Na+-NQR Confers Aminoglycoside Resistance via the Regulation of l-Alanine Metabolism.

abstract：:The interplay between translation initiation, modification of translation initiation factors, and selection of start sites on mRNA for protein synthesis can play a regulatory role in the cellular response to stress, development, and cell fate in eukaryotic species by shaping the proteome. As shown by Ivanov et al. (mB...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Glass NL

更新日期：2017-11-07 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：:Cell surface expression of sialic acid has been reported to decrease during immune cell activation, but the significance and regulation of this phenomenon are still being investigated. The major human bacterial pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae causes pneumonia, sepsis and meningitis, often accompanied by strong infla...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Chang YC,Uchiyama S,Varki A,Nizet V

更新日期：2012-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The protein YfeX from Escherichia coli has been proposed to be essential for the process of iron removal from heme by carrying out a dechelation of heme without cleavage of the porphyrin macrocycle. Since this proposed reaction is unique and would represent the first instance of the biological dechelation of...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Dailey HA,Septer AN,Daugherty L,Thames D,Gerdes S,Stabb EV,Dunn AK,Dailey TA,Phillips JD

更新日期：2011-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA) surface glycoprotein is currently the primary target of licensed influenza vaccines. Recently, broadly reactive antibodies that target the stalk region of the HA have become a major focus of current novel vaccine development. These antibodies have been observed in humans after natura...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Park JK,Han A,Czajkowski L,Reed S,Athota R,Bristol T,Rosas LA,Cervantes-Medina A,Taubenberger JK,Memoli MJ

更新日期：2018-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is one of the most common S. enterica serovars associated with U.S. foodborne outbreaks. S. Typhimurium bacteria isolated from humans exhibit wide-ranging virulence phenotypes in inbred mice, leading to speculation that some strains are more virulent in nature. However...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Hayden HS,Matamouros S,Hager KR,Brittnacher MJ,Rohmer L,Radey MC,Weiss EJ,Kim KB,Jacobs MA,Sims-Day EH,Yue M,Zaidi MB,Schifferli DM,Manning SD,Walson JL,Miller SI

更新日期：2016-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:HLA-C-mediated antigen presentation induces the killing of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected CD4+ T cells by cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs). To evade killing, many HIV-1 group M strains decrease HLA-C surface levels using their accessory protein Vpu. However, some HIV-1 group M isolates lack this activity, p...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Hopfensperger K,Richard J,Stürzel CM,Bibollet-Ruche F,Apps R,Leoz M,Plantier JC,Hahn BH,Finzi A,Kirchhoff F,Sauter D

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In celebrating the 125th anniversary of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in August 2012, NIH has been examining its origins, its history, and the visionary men and women whose research have contributed to the saving and/or improving the quality of life of millions of people throughout the world. This minireview...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Morens DM,Fauci AS

更新日期：2012-06-26 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: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：:Dephospho-coenzyme A (dephospho-CoA) kinase (DPCK) catalyzes the ATP-dependent phosphorylation of dephospho-CoA, the final step in coenzyme A (CoA) biosynthesis. DPCK has been identified and characterized in bacteria and eukaryotes but not in archaea. The hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus kodakarensis encodes tw...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Shimosaka T,Makarova KS,Koonin EV,Atomi H

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbes inhabit diverse environmental locations, and many species need to shift their physiology between different niches. To do this effectively requires the accurate sensing of and response to the environment. For pathogens, exposure to light is one major change between a free-living saprophyte lifestyle and causat...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Idnurm A

更新日期：2013-04-30 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：:Flavor production in yeast fermentation is of paramount importance for industrial production of alcoholic beverages. Although major enzymes of flavor compound biosynthesis have been identified, few specific mutations responsible for strain diversity in flavor production are known. The ATF1-encoded alcohol acetyl coenz...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Holt S,Trindade de Carvalho B,Foulquié-Moreno MR,Thevelein JM

更新日期：2018-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Investigation of the human microbiome has revealed diverse and complex microbial communities at distinct anatomic sites. The microbiome of the human sebaceous follicle provides a tractable model in which to study its dominant bacterial inhabitant, Propionibacterium acnes, which is thought to contribute to th...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Marinelli LJ,Fitz-Gibbon S,Hayes C,Bowman C,Inkeles M,Loncaric A,Russell DA,Jacobs-Sera D,Cokus S,Pellegrini M,Kim J,Miller JF,Hatfull GF,Modlin RL

更新日期：2012-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The acquisition and incorporation of genetic material between nonmating species, or horizontal gene transfer (HGT), has been frequently described for phylogenetically related organisms, but far less evidence exists for HGT between highly divergent organisms. Here we report the identification and characterization of a ...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Anderson MT,Seifert HS

更新日期：2011-02-15 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 human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) exhibits a high degree of genomic diversity and plasticity. Isolates with high genomic similarity are grouped into lineages that undergo homologous recombination at variable rates. PMEN1 is a pandemic, multidrug-resistant lineage. Heterologous gene e...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Eutsey RA,Powell E,Dordel J,Salter SJ,Clark TA,Korlach J,Ehrlich GD,Hiller NL

更新日期：2015-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium bovis BCG is the only available vaccine for protection against tuberculosis (TB). While BCG protects children from severe disease, it has little impact on pulmonary disease in adults. A recombinant BCG vaccine BCG ΔureC::hly (strain VPM1002) is in advanced clinical trials and shows promise for improved v...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Fletcher HA

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:ABSTRACT The type VII secretion systems are conserved across mycobacterial species and in many Gram-positive bacteria. While the well-characterized Esx-1 pathway is required for the virulence of pathogenic mycobacteria and conjugation in the model organism Mycobacterium smegmatis, Esx-3 contributes to mycobactin-media...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Siegrist MS,Steigedal M,Ahmad R,Mehra A,Dragset MS,Schuster BM,Philips JA,Carr SA,Rubin EJ

更新日期：2014-05-06 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：: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：:Although the TEM-1 β-lactamase (BlaTEM-1) hydrolyzes penicillins and narrow-spectrum cephalosporins, organisms expressing this enzyme are typically susceptible to β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitor combinations such as piperacillin-tazobactam (TZP). However, our previous work led to the discovery of 28 clinical isolates o...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Schechter LM,Creely DP,Garner CD,Shortridge D,Nguyen H,Chen L,Hanson BM,Sodergren E,Weinstock GM,Dunne WM Jr,van Belkum A,Leopold SR

更新日期：2018-04-24 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：:Vibrio vulnificus, an opportunistic pathogen, is the causative agent of a life-threatening septicemia and a rising problem for aquaculture worldwide. The genetic factors that differentiate its clinical and environmental strains remain enigmatic. Furthermore, clinical strains have emerged from every clade of V. vulnifi...

journal_title：mBio

authors： López-Pérez M,Jayakumar JM,Haro-Moreno JM,Zaragoza-Solas A,Reddi G,Rodriguez-Valera F,Shapiro OH,Alam M,Almagro-Moreno S

更新日期：2019-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Enterococcus faecium, natively a gut commensal organism, emerged as a leading cause of multidrug-resistant hospital-acquired infection in the 1980s. As the living record of its adaptation to changes in habitat, we sequenced the genomes of 51 strains, isolated from various ecological environments, to understa...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Lebreton F,van Schaik W,McGuire AM,Godfrey P,Griggs A,Mazumdar V,Corander J,Cheng L,Saif S,Young S,Zeng Q,Wortman J,Birren B,Willems RJ,Earl AM,Gilmore MS

更新日期：2013-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Many filamentous cyanobacteria produce specialized nitrogen-fixing cells called heterocysts, which are located at semiregular intervals along the filament with about 10 to 20 photosynthetic vegetative cells in between. Nitrogen fixation in these complex multicellular bacteria depends on metabolite exchange b...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Nürnberg DJ,Mariscal V,Bornikoel J,Nieves-Morión M,Krauß N,Herrero A,Maldener I,Flores E,Mullineaux CW

更新日期：2015-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of the HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein (Env) substantially impacts antibody recognition and antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) responses. In the absence of the CD4 receptor at the cell surface, primary Envs sample a "closed" conformation that occludes CD4-induced (CD4i) epitopes. The virus co...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Richard J,Prévost J,Baxter AE,von Bredow B,Ding S,Medjahed H,Delgado GG,Brassard N,Stürzel CM,Kirchhoff F,Hahn BH,Parsons MS,Kaufmann DE,Evans DT,Finzi A

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza A viruses cause an annual contagious respiratory disease in humans and are responsible for periodic high-mortality human pandemics. Pandemic influenza A viruses usually result from the reassortment of gene segments between human and avian influenza viruses. These avian influenza virus gene segments need to a...

journal_title：mBio

authors： Smith BL,Chen G,Wilke CO,Krug RM

更新日期：2018-07-03 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