The stringent response and physiological roles of (pp) pGpp in bacteria

SE Irving, NR Choudhury, RM Corrigan - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
The stringent response is a stress signalling system mediated by the alarmones guanosine
tetraphosphate (ppGpp) and guanosine pentaphosphate (pppGpp) in response to nutrient …

Recent functional insights into the role of (p) ppGpp in bacterial physiology

V Hauryliuk, GC Atkinson, KS Murakami… - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
The alarmones guanosine tetraphosphate and guanosine pentaphosphate (collectively
referred to as (p) ppGpp) are involved in regulating growth and several different stress …

Broad-spectrum anti-biofilm peptide that targets a cellular stress response

C De la Fuente-Núñez, F Reffuveille, EF Haney… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Bacteria form multicellular communities known as biofilms that cause two thirds of all
infections and demonstrate a 10 to 1000 fold increase in adaptive resistance to conventional …

Coordination of microbial metabolism

V Chubukov, L Gerosa, K Kochanowski… - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Beyond fuelling cellular activities with building blocks and energy, metabolism also
integrates environmental conditions into intracellular signals. The underlying regulatory …

Genome-wide effects on Escherichia coli transcription from ppGpp binding to its two sites on RNA polymerase

P Sanchez-Vazquez, CN Dewey… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The second messenger nucleotide ppGpp dramatically alters gene expression in bacteria to
adjust cellular metabolism to nutrient availability. ppGpp binds to two sites on RNA …

Transcriptional responses to ppGpp and DksA

RL Gourse, AY Chen, S Gopalkrishnan… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The stringent response to nutrient deprivation is a stress response found throughout the
bacterial domain of life. Although first described in proteobacteria for matching ribosome …

MESH1 is a cytosolic NADPH phosphatase that regulates ferroptosis

CKC Ding, J Rose, T Sun, J Wu, PH Chen, CC Lin… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Critical to the bacterial stringent response is the rapid relocation of resources from
proliferation toward stress survival through the respective accumulation and degradation of …

Affinity-based capture and identification of protein effectors of the growth regulator ppGpp

B Wang, P Dai, D Ding, A Del Rosario, RA Grant… - Nature chemical …, 2019 - nature.com
The nucleotide ppGpp is a highly conserved regulatory molecule in bacteria that helps tune
growth rate to nutrient availability. Despite decades of study, how ppGpp regulates growth …

(p) ppGpp: magic modulators of bacterial physiology and metabolism

W Steinchen, V Zegarra, G Bange - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
When bacteria experience growth-limiting environmental conditions, the synthesis of the
hyperphosphorylated guanosine derivatives (p) ppGpp is induced by enzymes of the …

Lysosomal mTORC2/PHLPP1/Akt regulate chaperone-mediated autophagy

E Arias, H Koga, A Diaz, E Mocholi, B Patel, AM Cuervo - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
Summary Chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA), a selective form of degradation of
cytosolic proteins in lysosomes, contributes to maintenance of proteostasis and to the …