Pangenomics reveals alternative environmental lifestyles among chlamydiae

S Köstlbacher, A Collingro, T Halter, F Schulz… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Chlamydiae are highly successful strictly intracellular bacteria associated with diverse
eukaryotic hosts. Here we analyzed metagenome-assembled genomes of the “Genomes …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental metagenomic assemblies reveal seven new highly divergent chlamydial lineages and hallmarks of a conserved intracellular lifestyle

T Pillonel, C Bertelli, G Greub - Frontiers in microbiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The Chlamydiae phylum exclusively encompasses bacteria sharing a similar obligate
intracellular life cycle. Existing 16S rDNA data support a high diversity within the phylum …

Unexpected genomic features in widespread intracellular bacteria: evidence for motility of marine chlamydiae

A Collingro, S Köstlbacher, M Mussmann… - The ISME …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Chlamydiae are obligate intracellular bacteria comprising important human pathogens and
symbionts of protists. Molecular evidence indicates a tremendous diversity of chlamydiae …

Chlamydia genomics: providing novel insights into chlamydial biology

NL Bachmann, A Polkinghorne, P Timms - Trends in microbiology, 2014 - cell.com
Chlamydiaceae are obligate intracellular pathogens that have successfully evolved to
colonize a diverse range of hosts. There are currently 11 described species of Chlamydia …

Following the footsteps of chlamydial gene regulation

D Domman, M Horn - Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Regulation of gene expression ensures an organism responds to stimuli and undergoes
proper development. Although the regulatory networks in bacteria have been investigated in …

[PDF][PDF] Marine sediments illuminate Chlamydiae diversity and evolution

JE Dharamshi, D Tamarit, L Eme, CW Stairs, J Martijn… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
The bacterial phylum Chlamydiae is so far composed of obligate symbionts of eukaryotic
hosts. Well known for Chlamydiaceae, pathogens of humans and other animals …

Genome sequencing and our understanding of chlamydiae

DD Rockey, J Lenart, RS Stephens - Infection and immunity, 2000 - Am Soc Microbiol
A driving force in the evolution of a microorganism is the ability to colonize a niche. A
vertebrate organism represents a unique niche, but to an infecting microbe it is simply an …

Chlamydia cell biology and pathogenesis

C Elwell, K Mirrashidi, J Engel - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2016 - nature.com
Chlamydia spp. are important causes of human disease for which no effective vaccine
exists. These obligate intracellular pathogens replicate in a specialized membrane …

[HTML][HTML] Insight in the biology of Chlamydia-related bacteria

F Bayramova, N Jacquier, G Greub - Microbes and infection, 2018 - Elsevier
The Chlamydiales order is composed of obligate intracellular bacteria and includes the
Chlamydiaceae family and several family-level lineages called Chlamydia-related bacteria …

Chlamydiae as Symbionts in Eukaryotes

M Horn - Annu. Rev. Microbiol., 2008 - annualreviews.org
Members of the phylum Chlamydiae are obligate intracellular bacteria that were discovered
about a century ago. Although Chlamydiae are major pathogens of humans and animals …