A Salmonella virulence factor activates the NOD1/NOD2 signaling pathway.

abstract：:Escherichia coli mazEF is an extensively studied stress-induced toxin-antitoxin (TA) system. The toxin MazF is an endoribonuclease that cleaves RNAs at ACA sites. Thereby, under stress, the induced MazF generates a stress-induced translation machinery (STM), composed of MazF-processed mRNAs and selective ribosomes tha...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Oron-Gottesman A,Sauert M,Moll I,Engelberg-Kulka H

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic infections of Candida species pose a significant threat to public health. Toxicity associated with current therapies and emergence of resistant strains present major therapeutic challenges. Here, we report exploitation of the probiotic properties of two novel, food-derived yeasts, Saccharomyces cerevisiae (st...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Kunyeit L,Kurrey NK,Anu-Appaiah KA,Rao RP

更新日期：2019-10-15 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：UNLABELLED:Rapidly fatal cases of invasive fungal infections due to a fungus later identified as Saprochaete clavata were reported in France in May 2012. The objectives of this study were to determine the clonal relatedness of the isolates and to investigate possible sources of contamination. A nationwide alert was lau...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Vaux S,Criscuolo A,Desnos-Ollivier M,Diancourt L,Tarnaud C,Vandenbogaert M,Brisse S,Coignard B,Dromer F,Geotrichum Investigation Group.

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateral gene transfer (LGT) profoundly shapes the evolution of bacterial lineages. LGT across disparate phylogenetic groups and genome content diversity between related organisms suggest a model of bacterial evolution that views LGT as rampant and promiscuous. It has even driven the argument that species concepts and ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： McDonald BR,Currie CR

更新日期：2017-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) is an important diarrheal pathogen and a cause of both acute and chronic diarrhea. It is a common cause of pediatric bacterial diarrhea in developing countries. Despite its discovery in 1987, the intestinal tropism of the pathogen remains unknown. Cell lines used to study EAEC...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Rajan A,Vela L,Zeng XL,Yu X,Shroyer N,Blutt SE,Poole NM,Carlin LG,Nataro JP,Estes MK,Okhuysen PC,Maresso AW

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The alphaproteobacterial general stress response is governed by a conserved partner-switching mechanism that is triggered by phosphorylation of the response regulator PhyR. In the model organism Caulobacter crescentus, PhyR was proposed to be phosphorylated by the histidine kinase PhyK, but biochemical evidence in sup...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Lori C,Kaczmarczyk A,de Jong I,Jenal U

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pseudomonas quinolone signal (PQS) is an important quorum-sensing molecule in Pseudomonas aeruginosa that also mediates its own packaging and transport by stimulating outer membrane vesicle (OMV) formation. Because OMVs have been implicated in many virulence-associated behaviors, it is critical that we understand ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Florez C,Raab JE,Cooke AC,Schertzer JW

更新日期：2017-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:With great apprehension, the world is now watching the birth of a novel pandemic already causing tremendous suffering, death, and disruption of normal life. Uncertainty and dread are exacerbated by the belief that what we are experiencing is new and mysterious. However, deadly pandemics and disease emergences are not ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Morens DM,Daszak P,Markel H,Taubenberger JK

更新日期：2020-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosynthetic bacteria are capable of producing their own food via photosynthesis. Unsurprisingly, they evolved the ability to move toward better light conditions (i.e., phototaxis). In a recent article in mBio, Chau et al. tuned the wavelength, flux, direction, and timing of light input and characterized the motilit...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Kim M

更新日期：2017-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Merozoites formed after asexual division of the malaria parasite invade the host red blood cells (RBCs), which is critical for initiating malaria infection. The process of invasion involves specialized organelles like micronemes and rhoptries that discharge key proteins involved in interaction with host RBC receptors....

journal_title：mBio

authors： Ekka R,Gupta A,Bhatnagar S,Malhotra P,Sharma P

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We showed previously that the histone lysine methyltransferase (HKMT) H3K27me3 (EZH2) is the catalytic subunit of Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) and is required for the maintenance of HIV-1 latency in Jurkat T cells. Here we show, by using chromatin immunoprecipitation experiments, that both PRC2 and euchromatic...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Nguyen K,Das B,Dobrowolski C,Karn J

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus cereus group comprises numerous closely related species, including bioterrorism agent B. anthracis, foodborne pathogen B. cereus, and biopesticide B. thuringiensis Differentiating organisms capable of causing illness or death from those used in industry is essential for risk assessment and outbreak prepar...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Carroll LM,Wiedmann M,Kovac J

更新日期：2020-02-25 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：UNLABELLED:Microorganisms use a variety of metabolites to respond to external stimuli, including second messengers that amplify primary signals and elicit biochemical changes in a cell. Levels of the second messenger cyclic dimeric GMP (c-di-GMP) are regulated by a variety of environmental stimuli and play a critical r...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Agostoni M,Koestler BJ,Waters CM,Williams BL,Montgomery BL

更新日期：2013-08-13 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：:Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) is a major cause of foodborne gastrointestinal illness. EHEC uses a specialized type III secretion system (T3SS) to form attaching and effacing lesions in the colonic epithelium and outcompete commensal gut microbiota to cause disease. A recent report in mBio (E. A. Cameron, M...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Palmer LD,Skaar EP

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is the causative agent of human Kaposi's sarcoma, a tumor that arises from endothelial cells, as well as two B cell lymphoproliferative diseases, primary effusion lymphoma and multicentric Castleman's disease. KSHV utilizes a variety of mechanisms to evade host ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Giffin L,West JA,Damania B

更新日期：2015-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal cell wall mannans are complex carbohydrate polysaccharides with different structures in yeasts and molds. In contrast to yeasts, their biosynthetic pathway has been poorly investigated in filamentous fungi. In Aspergillus fumigatus, the major mannan structure is a galactomannan that is cross-linked to the β-1,3...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Henry C,Li J,Danion F,Alcazar-Fuoli L,Mellado E,Beau R,Jouvion G,Latgé JP,Fontaine T

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs), which hydrolyze carbapenems, is a cause of carbapenem resistance in Enterobacteriaceae Development of effective inhibitors for MBLs is one approach to restore carbapenem efficacy in carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE). We report here that sulfamoyl heteroarylcarboxy...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Wachino JI,Jin W,Kimura K,Kurosaki H,Sato A,Arakawa Y

更新日期：2020-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria of the phylum Bacteroidetes, including commensal organisms and opportunistic pathogens, harbor abundant surface-exposed multiprotein membrane complexes (Sus-like systems) involved in carbohydrate acquisition. These complexes have been mostly linked to commensalism, and in some instances, they have also been s...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Lauber F,Cornelis GR,Renzi F

更新日期：2016-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Recent studies strongly suggest that the gene expression sustaining both normal and pathogenic bacterial growth is governed by the structural dynamics of the chromosome. However, the mechanistic device coordinating the chromosomal configuration with selective expression of the adaptive traits remains largely...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Jiang X,Sobetzko P,Nasser W,Reverchon S,Muskhelishvili G

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococci are ancient commensal bacteria that recently emerged as leading causes of antibiotic-resistant, hospital-acquired infection. Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) epitomize why drug-resistant enterococcal infections are a problem: VRE readily colonize the antibiotic-perturbed gastrointestinal (GI) tract w...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Van Tyne D,Gilmore MS

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Arthritogenic alphaviruses such as Ross River and Chikungunya viruses cause debilitating muscle and joint pain and pose significant challenges in the light of recent outbreaks. How host immune responses are orchestrated after alphaviral infections and lead to musculoskeletal inflammation remains poorly understood. Her...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Zaid A,Tharmarajah K,Mostafavi H,Freitas JR,Sheng KC,Foo SS,Chen W,Vider J,Liu X,West NP,Herrero LJ,Taylor A,Mackay LK,Getts DR,King NJC,Mahalingam S

更新日期：2020-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Significant gut microbiota heterogeneity exists among ulcerative colitis (UC) patients, though the clinical implications of this variance are unknown. We hypothesized that ethnically distinct UC patients exhibit discrete gut microbiotas with unique metabolic programming that differentially influence immune a...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Mar JS,LaMere BJ,Lin DL,Levan S,Nazareth M,Mahadevan U,Lynch SV

更新日期：2016-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The human fungal pathogen Candida albicans causes lethal systemic infections because of its ability to grow and disseminate in a host. The C. albicans plasma membrane is essential for virulence by acting as a protective barrier and through its key roles in interfacing with the environment, secretion of virulence facto...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Douglas LM,Wang HX,Keppler-Ross S,Dean N,Konopka JB

更新日期：2011-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Two recently submitted (but as yet unpublished) studies describe success in creating mutant isolates of H5N1 influenza A virus that can be transmitted via the respiratory route between ferrets; concern has been raised regarding human-to-human transmissibility of these or similar laboratory-generated influenza viruses....

journal_title：mBio

authors： Osterholm MT,Kelley NS

更新日期：2012-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we investigate a monoclonal antibody, Z2B3, isolated from an H7N9-infected patient, that exhibited cross-reactivity to both N9 (group 2) and a broad range of seasonal and avian N1 (group 1) proteins but lost activity to the N1 with the substitution K432E. This substitution exists in 99.25% of seasonal influenza ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Jiang H,Peng W,Qi J,Chai Y,Song H,Bi Y,Rijal P,Wang H,Oladejo BO,Liu J,Shi Y,Gao GF,Townsend AR,Wu Y

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae is an estuarine bacterium and an intestinal pathogen of humans that causes severe epidemic diarrhea. In the absence of adequate mammalian models in which to study the interaction of V. cholerae with the host intestinal innate immune system, we have implemented Drosophila melanogaster as a surrogate hos...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Wang Z,Hang S,Purdy AE,Watnick PI

更新日期：2013-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen and the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. P. aeruginosa infections are difficult to treat due to a number of antibiotic resistance mechanisms and the organism's propensity to form multicellular biofilms. Epidemic strains of P....

journal_title：mBio

authors： Oluyombo O,Penfold CN,Diggle SP

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00