Presence of Listeria monocytogenes in Ready-to-Eat Artisanal Chilean Foods

F Bustamante, E Maury-Sintjago, FC Leal, S Acuña… - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
monocytogenes is still controversial because the infective dose depends on such aspects
as the immune status of the host, virulence factors of the pathogen and their respective …

An mRNA-mRNA interaction couples expression of a virulence factor and its chaperone in Listeria monocytogenes

D Ignatov, K Vaitkevicius, S Durand, L Cahoon… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
… Using a comparative structural analysis, we examine the structure of 5′ UTRs at a global
scale in the pathogenic bacterium Listeria monocytogenes under different conditions. In …

Listeria monocytogenes Response to Anaerobic Environments

BN Roberts, D Chakravarty, JC Gardner III, SC Ricke… - Pathogens, 2020 - mdpi.com
Listeria monocytogenes was initially isolated in England in 1926 [1]. It was first named
Bacterium monocytogenes … the expression of these important virulence factors is not understood. …

A novel growth-based selection strategy identifies new constitutively active variants of the major virulence regulator PrfA in Listeria monocytogenes

S Hansen, M Hall, C Grundström… - Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
… of PrfA-regulated virulence factors (10). The expression of virulence factors is tightly regulated
… How the bacterium controls this virulence factor expression is still not fully understood. It is …

Biofilm Formation of Listeria monocytogenes Strains Under Food Processing Environments and Pan-Genome-Wide Association Study

BH Lee, S Cole, S Badel-Berchoux, L Guillier… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
… Concerns about food contamination by Listeria monocytogenes are on the rise with …
Listeria monocytogenes is likely to encounter nutrient deprivation or hypo-osmotic stress in FPE. …

Association of Virulence, Biofilm, and Antimicrobial Resistance Genes with Specific Clonal Complex Types of Listeria monocytogenes

P Myintzaw, V Pennone, O McAuliffe, M Begley… - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
… Both actA and inlJ encode essential virulence factors of L. monocytogenes [52,53] but were
missing in all our CC1 and CC4 isolates, the most prevalent CC-type associated with human …

Antimicrobial mechanism of 4-hydroxyphenylacetic acid on Listeria monocytogenes membrane and virulence

C Shi, G Zhang, H Zhan, B Liu, C Li, L Wang… - Biochemical and …, 2021 - Elsevier
… As the virulence factors of L. monocytogenes play an essential role in host infection, we
next measured the expression level of three virulence factors (prfA, hlyA, and inlA) after 4-HPCA …

Transcriptome analysis of Listeria monocytogenes exposed to beef fat reveals antimicrobial and pathogenicity attenuation mechanisms

YY Chen, A Kommadath, P Vahmani… - Applied and …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
… stress responses, as well as the virulence factors, were evaluated to investigate the role of
the selected FA in the pathogenicity of L. monocytogenes. For acid resistance, treatments with …

Listeria monocytogenes GlmR is an accessory uridyltransferase essential for cytosolic survival and virulence

DA Pensinger, KV Gutierrez, HB Smith, WJB Vincent… - Mbio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
… A number of virulence factors essential for cytosolic survival of L. monocytogenes, a highly
cytosol … monocytogenes lysozyme resistance and virulence, we aimed to create a catalytically …

An Inducible Cre-lox System to Analyze the Role of LLO in Listeria monocytogenes Pathogenesis

BN Nguyen, DA Portnoy - Toxins, 2020 - mdpi.com
… of microbial pathogenesis and the study of virulence factors has … virulence factor should
lead to measurable loss of virulence, and replacement of the gene should restore pathogenicity […