Emerging Fungal Pathogen Candida auris Evades Neutrophil Attack.

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：UNLABELLED:Many viruses induce acute T cell-independent (TI) B cell responses due to their repetitive epitopes and the induction of innate cytokines. Nevertheless, T cell help is thought necessary for the development of long-lasting antiviral antibody responses in the form of long-lived plasma cells and memory B cells....

journal_title：mBio

authors： Raval FM,Mishra R,Garcea RL,Welsh RM,Szomolanyi-Tsuda E

更新日期：2013-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Mammalian lipopolysaccharide (LPS) binding proteins (LBPs) occur mainly in extracellular fluids and promote LPS delivery to specific host cell receptors. The function of LBPs has been studied principally in the context of host defense; the possible role of LBPs in nonpathogenic host-microbe interactions has ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Krasity BC,Troll JV,Lehnert EM,Hackett KT,Dillard JP,Apicella MA,Goldman WE,Weiss JP,McFall-Ngai MJ

更新日期：2015-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The bacterial flagellum is driven by a bidirectional rotary motor, which propels bacteria to swim through liquids or swarm over surfaces. While the functions of the major structural and regulatory components of the flagellum are known, the function of the well-conserved FliL protein is not. In Salmonella and...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Partridge JD,Nieto V,Harshey RM

更新日期：2015-02-24 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：UNLABELLED:The group of proteins known as serine protease autotransporters of Enterobacteriaceae (SPATE) is a growing family of serine proteases secreted to the external milieu by the type V secretion system. Pet toxin and some other SPATE belong to the class 1 cytotoxic SPATE, which have comparable protease strength o...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Nava-Acosta R,Navarro-Garcia F

更新日期：2013-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:In Staphylococcus aureus, hundreds of small regulatory or small RNAs (sRNAs) have been identified, yet this class of molecule remains poorly understood and severely understudied. sRNA genes are typically absent from genome annotation files, and as a consequence, their existence is often overlooked, particula...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Carroll RK,Weiss A,Broach WH,Wiemels RE,Mogen AB,Rice KC,Shaw LN

更新日期：2016-02-09 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：: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：:Chlamydia trachomatis is an obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen that causes blinding trachoma and sexually transmitted disease afflicting hundreds of millions of people globally. A fundamental but poorly understood pathophysiological characteristic of chlamydial infection is the propensity to cause persistent in...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Yang C,Kari L,Lei L,Carlson JH,Ma L,Couch CE,Whitmire WM,Bock K,Moore I,Bonner C,McClarty G,Caldwell HD

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian influenza viruses (AIVs) must acquire mammalian-adaptive mutations before they can efficiently replicate in and transmit among humans. The PB2 E627K mutation is known to play a prominent role in the mammalian adaptation of AIVs. The H7N9 AIVs that emerged in 2013 in China easily acquired the PB2 E627K mutation u...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Liang L,Jiang L,Li J,Zhao Q,Wang J,He X,Huang S,Wang Q,Zhao Y,Wang G,Sun N,Deng G,Shi J,Tian G,Zeng X,Jiang Y,Liu L,Liu J,Chen P,Bu Z,Kawaoka Y,Chen H,Li C

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Heteroresistance refers to phenotypic heterogeneity of microbial clonal populations under antibiotic stress, and it has been thought to be an allocation of a subset of "resistant" cells for surviving in higher concentrations of antibiotic. The assumption fits the so-called bet-hedging strategy, where a bacte...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Wang X,Kang Y,Luo C,Zhao T,Liu L,Jiang X,Fu R,An S,Chen J,Jiang N,Ren L,Wang Q,Baillie JK,Gao Z,Yu J

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral malaria is a severe neurological complication associated with sequestration of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes (IE) in the brain microvasculature, but the specific binding interactions remain under debate. Here, we have generated an engineered three-dimensional (3D) human brain endothelial microve...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Bernabeu M,Gunnarsson C,Vishnyakova M,Howard CC,Nagao RJ,Avril M,Taylor TE,Seydel KB,Zheng Y,Smith JD

更新日期：2019-05-28 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：:Staphylococcus aureus is intrinsically resistant to polymyxins (polymyxin B and colistin), an important class of cationic antimicrobial peptides used in treatment of Gram-negative bacterial infections. To understand the mechanisms underlying intrinsic polymyxin resistance in S. aureus, we screened the Nebraska Transpo...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Vestergaard M,Nøhr-Meldgaard K,Bojer MS,Krogsgård Nielsen C,Meyer RL,Slavetinsky C,Peschel A,Ingmer H

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacteria, elongation factor Tu is a translational cofactor that forms ternary complexes with aminoacyl-tRNA (aa-tRNA) and GTP. Binding of a ternary complex to one of four flexible L7/L12 units on the ribosome tethers a charged tRNA in close proximity to the ribosomal A site. Two sequential tests for a match between...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Mustafi M,Weisshaar JC

更新日期：2018-01-16 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：:The genomes of actinomycetes contain numerous gene clusters potentially able to encode the production of many antibiotics and other specialized metabolites that are not expressed during growth under typical laboratory conditions. Undoubtedly, this reflects the soil habitat of these organisms, which is highly complex p...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Hopwood DA

更新日期：2013-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mo- and V-nitrogenases are two homologous members of the nitrogenase family that are distinguished mainly by the presence of different heterometals (Mo or V) at their respective cofactor sites (M- or V-cluster). However, the V-nitrogenase is ~600-fold more active than its Mo counterpart in reducing CO to hydrocarb...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Rebelein JG,Lee CC,Newcomb M,Hu Y,Ribbe MW

更新日期：2018-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The genus Cyanothece comprises unicellular cyanobacteria that are morphologically diverse and ecologically versatile. Studies over the last decade have established members of this genus to be important components of the marine ecosystem, contributing significantly to the nitrogen and carbon cycle. System-lev...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Bandyopadhyay A,Elvitigala T,Welsh E,Stöckel J,Liberton M,Min H,Sherman LA,Pakrasi HB

更新日期：2011-10-04 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:Pneumococcal pili have been shown to influence pneumococcal colonization, disease development, and the inflammatory response in mice. The role of the pilus-associated RrgA adhesin in pneumococcal interactions with murine and human macrophages was investigated. Expression of pili with RrgA enhanced the uptake...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Orrskog S,Rounioja S,Spadafina T,Gallotta M,Norman M,Hentrich K,Fälker S,Ygberg-Eriksson S,Hasenberg M,Johansson B,Uotila LM,Gahmberg CG,Barocchi M,Gunzer M,Normark S,Henriques-Normark B

更新日期：2012-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) remains a leading cause of viral encephalitis worldwide. Although JEV-specific antibodies have been described, an assessment of their ability to neutralize multiple genotypes of JEV has been limited. Here, we describe the development of a panel of mouse and human neutralizing monoclon...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Fernandez E,Kose N,Edeling MA,Adhikari J,Sapparapu G,Lazarte SM,Nelson CA,Govero J,Gross ML,Fremont DH,Crowe JE Jr,Diamond MS

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of multispecies communities allows nearly every niche on earth to be colonized, and the exchange of molecular information among neighboring bacteria in such communities is key for bacterial success. To clarify the principles controlling interspecies interactions, we previously developed a coculture model wit...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Ranava D,Backes C,Karthikeyan G,Ouari O,Soric A,Guiral M,Cárdenas ML,Giudici-Orticoni MT

更新日期：2021-01-19 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：: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：:A defining activity of retroviruses is reverse transcription, the process by which the viral genomic RNA is converted into the double-stranded DNA required for virus replication. Reverse transcriptase (RT), the viral enzyme responsible for this process, was identified in 1970 by assaying permeabilized retrovirus parti...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Jennings J,Shi J,Varadarajan J,Jamieson PJ,Aiken C

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:In the model eukaryote Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the transcription factor Cst6p has been reported to play important roles in several biological processes. However, the genome-wide targets of Cst6p and its physiological functions remain unknown. Here, we mapped the genome-wide binding sites of Cst6p at high r...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Liu G,Bergenholm D,Nielsen J

更新日期：2016-05-03 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：:Lassa virus (LASV) infection is a major public health concern due to high fatality rates and limited effective treatment. The interferon-stimulated gene cholesterol 25-hydroxylase (CH25H) encodes an enzyme that catalyzes the production of 25-hydroxycholesterol (25HC). 25HC is involved in regulating cholesterol biosynt...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Shrivastava-Ranjan P,Bergeron É,Chakrabarti AK,Albariño CG,Flint M,Nichol ST,Spiropoulou CF

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00