Unveil the secret of the bacteria and phage arms race

Y Wang, H Fan, Y Tong - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Bacteria have developed different mechanisms to defend against phages, such as
preventing phages from being adsorbed on the surface of host bacteria; through the …

The dynamics of synthesis and localization of jumbo phage RNA polymerases inside infected cells

D Antonova, VV Belousova, E Zhivkoplias, M Sobinina… - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
A nucleus-like structure composed of phage-encoded proteins and containing replicating
viral DNA is formed in Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells infected by jumbo bacteriophage …

The action of Escherichia coli CRISPR–Cas system on lytic bacteriophages with different lifestyles and development strategies

A Strotskaya, E Savitskaya, A Metlitskaya… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
CRISPR–Cas systems provide prokaryotes with adaptive defense against bacteriophage
infections. Given an enormous variety of strategies used by phages to overcome their hosts …

From biophysics to 'omics and systems biology

M Djordjevic, A Rodic, S Graovac - European biophysics journal, 2019 - Springer
Recent decades brought a revolution to biology, driven mainly by exponentially increasing
amounts of data coming from “'omics” sciences. To handle these data, bioinformatics often …

Molecular basis for lethal cross-talk between two unrelated bacterial transcription factors-the regulatory protein of a restriction-modification system and the repressor of …

A Wisniewska, E Wons, K Potrykus… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Bacterial gene expression depends on the efficient functioning of global transcriptional
networks, however their interconnectivity and orchestration rely mainly on the action of …

Endogenous Gene Regulation as a Predicted Main Function of Type IE CRISPR/Cas System in E. coli

B Bozic, J Repac, M Djordjevic - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
CRISPR/Cas is an adaptive bacterial immune system, whose CRISPR array can actively
change in response to viral infections. However, Type IE CRISPR/Cas in E. coli (an …

Regulator-dependent temporal dynamics of a restriction-modification system's gene expression upon entering new host cells: single-cell and population studies

A Negri, O Werbowy, E Wons, S Dersch… - Nucleic Acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Restriction-modification (RM) systems represent a first line of defense against invasive
DNAs, such as bacteriophage DNAs, and are widespread among bacteria and archaea. By …

Lethal perturbation of an Escherichia coli regulatory network is triggered by a restriction-modification system's regulator and can be mitigated by excision of the cryptic …

K Gucwa, E Wons, A Wisniewska… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Bacterial gene regulatory networks orchestrate responses to environmental challenges.
Horizontal gene transfer can bring in genes with regulatory potential, such as new …

Facile manipulation of protein localization in fission yeast through binding of GFP-binding protein to GFP

Y Chen, G Wang, H Hao, C Chao… - Journal of Cell …, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
ABSTRACT GFP-binding protein (or GBP) has been recently developed in various systems
and organisms as an efficient tool to purify GFP-fusion proteins. Due to the high affinity …

Understanding key features of bacterial restriction-modification systems through quantitative modeling

A Rodic, B Blagojevic, E Zdobnov, M Djordjevic… - BMC systems …, 2017 - Springer
Background Restriction-modification (RM) systems are rudimentary bacterial immune
systems. The main components include restriction enzyme (R), which cuts specific …