The stringent response and physiological roles of (pp) pGpp in bacteria

SE Irving, NR Choudhury, RM Corrigan - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
The stringent response is a stress signalling system mediated by the alarmones guanosine
tetraphosphate (ppGpp) and guanosine pentaphosphate (pppGpp) in response to nutrient …

Recent functional insights into the role of (p) ppGpp in bacterial physiology

V Hauryliuk, GC Atkinson, KS Murakami… - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
The alarmones guanosine tetraphosphate and guanosine pentaphosphate (collectively
referred to as (p) ppGpp) are involved in regulating growth and several different stress …

Genomic and Metabolic Characteristics of the Pathogenicity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

T De Sousa, M Hébraud, MLNE Dapkevicius… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
In recent years, the effectiveness of antimicrobials in the treatment of Pseudomonas
aeruginosa infections has gradually decreased. This pathogen can be observed in several …

Molecular mechanisms underlying bacterial persisters

E Maisonneuve, K Gerdes - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
All bacteria form persisters, cells that are multidrug tolerant and therefore able to survive
antibiotic treatment. Due to the low frequencies of persisters in growing bacterial cultures …

Biofilm infections, their resilience to therapy and innovative treatment strategies

U Römling, C Balsalobre - Journal of internal medicine, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Biofilm formation of microorganisms causes persistent tissue and foreign body infections
resistant to treatment with antimicrobial agents. Up to 80% of human bacterial infections are …

Broad-spectrum anti-biofilm peptide that targets a cellular stress response

C De la Fuente-Núñez, F Reffuveille, EF Haney… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Bacteria form multicellular communities known as biofilms that cause two thirds of all
infections and demonstrate a 10 to 1000 fold increase in adaptive resistance to conventional …

RETRACTED:(p) ppGpp controls bacterial persistence by stochastic induction of toxin-antitoxin activity

E Maisonneuve, M Castro-Camargo, K Gerdes - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Persistence refers to the phenomenon in which isogenic populations of antibiotic-sensitive
bacteria produce rare cells that transiently become multidrug tolerant. Whether slow growth …

The RelA/SpoT homolog (RSH) superfamily: distribution and functional evolution of ppGpp synthetases and hydrolases across the tree of life

GC Atkinson, T Tenson, V Hauryliuk - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
RelA/SpoT Homologue (RSH) proteins, named for their sequence similarity to the RelA and
SpoT enzymes of Escherichia coli, comprise a superfamily of enzymes that synthesize …

ppGpp: magic beyond RNA polymerase

ZD Dalebroux, MS Swanson - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2012 - nature.com
During stress, bacteria undergo extensive physiological transformations, many of which are
coordinated by ppGpp. Although ppGpp is best known for enhancing cellular resilience by …

Nucleotide, c-di-GMP, c-di-AMP, cGMP, cAMP,(p) ppGpp signaling in bacteria and implications in pathogenesis

D Kalia, G Merey, S Nakayama, Y Zheng… - Chemical Society …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
For an organism to survive, it must be able to sense its environment and regulate
physiological processes accordingly. Understanding how bacteria integrate signals from …