Envelope stress responses: balancing damage repair and toxicity

AM Mitchell, TJ Silhavy - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2019 - nature.com
The Gram-negative envelope is a complex structure that consists of the inner membrane, the
periplasm, peptidoglycan and the outer membrane, and protects the bacterial cell from the …

A comparative view of metabolite and substrate stress and tolerance in microbial bioprocessing: from biofuels and chemicals, to biocatalysis and bioremediation

SA Nicolaou, SM Gaida, ET Papoutsakis - Metabolic engineering, 2010 - Elsevier
Metabolites, substrates and substrate impurities may be toxic to cells by damaging biological
molecules, organelles, membranes or disrupting biological processes. Chemical stress is …

Daptomycin inhibits cell envelope synthesis by interfering with fluid membrane microdomains

A Müller, M Wenzel, H Strahl, F Grein… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Daptomycin is a highly efficient last-resort antibiotic that targets the bacterial cell membrane.
Despite its clinical importance, the exact mechanism by which daptomycin kills bacteria is …

[HTML][HTML] Damage dynamics and the role of chance in the timing of E. coli cell death

Y Yang, O Karin, A Mayo, X Song, P Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Genetically identical cells in the same stressful condition die at different times. The origin of
this stochasticity is unclear; it may arise from different initial conditions that affect the time of …

Small cationic antimicrobial peptides delocalize peripheral membrane proteins

M Wenzel, AI Chiriac, A Otto… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Short antimicrobial peptides rich in arginine (R) and tryptophan (W) interact with
membranes. To learn how this interaction leads to bacterial death, we characterized the …

Mini review: bacterial membrane composition and its modulation in response to stress

JR Willdigg, JD Helmann - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Antibiotics and other agents that perturb the synthesis or integrity of the bacterial cell
envelope trigger compensatory stress responses. Focusing on Bacillus subtilis as a model …

Microbiota from the distal guts of lean and obese adolescents exhibit partial functional redundancy besides clear differences in community structure

M Ferrer, A Ruiz, F Lanza, SB Haange… - Environmental …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research has disclosed a tight connection between obesity, metabolic gut microbial
activities and host health. Obtaining a complete understanding of this relationship remains a …

Bacterial Vipp1 and PspA are members of the ancient ESCRT-III membrane-remodeling superfamily

J Liu, M Tassinari, DP Souza, S Naskar, JK Noel… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Membrane remodeling and repair are essential for all cells. Proteins that perform these
functions include Vipp1/IM30 in photosynthetic plastids, PspA in bacteria, and ESCRT-III in …

Global Analysis of Extracytoplasmic Stress Signaling in Escherichia coli

S Bury-Moné, Y Nomane, N Reymond, R Barbet… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
The Bae, Cpx, Psp, Rcs, and σE pathways constitute the Escherichia coli signaling systems
that detect and respond to alterations of the bacterial envelope. Contributions of these …

Managing membrane stress: the phage shock protein (Psp) response, from molecular mechanisms to physiology

N Joly, C Engl, G Jovanovic, M Huvet… - FEMS microbiology …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The bacterial phage shock protein (Psp) response functions to help cells manage the
impacts of agents impairing cell membrane function. The system has relevance to …