Feast or famine: the host–pathogen battle over amino acids

YJ Zhang, EJ Rubin - Cellular microbiology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Intracellular bacterial pathogens often rely on their hosts for essential nutrients. Host cells, in
turn, attempt to limit nutrient availability, using starvation as a mechanism of innate immunity …

Control of immune response by amino acid metabolism

U Grohmann, V Bronte - Immunological reviews, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The interaction between pathogenic microorganisms and their hosts is regulated by
reciprocal survival strategies, including competition for essential nutrients. Though …

Common pathogenic bacteria-induced reprogramming of the host proteinogenic amino acids metabolism

X Li, Z Zeng, Z Cheng, Y Wang, LJ Yuan, Z Zhai… - Amino Acids, 2023 - Springer
Apart from cancer, metabolic reprogramming is also prevalent in other diseases, such as
bacterial infections. Bacterial infections can affect a variety of cells, tissues, organs, and …

Nutritional immunity: the battle for nutrient metals at the host–pathogen interface

CC Murdoch, EP Skaar - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Trace metals are essential micronutrients required for survival across all kingdoms of life.
From bacteria to animals, metals have critical roles as both structural and catalytic cofactors …

Metabolic immunity against microbes

S Kreimendahl, L Pernas - Trends in Cell Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Pathogens, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites, remodel the metabolism of their
host to acquire the nutrients they need to proliferate. Thus, host cells are often perceived as …

Intracellular innate resistance to bacterial pathogens

AL Radtke, MXD O'Riordan - Cellular microbiology, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Mammalian innate immunity stimulates antigen‐specific immune responses and acts to
control infection prior to the onset of adaptive immunity. Some bacterial pathogens replicate …

Amino acid starvation induced by invasive bacterial pathogens triggers an innate host defense program

I Tattoli, MT Sorbara, D Vuckovic, A Ling, F Soares… - Cell host & …, 2012 - cell.com
Autophagy, which targets cellular constituents for degradation, is normally inhibited in
metabolically replete cells by the metabolic checkpoint kinase mTOR. Although autophagic …

The Iron age of host–microbe interactions

MP Soares, G Weiss - EMBO reports, 2015 - embopress.org
Microbes exert a major impact on human health and disease by either promoting or
disrupting homeostasis, in the latter instance leading to the development of infectious …

Amino acids as mediators of metabolic cross talk between host and pathogen

W Ren, R Rajendran, Y Zhao, B Tan, G Wu… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The interaction between host and pathogen decidedly shapes the outcome of an infection,
thus understanding this interaction is critical to the treatment of a pathogen-induced …

Iron in intracellular infection: to provide or to deprive?

S Silva-Gomes, S Vale-Costa, R Appelberg… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Due to their chemical versatility, transition metals were incorporated as cofactors for several
basic metabolic pathways in living organisms. This same characteristic makes them …