Antibiotic perturbations to the gut microbiome

SRS Fishbein, B Mahmud, G Dantas - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
Antibiotic-mediated perturbation of the gut microbiome is associated with numerous
infectious and autoimmune diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Yet, as the gut microbiome …

Plasmids, a molecular cornerstone of antimicrobial resistance in the One Health era

S Castañeda-Barba, EM Top, T Stalder - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2024 - nature.com
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a substantial threat to human health. The widespread
prevalence of AMR is, in part, due to the horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance genes …

Clinically relevant mutations in core metabolic genes confer antibiotic resistance

AJ Lopatkin, SC Bening, AL Manson, JM Stokes… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Although metabolism plays an active role in antibiotic lethality, antibiotic resistance is
generally associated with drug target modification, enzymatic inactivation, and/or transport …

Accelerated spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) induced by non-antibiotic conditions: roles and mechanisms

X Shi, Y Xia, W Wei, BJ Ni - Water research, 2022 - Elsevier
The global spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) has wreaked havoc with the
treatment efficiency of antibiotics and, ultimately, anti-microbial chemotherapy, and has been …

Conjugative plasmids interact with insertion sequences to shape the horizontal transfer of antimicrobial resistance genes

Y Che, Y Yang, X Xu, K Břinda… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
It is well established that plasmids play an important role in the dissemination of
antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes; however, little is known about the role of the …

Horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance genes in clinical environments

NA Lerminiaux, ADS Cameron - Canadian journal of …, 2019 - cdnsciencepub.com
A global medical crisis is unfolding as antibiotics lose effectiveness against a growing
number of bacterial pathogens. Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) contributes significantly to …

Nonnutritive sweeteners can promote the dissemination of antibiotic resistance through conjugative gene transfer

Z Yu, Y Wang, J Lu, PL Bond, J Guo - The ISME Journal, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a worldwide threat to human health and biosecurity.
The spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) via conjugative plasmid transfer is a major …

Programmable synthetic biomolecular condensates for cellular control

Y Dai, M Farag, D Lee, X Zeng, K Kim, H Son… - Nature chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
The formation of biomolecular condensates mediated by a coupling of associative and
segregative phase transitions plays a critical role in controlling diverse cellular functions in …

Plasmid transfer by conjugation in Gram-negative bacteria: from the cellular to the community level

C Virolle, K Goldlust, S Djermoun, S Bigot, C Lesterlin - Genes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Bacterial conjugation, also referred to as bacterial sex, is a major horizontal gene transfer
mechanism through which DNA is transferred from a donor to a recipient bacterium by direct …

Deciphering the mobility and bacterial hosts of antibiotic resistance genes under antibiotic selection pressure by metagenomic assembly and binning approaches

R Zhao, K Yu, J Zhang, G Zhang, J Huang, L Ma… - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
The presence of antibiotics can exert significant selection pressure on the emergence and
spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) …