Plague is a vector-borne disease caused by Yersinia pestis. Transmitted by fleas from
rodent reservoirs, Y. pestis emerged< 6000 years ago from an enteric bacterial ancestor …

The protein Pal (peptidoglycan-associated lipoprotein) is anchored in the outer membrane
(OM) of Gram-negative bacteria and interacts with Tol proteins. Tol–Pal proteins form two …

The discovery of Escherichia coli Lpp as the first protein with three acyl groups covalently
attached to its N-terminal cysteine residue defined a new class of bacterial proteins, the …

As an ancient scourge, plague caused deadly epidemics in medieval Europe, and in the
20th century, it caused extensive mortality in India and Vietnam. Crossing into the 21st …

Infections caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae are a major public health threat. Extensively
drug-resistant and even pan-resistant strains have been reported. Understanding K …

In this study, we demonstrated that the surface-expressed enolase from diarrheal isolate
SSU of Aeromonas hydrophila bound to human plasminogen and facilitated the latter's …

Yersinia pestis is one of the world's most virulent human pathogens. Inhalation of this Gram‐
negative bacterium causes pneumonic plague, a rapidly progressing and usually fatal …

Yersinia pestis is the causative agent of plague. Previously we have isolated an attenuated
Y. pestis transposon insertion mutant in which the pcm gene was disrupted. In the present …

Plague is one of the world's most lethal human diseases caused by Yersinia pestis, a Gram-
negative bacterium. Despite overwhelming studies for many years worldwide, there is no …

The genus Yersinia consists of 15 species (www. bacterio. cict. fr/xz/yersinia. html), and only
three of them, Y. pestis, Y. pseudotuberculosis, and Y. enterocolitica, are pathogenic to …