoniae, the son-killer symbiont of ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Frost CL,Siozios S,Nadal-Jimenez P,Brockhurst MA,King KC,Darby AC,Hurst GDD

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Nutritional immunity is an elegant host mechanism used to starve invading pathogens of necessary nutrient metals. Calprotectin, a metal-binding protein, is produced abundantly by neutrophils and is found in high concentrations within inflammatory sites during infection. Group B Streptococcus (GBS) colonizes the gastro...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Burcham LR,Le Breton Y,Radin JN,Spencer BL,Deng L,Hiron A,Ransom MR,Mendonça JDC,Belew AT,El-Sayed NM,McIver KS,Kehl-Fie TE,Doran KS

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Colicins are toxins produced and released by Enterobacteriaceae to kill competitors in the gut. While group A colicins employ a division of labor strategy to liberate the toxin into the environment via colicin-specific lysis, group B colicin systems lack cognate lysis genes. In Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Spriewald S,Stadler E,Hense BA,Münch PC,McHardy AC,Weiss AS,Obeng N,Müller J,Stecher B

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Motility is an important virulence trait for many bacterial pathogens, allowing them to position themselves in appropriate locations at appropriate times. The motility structures type IV pili and flagella are also involved in sensing surface contact, which modulates pathogenicity. In Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the PilS-P...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Kilmury SLN,Burrows LL

更新日期：2018-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Large-scale rearrangements may be important in evolution because they can alter chromosome organization and gene expression in ways not possible through point mutations. In a long-term evolution experiment, twelve Escherichia coli populations have been propagated in a glucose-limited environment for over 25 ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Raeside C,Gaffé J,Deatherage DE,Tenaillon O,Briska AM,Ptashkin RN,Cruveiller S,Médigue C,Lenski RE,Barrick JE,Schneider D

更新日期：2014-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The saw-toothed grain beetle, Oryzaephilus surinamensis (Silvanidae), is a cosmopolitan stored-product pest. Early studies on O. surinamensis in the 1930s described the presence of peculiar bacteriomes harboring endosymbiotic bacteria in the abdomen. Since then, however, the microbiological nature of the symbiont has ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Hirota B,Okude G,Anbutsu H,Futahashi R,Moriyama M,Meng XY,Nikoh N,Koga R,Fukatsu T

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Ebola virus (EBOV) protein VP35 inhibits production of interferon alpha/beta (IFN) by blocking RIG-I-like receptor signaling pathways, thereby promoting virus replication and pathogenesis. A high-throughput screening assay, developed to identify compounds that either inhibit or bypass VP35 IFN-antagonist function, ide...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Luthra P,Aguirre S,Yen BC,Pietzsch CA,Sanchez-Aparicio MT,Tigabu B,Morlock LK,García-Sastre A,Leung DW,Williams NS,Fernandez-Sesma A,Bukreyev A,Basler CF

更新日期：2017-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria parasites have a complex life cycle with multiple developmental stages in mosquito and vertebrate hosts, and different developmental stages express unique sets of genes. Unexpectedly, many transcription factors (TFs) commonly found in eukaryotic organisms are absent in malaria parasites; instead, a family of g...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Zhang C,Li Z,Cui H,Jiang Y,Yang Z,Wang X,Gao H,Liu C,Zhang S,Su XZ,Yuan J

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the genus Mycobacterium are the most prevalent cause of infectious diseases. Mycobacteria have a complex cell envelope containing a peptidoglycan layer and an additional arabinogalactan polymer to which a mycolic acid bilayer is linked; this complex, multilayered cell wall composition (mAGP) is conserved am...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Schubert K,Sieger B,Meyer F,Giacomelli G,Böhm K,Rieblinger A,Lindenthal L,Sachs N,Wanner G,Bramkamp M

更新日期：2017-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophage-derived nitric oxide (NO·) is a crucial effector against invading pathogens. Yet, paradoxically, several bacterial species, including some pathogens, are known to endogenously produce NO· via nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity, despite its apparent cytotoxicity. Here, we reveal a conserved role for bacter...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Chaudhari SS,Kim M,Lei S,Razvi F,Alqarzaee AA,Hutfless EH,Powers R,Zimmerman MC,Fey PD,Thomas VC

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our knowledge of cell cycle regulatory mechanisms in apicomplexan parasites is very limited. In this study, we describe a novel Toxoplasma gondii factor that has a vital role in chromosome replication and the regulation of cytoplasmic and nuclear mitotic structures, and we named this factor ECR1 for essential for chro...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Naumov A,Kratzer S,Ting LM,Kim K,Suvorova ES,White MW

更新日期：2017-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Nullbasic is a mutant form of the HIV-1 transcriptional activator protein (Tat) that strongly inhibits HIV-1 transcription and replication in lymphocytes in vitro To investigate Nullbasic inhibition in vivo, we employed an NSG mouse model where animals were engrafted with primary human CD4+ cells expressing a Nullbasi...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Jin H,Sun Y,Li D,Lin MH,Lor M,Rustanti L,Harrich D

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging zoonotic viral diseases remain a challenge to global public health. Recent surveillance studies have implicated bats as potential reservoirs for a number of viral pathogens, including coronaviruses and Ebola viruses. Caliciviridae represent a major viral family contributing to emerging diseases in both human ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Kocher JF,Lindesmith LC,Debbink K,Beall A,Mallory ML,Yount BL,Graham RL,Huynh J,Gates JE,Donaldson EF,Baric RS

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Noncoding RNAs, including antisense RNAs (asRNAs) that originate from the complementary strand of protein-coding genes, are involved in the regulation of gene expression in all domains of life. Recent application of deep-sequencing technologies has revealed that the transcription of asRNAs occurs genome-wide in bacter...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Raghavan R,Sloan DB,Ochman H

更新日期：2012-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is intrinsically resistant to polymyxins (polymyxin B and colistin), an important class of cationic antimicrobial peptides used in treatment of Gram-negative bacterial infections. To understand the mechanisms underlying intrinsic polymyxin resistance in S. aureus, we screened the Nebraska Transpo...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Vestergaard M,Nøhr-Meldgaard K,Bojer MS,Krogsgård Nielsen C,Meyer RL,Slavetinsky C,Peschel A,Ingmer H

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Helicobacter pylori that cause ulcer or gastric cancer typically express a type IV secretion system (T4SS) encoded by the cag pathogenicity island (cagPAI). CagY is an ortholog of VirB10 that, unlike other VirB10 orthologs, has a large middle repeat region (MRR) with extensive repetitive sequence motifs, wh...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Skoog EC,Morikis VA,Martin ME,Foster GA,Cai LP,Hansen LM,Li B,Gaddy JA,Simon SI,Solnick JV

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans is capable of infecting a broad range of hosts, from invertebrates like amoebas and nematodes to standard vertebrate models such as mice and rabbits. Here we have taken advantage of a zebrafish model to investigate host-pathogen interactions of Cryptococcus w...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Tenor JL,Oehlers SH,Yang JL,Tobin DM,Perfect JR

更新日期：2015-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Protein-protein interactions are important for virtually every biological process, and a number of elegant approaches have been designed to detect and evaluate such interactions. However, few of these methods allow the detection of dynamic and real-time protein-protein interactions in bacteria. Here we descr...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Cui B,Wang Y,Song Y,Wang T,Li C,Wei Y,Luo ZQ,Shen X

更新日期：2014-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The world is at the precipice of a postantibiotic era in which medical procedures and minor injuries can result in bacterial infections that are no longer effectively treated by antibiotics. Cathelicidins are peptides produced by animals to combat bacterial infections and to regulate innate immune responses....

journal_title：mBio

authors： Kao C,Lin X,Yi G,Zhang Y,Rowe-Magnus DA,Bush K

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus fumigatus is the leading cause of pulmonary fungal diseases. Azoles have been used for many years as the main antifungal agents to treat and prevent invasive aspergillosis. However, in the last 10 years there have been several reports of azole resistance in A. fumigatus and new strategies are needed to com...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Valero C,Colabardini AC,Chiaratto J,Pardeshi L,de Castro PA,Ferreira Filho JA,Silva LP,Rocha MC,Malavazi I,Costa JH,Fill T,Barros MH,Wong SSW,Aimanianda V,Wong KH,Goldman GH

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenic species of Cryptococcus are a major cause of mortality owing to severe infections in immunocompromised as well as immunocompetent individuals. Although antifungal treatment is usually effective, many patients relapse after treatment, and in such cases, comparative analyses of the genomes of incident and...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Chen Y,Farrer RA,Giamberardino C,Sakthikumar S,Jones A,Yang T,Tenor JL,Wagih O,Van Wyk M,Govender NP,Mitchell TG,Litvintseva AP,Cuomo CA,Perfect JR

更新日期：2017-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotine, a toxic and addictive alkaloid from tobacco, is an environmental pollutant in areas near cigarette production facilities. Over the last decade, our group has studied, in depth, the pyrrolidine pathway of nicotine degradation in Pseudomonas putida S16. However, little is known regarding whole mechanism(s) reg...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Hu H,Wang L,Wang W,Wu G,Tao F,Xu P,Deng Z,Tang H

更新日期：2019-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria parasites increase their host erythrocyte's permeability to various nutrients, fueling intracellular pathogen development and replication. The plasmodial surface anion channel (PSAC) mediates this uptake and is linked to the parasite-encoded RhopH complex, consisting of CLAG3, RhopH2, and RhopH3. While interac...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Ahmad M,Manzella-Lapeira J,Saggu G,Ito D,Brzostowski JA,Desai SA

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is an important human pathogen whose success is largely attributed to its vast arsenal of virulence factors that facilitate its invasion into, and survival within, the human host. The expression of these virulence factors is controlled by the quorum sensing accessory gene regulator (Agr) system. ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Gor V,Takemura AJ,Nishitani M,Higashide M,Medrano Romero V,Ohniwa RL,Morikawa K

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocystis species are opportunistic mammalian pathogens that cause severe pneumonia in immunocompromised individuals. These fungi are highly host specific and uncultivable in vitro Human Pneumocystis infections present major challenges because of a limited therapeutic arsenal and the rise of drug resistance. To inv...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Cissé OH,Ma L,Wei Huang D,Khil PP,Dekker JP,Kutty G,Bishop L,Liu Y,Deng X,Hauser PM,Pagni M,Hirsch V,Lempicki RA,Stajich JE,Cuomo CA,Kovacs JA

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Helicobacter pylori chronically infects the gastric mucosa in more than half of the human population; in a subset of this population, its presence is associated with development of severe disease, such as gastric cancer. Genomic analysis of several strains has revealed an extensive H. pylori pan-genome, like...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Lehours P,Vale FF,Bjursell MK,Melefors O,Advani R,Glavas S,Guegueniat J,Gontier E,Lacomme S,Alves Matos A,Menard A,Mégraud F,Engstrand L,Andersson AF

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite that invades host cells and replicates within a unique parasitophorous vacuole. To maintain this intracellular niche, the parasite secretes an array of dense granule proteins (GRAs) into the nascent parasitophorous vacuole. These GRAs are believed to pl...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Nadipuram SM,Kim EW,Vashisht AA,Lin AH,Bell HN,Coppens I,Wohlschlegel JA,Bradley PJ

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) play a major role during control of mRNA localization, stability, and translation and are central to most cellular processes. In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the multiple K homology (KH) domain RBP Rnc1 downregulates the activity of the cell integrity pathway (CIP) via stabi...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Prieto-Ruiz F,Vicente-Soler J,Franco A,Gómez-Gil E,Sánchez-Marinas M,Vázquez-Marín B,Aligué R,Madrid M,Moreno S,Soto T,Cansado J

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Ebola viruses (EBOV) cause severe disease in humans and nonhuman primates with high mortality rates and continue to emerge in new geographic locations, including several countries in West Africa, the site of a large ongoing outbreak. Phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomers (PMOs) are synthetic antisense mole...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Warren TK,Whitehouse CA,Wells J,Welch L,Heald AE,Charleston JS,Sazani P,Reid SP,Iversen PL,Bavari S

更新日期：2015-02-10 00:00:00