The population genetics of commensal Escherichia coli

O Tenaillon, D Skurnik, B Picard… - Nature reviews …, 2010 - nature.com
The primary habitat of Escherichia coli is the vertebrate gut, where it is the predominant
aerobic organism, living in symbiosis with its host. Despite the occurrence of recombination …

Escherichia coli as an indicator of bacteriological quality of water: an overview

ST Odonkor, JK Ampofo - Microbiology research, 2013 - mdpi.com
Monitoring the microbiological quality of drinking water relies largely on examination of
indicator bacteria such as coliforms, Escherichia coli, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. E. coli …

Anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory effects elicited by short chain fatty acids produced by Escherichia coli isolated from healthy human gut microbiota

A Nakkarach, HL Foo, AAL Song, NEA Mutalib… - Microbial Cell …, 2021 - Springer
Background Extracellular metabolites of short chain fatty acids (SCFA) excreted by gut
microbiota have been reported to play an important role in the regulation of intestinal …

No vacancy: how beneficial microbes cooperate with immunity to provide colonization resistance to pathogens

M Sassone-Corsi, M Raffatellu - The Journal of Immunology, 2015 - journals.aai.org
The mammalian intestine harbors a community of trillions of microbes, collectively known as
the gut microbiota, which coevolved with the host in a mutually beneficial relationship …

Antagonistic activities of lactobacilli and bifidobacteria against microbial pathogens

AL Servin - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2004 - academic.oup.com
The gastrointestinal tract is a complex ecosystem that associates a resident microbiota and
cells of various phenotypes lining the epithelial wall expressing complex metabolic activities …

The front line of enteric host defense against unwelcome intrusion of harmful microorganisms: mucins, antimicrobial peptides, and microbiota

V Liévin-Le Moal, AL Servin - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
The intestinal tract is a complex ecosystem that combines resident microbiota and the cells
of various phenotypes with complex metabolic activities that line the epithelial wall. The …

Transcriptome-wide analysis reveals hallmarks of human intestine development and maturation in vitro and in vivo

SR Finkbeiner, DR Hill, CH Altheim, PH Dedhia… - Stem cell reports, 2015 - cell.com
Human intestinal organoids (HIOs) are a tissue culture model in which small intestine-like
tissue is generated from pluripotent stem cells. By carrying out unsupervised hierarchical …

Mechanisms of blood brain barrier disruption by different types of bacteria, and bacterial–host interactions facilitate the bacterial pathogen invading the brain

MMJ Al-Obaidi, MNM Desa - Cellular and molecular neurobiology, 2018 - Springer
This review aims to elucidate the different mechanisms of blood brain barrier (BBB)
disruption that may occur due to invasion by different types of bacteria, as well as to show …

Symbiont-derived antimicrobials contribute to the control of the lepidopteran gut microbiota

Y Shao, B Chen, C Sun, K Ishida, C Hertweck… - Cell chemical …, 2017 - cell.com
Insects develop efficient antimicrobial strategies to flourish in a bacterial world. It has long
been proposed that native gut microbiota is an important component of host defense; …

Carbon nutrition of Escherichia coli in the mouse intestine

DE Chang, DJ Smalley, DL Tucker… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
Whole-genome expression profiling revealed Escherichia coli MG1655 genes induced by
growth on mucus, conditions designed to mimic nutrient availability in the mammalian …