Sensing of bacterial type IV secretion via the unfolded protein response.

abstract：:Interindividual variation in the composition of the human gut microbiome was examined in relation to demographic and anthropometric traits, and to changes in dietary saturated fat intake and protein source. One hundred nine healthy men and women aged 21 to 65, with BMIs of 18 to 36, were randomized, after a two-week b...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Lang JM,Pan C,Cantor RM,Tang WHW,Garcia-Garcia JC,Kurtz I,Hazen SL,Bergeron N,Krauss RM,Lusis AJ

更新日期：2018-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Commensal bacteria in the human nasal cavity are known to suppress opportunistic pathogen colonization by competing for limited space and nutrients. It has become increasingly apparent that some commensal bacteria also produce toxic compounds that directly inhibit or kill incoming competitors. Numerous studies suggest...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Hardy BL,Dickey SW,Plaut RD,Riggins DP,Stibitz S,Otto M,Merrell DS

更新日期：2019-01-08 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abstract：:Two recently submitted (but as yet unpublished) studies describe success in creating mutant isolates of H5N1 influenza A virus that can be transmitted via the respiratory route between ferrets; concern has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：:Bacteriophages are numerically the most abundant DNA-containing entities in the oligotrophic ocean, yet how specific phage populations vary over time and space remains to be fully explored. Here, we conducted a metagenomic time-series survey of double-stranded DNA phages throughout the water column in the North Pacifi...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Luo E,Aylward FO,Mende DR,DeLong EF

更新日期：2017-11-28 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：UNLABELLED:Vaginal HIV microbicides offer great promise in preventing HIV transmission, but failures of phase 3 clinical trials, in which microbicide-treated subjects had an increased risk of HIV transmission, raised concerns about endpoints used to evaluate microbicide safety. A possible explanation for the increased ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Ravel J,Gajer P,Fu L,Mauck CK,Koenig SS,Sakamoto J,Motsinger-Reif AA,Doncel GF,Zeichner SL

更新日期：2012-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is proposed to be a zoonotic disease; however, the reservoir and mechanism for transmission of the causative agent, the MERS coronavirus, are unknown. Dromedary camels have been implicated through reports that some victims have been exposed to camels, camels in areas where t...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Alagaili AN,Briese T,Mishra N,Kapoor V,Sameroff SC,Burbelo PD,de Wit E,Munster VJ,Hensley LE,Zalmout IS,Kapoor A,Epstein JH,Karesh WB,Daszak P,Mohammed OB,Lipkin WI

更新日期：2014-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:A rapid and global emergence of azole resistance has been observed in the pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus over the past decade. The dominant resistance mechanism appears to be of environmental origin and involves mutations in the cyp51A gene, which encodes a protein targeted by triazole antifungal dr...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Abdolrasouli A,Rhodes J,Beale MA,Hagen F,Rogers TR,Chowdhary A,Meis JF,Armstrong-James D,Fisher MC

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Our current understanding of lipoprotein synthesis and localization in Gram-negative bacteria is based primarily on studies of Escherichia coli Newly synthesized E. coli prolipoproteins undergo posttranslational modifications catalyzed by three essential enzymes (Lgt, LspA, and Lnt). The mature lipoproteins are then s...

journal_title：mBio

authors： McClain MS,Voss BJ,Cover TL

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Once HIV-1 enters a cell, the viral core is uncoated by a poorly understood mechanism and the HIV-1 genomic RNA is reverse transcribed into DNA. Host cell factors are essential for these processes, although very few reverse transcription complex binding host cell factors have been convincingly shown to affect uncoatin...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Rawle DJ,Li D,Swedberg JE,Wang L,Soares DC,Harrich D

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

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：:As the GroES/GroEL chaperonin system is the only bacterial chaperone that is essential under all conditions, we have been interested in the development of GroES/GroEL inhibitors as potential antibiotics. Using Escherichia coli GroES/GroEL as a surrogate, we have discovered several classes of GroES/GroEL inhibitors tha...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Sivinski J,Ambrose AJ,Panfilenko I,Zerio CJ,Machulis JM,Mollasalehi N,Kaneko LK,Stevens M,Ray AM,Park Y,Wu C,Hoang QQ,Johnson SM,Chapman E

更新日期：2021-01-12 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：: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：: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：:The chemistry underpinning microbial interactions provides an integrative framework for linking the activities of individual microbes, microbial communities, plants, and their environments. Currently, we know very little about the functions of genes and metabolites within these communities because genome annotations a...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Zhalnina K,Zengler K,Newman D,Northen TR

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Filamentous, heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria exchange nutrients and regulators between cells for diazotrophic growth. Two alternative modes of exchange have been discussed involving transport either through the periplasm or through septal junctions linking adjacent cells. Septal junctions and channels in th...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Rudolf M,Tetik N,Ramos-León F,Flinner N,Ngo G,Stevanovic M,Burnat M,Pernil R,Flores E,Schleiff E

更新日期：2015-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:A mechanistic understanding of the determination and maintenance of the simplest bacterial cell shape, a sphere, remains elusive compared with that of more complex shapes. Cocci seem to lack a dedicated elongation machinery, and a spherical shape has been considered an evolutionary dead-end morphology, as a ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Pereira AR,Hsin J,Król E,Tavares AC,Flores P,Hoiczyk E,Ng N,Dajkovic A,Brun YV,VanNieuwenhze MS,Roemer T,Carballido-Lopez R,Scheffers DJ,Huang KC,Pinho MG

更新日期：2016-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposon insertion sequencing (TIS) is a powerful high-throughput genetic technique that is transforming functional genomics in prokaryotes, because it enables genome-wide mapping of the determinants of fitness. However, current approaches for analyzing TIS data assume that selective pressures are constant over time...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Yang G,Billings G,Hubbard TP,Park JS,Yin Leung K,Liu Q,Davis BM,Zhang Y,Wang Q,Waldor MK

更新日期：2017-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane repair emerges as an innate defense protecting target cells against bacterial pore-forming toxins. Here, we report the first paradigm of Ca2+-dependent repair following attack by a small β-pore-forming toxin, namely, plasmid-encoded phobalysin of Photobacterium damselae subsp. damselae In striking contrast, V...

journal_title：mBio

authors： von Hoven G,Rivas AJ,Neukirch C,Meyenburg M,Qin Q,Parekh S,Hellmann N,Husmann M

更新日期：2017-02-14 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：:During 2015 to 2016, Brazil reported more Zika virus (ZIKV) cases than any other country, yet population exposure remains unknown. Serological studies of ZIKV are hampered by cross-reactive immune responses against heterologous viruses. We conducted serosurveys for ZIKV, dengue virus (DENV), and Chikungunya virus (CHI...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Netto EM,Moreira-Soto A,Pedroso C,Höser C,Funk S,Kucharski AJ,Rockstroh A,Kümmerer BM,Sampaio GS,Luz E,Vaz SN,Dias JP,Bastos FA,Cabral R,Kistemann T,Ulbert S,de Lamballerie X,Jaenisch T,Brady OJ,Drosten C,Sarno M

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Osteomyelitis is a difficult-to-eradicate bone infection typically caused by Staphylococcus aureus. In this study, we investigated the in vivo transcriptional adaptation of S. aureus during bone infection. To this end, we determined the transcriptome of S. aureus during the acute (day 7) and chronic (day 28)...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Szafranska AK,Oxley AP,Chaves-Moreno D,Horst SA,Roßlenbroich S,Peters G,Goldmann O,Rohde M,Sinha B,Pieper DH,Löffler B,Jauregui R,Wos-Oxley ML,Medina E

更新日期：2014-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:For decades, identifying the regions of a bacterial chromosome that are necessary for viability has relied on mapping integration sites in libraries of random transposon mutants to find loci that are unable to sustain insertion. To date, these studies have analyzed subsaturated libraries, necessitating the application...

journal_title：mBio

authors： DeJesus MA,Gerrick ER,Xu W,Park SW,Long JE,Boutte CC,Rubin EJ,Schnappinger D,Ehrt S,Fortune SM,Sassetti CM,Ioerger TR

更新日期：2017-01-17 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：: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：: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：UNLABELLED:Cholera continues to be a global threat, with high rates of morbidity and mortality. In 2011, a cholera outbreak occurred in Palawan, Philippines, affecting more than 500 people, and 20 individuals died. Vibrio cholerae O1 was confirmed as the etiological agent. Source attribution is critical in cholera outb...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Klinzing DC,Choi SY,Hasan NA,Matias RR,Tayag E,Geronimo J,Skowronski E,Rashed SM,Kawashima K,Rosenzweig CN,Gibbons HS,Torres BC,Liles V,Alfon AC,Juan ML,Natividad FF,Cebula TA,Colwell RR

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen Thermococcus kodakarensis strains have been constructed, each of which synthesizes a different His(6)-tagged protein known or predicted to be a component of the archaeal DNA replication machinery. Using the His(6)-tagged proteins, stable complexes assembled in vivo have been isolated directly from clarified c...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Li Z,Santangelo TJ,Cuboňová L,Reeve JN,Kelman Z

更新日期：2010-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptation to alternating CO2 concentrations is crucial for all organisms. Carbonic anhydrases-metalloenzymes that have been found in all domains of life-enable fixation of scarce CO2 by accelerating its conversion to bicarbonate and ensure maintenance of cellular metabolism. In fungi and other eukaryotes, the carboni...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Pohlers S,Martin R,Krüger T,Hellwig D,Hänel F,Kniemeyer O,Saluz HP,Van Dijck P,Ernst JF,Brakhage A,Mühlschlegel FA,Kurzai O

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00