abstract：:Although respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major human respiratory pathogen, our knowledge of how it causes disease in humans is limited. Airway epithelial cells are the primary targets of RSV infection in vivo, so the generation and exploitation of RSV infection models based on morphologically and physiologicall...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Villenave R,Shields MD,Power UF

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ISG15 is an interferon (IFN)-induced ubiquitin-like protein that is conjugated to target proteins via the sequential action of three enzymes that are also induced by IFN. Unlike ubiquitin, which is highly conserved, the sequence of ISG15 varies between species. ISG15 conjugation inhibits many viruses, and free (unconj...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Zhao C,Collins MN,Hsiang TY,Krug RM

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The global emergence of multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii has reduced the number of clinically available antibiotics that retain activity against this pathogen. For this reason, the development of novel prevention and treatment strategies for infections caused by A. baumannii is necessary. Several studies ha...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： García-Quintanilla M,Pulido MR,López-Rojas R,Pachón J,McConnell MJ

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) uses several virulence factors to establish chronic respiratory infections in bronchiectasis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. One of its toxins, pyocyanin (PYO), is a redox-active pigment that is required for full virulence in animal models and has ...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Rada B,Leto TL

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of biofilms is initiated by bacteria transitioning from the planktonic to the surface-associated mode of growth. Several regulatory systems have been described to govern the initiation and subsequent formation of biofilms. Recent evidence suggests that regulatory networks governing the decision of bacter...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Chambers JR,Sauer K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolution, climate change, and vaccination: in these cases and more, scientists, policymakers, and educators are confronted by organized campaigns to spread doubt, denial, and rejection of the scientific community's consensus on central scientific principles. To overcome these threats, scientists not only need to spre...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Rosenau J

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity to injure infected cells is a widespread property of viruses. Usually, this cytopathic effect (CPE) is ascribed to viral hijacking of cellular resources to fulfill viral needs. However, evidence is accumulating that CPE is not necessarily directly coupled to viral reproduction but may largely be due to ho...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Agol VI

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is an exogenous retrovirus that persists lifelong in the infected host. Infection has been linked to a spectrum of diverse diseases: adult T cell leukemia, encephalomyelopathy, and predisposition to opportunistic bacterial and helminth infections. Applications of new technolo...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Tattermusch S,Bangham CR

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria must segregate their DNA and position a septum to grow and divide. In many bacteria, MinD is involved in spatial regulation of the cytokinetic Z ring, and ParAs are involved in chromosome and plasmid segregation. The use of the MinD/ParA family to provide positional information for spatial organization contin...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Lutkenhaus J

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blood-brain barrier (BBB) provides significant protection against microbial invasion of the brain. However, the BBB is not impenetrable, and mechanisms by which viruses breach it are becoming clearer. In vivo and in vitro model systems are enabling identification of host and viral factors contributing to breakdown...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Spindler KR,Hsu TH

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial pathogens are dependent on virulence factors to efficiently colonize and propagate within their hosts. Many Gram-negative bacterial pathogens rely on specialized proteinaceous secretion systems that inject virulence factors, termed effectors, directly into host cells. These bacterial effector proteins perfor...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Shames SR,Finlay BB

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many plant pathogens subvert host immunity by injecting compositionally diverse but functionally similar repertoires of cytoplasmic effector proteins. The bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae is a model for exploring the functional structure of such repertoires. The pangenome of P. syringae encodes 57 families of e...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Lindeberg M,Cunnac S,Collmer A

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of innate immune signaling pathways through cytosolic RIG-I-like receptors (RLR) is a crucial response that is antagonized by many viruses. A variety of RNA-related pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPS) have been identified and their role in RLR activation has been examined. Recent studies suggest ...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Leung DW,Basler CF,Amarasinghe GK

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent observation of a surge in human monkeypox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) prompts the question of whether cessation of smallpox vaccination is driving the phenomenon, and if so, why is re-emergence not universal throughout the historic geographic range of the virus? Research addressing the vir...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Reynolds MG,Damon IK

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is an intracellular pathogen that infects 10 million people worldwide and kills 2 million people every year. The uptake and utilization of nutrients by Mtb within the host cell is still poorly understood, although lipids play an important role in Mtb persistence. The recent identificat...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Ouellet H,Johnston JB,de Montellano PR

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)-based immune systems are essentially modular with three primary functions: the excision and integration of new spacers, the processing of CRISPR transcripts to yield mature CRISPR RNAs (crRNAs), and the targeting and cleavage of foreign nucleic acid. T...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Garrett RA,Vestergaard G,Shah SA

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite being a curable disease, tuberculosis (TB) killed more people in 2009 than during any previous year in history. Progress in TB research has been slow, and remains burdened by important gaps in our knowledge of the basic biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of TB, and its interaction with ...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Comas I,Gagneux S

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis are a frequent cause of biofilm-associated infections that are a tremendous burden on our healthcare system. Staphylococcal biofilms exhibit extraordinary resistance to antimicrobial killing, limiting the efficacy of antibiotic therapy, and surgical intervention is ...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Boles BR,Horswill AR

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently, bacterial responses to changes in light environments were regarded as specialized adaptations in a small number of phototrophs. However, the genomes of many photosynthetic and chemotrophic bacteria not known to have photophysiological responses also encode photoreceptor proteins. What new trends in the...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Gomelsky M,Hoff WD

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viruses have evolved complex and dynamic interactions with their host cell. In recent years we have gained insight into the expanding roles for host lipids in the virus life cycle. In particular, viruses target lipid signaling, synthesis, and metabolism to remodel their host cells into an optimal environment for their...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Heaton NS,Randall G

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a major cause of bacteraemia, which frequently leads to infective endocarditis, osteomyelitis, septic arthritis and metastatic abscess formation. The development of these secondary infections is due to bacterial dissemination from the blood into surrounding tissues and is associated with signi...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Edwards AM,Massey RC

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbes have chemotactic signaling systems that enable them to detect and follow chemical gradients in their environments. The core of these sensory systems consists of chemoreceptor proteins coupled to the CheA kinase via the scaffold or coupler protein CheW. Some bacterial chemotaxis systems replace or augment CheW...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Alexander RP,Lowenthal AC,Harshey RM,Ottemann KM

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interferon-inducible, transmembrane protein BST-2 (CD317, tetherin) directly holds fully formed enveloped virus particles to the cells that produce them, inhibiting their spread. BST-2 inhibits members of the retrovirus, filovirus, arenavirus and herpesvirus families. These viruses encode a variety of proteins to ...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Evans DT,Serra-Moreno R,Singh RK,Guatelli JC

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear factor (NF)-kappaB signaling pathway is pivotal for immune system function. Not surprisingly, pathogenic microorganisms have developed strategies to subvert it. Two examples are Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV), oncogenic gammaherpesviruses that establish a lifelong latent inf...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： de Oliveira DE,Ballon G,Cesarman E

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Key skills such as communication and critical thinking are essential for today's microbiology graduate. There are many opportunities within the undergraduate curriculum to help students to use, develop and appreciate their own unique set of skills. This article describes personal experiences of research-led teaching a...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Verran J

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fungi comprise a diverse kingdom of eukaryotes that are characterized by a typically filamentous but sometimes unicellular vegetative form, and heterotrophic, absorptive nutrition. Their simple morphologies and variable ecological strategies have confounded efforts to elucidate their limits, phylogenetic relations...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： McLaughlin DJ,Hibbett DS,Lutzoni F,Spatafora JW,Vilgalys R

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins embedded in membranes are important for helping the cell adapt to changes in the extracellular milieu and often play key roles in the life cycles of pathogenic microbes. Bioinformatic predictions can provide an estimate of membrane proteins, but experimental approaches of detection are required for a deeper u...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Bernsel A,Daley DO

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pleiotropic post-transcriptional regulator Hfq is an RNA chaperone that facilitates pairing interactions between small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) and their mRNA targets in several bacteria. However, this classical pattern, derived from the Escherichia coli model, is not applicable to the whole bacterial kingdom. In t...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Jousselin A,Metzinger L,Felden B

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is commonly assumed that Darwin had nothing to say about microbes, he did in fact say quite a lot. He included microbes in his Beagle studies of the geographical distribution of organisms and used microscopic organisms as explicit exemplars of how adaptation did not imply increasing complexity. Darwin ofte...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： O'Malley MA

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The airways of patients afflicted with cystic fibrosis (CF) are colonized by many pathogens, the most predominant of which is the Gram-negative bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In the thick CF airway mucus, P. aeruginosa forms antibiotic- and phagocyte-resistant structures known as biofilms, which enable the survival...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Hassett DJ,Sutton MD,Schurr MJ,Herr AB,Caldwell CC,Matu JO

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence indicates that Staphylococcus aureus might be a facultative intracellular pathogen. In particular, certain subpopulations, called small colony variants (SCVs), seem to be well adapted to the intracellular milieu. When compared to 'normal' staphylococcal strains, SCVs show increased uptake by host c...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Sendi P,Proctor RA

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many reports have documented that Staphylococcus aureus can invade host cells and persist intracellularly for various periods of time in cell culture models. However, it is not clear whether intracellular persistence of S. aureus also occurs in the course of infections in whole organisms. This is a subject of intense ...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Garzoni C,Kelley WL

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-positive bacterial lipoproteins are a functionally diverse and important class of peripheral membrane proteins. Recent advances in molecular biology and the availability of whole genome sequence data have overturned many long-held assumptions about the export and processing of these proteins, most notably the rec...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Hutchings MI,Palmer T,Harrington DJ,Sutcliffe IC

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic viral infections have exerted selection pressure on their hosts to evolve cellular antiviral inhibitors referred to as restriction factors. Examples of such molecules are APOBEC3G, APOBEC3F and TRIM5alpha. APOBEC3G and APOBEC3F are cytidine deaminases that are able to strongly inhibit retroviral replication...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Huthoff H,Towers GJ

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several features of HIV have frustrated efforts to develop a vaccine able to induce broadly neutralising antibodies. The enormous genetic diversity of HIV is a major factor, accompanied by the camouflaged nature of the envelope spike, upon which HIV depends for cellular entry and to which antibodies must bind to neutr...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Willey S,Aasa-Chapman MM

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swarming is the fastest known bacterial mode of surface translocation and enables the rapid colonization of a nutrient-rich environment and host tissues. This complex multicellular behavior requires the integration of chemical and physical signals, which leads to the physiological and morphological differentiation of ...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Verstraeten N,Braeken K,Debkumari B,Fauvart M,Fransaer J,Vermant J,Michiels J

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing concerns about global climate change and energy dependence have led to an increased effort to reduce carbon emissions. A considerable reduction could be achieved by using biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass instead of fossil fuels. One major bottleneck of biofuel production from lignocellulose is the availab...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Hess M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosome research has undergone astonishing progress in recent years. Crystal structures have shed light on the functional properties of the translation machinery and revealed how the striking architecture of the ribosome is ingeniously designed as the framework for its unique capabilities: precise decoding, substrate...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Bashan A,Yonath A

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionarily related multisubunit RNA polymerases (RNAPs) facilitate gene transcription throughout the three domains of life. During the past seven years an increasing number of bacterial and eukaryotic RNAP structures have been solved; however, the archaeal enzyme remained elusive. Two reports from the Murakami and...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Werner F

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During cellular entry and infection, the parvovirus capsid follows a complex path from the cell surface to the nucleus, where the DNA is replicated. Various receptors have been characterized that bind to different parvoviruses and mediate their entry into cells. However, the subsequent trafficking pathways within the ...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Harbison CE,Chiorini JA,Parrish CR

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00