Broadening the definition of bacterial small RNAs: characteristics and mechanisms of action

MC Carrier, D Lalaouna, E Massé - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The first report of trans-acting RNA-based regulation in bacterial cells dates back to 1984.
Subsequent studies in diverse bacteria unraveled shared properties of trans-acting small …

Engineering Clostridium organisms as microbial cell-factories: challenges & opportunities

K Charubin, RK Bennett, AG Fast, ET Papoutsakis - Metabolic engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Clostridium organisms are of major importance in the development of technologies to
produce biofuels and chemicals. They are uniquely capable of utilizing virtually all biomass …

RNase III CLASH in MRSA uncovers sRNA regulatory networks coupling metabolism to toxin expression

SW McKellar, I Ivanova, P Arede, RL Zapf… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacterial pathogen responsible for
significant human morbidity and mortality. Post-transcriptional regulation by small RNAs …

A tRNA-derived fragment present in E. coli OMVs regulates host cell gene expression and proliferation

I Diallo, J Ho, M Lambert, A Benmoussa… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
RNA-sequencing has led to a spectacular increase in the repertoire of bacterial sRNAs and
improved our understanding of their biological functions. Bacterial sRNAs have also been …

Learning the regulatory code of gene expression

J Zrimec, F Buric, M Kokina, V Garcia… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Data-driven machine learning is the method of choice for predicting molecular phenotypes
from nucleotide sequence, modeling gene expression events including protein-DNA …

Transfer RNA-derived fragments, the underappreciated regulatory small RNAs in microbial pathogenesis

Z Li, BA Stanton - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In eukaryotic organisms, transfer RNA (tRNA)-derived fragments have diverse biological
functions. Considering the conserved sequences of tRNAs, it is not surprising that …

The potential of cold-shock promoters for the expression of recombinant proteins in microbes and mammalian cells

Y Bartolo-Aguilar, C Chávez-Cabrera… - Journal of Genetic …, 2022 - Springer
Background Low-temperature expression of recombinant proteins may be advantageous to
support their proper folding and preserve bioactivity. The generation of expression vectors …

The Transcription Unit Architecture of Streptomyces lividans TK24

Y Lee, N Lee, Y Jeong, S Hwang, W Kim… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Streptomyces lividans is an attractive host for production of heterologous proteins and
secondary metabolites of other Streptomyces species. To fully harness the industrial …

Modulation of AggR levels reveals features of virulence regulation in enteroaggregative E. coli

A Prieto, M Bernabeu, JF Sánchez-Herrero… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) strains are one of the diarrheagenic pathotypes.
EAEC strains harbor a virulence plasmid (pAA2) that encodes, among other virulence …

Primary transcriptome analysis reveals importance of IS elements for the shaping of the transcriptional landscape of Bordetella pertussis

F Amman, A D'Halluin, R Antoine, L Huot, I Bibova… - RNA biology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Bordetella pertussis is the causative agent of whooping cough, a respiratory disease still
considered as a major public health threat and for which recent re-emergence has been …