The ever-growing complexity of the mitochondrial fission machinery

A Pagliuso, P Cossart, F Stavru - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2018 - Springer
The mitochondrial network constantly changes and remodels its shape to face the cellular
energy demand. In human cells, mitochondrial fusion is regulated by the large, evolutionarily …

ActA of Listeria monocytogenes and Its Manifold Activities as an Important Listerial Virulence Factor

H Pillich, M Puri, T Chakraborty - The Actin cytoskeleton and bacterial …, 2017 - Springer
Listeria monocytogenes is a ubiquitously occurring gram-positive bacterium in the
environment that causes listeriosis, one of the deadliest foodborne infections known today. It …

D-amino acid probes for penicillin binding protein-based bacterial surface labeling

JM Fura, D Kearns, MM Pires - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2015 - ASBMB
Peptidoglycan is an essential and highly conserved mesh structure that surrounds bacterial
cells. It plays a critical role in retaining a defined cell shape, and, in the case of pathogenic …

A Specialized Peptidoglycan Synthase Promotes Salmonella Cell Division inside Host Cells

S Castanheira, JJ Cestero, G Rico-Pérez, P García… - MBio, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bacterial cell division has been studied extensively under laboratory conditions. Despite
being a key event in the bacterial cell cycle, cell division has not been explored in vivo in …

Consistent red luminescence in π-conjugated polymers with tuneable elastic moduli over five orders of magnitude

Z Guo, A Shinohara, C Pan, FJ Stadler, Z Liu… - Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Here, we present a rational strategy for a wide-range of predictable tuning methods for the
elastic modulus (G′) of alkylated π-conjugated polymers (Alk-CPs). Alk-CPs and their …

Listeria exploits IFITM3 to suppress antibacterial activity in phagocytes

JMJ Tan, ME Garner, JM Regeimbal, CJ Greene… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The type I interferon (IFN) signaling pathway has important functions in resistance to viral
infection, with the downstream induction of interferon stimulated genes (ISG) protecting the …

Regulation of Staphylococcus aureus Infection of Macrophages by CD44, Reactive Oxygen Species, and Acid Sphingomyelinase

C Li, Y Wu, A Riehle, V Orian-Rousseau… - Antioxidants & redox …, 2018 - liebertpub.com
Aims: Staphylococcus aureus plays an important role in sepsis, pneumonia, and wound
infections. Acid sphingomyelinase (Asm)-deficient mice are highly susceptible to pulmonary …

The Transcriptional Regulator SpxA1 Influences the Morphology and Virulence of Listeria monocytogenes

MR Cesinger, OI Daramola, LM Kwiatkowski… - Infection and …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Listeria monocytogenes is a Gram-positive facultative anaerobe and an excellent model
pathogen for investigating regulatory changes that occur during infection of a mammalian …

Quantification of bioorthogonal stability in immune phagocytes using flow cytometry reveals rapid degradation of strained alkynes

T Bakkum, T van Leeuwen, AJC Sarris… - ACS Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
One of the areas in which bioorthogonal chemistry—chemistry performed inside a cell or
organism—has become of pivotal importance is in the study of host–pathogen interactions …

Type I interferon promotes cell‐to‐cell spread of Listeria monocytogenes

SE Osborne, B Sit, A Shaker, E Currie… - Cellular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Type I interferons (IFNs) play a critical role in antiviral immune responses, but can be
deleterious to the host during some bacterial infections. Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) …