Transforming the untransformable: application of direct transformation to manipulate genetically Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis.

abstract：:Typhoid fever, caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi, is a global public health concern due to increasing antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Characterization of S Typhi genomes for AMR and the evolution of different lineages, especially in countries where typhoid fever is endemic such as Bangladesh, will help publi...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Tanmoy AM,Westeel E,De Bruyne K,Goris J,Rajoharison A,Sajib MSI,van Belkum A,Saha SK,Komurian-Pradel F,Endtz HP

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Candida albicans is a major life-threatening human fungal pathogen in the immunocompromised host. Host defense against systemic Candida infection relies heavily on the capacity of professional phagocytes of the innate immune system to ingest and destroy fungal cells. A number of pathogens, including C. albic...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Bain JM,Louw J,Lewis LE,Okai B,Walls CA,Ballou ER,Walker LA,Reid D,Munro CA,Brown AJ,Brown GD,Gow NA,Erwig LP

更新日期：2014-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Sinorhizobium meliloti is an alphaproteobacterium belonging to the Rhizobiales Bacteria from this order elongate their cell wall at the new cell pole, generated by cell division. Screening for protein interaction partners of the previously characterized polar growth factors RgsP and RgsM, we identified the inner membr...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Krol E,Yau HCL,Lechner M,Schäper S,Bange G,Vollmer W,Becker A

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The aerial surfaces of plants, or phyllosphere, are microbial habitats important to plant and human health. In order to accurately investigate microbial interactions in the phyllosphere under laboratory conditions, the composition of the phyllosphere microbiota should be representative of the diversity of mi...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Williams TR,Marco ML

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) resists nearly all β-lactam antibiotics that have a bactericidal activity. However, whether the empirically used β-lactams enhance MRSA pathogenicity in vivo remains unclear. In this study, we showed that a cluster of lipoprotein-like genes (lpl, sa2275 to sa2273 [sa2...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Shang W,Rao Y,Zheng Y,Yang Y,Hu Q,Hu Z,Yuan J,Peng H,Xiong K,Tan L,Li S,Zhu J,Li M,Hu X,Mao X,Rao X

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Cryptococcus neoformans is a human fungal pathogen and a major cause of fungal meningitis in immunocompromised individuals. Treatment options for cryptococcosis are limited. Of the two major antifungal drug classes, azoles are active against C. neoformans but exert a fungistatic effect, necessitating long tr...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Huang W,Liao G,Baker GM,Wang Y,Lau R,Paderu P,Perlin DS,Xue C

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonlytic exocytosis is a process in which previously ingested microbes are expelled from host phagocytes with the concomitant survival of both cell types. This process has been observed in the interaction of Cryptococcus spp. and other fungal cells with phagocytes as distant as mammalian, bird, and fish macrophages an...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Frazão SO,Sousa HR,Silva LGD,Folha JDS,Gorgonha KCM,Oliveira GP Jr,Felipe MSS,Silva-Pereira I,Casadevall A,Nicola AM,Albuquerque P

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of antioxidant pigments, namely, betalains, was believed to be restricted to Caryophyllales plants. This paper changes this paradigm, and enzyme mining from bacterial hosts promoted the discovery of bacterial cultures producing betalains. The spectrum of possible sources of betalain pigments in nature...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Contreras-Llano LE,Guerrero-Rubio MA,Lozada-Ramírez JD,García-Carmona F,Gandía-Herrero F

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

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

journal_title：mBio

authors： Nigam A,Ziv T,Oron-Gottesman A,Engelberg-Kulka H

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii employs a vast array of effector proteins from the rhoptry and dense granule organelles to modulate host cell biology; these effectors are known as ROPs and GRAs, respectively. To examine the individual impacts of ROPs and GRAs on host gene expression, we developed a robust...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Rastogi S,Xue Y,Quake SR,Boothroyd JC

更新日期：2020-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The appearance of Cryptococcus gattii in the North American Pacific Northwest (PNW) in 1999 was an unexpected and is still an unexplained event. Recent phylogenomic analyses strongly suggest that this pathogenic fungus arrived in the PNW approximately 7 to 9 decades ago. In this paper, we theorize that the ancestors o...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Engelthaler DM,Casadevall A

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Susceptibility to mouse adenovirus type 1 (MAV-1) is mouse strain dependent; susceptible mice die from hemorrhagic encephalomyelitis. The MAV-1 susceptibility quantitative trait locus Msq1 accounts for ~40% of the phenotypic (brain viral load) variance that occurs between resistant BALB/c and susceptible SJL...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Hsu TH,Althaus IW,Foreman O,Spindler KR

更新日期：2012-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Kaposi sarcoma (KS) herpesvirus (KSHV) infection of endothelial cells (EC) is associated with strong induction of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1), a stress-inducible host gene that encodes the rate-limiting enzyme responsible for heme catabolism. KS is an angioproliferative tumor characterized by the proliferation o...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Botto S,Totonchy JE,Gustin JK,Moses AV

更新日期：2015-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:While research has identified an important contribution for metals, such as iron, in microbial pathogenesis, the roles of other transition metals, such as copper, remain mostly unknown. Recent evidence points to a requirement for copper homeostasis in the virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans based on a role ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Waterman SR,Park YD,Raja M,Qiu J,Hammoud DA,O'Halloran TV,Williamson PR

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillosis associated with azole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus has a mortality rate that can approach 90% in certain patient populations. The best-understood avenue for azole resistance involves changes in the cyp51A gene that encodes the target of azole drugs, lanosterol α-14 demethylase. The most common azole r...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Paul S,Stamnes M,Thomas GH,Liu H,Hagiwara D,Gomi K,Filler SG,Moye-Rowley WS

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Fast, definitive diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is important in assessing patient care options and transmission risks. Real-time quaking-induced conversion (RT-QuIC) assays of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and nasal-brushing specimens are valuable in distinguishing CJD from non-CJD conditions but h...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Orrú CD,Groveman BR,Hughson AG,Zanusso G,Coulthart MB,Caughey B

更新日期：2015-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The resurgence of pertussis (whooping cough) in countries with high vaccination coverage is alarming and invites reconsideration of the use of current acellular pertussis (aP) vaccines, which have largely replaced the old, reactogenic, whole-cell pertussis (wP) vaccine. Some drawbacks of these vaccines in terms of lim...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Ausiello CM,Cassone A

更新日期：2014-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of energy has significant impact on cell physiology. However, the role of cellular metabolism in bacterial pathogenesis is not understood. We investigated the dynamics of central metabolism during virulence induction by surface sensing and quorum sensing in early-stage biofilms of the multidrug-resist...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Perinbam K,Chacko JV,Kannan A,Digman MA,Siryaporn A

更新日期：2020-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The growing ubiquity of electronic devices is increasingly consuming substantial energy and rare resources for materials fabrication, as well as creating expansive volumes of toxic waste. This is not sustainable. Electronic biological materials (e-biologics) that are produced with microbes, or designed with microbial ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Lovley DR

更新日期：2017-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Type III secretion systems (T3SS) translocate effector proteins into target cells in order to disrupt or modulate host cell signaling pathways and establish replicative niches. However, recognition of T3SS activity by cytosolic pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) of the nucleotide-binding domain leucine ric...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Zwack EE,Snyder AG,Wynosky-Dolfi MA,Ruthel G,Philip NH,Marketon MM,Francis MS,Bliska JB,Brodsky IE

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence has indicated that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are related to the susceptibility of sepsis and might provide potential evidence for the mechanisms of sepsis. Our recent preliminary study showed that the ADAM10 genetic polymorphism was clinically associated with the development of sepsis,...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Chen F,Wang Y,Zhang W,Cai Y,Zhao T,Mai H,Tao S,Wei W,Li J,Chen X,Li X,Tang P,Fan W,Yang J,Ou M,Lu F,Lai Z,Chen H,Zou T,Sun F,Shao Y,Cui L

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Infection by alphaherpesviruses, including herpes simplex virus (HSV) and pseudorabies virus (PRV), typically begins at epithelial surfaces and continues into the peripheral nervous system (PNS). Inflammatory responses are induced at the infected peripheral site prior to invasion of the PNS. When the periphe...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Song R,Koyuncu OO,Greco TM,Diner BA,Cristea IM,Enquist LW

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Promiscuous plasmids replicate in a wide range of bacteria and therefore play a key role in the dissemination of various host-beneficial traits, including antibiotic resistance. Despite the medical relevance, little is known about the evolutionary dynamics through which drug resistance plasmids adapt to new ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Hughes JM,Lohman BK,Deckert GE,Nichols EP,Settles M,Abdo Z,Top EM

更新日期：2012-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) Tat binds the viral RNA structure transactivation-responsive element (TAR) and recruits transcriptional cofactors, amplifying viral mRNA expression. The Tat inhibitor didehydro-cortistatin A (dCA) promotes a state of persistent latency, refractory to viral reactivation. Here...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Mousseau G,Aneja R,Clementz MA,Mediouni S,Lima NS,Haregot A,Kessing CF,Jablonski JA,Thenin-Houssier S,Nagarsheth N,Trautmann L,Valente ST

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein lysine acetylation, a prevalent posttranslational modification, regulates numerous crucial biological processes in cells. Nevertheless, how lysine acetylation interacts with other types of regulation to coordinate metabolism remains largely unknown owing to the complexity of the process. Here, using a represen...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Zhang L,Liu Y,Zhao R,Zhang C,Jiang W,Gu Y

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified Vibrio cholerae mutants in which the stress response to subinhibitory concentrations of aminoglycoside is altered. One gene identified, VC1636, encodes a putative DNA/RNA helicase, recently named RadD in Escherichia coli Here we combined extensive genetic characterization and high-through...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Negro V,Krin E,Aguilar Pierlé S,Chaze T,Giai Gianetto Q,Kennedy SP,Matondo M,Mazel D,Baharoglu Z

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterial pathogen causing severe foodborne infections in humans and animals. Listeria can enter into host cells and survive and multiply therein, due to an arsenal of virulence determinants encoded in different loci on the chromosome. Several key Listeria virulence genes are clustered in L...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Prokop A,Gouin E,Villiers V,Nahori MA,Vincentelli R,Duval M,Cossart P,Dussurget O

更新日期：2017-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:While Shiga toxins (Stx) are key determinants of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) pathophysiology in humans, their dissemination to target organs following gastrointestinal EHEC infection is still poorly understood. Most types of Stx target cells with globotriaosylceramide (Gb3) receptors, which are expressed...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Lengeling A,Mahajan A,Gally DL

更新日期：2013-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The flagellar motor can spin in both counterclockwise (CCW) and clockwise (CW) directions. The flagellar motor consists of a rotor and multiple stator units, which act as a proton channel. The rotor is composed of the transmembrane MS ring made of FliF and the cytoplasmic C ring consisting of FliG, FliM, and FliN. The...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Sakai T,Miyata T,Terahara N,Mori K,Inoue Y,Morimoto YV,Kato T,Namba K,Minamino T

更新日期：2019-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic and biochemical basis of perchlorate-dependent H2S oxidation (PSOX) was investigated in the dissimilatory perchlorate-reducing microorganism (DPRM) Azospira suillum PS (PS). Previously, it was shown that all known DPRMs innately oxidize H2S, producing elemental sulfur (So). Although the process involving P...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Mehta-Kolte MG,Loutey D,Wang O,Youngblut MD,Hubbard CG,Wetmore KM,Conrad ME,Coates JD

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00