Structural proteomics of dengue virus.

abstract：:Recent developments have increased our understanding of the evolution of mutualistic associations between Epichloë endophytes and their grass hosts. Most of the asexual species appear to be interspecific hybrids. Although endophytes form compatible associations with their natural hosts, transfers to other hosts elicit...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Scott B

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is not only effective against invasive and non-invasive disease in all ages but also has a significant impact on antibiotic-resistant infections since a number of resistant serotypes are targeted by the vaccine. Surveillance studies in the post-licensure years have shown an increase in n...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： McGee L

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies on antibacterials have focused on the development of antimycobacterial agents and antibacterial peptides, and on furthering the understanding of agents that have been available for several decades, including imidazoles, beta-lactams and quinolones. New areas of research include antisense oligonucleotide...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Piddock LJ

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xenogeneic silencing proteins facilitate horizontal gene transfer by silencing expression of AT-rich sequences. By virtue of their activity these proteins serve as master regulators of a variety of important functions including motility, drug resistance, and virulence. Three families of silencers have been identified ...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Ali SS,Xia B,Liu J,Navarre WW

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of professional phagocytes with the concomitant generation of oxidant species is a medullar innate immune process for the control of acute Trypanosoma cruzi infection. Recent data reinforce the hypothesis that parasites more prepared to deal with the host-oxidative assault are more efficient for the establi...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Piacenza L,Alvarez MN,Peluffo G,Radi R

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Gram-negative bacteria such as Escherichia coli the peptidoglycan sacculus resides in the periplasm, a compartment that experiences changes in pH value, osmolality, ion strength and other parameters depending on the cell's environment. Hence, the cell needs robust peptidoglycan growth mechanisms to grow and divide ...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Pazos M,Peters K,Vollmer W

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Signal termination in two-component systems occurs by loss of the phosphoryl group from the response regulator protein. This review explores our current understanding of the structures, catalytic mechanisms and means of regulation of the known families of phosphatases that catalyze response regulator dephosphorylation...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Silversmith RE

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical, serological and microbiological methods have been used to dissect pathogens and identify the components useful for vaccine development. Although successful in many cases, this approach is time-consuming and fails when the pathogens cannot be cultivated in vitro, or when the most abundant antigens are vari...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Rappuoli R

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

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

authors： Levin PA,Grossman AD

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the pediatric population worldwide. Development of increasing resistance to multiple classes of antibiotics is making treatment of infections caused by this organism much more difficult. In order to prevent disease, a 23-vale...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Tan TQ

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The continued evolution of antimicrobial resistance in the hospital and more recently in the community threatens to seriously compromise our ability to treat serious infections. The major success of the seven-valent Streptococcus pneumoniae vaccine at reducing both infection and resistance has been followed by the eme...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Rice LB

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the process of yeast budding, an aged and deteriorated mother cell gives rise to a youthful and pristine daughter cell. This remarkable event offers a tractable model system for identifying factors affecting life expectancy and it has been established that multiple aging factors operate in parallel. Herein, we will...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Nyström T,Liu B

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The historical paradigm of the deep ocean as a biological 'desert' has shifted to one of a 'rainforest' owing to the isolation of many novel microbes and their associated bioactive compounds. Recently, there has been an explosion of information about novel bioactive compounds that have been isolated from marine microb...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Zhang L,An R,Wang J,Sun N,Zhang S,Hu J,Kuai J

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

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

authors： Kotb M

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular protozoans co-evolved with their mammalian host cells a range of strategies to cope with the composite and dynamic cell surface features they encounter during migration and infection. Therefore, these single-celled eukaryotic parasites represent a fascinating source of living probes for precisely capturi...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Pavlou G,Milon G,Tardieux I

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wastewater bioreactors have been used to treat domestic and industrial waste for nearly a century. Development of molecular tools such as PCR and DNA microarrays have enabled identification and characterization of some of the microbes in these bioreactors; however, molecular characterization of the microbes is still i...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Bramucci M,Nagarajan V

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans is a regular member of the intestinal microbiota in the majority of the human population. This underscores C. albicans' adaptation to life in the intestine without inducing competitive interactions with other microbes, or immune responses detrimental to its survival. However, specific conditions such ...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Kumamoto CA,Gresnigt MS,Hube B

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past year, our knowledge of type IV transporters of Gram-negative bacteria has further expanded. Advances include the discovery of additional members of this family of proteins, increased knowledge of the morphologies of type IV transporters, and a better understanding of the mechanisms by which macromolecules ...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Burns DL

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proposed order Megavirales comprises the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDV), infecting a wide range of hosts. Over time, they co-evolved with different host cells, developing various strategies to penetrate them. Mimiviruses and other giant viruses enter cells through phagocytosis, while Marseillevirus an...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Rodrigues RAL,Abrahão JS,Drumond BP,Kroon EG

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The family Arenaviridae consists of a unique genus (Arenavirus) that currently comprises 22 viral species, as recognized by the International Committee for Taxonomy of Viruses. Seven newly discovered represent putative new species. Here, our aims were to provide the most comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of members ...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Charrel RN,de Lamballerie X,Emonet S

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrrolysine is an amino acid encoded by the amber codon in genes required for methylamine utilization by members of the Methanosarcinaceae. Pyrrolysine and selenocysteine share the distinction of being the only two non-canonical amino acids that have entered natural genetic codes. Recent experiments have shown that en...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Krzycki JA

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual development in filamentous ascomycetes requires mating-type genes to mediate recognition of compatible cell and nuclear types. Characterization of mating-type genes from various fungi shows that they primarily encode transcriptional regulators. Recent studies on mating-type-specific pheromones and internuclear ...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Shiu PK,Glass NL

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine viruses often contain host-derived metabolic genes (i.e., auxiliary metabolic genes; AMGs), which are hypothesized to increase viral replication by augmenting key steps in host metabolism. Currently described AMGs encompass a wide variety of metabolic functions, including amino acid and carbohydrate metabolism,...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Hurwitz BL,U'Ren JM

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulence associated protein type III secretion systems (T3SSs) are intricately structured organic nanosyringes that achieve the translocation of bacterial proteins from the prokaryotic cytoplasm across three membranes into the host cytosol. The substrates for these systems number in the hundreds, with remarkably dive...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Marlovits TC,Stebbins CE

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

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

authors： Meyer A,Pellaux R,Panke S

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

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

authors： Collier J

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of tubulin-like cytoskeletal proteins carried on the genomes of bacteriophages that are actively used for phage propagation during both the lytic and lysogenic cycle have revealed that there at least two ways that viruses can utilize a cytoskeleton; co-opt the host cytoskeleton or bring their own homolog...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Erb ML,Pogliano J

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eukaryotic unicellular pathogen Plasmodium falciparum tightly regulates gene expression, both during development and in adaptation to dynamic host environments. This regulation is evident in the mutually exclusive expression of members of clonally variant virulence multigene families. While epigenetic regulators h...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Vembar SS,Scherf A,Siegel TN

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms are a typical mode of growth for most microorganisms and provide them with a variety of survival benefits. Biofilms can pose medical and industrial challenges due to their increased tolerance of antimicrobials and disinfectants. Exposure of bacteria to subinhibitory concentrations of those compounds can furth...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Ranieri MR,Whitchurch CB,Burrows LL

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analyses of the complex regulatory networks leading to T cell survival, death, and immune deficiency have been aided in the past year by the dramatic development of new technologies to identify T cells and assess T cell function. These new techniques have shown that functional inactivation and apoptotic elimination of...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Welsh RM,McNally JM

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00