Mismatch repair

R Fishel, JB Lee - … , and Repair: Molecular Mechanisms and Pathology, 2016 - Springer
The concept of mismatch repair (MMR) was formulated independently in 1964 to explain the
removal of brominated nucleotides from DNA as well as gene conversion during genetic …

DNA mismatch repair

TA Kunkel, DA Erie - Annu. Rev. Biochem., 2005 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract DNA mismatch repair (MMR) is an evolutionarily conserved process that corrects
mismatches generated during DNA replication and escape proofreading. MMR proteins also …

Emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance following exposure to antibiotics

R Cantón, MI Morosini - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Within a susceptible wild-type population, a small fraction of cells, even< 10− 9, is not
affected when challenged by an antimicrobial agent. This subpopulation has mutations that …

Hypermutation Is a Key Factor in Development of Multiple-Antimicrobial Resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strains Causing Chronic Lung Infections

MD Maciá, D Blanquer, B Togores… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the most relevant pathogen producing chronic lung infections
in patients with chronic underlying diseases such as cystic fibrosis (CF), bronchiectasis, and …

In Vivo Evidence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Nutrient Acquisition and Pathogenesis in the Lungs of Cystic Fibrosis Patients

MS Son, WJ Matthews Jr, Y Kang… - Infection and …, 2007 - Am Soc Microbiol
One of the hallmarks of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients is
very-high-cell-density (HCD) replication in the lung, allowing this bacterium to induce …

Genetic adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa during chronic lung infection of patients with cystic fibrosis: strong and weak mutators with heterogeneous genetic backgrounds emerge in …

O Ciofu, LF Mandsberg, T Bjarnsholt… - …, 2010 - microbiologyresearch.org
During the chronic lung infection of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), Pseudomonas
aeruginosa can survive for long periods due to adaptive evolution mediated by genetic …

Coexistence and Within-Host Evolution of Diversified Lineages of Hypermutable Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Long-term Cystic Fibrosis Infections

S Feliziani, RL Marvig, AM Lujan, AJ Moyano… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The advent of high-throughput sequencing techniques has made it possible to follow the
genomic evolution of pathogenic bacteria by comparing longitudinally collected bacteria …

Role of small colony variants in persistence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in cystic fibrosis lungs

JG Malone - Infection and drug resistance, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that predominates during the later
stages of cystic fibrosis (CF) lung infections. Over many years of chronic lung colonization, P …

Improvements on colony morphology identification towards bacterial profiling

AM Sousa, I Machado, A Nicolau, MO Pereira - Journal of microbiological …, 2013 - Elsevier
Colony morphology may be an indicator of phenotypic variation, this being an important
adaptive process adopted by bacteria to overcome environmental stressors. Furthermore …

Phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of small colony variants and their role in chronic infection

BE Johns, KJ Purdy, NP Tucker… - Microbiology …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Small colony variant (SCV) bacteria arise spontaneously within apparently homogeneous
microbial populations, largely in response to environmental stresses, such as antimicrobial …