Structural dynamics of bacteriophage P22 infection initiation revealed by cryo-electron tomography.

abstract：:Aichi virus (AiV), an unusual and poorly characterized picornavirus, classified in the genus Kobuvirus, can cause severe gastroenteritis and deaths in children below the age of five years, especially in developing countries1,2. The seroprevalence of AiV is approximately 60% in children under the age of ten years and r...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Zhu L,Wang X,Ren J,Kotecha A,Walter TS,Yuan S,Yamashita T,Tuthill TJ,Fry EE,Rao Z,Stuart DI

更新日期：2016-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In the version of this Article originally published, author Carolina Falcón Garcia's name was coded wrongly, resulting in it being incorrect when exported to citation databases. This has now been corrected, though no visible changes will be apparent. ...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Dragoš A,Martin M,Garcia CF,Kricks L,Pausch P,Heimerl T,Bálint B,Maróti G,Bange G,López D,Lieleg O,Kovács ÁT

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular processes that determine the outcome of influenza virus infection in humans are multifactorial and involve a complex interplay between host, viral and bacterial factors1. However, it is generally accepted that a strong innate immune dysregulation known as 'cytokine storm' contributes to the pathology of ...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Te Velthuis AJW,Long JC,Bauer DLV,Fan RLY,Yen HL,Sharps J,Siegers JY,Killip MJ,French H,Oliva-Martín MJ,Randall RE,de Wit E,van Riel D,Poon LLM,Fodor E

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monkeypox is a viral zoonotic disease on the rise across endemic habitats. Despite the growing importance of monkeypox virus, our knowledge on its host spectrum and sylvatic maintenance is limited. Here, we describe the recent repeated emergence of monkeypox virus in a wild, human-habituated western chimpanzee (Pan tr...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Patrono LV,Pléh K,Samuni L,Ulrich M,Röthemeier C,Sachse A,Muschter S,Nitsche A,Couacy-Hymann E,Boesch C,Wittig RM,Calvignac-Spencer S,Leendertz FH

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila, the causative bacterium for Legionnaires' disease, hijacks host membrane trafficking for the maturation of the Legionella-containing vacuole (LCV). The LCV membrane mainly contains PtdIns4P, which is important for anchoring many secreted Legionella effectors onto the LCV. Here, we identify a cr...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Dong N,Niu M,Hu L,Yao Q,Zhou R,Shao F

更新日期：2016-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper. ...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Rowe SE,Wagner NJ,Li L,Beam JE,Wilkinson AD,Radlinski LC,Zhang Q,Miao EA,Conlon BP

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host factors that silence provirus transcription in CD4+ memory T cells help HIV-1 escape eradication by the host immune system and by antiviral drugs1. These same factors, however, must be overcome for HIV-1 to propagate. Here we show that Vpx and Vpr encoded by diverse primate immunodeficiency viruses activate provi...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Yurkovetskiy L,Guney MH,Kim K,Goh SL,McCauley S,Dauphin A,Diehl WE,Luban J

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporal dynamics of phytoplankton growth and activity have large impacts on fluxes of matter and energy, yet obtaining in situ metabolic measurements of sufficient resolution for even dominant microorganisms remains a considerable challenge. We performed Lagrangian diel sampling with synoptic measurements of popu...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Wilson ST,Aylward FO,Ribalet F,Barone B,Casey JR,Connell PE,Eppley JM,Ferrón S,Fitzsimmons JN,Hayes CT,Romano AE,Turk-Kubo KA,Vislova A,Armbrust EV,Caron DA,Church MJ,Zehr JP,Karl DM,DeLong EF

更新日期：2017-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface ocean waters are dominated by planktonic bacterial lineages with highly reduced genomes. The best examples are the cyanobacterial genus Prochlorococcus, the alphaproteobacterial clade SAR11 and the gammaproteobacterial clade SAR86, which together represent over 50% of the cells in surface oceans. Several studi...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Luo H,Huang Y,Stepanauskas R,Tang J

更新日期：2017-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is the most medically significant tick-borne disease, being widespread in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and parts of Europe 1 . Increasing case numbers, westerly movement and broadly ranging case fatality rates substantiate the concern of CCHF as a public health threat. Ixodid t...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Haddock E,Feldmann F,Hawman DW,Zivcec M,Hanley PW,Saturday G,Scott DP,Thomas T,Korva M,Avšič-Županc T,Safronetz D,Feldmann H

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is mediated by two major exotoxins, toxin A (TcdA) and toxin B (TcdB), that damage the colonic epithelial barrier and induce inflammatory responses. The function of the colonic vascular barrier during CDI has been relatively understudied. Here we report increased colonic vascular ...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Huang J,Kelly CP,Bakirtzi K,Villafuerte Gálvez JA,Lyras D,Mileto SJ,Larcombe S,Xu H,Yang X,Shields KS,Zhu W,Zhang Y,Goldsmith JD,Patel IJ,Hansen J,Huang M,Yla-Herttuala S,Moss AC,Paredes-Sabja D,Pothoulakis C,Shah

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence has accumulated to demonstrate that the intestinal microbiota enhances mammalian enteric virus infections1. For example, we and others previously reported that commensal bacteria stimulate acute and persistent murine norovirus infections2-4. However, in apparent contradiction of these results, the virulence o...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Grau KR,Zhu S,Peterson ST,Helm EW,Philip D,Phillips M,Hernandez A,Turula H,Frasse P,Graziano VR,Wilen CB,Wobus CE,Baldridge MT,Karst SM

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most Gram-negative pathogens, the hydrolysis of UDP-2,3-diacylglucosamine to generate lipid X in lipid A biosynthesis is catalysed by the membrane-associated enzyme LpxH. We report the crystal structure of LpxH in complex with its product, lipid X, unveiling a unique insertion lid above the conserved architecture o...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Cho J,Lee CJ,Zhao J,Young HE,Zhou P

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite recent progress, the organization and ecological properties of the intestinal microbial ecosystem remain under-investigated. Here, using a manually curated metabolic module framework for (meta-)genomic data analysis, we studied species-function relationships in gut microbial genomes and microbiomes. Half of gu...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Vieira-Silva S,Falony G,Darzi Y,Lima-Mendez G,Garcia Yunta R,Okuda S,Vandeputte D,Valles-Colomer M,Hildebrand F,Chaffron S,Raes J

更新日期：2016-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral discovery is accelerating at an unprecedented rate due to continuing advances in culture-independent sequence-based analyses. One important facet of this discovery is identification of the hosts of these recently characterized uncultured viruses. To this end, we have adapted the viral tagging approach, which byp...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Džunková M,Low SJ,Daly JN,Deng L,Rinke C,Hugenholtz P

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular adhesion mediates many important plant-microbe interactions. In the devastating blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae1, powerful glycoprotein-rich mucilage adhesives2 cement melanized and pressurized dome-shaped infection cells-appressoria-to host rice leaf surfaces. Enormous internal turgor pressure is directed on...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Rocha RO,Elowsky C,Pham NTT,Wilson RA

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CRISPR-Cas adaptive immune systems protect bacteria and archaea against their invading genetic parasites, including bacteriophages/viruses and plasmids. In response to this immunity, many phages have anti-CRISPR (Acr) proteins that inhibit CRISPR-Cas targeting. To date, anti-CRISPR genes have primarily been discovered...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Mahendra C,Christie KA,Osuna BA,Pinilla-Redondo R,Kleinstiver BP,Bondy-Denomy J

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zika virus is a mosquito-borne pathogen that is rapidly spreading across the Americas. Due to associations between Zika virus infection and a range of fetal maladies(1,2), the epidemic trajectory of this viral infection poses a significant concern for the nearly 15 million children born in the Americas each year. Asce...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Perkins TA,Siraj AS,Ruktanonchai CW,Kraemer MU,Tatem AJ

更新日期：2016-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of new drug regimens that allow rapid, sterilizing treatment of tuberculosis has been limited by the complexity and time required for genetic manipulations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) promises to be a robust, easily engineered and scalable platform for regulated gene si...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Rock JM,Hopkins FF,Chavez A,Diallo M,Chase MR,Gerrick ER,Pritchard JR,Church GM,Rubin EJ,Sassetti CM,Schnappinger D,Fortune SM

更新日期：2017-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Although bacteria within the Verrucomicrobia phylum are pervasive in soils around the world, they are under-represented in both isolate collections and genomic databases. Here, we describe a single verrucomicrobial group within the class Spartobacteria that is not closely related to any previously described taxa. We e...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Brewer TE,Handley KM,Carini P,Gilbert JA,Fierer N

更新日期：2016-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the specificities and neutralization breadth of the H7-reactive antibody repertoire induced by natural H7N9 infection in humans. We have isolated and characterized 73 H7-reactive monoclonal antibodies from peripheral B cells from four donors infected in 2013 and 2014. Of these, 45 antibodies were...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Huang KA,Rijal P,Jiang H,Wang B,Schimanski L,Dong T,Liu YM,Chang P,Iqbal M,Wang MC,Chen Z,Song R,Huang CC,Yang JH,Qi J,Lin TY,Li A,Powell TJ,Jan JT,Ma C,Gao GF,Shi Y,Townsend AR

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major form of transcriptional regulation in bacteria occurs through the exchange of the primary σ factor of RNA polymerase (RNAP) with an alternative extracytoplasmic function (ECF) σ factor1. ECF σ factors are generally intrinsically active and are retained in an inactive state via the sequestration into σ factor-a...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Iyer SC,Casas-Pastor D,Kraus D,Mann P,Schirner K,Glatter T,Fritz G,Ringgaard S

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic and geological evidence supports the hypothesis that life on Earth originated in thermal environments and conserved energy through methanogenesis or sulfur reduction. Here we describe two populations of the deeply rooted archaeal phylum Korarchaeota, which were retrieved from the metagenome of a circumneu...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： McKay LJ,Dlakić M,Fields MW,Delmont TO,Eren AM,Jay ZJ,Klingelsmith KB,Rusch DB,Inskeep WP

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Balancing access to antibiotics with the control of antibiotic resistance is a global public health priority. At present, antibiotic stewardship is informed by a 'use it and lose it' principle, in which antibiotic use by the population is linearly related to resistance rates. However, theoretical and mathematical mode...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： López-Lozano JM,Lawes T,Nebot C,Beyaert A,Bertrand X,Hocquet D,Aldeyab M,Scott M,Conlon-Bingham G,Farren D,Kardos G,Fésűs A,Rodríguez-Baño J,Retamar P,Gonzalo-Jiménez N,Gould IM,THRESHOLDS study group.

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tigecycline is one of the last-resort antibiotics to treat complicated infections caused by both multidrug-resistant Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria1. Tigecycline resistance has sporadically occurred in recent years, primarily due to chromosome-encoding mechanisms, such as overexpression of efflux pumps and r...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Sun J,Chen C,Cui CY,Zhang Y,Liu X,Cui ZH,Ma XY,Feng Y,Fang LX,Lian XL,Zhang RM,Tang YZ,Zhang KX,Liu HM,Zhuang ZH,Zhou SD,Lv JN,Du H,Huang B,Yu FY,Mathema B,Kreiswirth BN,Liao XP,Chen L,Liu YH

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune responses in insects are differentially triggered depending on the infection route used by the pathogen. In most studies involving Drosophila melanogaster and viruses, infection is done by injection, while oral infection, which is probably the most common route of viral entry in nature, remains unexplored. Here...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Mondotte JA,Gausson V,Frangeul L,Blanc H,Lambrechts L,Saleh MC

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outbreaks of viral infections are a global health burden. Although type I interferon (IFN-I) exerts broad-spectrum antiviral effects, its antiviral efficacy in host cells is largely restricted by viruses. How the antiviral efficacy of IFN-I can be improved remains to be explored. Here, we identified the ADP-ribosyltra...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Guo T,Zuo Y,Qian L,Liu J,Yuan Y,Xu K,Miao Y,Feng Q,Chen X,Jin L,Zhang L,Dong C,Xiong S,Zheng H

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbial environment influences animal physiology. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms of such functional interactions are largely undefined. Previously, we showed that during chronic undernutrition, strains of Lactobacillus plantarum, a major commensal partner of Drosophila, promote host juvenile growth...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Matos RC,Schwarzer M,Gervais H,Courtin P,Joncour P,Gillet B,Ma D,Bulteau AL,Martino ME,Hughes S,Chapot-Chartier MP,Leulier F

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic inflammatory liver disease and its frequent complication with ulcerative colitis highlights the pathogenic role of epithelial barrier dysfunction. Intestinal barrier dysfunction has been implicated in the pathogenesis of PSC, yet its underlying mechanism remains unknow...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Nakamoto N,Sasaki N,Aoki R,Miyamoto K,Suda W,Teratani T,Suzuki T,Koda Y,Chu PS,Taniki N,Yamaguchi A,Kanamori M,Kamada N,Hattori M,Ashida H,Sakamoto M,Atarashi K,Narushima S,Yoshimura A,Honda K,Sato T,Kanai T

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of virulence traits is central for the emergence or re-emergence of microbial pathogens and for their adaptation to a specific host 1-5 . Typhoid toxin is an essential virulence factor of the human-adapted bacterial pathogen Salmonella Typhi 6,7 , the cause of typhoid fever in humans 8-12 . Typhoid toxin...

journal_title：Nature microbiology

authors： Gao X,Deng L,Stack G,Yu H,Chen X,Naito-Matsui Y,Varki A,Galán JE

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00