Access to PCNA by Srs2 and Elg1 Controls the Choice between Alternative Repair Pathways in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

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：:Butanol production by Clostridium acetobutylicum is accompanied by coproduction of acetone and ethanol, which reduces the yield of butanol and increases the production cost. Here, we report development of several clostridial aldehyde/alcohol dehydrogenase (AAD) variants showing increased butanol selectivity by a serie...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Cho C,Hong S,Moon HG,Jang YS,Kim D,Lee SY

更新日期：2019-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The route taken by papillomaviruses from the cell surface to the nucleus during infection is incompletely understood. Here, we developed a novel human papillomavirus 16 (HPV16) pseudovirus in which the carboxy terminus of the minor capsid protein L2 is exposed on the exterior of the intact capsid prior to ce...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Zhang W,Kazakov T,Popa A,DiMaio D

更新日期：2014-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Yellow fever virus (YFV) is an arthropod-borne flavivirus, infecting ~200,000 people worldwide annually and causing about 30,000 deaths. The live attenuated vaccine strain, YFV-17D, has significantly contributed in controlling the global burden of yellow fever worldwide. However, the viral and host contributions to YF...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Douam F,Soto Albrecht YE,Hrebikova G,Sadimin E,Davidson C,Kotenko SV,Ploss A

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Sensing of and responding to environmental changes are of vital importance for microbial cells. Consequently, bacteria have evolved a plethora of signaling systems that usually sense biochemical cues either via direct ligand binding, thereby acting as "concentration sensors," or by responding to downstream e...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Fritz G,Dintner S,Treichel NS,Radeck J,Gerland U,Mascher T,Gebhard S

更新日期：2015-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In immunocompromised hosts, latent infection with Toxoplasma gondii can reactivate from tissue cysts, leading to encephalitis. A characteristic of T. gondii bradyzoites in tissue cysts is the presence of amylopectin granules. The regulatory mechanisms and role of amylopectin accumulation in this organism are not fully...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Sugi T,Tu V,Ma Y,Tomita T,Weiss LM

更新日期：2017-08-29 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：:Aspergillus fumigatus is the leading cause of pulmonary fungal diseases. Azoles have been used for many years as the main antifungal agents to treat and prevent invasive aspergillosis. However, in the last 10 years there have been several reports of azole resistance in A. fumigatus and new strategies are needed to com...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Valero C,Colabardini AC,Chiaratto J,Pardeshi L,de Castro PA,Ferreira Filho JA,Silva LP,Rocha MC,Malavazi I,Costa JH,Fill T,Barros MH,Wong SSW,Aimanianda V,Wong KH,Goldman GH

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Moraxella catarrhalis is a human respiratory pathogen that causes acute otitis media in children and is associated with exacerbations in patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The first step in M. catarrhalis colonization is adherence to the mucosa, epithelial cells, and extrac...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Singh B,Alvarado-Kristensson M,Johansson M,Hallgren O,Westergren-Thorsson G,Mörgelin M,Riesbeck K

更新日期：2016-03-22 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: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：:Nonflagellar type III secretion systems (nf T3SSs) form a cell surface needle-like structure and an associated translocon that deliver bacterial effector proteins into eukaryotic host cells. This involves a tightly regulated hierarchy of protein secretion. A switch involving SctP and SctU stops secretion of the needle...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Yu XJ,Grabe GJ,Liu M,Mota LJ,Holden DW

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbiome of wild Mus musculus (house mouse), a globally distributed invasive pest that resides in close contact with humans in urban centers, is largely unexplored. Here, we report analysis of the fecal virome of house mice in residential buildings in New York City, NY. Mice were collected at seven sites in Manh...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Williams SH,Che X,Garcia JA,Klena JD,Lee B,Muller D,Ulrich W,Corrigan RM,Nichol S,Jain K,Lipkin WI

更新日期：2018-04-17 00:00:00

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：:Staphylococcus aureus is a human pathogen responsible for high morbidity and mortality worldwide. Recurrent infections with this bacterium are common, suggesting that S. aureus thwarts the development of sterilizing immunity. S. aureus strains that cause disease in humans produce up to five different bicomponent toxin...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Berends ETM,Zheng X,Zwack EE,Ménager MM,Cammer M,Shopsin B,Torres VJ

更新日期：2019-01-02 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:Microorganisms use a variety of metabolites to respond to external stimuli, including second messengers that amplify primary signals and elicit biochemical changes in a cell. Levels of the second messenger cyclic dimeric GMP (c-di-GMP) are regulated by a variety of environmental stimuli and play a critical r...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Agostoni M,Koestler BJ,Waters CM,Williams BL,Montgomery BL

更新日期：2013-08-13 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：:Many viruses produce protein-coding and noncoding subgenomic RNAs (sgRNAs) that are critical for infection. A recently discovered pathway for viral sgRNA production uses exoribonuclease-resistant RNAs (xrRNAs), discrete folded RNA elements that block the processive exoribonucleolytic degradation of RNA. xrRNAs are wid...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Steckelberg AL,Vicens Q,Kieft JS

更新日期：2018-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:DNA lesions in the template strand block synthesis by replicative DNA polymerases (Pols). Eukaryotic cells possess a number of specialized translesion synthesis (TLS) Pols with the ability to replicate through DNA lesions. The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a member of the herpesvirus family, infects human B cell...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Yoon JH,Prakash S,Prakash L

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Mutations in the Plasmodium falciparum cyclic amine resistance locus (PfCARL) are associated with parasite resistance to the imidazolopiperazines, a potent class of novel antimalarial compounds that display both prophylactic and transmission-blocking activity, in addition to activity against blood-stage para...

journal_title：mBio

authors： LaMonte G,Lim MY,Wree M,Reimer C,Nachon M,Corey V,Gedeck P,Plouffe D,Du A,Figueroa N,Yeung B,Bifani P,Winzeler EA

更新日期：2016-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Diverse colony morphologies are a hallmark of Burkholderia pseudomallei recovered from infected patients. We observed that stresses that inhibit aerobic respiration shifted populations of B. pseudomallei from the canonical white colony morphotype toward two distinct, reversible, yet relatively stable yellow ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Austin CR,Goodyear AW,Bartek IL,Stewart A,Sutherland MD,Silva EB,Zweifel A,Vitko NP,Tuanyok A,Highnam G,Mittelman D,Keim P,Schweizer HP,Vázquez-Torres A,Dow SW,Voskuil MI

更新日期：2015-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttranslational modification of a protein, either alone or in combination with other modifications, can control properties of that protein, such as enzymatic activity, localization, stability, or interactions with other molecules. N-ε-Lysine acetylation is one such modification that has gained attention in recent ye...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Christensen DG,Baumgartner JT,Xie X,Jew KM,Basisty N,Schilling B,Kuhn ML,Wolfe AJ

更新日期：2019-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylglyoxal (MG) is a detrimental metabolic by-product that threatens most organisms (in humans MG causes diabetes). MG is predominantly detoxified by the glyoxalase pathway. This process begins with the conjugation of MG with glutathione (GSH), yielding a hemithioacetal product that is subsequently transformed by t...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Kammerscheit X,Hecker A,Rouhier N,Chauvat F,Cassier-Chauvat C

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacopeia used by physicians and laypeople in medieval Europe has largely been dismissed as placebo or superstition. While we now recognize that some of the materia medica used by medieval physicians could have had useful biological properties, research in this area is limited by the labor-intensive process of ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Connelly E,Del Genio CI,Harrison F

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus has changed considerably over the last 3 decades, including the recognition of lineages associated with the community and with livestock exposure, in addition to nosocomial strains. A recent study by R. N. Sieber, R. L. Skov, J. Nielsen, J. Schulz, et al....

journal_title：mBio

authors： Smith TC,Davis MF,Heaney CD

更新日期：2018-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococci are important human commensals and significant opportunistic pathogens. Biofilm-related enterococcal infections, such as endocarditis, urinary tract infections, wound and surgical site infections, and medical device-associated infections, often become chronic upon the formation of biofilm. The biofilm matr...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Keogh D,Lam LN,Doyle LE,Matysik A,Pavagadhi S,Umashankar S,Low PM,Dale JL,Song Y,Ng SP,Boothroyd CB,Dunny GM,Swarup S,Williams RBH,Marsili E,Kline KA

更新日期：2018-04-10 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：:Mobile elements-plasmids and phages-are important components of microbial function and evolution via traits that they encode and their capacity to shuttle genetic material between species. We here report the unusually rich array of mobile elements within the genome of Arsenophonus nasoniae, the son-killer symbiont of ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Frost CL,Siozios S,Nadal-Jimenez P,Brockhurst MA,King KC,Darby AC,Hurst GDD

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli, FtsEX coordinates peptidoglycan (PG) synthesis and hydrolysis at the septum. It acts on FtsA in the cytoplasm to promote recruitment of septal PG synthetases and recruits EnvC, an activator of septal PG hydrolases, in the periplasm. Following recruitment, ATP hydrolysis by FtsEX is thought to regu...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Du S,Pichoff S,Lutkenhaus J

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00