Engineering Clostridial Aldehyde/Alcohol Dehydrogenase for Selective Butanol Production.

abstract：UNLABELLED:The initiating events in autoimmune disease remain to be completely understood, but it is thought that genetic predisposition synergizes with "environmental" factors, including viral infection, leading to disease. One elegant animal model used to study the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis that perfectly bl...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Chastain EM,Getts DR,Miller SD

更新日期：2015-08-04 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：:1-Butanol is a large-volume, intermediate chemical with favorable physical and chemical properties for blending with or directly substituting for gasoline. The per-volume value of butanol, as a chemical, is sufficient for investing into the recommercialization of the classical acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) (E. M. Gree...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Tracy BP

更新日期：2012-12-11 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：:Streptococcus pneumoniae causes a high burden of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) globally, especially in children from resource-poor settings. Like many bacteria, the pneumococcus can import DNA from other strains or even species by transformation and homologous recombination, which has allowed the pneumococcus to...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Chaguza C,Andam CP,Harris SR,Cornick JE,Yang M,Bricio-Moreno L,Kamng'ona AW,Parkhill J,French N,Heyderman RS,Kadioglu A,Everett DB,Bentley SD,Hanage WP

更新日期：2016-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) is conserved among eukaryotes and has been extensively analyzed at a molecular level. Here, we present an analysis of CME in the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans that shows the same modular structure as those in other fungi and mammalian cells. Intriguingly, C. albic...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Epp E,Nazarova E,Regan H,Douglas LM,Konopka JB,Vogel J,Whiteway M

更新日期：2013-08-27 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

abstract：UNLABELLED:Small RNAs play a critical role in host-pathogen interaction. Indeed, small RNA-mediated silencing or RNA interference (RNAi) is one of the earliest forms of antiviral immunity. Although it represents the main defense system against viruses in many organisms, the antiviral role of RNAi has not been clearly p...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Girardi E,Chane-Woon-Ming B,Messmer M,Kaukinen P,Pfeffer S

更新日期：2013-11-19 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：UNLABELLED:Elevated intracellular levels of the bacterial second messenger c-di-GMP are known to suppress motility and promote sessility. Bacterial chemotaxis guides motile cells in gradients of attractants and repellents over broad concentration ranges, thus allowing bacteria to quickly adapt to changes in their surro...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Russell MH,Bible AN,Fang X,Gooding JR,Campagna SR,Gomelsky M,Alexandre G

更新日期：2013-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Colicins are toxins produced and released by Enterobacteriaceae to kill competitors in the gut. While group A colicins employ a division of labor strategy to liberate the toxin into the environment via colicin-specific lysis, group B colicin systems lack cognate lysis genes. In Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Spriewald S,Stadler E,Hense BA,Münch PC,McHardy AC,Weiss AS,Obeng N,Müller J,Stecher B

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Protein-protein interactions are important for virtually every biological process, and a number of elegant approaches have been designed to detect and evaluate such interactions. However, few of these methods allow the detection of dynamic and real-time protein-protein interactions in bacteria. Here we descr...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Cui B,Wang Y,Song Y,Wang T,Li C,Wei Y,Luo ZQ,Shen X

更新日期：2014-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The only tuberculosis (TB) vaccine in use today, bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), provides insufficient protection and can cause adverse events in immunocompromised individuals, such as BCGosis in HIV(+) newborns. We previously reported improved preclinical efficacy and safety of the recombinant vaccine candi...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Gengenbacher M,Vogelzang A,Schuerer S,Lazar D,Kaiser P,Kaufmann SH

更新日期：2014-06-03 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：:Trauma-related necrotizing myocutaneous mucormycosis (NMM) has a high morbidity and mortality in victims of combat-related injuries, geometeorological disasters, and severe burns. Inspired by the observation that several recent clusters of NMM have been associated with extreme mechanical forces (e.g., during tornados)...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Wurster S,Tatara AM,Albert ND,Ibrahim AS,Heitman J,Lee SC,Shetty AC,McCracken C,Graf KT,Mikos AG,Bruno VM,Kontoyiannis DP

更新日期：2020-06-30 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：:Unlike all other archaeal lineages, ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) of the phylum Thaumarchaeota are widespread and abundant in all moderate and oxic environments on Earth. The evolutionary adaptations that led to such unprecedented ecological success of a microbial clade characterized by highly conserved energy and c...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Abby SS,Kerou M,Schleper C

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid increase of carbapenem resistance in Gram-negative bacteria has resurrected the importance of the polymyxin antibiotics. The recent discovery of plasmid-mediated polymyxin resistance (mcr-1) in carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae serves as an important indicator that the golden era of antibiotics is unde...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Bulman ZP,Chen L,Walsh TJ,Satlin MJ,Qian Y,Bulitta JB,Peloquin CA,Holden PN,Nation RL,Li J,Kreiswirth BN,Tsuji BT

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:In infection experiments with genetically distinct Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) strains, we identified clade-specific virulence patterns in human primary macrophages and in mice infected by the aerosol route, both reflecting relevant model systems. Exclusively human-adapted M. tuberculosis linea...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Reiling N,Homolka S,Walter K,Brandenburg J,Niwinski L,Ernst M,Herzmann C,Lange C,Diel R,Ehlers S,Niemann S

更新日期：2013-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the greatest pandemic of our generation, with 16 million people affected and 650,000 deaths worldwide so far. One of the risk factors associated with COVID-19 is secondary bacterial pneumonia. In recent studies on COVID-19 patients, secondary bacterial infections were significant...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Vaillancourt M,Jorth P

更新日期：2020-08-07 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：: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：:Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) is the most common etiologic agent of uncomplicated urinary tract infection (UTI). An important mechanism of gene regulation in UPEC is phase variation that involves inversion of a promoter-containing DNA element via enzymatic activity of tyrosine recombinases, resulting in biphas...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Battaglioli EJ,Goh KGK,Atruktsang TS,Schwartz K,Schembri MA,Welch RA

更新日期：2018-08-07 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：:Our knowledge of cell cycle regulatory mechanisms in apicomplexan parasites is very limited. In this study, we describe a novel Toxoplasma gondii factor that has a vital role in chromosome replication and the regulation of cytoplasmic and nuclear mitotic structures, and we named this factor ECR1 for essential for chro...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Naumov A,Kratzer S,Ting LM,Kim K,Suvorova ES,White MW

更新日期：2017-08-22 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：:Cryptococcus neoformans is the main etiologic agent of cryptococcal meningitis and causes a significant number of deadly infections per year. Although it is well appreciated that host immune responses are crucial for defense against cryptococcosis, our understanding of factors that control the development of effective...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Masso-Silva J,Espinosa V,Liu TB,Wang Y,Xue C,Rivera A

更新日期：2018-01-09 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：UNLABELLED:Male circumcision reduces female-to-male HIV transmission. Hypothesized mechanisms for this protective effect include decreased HIV target cell recruitment and activation due to changes in the penis microbiome. We compared the coronal sulcus microbiota of men from a group of uncircumcised controls (n = 77) a...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Liu CM,Hungate BA,Tobian AA,Serwadda D,Ravel J,Lester R,Kigozi G,Aziz M,Galiwango RM,Nalugoda F,Contente-Cuomo TL,Wawer MJ,Keim P,Gray RH,Price LB

更新日期：2013-04-16 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