Extracellular vesicle biogenesis and functions in gram-positive bacteria

P Briaud, RK Carroll - Infection and immunity, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are membrane-derived lipid bilayers secreted by bacteria and
eukaryotic cells. Bacterial membrane vesicles were discovered over 60 years ago and have …

Pathogenicity and virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

KC Rahlwes, BRS Dias, PC Campos… - Virulence, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the causative agent of tuberculosis, an infectious
disease with one of the highest morbidity and mortality rates worldwide. Leveraging its …

Outer-membrane vesicles from Gram-negative bacteria: biogenesis and functions

C Schwechheimer, MJ Kuehn - Nature reviews microbiology, 2015 - nature.com
Outer-membrane vesicles (OMVs) are spherical buds of the outer membrane filled with
periplasmic content and are commonly produced by Gram-negative bacteria. The production …

Through the wall: extracellular vesicles in Gram-positive bacteria, mycobacteria and fungi

L Brown, JM Wolf, R Prados-Rosales… - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are produced by all domains of life. In Gram-negative bacteria,
EVs are produced by the pinching off of the outer membrane; however, how EVs escape the …

The Immune Escape Mechanisms of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

W Zhai, F Wu, Y Zhang, Y Fu, Z Liu - International journal of molecular …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Epidemiological data from the Center of Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health
Organization (WHO) statistics in 2017 show that 10.0 million people around the world …

Bacterial membrane vesicles as mediators of microbe–microbe and microbe–host community interactions

JC Caruana, SA Walper - Frontiers in microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Bacterial membrane vesicles are proteoliposomal nanoparticles produced by both Gram-
negative and Gram-positive bacteria. As they originate from the outer surface of the bacteria …

Bacterial extracellular vesicles and their novel therapeutic applications in health and cancer

N Hosseini-Giv, A Basas, C Hicks, E El-Omar… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Bacterial cells communicate with host cells and other bacteria through the release of
membrane vesicles known as bacterial extracellular vesicles (BEV). BEV are established …

Cracking open bacterial membrane vesicles

T Nagakubo, N Nomura, M Toyofuku - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Membrane vesicles (MVs) are nanoparticles composed of lipid membranes that are
produced by both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. MVs have been assigned …

Role for Mycobacterium tuberculosis membrane vesicles in iron acquisition

R Prados-Rosales, BC Weinrick, DG Piqué… - Journal of …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Mycobacterium tuberculosis releases membrane vesicles packed with molecules that can
modulate the immune response. Because environmental conditions often influence the …

Co-infections as modulators of disease outcome: minor players or major players?

P Devi, A Khan, P Chattopadhyay, P Mehta… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Human host and pathogen interaction is dynamic in nature and often modulated by co-
pathogens with a functional role in delineating the physiological outcome of infection. Co …