Type three secretion system in attaching and effacing pathogens

MO Gaytán, VI Martínez-Santos, E Soto… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli and enterohemorrhagic E. coli are diarrheagenic
bacterial human pathogens that cause severe gastroenteritis. These enteric pathotypes …

Nanobodies as versatile tools to understand, diagnose, visualize and treat cancer

I Van Audenhove, J Gettemans - EBioMedicine, 2016 - thelancet.com
Since their discovery, nanobodies have been used extensively in the fields of research,
diagnostics and therapy. These antigen binding fragments, originating from Camelid heavy …

[HTML][HTML] Engineered Escherichia coli for the in situ secretion of therapeutic nanobodies in the gut

JP Lynch, C González-Prieto, AZ Reeves, S Bae… - Cell host & …, 2023 - cell.com
Drug platforms that enable the directed delivery of therapeutics to sites of diseases to
maximize efficacy and limit off-target effects are needed. Here, we report the development of …

A part toolbox to tune genetic expression in Bacillus subtilis

S Guiziou, V Sauveplane, HJ Chang… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Libraries of well-characterised components regulating gene expression levels are essential
to many synthetic biology applications. While widely available for the Gram-negative model …

In vivo diversification of target genomic sites using processive base deaminase fusions blocked by dCas9

B Álvarez, M Mencía, V De Lorenzo… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
In vivo mutagenesis systems accelerate directed protein evolution but often show restricted
capabilities and deleterious off-site mutations on cells. To overcome these limitations, here …

Bacterially mediated drug delivery and therapeutics: Strategies and advancements

L Wu, F Bao, L Li, X Yin, Z Hua - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
It was already clinically apparent 150 years ago that bacterial therapy could alleviate
diseases. Recently, a burgeoning number of researchers have been using bacterial …

Type III secretion system effectors form robust and flexible intracellular virulence networks

D Ruano-Gallego, J Sanchez-Garrido, Z Kozik… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Infections with many Gram-negative pathogens, including Escherichia coli, Salmonella,
Shigella, and Yersinia, rely on type III secretion system (T3SS) effectors. We hypothesized …

Developing Gram-negative bacteria for the secretion of heterologous proteins

LA Burdette, SA Leach, HT Wong… - Microbial cell …, 2018 - Springer
Gram-negative bacteria are attractive hosts for recombinant protein production because they
are fast growing, easy to manipulate, and genetically stable in large cultures. However, the …

Citrobacter rodentium subverts ATP flux and cholesterol homeostasis in intestinal epithelial cells in vivo

CN Berger, VF Crepin, TI Roumeliotis, JC Wright… - Cell metabolism, 2017 - cell.com
The intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) that line the gut form a robust line of defense against
ingested pathogens. We investigated the impact of infection with the enteric pathogen …

Attaching and effacing (A/E) lesion formation by enteropathogenic E. coli on human intestinal mucosa is dependent on non-LEE effectors

M Cepeda-Molero, CN Berger, ADS Walsham… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) is a human pathogen that causes acute and chronic
pediatric diarrhea. The hallmark of EPEC infection is the formation of attaching and effacing …