Opportunity and means: horizontal gene transfer from the human host to a bacterial pathogen.

abstract：:A voluntary 60-day pause on avian H5N1 influenza virus transmission research was announced in January 2012 by the international community of influenza scientists engaged in this work to provide time to explain the benefits of such work and the risk mitigation measures in place. Subsequently, the pause was extended to ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Fouchier RA,García-Sastre A,Kawaoka Y

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucormycosis, caused by Rhizopus species, is a life-threatening fungal infection that occurs in patients immunocompromised by diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), cytotoxic chemotherapy, immunosuppressive therapy, hematologic malignancies, or severe trauma. Inhaled Rhizopus spores cause pulmonary infections in patients with h...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Alqarihi A,Gebremariam T,Gu Y,Swidergall M,Alkhazraji S,Soliman SSM,Bruno VM,Edwards JE Jr,Filler SG,Uppuluri P,Ibrahim AS

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium bovis BCG is the only available vaccine for protection against tuberculosis (TB). While BCG protects children from severe disease, it has little impact on pulmonary disease in adults. A recombinant BCG vaccine BCG ΔureC::hly (strain VPM1002) is in advanced clinical trials and shows promise for improved v...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Fletcher HA

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Can accumulation of a normally transient metabolite affect fungal biology? UDP-4-keto-6-deoxyglucose (UDP-KDG) represents an intermediate stage in conversion of UDP-glucose to UDP-rhamnose. Normally, UDP-KDG is not detected in living cells, because it is quickly converted to UDP-rhamnose by the enzyme UDP-4-keto-6-deo...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Ma L,Salas O,Bowler K,Bar-Peled M,Sharon A

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular sensing of bacterial RNA is increasingly recognized as a determinant of host-pathogen interactions. The intracellular pathogen Listeria monocytogenes induces high levels of type I interferons (alpha/beta interferons [IFN-α/β]) to create a growth-permissive microenvironment during infection. We previously demo...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Frantz R,Teubner L,Schultze T,La Pietra L,Müller C,Gwozdzinski K,Pillich H,Hain T,Weber-Gerlach M,Panagiotidis GD,Mostafa A,Weber F,Rohde M,Pleschka S,Chakraborty T,Abu Mraheil M

更新日期：2019-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:UDP-N-acetylglucosamine (UDP-GlcNAc), the main product of the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway, is an important metabolite in protozoan parasites since its sugar moiety is incorporated into glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) glycolipids and N- and O-linked glycans. Apicomplexan parasites have a hexosamine pathway compa...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Chi J,Cova M,de Las Rivas M,Medina A,Borges RJ,Leivar P,Planas A,Usón I,Hurtado-Guerrero R,Izquierdo L

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid increase of carbapenem resistance in Gram-negative bacteria has resurrected the importance of the polymyxin antibiotics. The recent discovery of plasmid-mediated polymyxin resistance (mcr-1) in carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae serves as an important indicator that the golden era of antibiotics is unde...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Bulman ZP,Chen L,Walsh TJ,Satlin MJ,Qian Y,Bulitta JB,Peloquin CA,Holden PN,Nation RL,Li J,Kreiswirth BN,Tsuji BT

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Marine methane seeps are globally distributed geologic features in which reduced fluids, including methane, are advected upward from the subsurface. As a result of alkalinity generation during sulfate-coupled methane oxidation, authigenic carbonates form slabs, nodules, and extensive pavements. These carbona...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Case DH,Pasulka AL,Marlow JJ,Grupe BM,Levin LA,Orphan VJ

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Host-associated microbial communities are shaped by extrinsic and intrinsic factors to the holobiont organism. Environmental factors and microbe-microbe interactions act simultaneously on the microbial community structure, making the microbiome dynamics challenging to predict. The coral microbiome is essential to the ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Lima LFO,Weissman M,Reed M,Papudeshi B,Alker AT,Morris MM,Edwards RA,de Putron SJ,Vaidya NK,Dinsdale EA

更新日期：2020-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydiales species are obligate intracellular bacteria lacking a classical peptidoglycan sacculus but relying on peptidoglycan synthesis for cytokinesis. While septal peptidoglycan biosynthesis seems to be regulated by MreB actin and its membrane anchor RodZ rather than FtsZ tubulin in Chlamydiales, the mechanism of...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Jacquier N,Yadav AK,Pillonel T,Viollier PH,Cava F,Greub G

更新日期：2019-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:SpxA is a unique transcriptional regulator highly conserved among members of the phylum Firmicutes that binds RNA polymerase and can act as an antiactivator. Why some Firmicutes members have two highly similar SpxA paralogs is not understood. Here, we show that the SpxA paralogs of the pathogen Streptococcus pyogenes,...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Port GC,Cusumano ZT,Tumminello PR,Caparon MG

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) is a frequent colonizer of the nasopharynx and one of the leading causative agents of otitis media, pneumonia, and meningitis. The current literature asserts that S. pneumoniae is transmitted person to person via respiratory droplets; however, environmental surfaces (f...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Walsh RL,Camilli A

更新日期：2011-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), caused by KS-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), is the most common cancer among HIV-infected patients in Malawi and in the United States today. In Malawi, KSHV is endemic. We conducted a cross-sectional study of patients with HIV infection and KS with no history of chemo- or antiretroviral...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Hosseinipour MC,Sweet KM,Xiong J,Namarika D,Mwafongo A,Nyirenda M,Chiwoko L,Kamwendo D,Hoffman I,Lee J,Phiri S,Vahrson W,Damania B,Dittmer DP

更新日期：2014-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The blast fungus initiates infection using a heavily melanized, dome-shaped infection structure known as the appressorium, which forcibly ruptures the cuticle to enter the rice leaf tissue. How this process takes place remains not fully understood. Here, we used untargeted metabolomics analyses to profile the metabolo...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Liu XH,Liang S,Wei YY,Zhu XM,Li L,Liu PP,Zheng QX,Zhou HN,Zhang Y,Mao LJ,Fernandes CM,Del Poeta M,Naqvi NI,Lin FC

更新日期：2019-08-20 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：:The major oxidative stress response in Streptomyces is controlled by the sigma factor SigR and its cognate antisigma factor RsrA, and SigR activity is tightly controlled through multiple mechanisms at both the transcriptional and posttranslational levels. Here we show that sigR has a highly unusual GTC start codon and...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Feeney MA,Chandra G,Findlay KC,Paget MSB,Buttner MJ

更新日期：2017-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:A 32-nucleotide (nt) RNA motif located at the 3' end of the transmissible gastroenteritis coronavirus (TGEV) genome was found to specifically interact with the host proteins glutamyl-prolyl-tRNA synthetase (EPRS) and arginyl-tRNA synthetase (RRS). This RNA motif has high homology in sequence and secondary st...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Marquez-Jurado S,Nogales A,Zuñiga S,Enjuanes L,Almazán F

更新日期：2015-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Host cytokine responses to Brucella abortus infection are elicited predominantly by the deployment of a type IV secretion system (T4SS). However, the mechanism by which the T4SS elicits inflammation remains unknown. Here we show that translocation of the T4SS substrate VceC into host cells induces proinflammatory resp...

journal_title：mBio

authors： de Jong MF,Starr T,Winter MG,den Hartigh AB,Child R,Knodler LA,van Dijl JM,Celli J,Tsolis RM

更新日期：2013-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:No studies have examined the relationships between bacterial communities along sites of the upper aerodigestive tract of an individual subject. Our objective was to perform an intrasubject and intersite analysis to determine the contributions of two upper mucosal sites (mouth and nose) as source communities ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Bassis CM,Erb-Downward JR,Dickson RP,Freeman CM,Schmidt TM,Young VB,Beck JM,Curtis JL,Huffnagle GB

更新日期：2015-03-03 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：:The pharmacopeia used by physicians and laypeople in medieval Europe has largely been dismissed as placebo or superstition. While we now recognize that some of the materia medica used by medieval physicians could have had useful biological properties, research in this area is limited by the labor-intensive process of ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Connelly E,Del Genio CI,Harrison F

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Exudative cutaneous ulcers (CU) in yaws-endemic areas are associated with Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue (TP) and Haemophilus ducreyi (HD), but one-third of CU cases are idiopathic (IU). Using mass drug administration (MDA) of azithromycin, a yaws eradication campaign on Lihir Island in Papua New Guinea reduced bu...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Griesenauer B,González-Beiras C,Fortney KR,Lin H,Gao X,Godornes C,Nelson DE,Katz BP,Lukehart SA,Mitjà O,Dong Q,Spinola SM

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:This research analyzed six Aspergillus fumigatus genes encoding putative efflux proteins for their roles as transporters. TheA. fumigatus genes abcA, abcC, abcF, abcG, abcH, and abcI were cloned into plasmids and overexpressed in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain in which the highly active endogenous ABC transporter g...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Esquivel BD,Rybak JM,Barker KS,Fortwendel JR,Rogers PD,White TC

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm-associated polymicrobial infections, particularly those involving fungi and bacteria, are responsible for significant morbidity and mortality and tend to be challenging to treat. Candida albicans and Staphylococcus aureus specifically are considered leading opportunistic fungal and bacterial pathogens, respect...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Kong EF,Tsui C,Kucharíková S,Andes D,Van Dijck P,Jabra-Rizk MA

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Infections caused by highly successful clones of hospital-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (HA-MRSA) are a major public health burden. The globally dominant sequence type 239 (ST239) HA-MRSA clone has persisted in the health care setting for decades, but the basis of its success has not...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Baines SL,Holt KE,Schultz MB,Seemann T,Howden BO,Jensen SO,van Hal SJ,Coombs GW,Firth N,Powell DR,Stinear TP,Howden BP

更新日期：2015-03-03 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：UNLABELLED:Many filamentous cyanobacteria produce specialized nitrogen-fixing cells called heterocysts, which are located at semiregular intervals along the filament with about 10 to 20 photosynthetic vegetative cells in between. Nitrogen fixation in these complex multicellular bacteria depends on metabolite exchange b...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Nürnberg DJ,Mariscal V,Bornikoel J,Nieves-Morión M,Krauß N,Herrero A,Maldener I,Flores E,Mullineaux CW

更新日期：2015-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike all other archaeal lineages, ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) of the phylum Thaumarchaeota are widespread and abundant in all moderate and oxic environments on Earth. The evolutionary adaptations that led to such unprecedented ecological success of a microbial clade characterized by highly conserved energy and c...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Abby SS,Kerou M,Schleper C

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is a rare but serious illness of the nervous system, specifically affecting the gray matter of the spinal cord, motor-controlling regions of the brain, and cranial nerves. Most cases of AFM are pathogen associated, typically with poliovirus and enterovirus infections, and occur in children...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Rosenfeld AB,Warren AL,Racaniello VR

更新日期：2019-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a leading cause of airway infection in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. P. aeruginosa employs several hierarchically arranged and interconnected quorum sensing (QS) regulatory circuits to produce a battery of virulence factors such as elastase, phenazines, and rhamnol...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Cruz RL,Asfahl KL,Van den Bossche S,Coenye T,Crabbé A,Dandekar AA

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00