Antimicrobial resistance and mechanisms of epigenetic regulation

X Wang, D Yu, L Chen - Frontiers in Cellular and Infection …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The rampant use of antibiotics in animal husbandry, farming and clinical disease treatment
has led to a significant issue with pathogen resistance worldwide over the past decades …

Diversity in genetic regulation of bacterial fimbriae assembled by the chaperone usher pathway

DK Gahlot, N Taheri, S MacIntyre - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Bacteria express different types of hair-like proteinaceous appendages on their cell surface
known as pili or fimbriae. These filamentous structures are primarily involved in the …

The DNA relaxation-dependent OFF-to-ON biasing of the type 1 fimbrial genetic switch requires the Fis nucleoid-associated protein

C Conway, MC Beckett, CJ Dorman - Microbiology, 2023 - microbiologyresearch.org
The structural genes expressing type 1 fimbriae in Escherichia coli alternate between
expressed (phase ON) and non-expressed (phase OFF) states due to inversion of the 314 …

The Assembly of Flagella in Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Requires the Presence of a Functional Type III Secretion System

J Soria-Bustos, Z Saldaña-Ahuactzi… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
In enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC), the production of flagella and the type III
secretion system (T3SS) is activated in the presence of host cultured epithelial cells. The …