A decade of advances in transposon-insertion sequencing

AK Cain, L Barquist, AL Goodman, IT Paulsen… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
It has been 10 years since the introduction of modern transposon-insertion sequencing (TIS)
methods, which combine genome-wide transposon mutagenesis with high-throughput …

Oxygen as a driver of gut dysbiosis

F Rivera-Chávez, CA Lopez, AJ Bäumler - Free Radical Biology and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in the composition of gut-associated microbial communities may underlie
many inflammatory and allergic diseases. However, the processes that help maintain a …

[HTML][HTML] A gut commensal-produced metabolite mediates colonization resistance to Salmonella infection

A Jacobson, L Lam, M Rajendram, F Tamburini… - Cell host & …, 2018 - cell.com
The intestinal microbiota provides colonization resistance against pathogens, limiting
pathogen expansion and transmission. These microbiota-mediated mechanisms were …

Construction and analysis of two genome-scale deletion libraries for Bacillus subtilis

BM Koo, G Kritikos, JD Farelli, H Todor, K Tong… - Cell systems, 2017 - cell.com
A systems-level understanding of Gram-positive bacteria is important from both an
environmental and health perspective and is most easily obtained when high-quality …

High-avidity IgA protects the intestine by enchaining growing bacteria

K Moor, M Diard, ME Sellin, B Felmy, SY Wotzka… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Vaccine-induced high-avidity IgA can protect against bacterial enteropathogens by directly
neutralizing virulence factors or by poorly defined mechanisms that physically impede …

Evolution of bacterial virulence

M Diard, WD Hardt - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Bacterial virulence is highly dynamic and context-dependent. For this reason, it is
challenging to predict how molecular changes affect the growth of a pathogen in a host and …

[HTML][HTML] Intestinal epithelial NAIP/NLRC4 restricts systemic dissemination of the adapted pathogen Salmonella Typhimurium due to site-specific bacterial PAMP …

A Hausmann, D Böck, P Geiser, DL Berthold… - Mucosal …, 2020 - Elsevier
Inflammasomes can prevent systemic dissemination of enteropathogenic bacteria. As
adapted pathogens including Salmonella Typhimurium (S. Tm) have evolved evasion …

Inflammation boosts bacteriophage transfer between Salmonella spp.

M Diard, E Bakkeren, JK Cornuault, K Moor… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Bacteriophage transfer (lysogenic conversion) promotes bacterial virulence evolution. There
is limited understanding of the factors that determine lysogenic conversion dynamics within …

Mouse models for bacterial enteropathogen infections: insights into the role of colonization resistance

MKM Herzog, M Cazzaniga, A Peters, N Shayya… - Gut …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Globally, enteropathogenic bacteria are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. 1-3
Campylobacter, Salmonella, Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli, and Listeria are among …

[HTML][HTML] Epithelium-autonomous NAIP/NLRC4 prevents TNF-driven inflammatory destruction of the gut epithelial barrier in Salmonella-infected mice

SA Fattinger, P Geiser, PS Ventayol, ML Di Martino… - Mucosal …, 2021 - Elsevier
The gut epithelium is a critical protective barrier. Its NAIP/NLRC4 inflammasome senses
infection by Gram-negative bacteria, including Salmonella Typhimurium (S. Tm) and …