Light sensing in Aspergillus fumigatus highlights the case for establishing new models for fungal photobiology.

abstract：:The members of the OM43 clade of Betaproteobacteria are abundant coastal methylotrophs with a range of carbon-utilizing capabilities. However, their underlying transcriptional and metabolic responses to shifting conditions or different carbon substrates remain poorly understood. We examined the transcriptional dynamic...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Gifford SM,Becker JW,Sosa OA,Repeta DJ,DeLong EF

更新日期：2016-11-22 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：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：:Treatments targeting the Ebola virus may eventually be shown to work, but they will not have an impact on overall Ebola mortality in West Africa. Endothelial dysfunction is responsible for the fluid and electrolyte imbalances seen in Ebola patients. Because inexpensive generic statins and angiotensin receptor blockers...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Fedson DS,Jacobson JR,Rordam OM,Opal SM

更新日期：2015-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Catabolite control protein A (CcpA) is the master regulator in Gram-positive bacteria that mediates carbon catabolite repression (CCR) and carbon catabolite activation (CCA), two fundamental regulatory mechanisms that enable competitive advantages in carbon catabolism. It is generally regarded that CcpA exerts its reg...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Yang Y,Zhang L,Huang H,Yang C,Yang S,Gu Y,Jiang W

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) has the ability to antagonize host apoptosis during infection through promotion and inhibition of effectors injected by the type III secretion system (T3SS), but the total number of these effectors and the overall functional relationships between these effectors durin...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Serapio-Palacios A,Navarro-Garcia F

更新日期：2016-06-21 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

abstract：:Maternal infection during pregnancy with a wide range of RNA and DNA viruses is associated with increased risk for schizophrenia and autism in their offspring. A common feature in these exposures is that virus replication induces innate immunity through interaction with Toll-like receptors (TLRs). We employed a mouse ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： De Miranda J,Yaddanapudi K,Hornig M,Villar G,Serge R,Lipkin WI

更新日期：2010-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial establishment within the gastrointestinal (GI) tract requires surveillance of the gut biogeography. The gut microbiota coordinates behaviors by sensing host- or microbiota-derived signals. Here we show for the first time that microbiota-derived indole is highly prevalent in the lumen compared to the intestin...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Kumar A,Sperandio V

更新日期：2019-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial resistance is a major health threat as it limits treatment options for infection. At the forefront of this serious issue is Acinetobacter baumannii, a Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen that exhibits the remarkable ability to resist antibiotics through multiple mechanisms. As bacterial ribosomes repres...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Morgan CE,Huang W,Rudin SD,Taylor DJ,Kirby JE,Bonomo RA,Yu EW

更新日期：2020-01-21 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：:In contrast to usual laboratory conditions, most bacteria in the human body grow in biofilms. Encased in a structured matrix, many pathogens display heightened resistance to antibiotics. Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients represent a prime example of the clinical challenges that antibio...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Brüssow H

更新日期：2012-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Exploiting mechanisms of utilizing the sugar d-galactose in Escherichia coli as a model system, we explored the consequences of accumulation of critical intermediates of the d-galactose metabolic pathways by monitoring cell growth, metabolites, and transcript profiles. These studies revealed both metabolic n...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Lee SJ,Trostel A,Adhya S

更新日期：2014-01-28 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：:EnvP(b)1 is an endogenous retroviral envelope gene found in human and other primate genomes. We report EnvP(b)1 sequences in primate genomes consistent with an integration event between 40 and 71 million years ago. Using a highly specific polyclonal antiserum raised against the putative receptor binding domain (RBD) o...

journal_title：mBio

authors： McCarthy KR,Timpona JL,Jenni S,Bloyet LM,Brusic V,Johnson WE,Whelan SPJ,Robinson-McCarthy LR

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida auris has recently emerged as the first fungal pathogen to cause a global public health threat. The reason this species is causing hospital-associated outbreaks of invasive candidiasis with high mortality is unknown. In this study, we examine the interaction of C. auris with neutrophils, leukocytes critical fo...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Johnson CJ,Davis JM,Huttenlocher A,Kernien JF,Nett JE

更新日期：2018-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of influenza vaccines against circulating A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses was modest for several seasons despite the absence of antigenic drift of hemagglutinin (HA), the primary vaccine component. Since antibodies against HA and neuraminidase (NA) contribute independently to protection against disease, antigen...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Gao J,Couzens L,Burke DF,Wan H,Wilson P,Memoli MJ,Xu X,Harvey R,Wrammert J,Ahmed R,Taubenberger JK,Smith DJ,Fouchier RAM,Eichelberger MC

更新日期：2019-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to withstand UV damage shapes the ecology of microbes. While mechanisms of UV tolerance were extensively investigated in microorganisms regularly exposed to the sun, far less is known about UV repair of soilborne microorganisms. Fusarium oxysporum is a soilborne fungal plant pathogen that is resistant to U...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Milo-Cochavi S,Adar S,Covo S

更新日期：2019-12-03 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：:Herpesvirus latency has been difficult to understand molecularly due to low levels of viral genomes and gene expression. In the case of the betaherpesvirus human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), this is further complicated by the heterogeneity inherent to hematopoietic subpopulations harboring genomes and, as a consequence, th...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Goodrum F,McWeeney S

更新日期：2018-06-12 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：UNLABELLED:Similar to many eukaryotic viruses (and unlike bacteriophages), viruses infecting archaea are often encased in lipid-containing envelopes. However, the mechanisms of their morphogenesis and egress remain unexplored. Here, we used dual-axis electron tomography (ET) to characterize the morphogenesis of Sulfolo...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Quemin ER,Chlanda P,Sachse M,Forterre P,Prangishvili D,Krupovic M

更新日期：2016-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis is an obligate intracellular human pathogen that grows inside a membranous, cytosolic vacuole termed an inclusion. Septins are a group of 13 GTP-binding proteins that assemble into oligomeric complexes and that can form higher-order filaments. We report here that the septins SEPT2, -9, -11, and p...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Volceanov L,Herbst K,Biniossek M,Schilling O,Haller D,Nölke T,Subbarayal P,Rudel T,Zieger B,Häcker G

更新日期：2014-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The apparent mislocalization or excretion of cytoplasmic proteins is a commonly observed phenomenon in both bacteria and eukaryotes. However, reports on the mechanistic basis and the cellular function of this so-called "nonclassical protein secretion" are limited. Here we report that protein overexpression in recombin...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Morra R,Del Carratore F,Muhamadali H,Horga LG,Halliwell S,Goodacre R,Breitling R,Dixon N

更新日期：2018-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoferrotrophy is a form of anoxygenic photosynthesis whereby bacteria utilize soluble or insoluble forms of ferrous iron as an electron donor to fix carbon dioxide using light energy. They can also use poised electrodes as their electron donor via phototrophic extracellular electron uptake (phototrophic EEU). The e...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Gupta D,Sutherland MC,Rengasamy K,Meacham JM,Kranz RG,Bose A

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is the first highly pathogenic human coronavirus to emerge since severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in 2002. Like many coronaviruses, MERS-CoV carries genes that encode multiple accessory proteins that are not required for replicat...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Thornbrough JM,Jha BK,Yount B,Goldstein SA,Li Y,Elliott R,Sims AC,Baric RS,Silverman RH,Weiss SR

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen, a major female sex steroid hormone, has been shown to promote the selection of mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the airways of patients with chronic respiratory diseases, including cystic fibrosis. This results in long-term persistence, poorer clinical outcomes, and limited therapeutic options. In this study...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Vidaillac C,Yong VFL,Aschtgen MS,Qu J,Yang S,Xu G,Seng ZJ,Brown AC,Ali MK,Jaggi TK,Sankaran J,Foo YH,Righetti F,Nedumaran AM,Mac Aogáin M,Roizman D,Richard JA,Rogers TR,Toyofuku M,Luo D,Loh E,Wohland T,Czarny

更新日期：2020-09-29 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:The promoter most strongly induced upon activation of the Cpx two-component envelope stress response is the cpxP promoter. The 3' untranscribed region (UTR) of the cpxP transcript is shown to produce a small RNA (sRNA), CpxQ. We investigated the role of CpxQ in combating envelope stress. Remarkably, the two ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Grabowicz M,Koren D,Silhavy TJ

更新日期：2016-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:West Nile virus (WNV) is an emerging neuroinvasive flavivirus that now causes significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. The innate and adaptive immune responses to WNV infection have been well studied in C57BL/6J inbred mice, but this model lacks the variations in susceptibility, immunity, and outcome t...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Graham JB,Thomas S,Swarts J,McMillan AA,Ferris MT,Suthar MS,Treuting PM,Ireton R,Gale M Jr,Lund JM

更新日期：2015-05-05 00:00:00