Commensal bacteria‐immunity crosstalk shapes mucosal homeostasis in teleost fish

YY Yu, LG Ding, ZY Huang, HY Xu… - Reviews in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Fish harbour complex and dynamic microbiota in their mucosal surfaces. Due to the vital role
of commensal microbiota in many biological functions including growth enhancement …

Staphylococcus aureus cell wall maintenance – the multifaceted roles of peptidoglycan hydrolases in bacterial growth, fitness, and virulence

M Wang, G Buist, JM van Dijl - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Staphylococcus aureus is an important human and livestock pathogen that is well-protected
against environmental insults by a thick cell wall. Accordingly, the wall is a major target of …

Enterococcus peptidoglycan remodeling promotes checkpoint inhibitor cancer immunotherapy

ME Griffin, J Espinosa, JL Becker, JD Luo, TS Carroll… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The antitumor efficacy of cancer immunotherapy can correlate with the presence of certain
bacterial species within the gut microbiome. However, many of the molecular mechanisms …

Soil microbial diversity and composition: Links to soil texture and associated properties

Q Xia, T Rufty, W Shi - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Soil texture is an essential component of soil survey for estimating potentials and limitations
of land use and management. It has been appreciated as an important predictor for …

[HTML][HTML] Designing a novel multi-epitope vaccine to evoke a robust immune response against pathogenic multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecium bacterium

J Dey, SR Mahapatra, TK Raj, T Kaur, P Jain, A Tiwari… - Gut Pathogens, 2022 - Springer
Enterococcus faecium is an emerging ESKAPE bacterium that is capable of causing severe
public health complications in humans. There are currently no licensed treatments or …

Insights into the structure, function, and dynamics of the bacterial cytokinetic FtsZ-ring

R McQuillen, J Xiao - Annual Review of Biophysics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The FtsZ protein is a highly conserved bacterial tubulin homolog. In vivo, the functional form
of FtsZ is the polymeric, ring-like structure (Z-ring) assembled at the future division site …

[HTML][HTML] Uncovering the activities, biological roles, and regulation of bacterial cell wall hydrolases and tailoring enzymes

T Do, JE Page, S Walker - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2020 - ASBMB
Bacteria account for 1000-fold more biomass than humans. They vary widely in shape and
size. The morphological diversity of bacteria is due largely to the different peptidoglycan …

[HTML][HTML] Staphylococcus aureus cell wall structure and dynamics during host-pathogen interaction

JAF Sutton, OT Carnell, L Lafage, J Gray, J Biboy… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Peptidoglycan is the major structural component of the Staphylococcus aureus cell wall, in
which it maintains cellular integrity, is the interface with the host, and its synthesis is targeted …

Constructing and deconstructing the bacterial cell wall

JF Fisher, S Mobashery - Protein science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The history of modern medicine cannot be written apart from the history of the antibiotics.
Antibiotics are cytotoxic secondary metabolites that are isolated from Nature. The …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of extracellular vesicles from Lactiplantibacillus plantarum

A Kurata, S Kiyohara, T Imai, S Yamasaki-Yashiki… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
We investigated the characteristics and functionalities of extracellular vesicles (EVs) from
Lactiplantibacillus plantarum (previously Lactobacillus plantarum) towards host immune …