Genomics and computational molecular biology.

Abstract:

:There has been a dramatic increase in the number of completely sequenced bacterial genomes during the past two years as a result of the efforts both of public genome agencies and the pharmaceutical industry. The availability of completely sequenced genomes permits more systematic analyses of genes, evolution and genome function than was otherwise possible. Using computational methods - which are used to identify genes and their functions including statistics, sequence similarity, motifs, profiles, protein folds and probabilistic models - it is possible to develop characteristic genome signatures, assign functions to genes, identify pathogenic genes, identify metabolic pathways, develop diagnostic probes and discover potential drug-binding sites. All of these directions are critical to understanding bacterial growth, pathogenicity and host-pathogen interactions.

journal_name

Curr Opin Microbiol

authors

Brutlag DL

doi

10.1016/s1369-5274(98)80039-8

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1998-06-01 00:00:00

pages

340-5

issue

3

eissn

1369-5274

issn

1879-0364

pii

S1369-5274(98)80039-8

journal_volume

1

pub_type

杂志文章,评审
  • Superantigens of gram-positive bacteria: structure-function analyses and their implications for biological activity.

    abstract::Just as we thought that we know everything about superantigens, new molecular and structural studies indicate that we have only just begun to unravel the secrets of these fascinating molecules. Recent structure-function analysis of superantigens from Gram-positive bacteria, with emphasis on their interaction with majo...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/s1369-5274(98)80143-4

    authors: Kotb M

    更新日期:1998-02-01 00:00:00

  • Advances in understanding E. coli cell fission.

    abstract::Much of what we know about cytokinesis in bacteria has come from studies with Escherichia coli, and efforts to comprehensively understand this fundamental process in this organism continue to intensify. Major recent advances include in vitro assembly of a membrane-tethered version of FtsZ into contractile rings in lip...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/j.mib.2010.09.015

    authors: de Boer PA

    更新日期:2010-12-01 00:00:00

  • Striking a balance: fungal commensalism versus pathogenesis.

    abstract::The environment is suffused with nearly countless types of fungi, and our immune systems must be tuned to cope with constant exposure to them. In addition, it is becoming increasingly clear that many surfaces of our bodies are colonized with complex populations of fungi (the mycobiome) in the same way that they are co...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/j.mib.2013.05.004

    authors: Iliev ID,Underhill DM

    更新日期:2013-06-01 00:00:00

  • Small RNAs establish gene expression thresholds.

    abstract::The central role of small RNAs in regulating bacterial gene expression has been elucidated in the past years. Typically, small RNAs act via specific basepairing with target mRNAs, leading to modulation of translation initiation and mRNA stability. Quantitative studies suggest that small RNA regulation is characterized...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/j.mib.2008.09.016

    authors: Levine E,Hwa T

    更新日期:2008-12-01 00:00:00

  • Bioengineering novel in vitro metabolic pathways using synthetic biology.

    abstract::Huge numbers of enzymes have evolved in nature to function in aqueous environments at moderate temperatures and neutral pH. This gives us, in principle, the unique opportunity to construct multistep reaction systems of considerable catalytic complexity in vitro. However, this opportunity is rarely exploited beyond res...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/j.mib.2007.05.009

    authors: Meyer A,Pellaux R,Panke S

    更新日期:2007-06-01 00:00:00

  • Microbial genomics for the improvement of natural product discovery.

    abstract::The quest for the discovery of novel natural products has entered a new chapter with the enormous wealth of genetic data that is now available. This information has been exploited by using whole-genome sequence mining to uncover cryptic pathways, or biosynthetic pathways for previously undetected metabolites. Alternat...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/j.mib.2006.04.002

    authors: Van Lanen SG,Shen B

    更新日期:2006-06-01 00:00:00

  • Single cell genomics: an individual look at microbes.

    abstract::Single cell genomics (SCG) uncovers hereditary information at the most basic level of biological organization. It is emerging as a powerful complement to cultivation-based and microbial community-focused research approaches. SCG has been instrumental in identifying metabolic features, evolutionary histories and inter-...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/j.mib.2012.09.001

    authors: Stepanauskas R

    更新日期:2012-10-01 00:00:00

  • How Toxoplasma and malaria parasites defy first, then exploit host autophagic and endocytic pathways for growth.

    abstract::Infections caused by the apicomplexan parasites Plasmodium and Toxoplasma are wide-spread, life-threatening and therapeutically challenging. These pathogens are obligate intracellular microorganisms that invade mammalian cells by forming a self-made niche, the parasitophorous vacuole that is impervious to host lysosom...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/j.mib.2017.10.009

    authors: Coppens I

    更新日期:2017-12-01 00:00:00

  • The role of 'eat-me' signals and autophagy cargo receptors in innate immunity.

    abstract::Selective autophagy is an important effector mechanism of cell autonomous immunity, in particular against invasive bacterial species. Anti-bacterial autophagy is activated by rupture of bacteria-containing vacuoles and exposure of bacteria to the cytosol. The autophagy cargo receptors p62, NDP52 and Optineurin detect ...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/j.mib.2013.03.010

    authors: Boyle KB,Randow F

    更新日期:2013-06-01 00:00:00

  • Recent progress in the application of atomic force microscopy imaging and force spectroscopy to microbiology.

    abstract::Atomic force microscopy imaging and force spectroscopy have recently opened a range of novel applications in microbiology. During the past two years, rapid advances have been made using atomic force microscopy to visualize the surface structure of two-dimensional bacterial protein crystals, biofilms and individual cel...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/s1369-5274(03)00058-4

    authors: Dufrêne YF

    更新日期:2003-06-01 00:00:00

  • Cell cycle and sporulation in Bacillus subtilis.

    abstract::Recent work on cell division and chromosome orientation and partitioning in Bacillus subtilis has provided insights into cell cycle regulation during growth and development. The cell cycle is an integral part of development and entrance into sporulation is modulated by signals that transmit the status of DNA integrity...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/s1369-5274(98)80107-0

    authors: Levin PA,Grossman AD

    更新日期:1998-12-01 00:00:00

  • New chemical tools to probe cell wall biosynthesis in bacteria.

    abstract::Some of the most successful drugs in the antibiotic pharmacopeia are those that inhibit bacterial cell wall biosynthesis. However, the worldwide spread of bacterial antibiotic resistance has eroded the clinical efficacy of these drugs and the antibiotic pipeline continues to be lean as drug discovery programs struggle...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/j.mib.2015.07.013

    authors: Gale RT,Brown ED

    更新日期:2015-10-01 00:00:00

  • Hfq: the flexible RNA matchmaker.

    abstract::The RNA chaperone protein Hfq is critical to the function of small, base pairing RNAs in many bacteria. In the past few years, structures and modeling of wild type Hfq and assays of various mutants have documented that the homohexameric Hfq ring can contact RNA at four sites (proximal face, distal face, rim and C-term...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/j.mib.2016.02.003

    authors: Updegrove TB,Zhang A,Storz G

    更新日期:2016-04-01 00:00:00

  • The fungal GATA factors.

    abstract::The DNA-binding domains of eucaryotic GATA factors comprise a four-cysteine Zn finger and an adjacent basic region. Fungal GATA factors regulate nitrogen metabolism, light induction, siderophore biosynthesis and mating-type switching. Hydrophobic interactions determine binding-site specificity. Interactions with other...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/s1369-5274(00)00063-1

    authors: Scazzocchio C

    更新日期:2000-04-01 00:00:00

  • Control of bacterial colonization in the glands and crypts.

    abstract::The epithelial cell layer of the major organs of the mammalian gastrointestinal (GI) tract is extensively invaginated into thousands of gland and crypt structures. These are lined by distinct sets of epithelial cells and may comprise discrete niches. The host maximizes the distance between the epithelial cell layer an...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/j.mib.2018.11.004

    authors: Yang C,Ottemann KM

    更新日期:2019-02-01 00:00:00

  • Antibiotic efficacy-context matters.

    abstract::Antibiotic lethality is a complex physiological process, sensitive to external cues. Recent advances using systems approaches have revealed how events downstream of primary target inhibition actively participate in antibiotic death processes. In particular, altered metabolism, translational stress and DNA damage each ...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/j.mib.2017.09.002

    authors: Yang JH,Bening SC,Collins JJ

    更新日期:2017-10-01 00:00:00

  • Antifungals: what's in the pipeline.

    abstract::The therapeutic landscape for mycotic infections is shifting. New generation azoles that are active against clinically relevant, drug-resistant fungal pathogens have improved bioavailability, half-lives and safety profiles. Acylated cyclic peptide inhibitors of beta(1,3)glucan synthesis with origins as fungal metaboli...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/s1369-5274(00)00248-4

    authors: Tkacz JS,DiDomenico B

    更新日期:2001-10-01 00:00:00

  • Players between the worlds: multifunctional DNA translocases.

    abstract::DNA translocases play important roles during the bacterial cell cycle and in cell differentiation. Escherichia coli cells contain a multifunctional translocase, FtsK, which is involved in cell division, late steps of chromosome segregation and dimer resolution. In Gram-positive bacteria, the latter two processes are a...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/j.mib.2011.10.004

    authors: Kaimer C,Graumann PL

    更新日期:2011-12-01 00:00:00

  • Analyses of clonality and the evolution of bacterial pathogens.

    abstract::The existence of bacterial clones was evident in early phenotypic studies that recognised high levels of similarity in geographically and temporally separated isolates. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) has become the most common method for genetically characterizing clones of several bacterial pathogens, allowing the...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/j.mib.2004.04.002

    authors: Feil EJ,Enright MC

    更新日期:2004-06-01 00:00:00

  • Bacterial replication in the host cell cytosol.

    abstract::Intracellular bacteria in mammalian host cells can either live in a membrane-bound vacuole modified to support bacterial growth, or escape from the primary phagosome into the host cell cytoplasm. Phagosomal escape is best studied in Listeria monocytogenes in which a pore-forming cytolysin and two phospholipases are in...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/s1369-5274(99)00050-8

    authors: Goebel W,Kuhn M

    更新日期:2000-02-01 00:00:00

  • Collaborative signaling by bacterial chemoreceptors.

    abstract::Motile bacteria seek optimal living habitats by following gradients of attractant and repellent chemicals in their environment. The signaling machinery for these chemotactic behaviors, although assembled from just a few protein components, has extraordinary information-processing capabilities. Escherichia coli, the be...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/j.mib.2005.02.008

    authors: Parkinson JS,Ames P,Studdert CA

    更新日期:2005-04-01 00:00:00

  • Virome genomics: a tool for defining the human virome.

    abstract::High throughput, deep sequencing assays are powerful tools for gaining insights into virus-host interactions. Sequencing assays can discover novel viruses and describe the genomes of novel and known viruses. Genomic information can predict viral proteins that can be characterized, describe important genes in the host ...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/j.mib.2013.04.006

    authors: Wylie KM,Weinstock GM,Storch GA

    更新日期:2013-08-01 00:00:00

  • A perfect genome annotation is within reach with the proteomics and genomics alliance.

    abstract::High-throughput identification of proteins and their accurate partial sequencing by shotgun nanoLC-MS/MS are now feasible for any cellular model at a full genomic scale. Proteogenomics is the integration of these data with the genome. Mining microbial proteomes allows validation of predicted orphan genes and correctio...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/j.mib.2009.03.005

    authors: Armengaud J

    更新日期:2009-06-01 00:00:00

  • Inhibition of host cell signal transduction by Leishmania: observations relevant to the selective impairment of IL-12 responses.

    abstract::Leishmania parasites are able to delay the onset of cell-mediated immunity by selectively impairing the ability of infected macrophages to produce interleukin (IL)-12. Leishmania infection arrests the JAK/STAT-mediated signal transduction involved in activation of the IL-12 p40 promoter; the phosphorylation defects ma...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/S1369-5274(99)80077-0

    authors: McDowell MA,Sacks DL

    更新日期:1999-08-01 00:00:00

  • Regulation of virulence by members of the MarR/SlyA family.

    abstract::Virulence gene regulators RovA, SlyA and PecS comprise a subset of the MarR/SlyA family of transcriptional regulators, which has been shown to be involved in the regulation of virulence genes. These regulators have all been shown to both positively and negatively regulate the expression of multiple genes, involving se...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/j.mib.2006.02.003

    authors: Ellison DW,Miller VL

    更新日期:2006-04-01 00:00:00

  • Innate immune evasion strategies of DNA and RNA viruses.

    abstract::Upon infection, both DNA and RNA viruses can be sensed by pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) in the cytoplasm or the nucleus to activate antiviral innate immunity. Sensing of viral products leads to the activation of a signaling cascade that ultimately results in transcriptional activation of type I and III interfer...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/j.mib.2016.05.015

    authors: Beachboard DC,Horner SM

    更新日期:2016-08-01 00:00:00

  • Adaptive strategies in the double-extremophilic prokaryotes inhabiting soda lakes.

    abstract::Haloalkaliphiles are double extremophilic organisms thriving both at high salinity and alkaline pH. Although numerous haloalkaliphilic representatives have been identified among Archaea and Bacteria over the past 15 years, the adaptations underlying their prosperity at haloalkaline conditions are scarcely known. A mul...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/j.mib.2015.05.003

    authors: Banciu HL,Muntyan MS

    更新日期:2015-06-01 00:00:00

  • Two's company: studying interspecies relationships with dual RNA-seq.

    abstract::Organisms do not exist isolated from each other, but constantly interact. Cells can sense the presence of interaction partners by a range of receptors and, via complex regulatory networks, specifically react by changing the expression of many of their genes. Technological advances in next-generation sequencing over th...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/j.mib.2017.09.001

    authors: Wolf T,Kämmer P,Brunke S,Linde J

    更新日期:2018-04-01 00:00:00

  • Epigenetic regulation of the bacterial cell cycle.

    abstract::N(6)-methyl-adenines can serve as epigenetic signals for interactions between regulatory DNA sequences and regulatory proteins that control cellular functions, such as the initiation of chromosome replication or the expression of specific genes. Several of these genes encode master regulators of the bacterial cell cyc...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/j.mib.2009.08.005

    authors: Collier J

    更新日期:2009-12-01 00:00:00

  • Using laser tweezers to measure twitching motility in Neisseria.

    abstract::Dynamic properties of type IV pili are essential for their function in bacterial infection, twitching motility and gene transfer. Laser tweezers are versatile tools to study the molecular mechanism underlying pilus dynamics at the single molecule level. Recently, these optical tweezers have been used to monitor pilus ...

    journal_title:Current opinion in microbiology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/j.mib.2005.04.002

    authors: Maier B

    更新日期:2005-06-01 00:00:00