Inter-kingdom signaling: chemical language between bacteria and host.

abstract：:Viruses attach to specific receptors, but identified receptors are often absent from the epithelial surfaces where infections begin. Viruses can bind to alternative receptor molecules present on epithelial surfaces and they can enter hosts in ways that bypass mucosal barriers to infection. To understand how viruses cr...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Bergelson JM

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to a Pew Research study published in February 2015, there are 37 antibacterial programs currently in clinical trials in the United States. Protein structure-based methods for guiding small molecule design were used in at least 34 of these programs. Typically, this occurred at an early stage (drug discovery a...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Staker BL,Buchko GW,Myler PJ

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many Gram-negative bacteria, like Brucella, the type IV secretion system (T4SS) has a critical role in bacterial virulence. In Brucella, the VirB T4SS permits the injection of bacterial effectors inside host cells, leading to subversion of signaling pathways and favoring bacterial growth and pathogenesis. The virB...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Lacerda TL,Salcedo SP,Gorvel JP

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：:Recent studies based on metagenomics and other molecular techniques have permitted a detailed knowledge of the microbial diversity and metabolic activities of microorganisms in hypersaline environments. The current accepted model of community structure in hypersaline environments is that the square archaeon Haloquadra...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Ventosa A,de la Haba RR,Sánchez-Porro C,Papke RT

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs) are nearly ubiquitous in microbial genomes and influence their evolution by providing adaptive functions to their host and by enhancing genome plasticity and diversification. For a long-time, it has been assumed that by integrating into the chromosome of their host, these se...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Burrus V

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural products are a rich source of bioactive compounds that have been used successfully in the areas of human health from infectious disease to cancer; however, traditional fermentation-based screening has provided diminishing returns over the last 20-30 years. Solutions to the unmet need of resistant bacterial inf...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Foulston L

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of 'protein function' is rather 'fuzzy' because it is often based on whimsical terms or contradictory nomenclature. This currently presents a challenge for functional genomics because precise definitions are essential for most computational approaches. Addressing this challenge, the notion of networks betw...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Jansen R,Gerstein M

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of human tuberculosis is one of the most widely spread human pathogens. It has succeeded to infect a quarter of the global human population by developing most sophisticated ways to circumvent innate and adaptive immune defences. This highly specialized, major human patho...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Orgeur M,Brosch R

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opportunistic fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus adapts to iron limitation by upregulation of iron uptake mechanisms including siderophore biosynthesis and downregulation of iron-consuming pathways to spare iron. These metabolic changes depend mainly on the transcription factor HapX. Consistent with the crucial...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Schrettl M,Haas H

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endosymbiotic theory goes back over 100 years. It explains the similarity of chloroplasts and mitochondria to free-living prokaryotes by suggesting that the organelles arose from prokaryotes through (endo)symbiosis. Gene trees provide important evidence in favour of symbiotic theory at a coarse-grained level, but the ...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Zimorski V,Ku C,Martin WF,Gould SB

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：:Endolysins are phage-encoded enzymes that break down bacterial peptidoglycan at the terminal stage of the phage reproduction cycle. Their action is tightly regulated by holins, by membrane arrest, and by conversion from their inactive to active state. Recent research has not only revealed the unexpected diversity of t...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Loessner MJ

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is highly immunogenic and appears to have evolved to preserve its antigenicity. The retention of antigenicity is important to the maintenance of a robust immune response that contributes greatly to the late-stage tissue damage required for transmission and completion of the pathogen's ...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Russell DG

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：:Helminths parasites undergo developmental changes and migration within their definitive host, in addition to establishing chronic infection. Essential to this is the evasion of host immune responses; the canonical Th2 response is effective at removing parasites resident in the intestine. Conversely, helminths also pro...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Musah-Eroje M,Flynn RJ

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently developed techniques allow genomic DNA sequencing from single microbial cells [Lasken RS: Single-cell genomic sequencing using multiple displacement amplification. Curr Opin Microbiol 2007, 10:510-516]. Here, we focus on research strategies for putting these methods into practice in the laboratory setting. An...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Ishoey T,Woyke T,Stepanauskas R,Novotny M,Lasken RS

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single microbial cells can now be sequenced using DNA amplified by the Multiple Displacement Amplification (MDA) reaction. The few femtograms of DNA in a bacterium are amplified into micrograms of high molecular weight DNA suitable for DNA library construction and Sanger sequencing. The MDA-generated DNA also performs...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Lasken RS

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coxiella burnetii is a widespread zoonotic bacterial pathogen that causes human Q fever. In vivo, Coxiella displays a tropism for mononuclear phagocytes where it participates in biogenesis of a lysosome-like replication compartment to conduct its obligate intracellular lifestyle. Coxiella actively regulates multiple e...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Voth DE,Heinzen RA

更新日期：2009-02-01 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 acquisition of drug resistance by Plasmodium falciparum has severely curtailed global efforts to control malaria. Our ability to define resistance has been greatly enhanced by recent advances in Plasmodium genetics and genomics. Sequencing and microarray studies have identified thousands of polymorphisms in the P....

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Ekland EH,Fidock DA

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial cell division takes place almost entirely below the diffraction limit of light microscopy, making super-resolution microscopy ideally suited to interrogating this process. I review how super-resolution microscopy has advanced our understanding of bacterial cell division. I discuss the mechanistic implication...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Holden S

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial communities have considerable impacts on animal health. However, only in recent years have the host factors impacting microbiome composition been explored. An increasing wealth of microbiome data in combination with decades of research on behavior, physiology, and development have resulted in the European ho...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Miller DL,Parish AJ,Newton IL

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Septins are cytoskeletal elements that contain a highly conserved canonical G domain flanked by more divergent N- and C-termini. Septin monomers form heteropolymers that in turn associate into a variety of higher-order structures. SUMOylation, acetylation and phosphorylation of septins have all been reported; however,...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Hernández-Rodríguez Y,Momany M

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial biofilms are generally described as surface-associated bacterial communities comprising exopolysaccharide-surrounded microcolonies. Interspersed between these microcolonies are water-filled channels that may serve as primitive circulatory systems. Over the past few years, much progress has been made in our u...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Pratt LA,Kolter R

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arginine is an integral part of host defense when invading pathogens are encountered. The arginine metabolite nitric oxide (NO) confers antimicrobial properties, whereas the metabolite ornithine is utilized for polyamine synthesis. Polyamines are crucial to tissue repair and anti-inflammatory responses. iNOS/arginase ...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Gogoi M,Datey A,Wilson KT,Chakravortty D

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild Escherichia coli are superbly adapted to survive in the intestines of their mammalian hosts and in the environment. E. coli K12 derivative (MG1655) encodes 4288 potential genes that provide the background genetic framework of this species. Particular E. coli clonal types encode additional chromosomal and extrachr...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Dougan G,Haque A,Pickard D,Frankel G,O'Goara P,Wain J

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mosquitoes are the major arthropod vectors of human diseases such as malaria and viral encephalitis. However, each mosquito species does not transmit every pathogen, owing to reasons that include specific evolutionary histories, mosquito immune system structure, and ecology. Even a competent vector species for a patho...

journal_title：Current opinion in microbiology

authors： Mitri C,Vernick KD

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

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

authors： Stepanauskas R

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

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

authors： Van Lanen SG,Shen B

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00