Fortifying the barrier: the impact of lipid A remodelling on bacterial pathogenesis

BD Needham, MS Trent - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2013 - nature.com
Gram-negative bacteria decorate their outermost surface structure, lipopolysaccharide, with
elaborate chemical moieties, which effectively disguises them from immune surveillance and …

[HTML][HTML] Patterns of pathogenesis: discrimination of pathogenic and nonpathogenic microbes by the innate immune system

RE Vance, RR Isberg, DA Portnoy - Cell host & microbe, 2009 - cell.com
The dominant conceptual framework for understanding innate immunity has been that host
cells respond to evolutionarily conserved molecular features of pathogens called pathogen …

Of PAMPs and effectors: the blurred PTI-ETI dichotomy

BPHJ Thomma, T Nürnberger, MHAJ Joosten - The plant cell, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Typically, pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) are considered to be conserved
throughout classes of microbes and to contribute to general microbial fitness, whereas …

The NLRP12 inflammasome recognizes Yersinia pestis

GI Vladimer, D Weng, SWM Paquette, SK Vanaja… - Immunity, 2012 - cell.com
Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, is able to suppress production of
inflammatory cytokines IL-18 and IL-1β, which are generated through caspase-1-activating …

Recognition of lipid A variants by the TLR4-MD-2 receptor complex

N Maeshima, RC Fernandez - Frontiers in cellular and infection …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a component of the outer membrane of almost all Gram-
negative bacteria and consists of lipid A, core sugars, and O-antigen. LPS is recognized by …

Structural modifications of bacterial lipopolysaccharide that facilitate gram-negative bacteria evasion of host innate immunity

M Matsuura - Frontiers in immunology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a cell wall component characteristic of Gram-negative
bacteria, is a representative pathogen-associated molecular pattern that allows mammalian …

LPS remodeling is an evolved survival strategy for bacteria

Y Li, DA Powell, SA Shaffer… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Maintenance of membrane function is essential and regulated at the genomic,
transcriptional, and translational levels. Bacterial pathogens have a variety of mechanisms …

Bilayer properties of lipid A from various Gram-negative bacteria

S Kim, DS Patel, S Park, J Slusky, JB Klauda… - Biophysical journal, 2016 - cell.com
Lipid A is the lipid anchor of a lipopolysaccharide in the outer leaflet of the outer membrane
of Gram-negative bacteria. In general, lipid A consists of two phosphorylated N-acetyl …

Porphyromonas gingivalis outer membrane vesicles as the major driver of and explanation for neuropathogenesis, the cholinergic hypothesis, iron dyshomeostasis …

PL Nara, D Sindelar, MS Penn… - Journal of …, 2021 - content.iospress.com
Porphyromonas gingivalis (Pg) is a primary oral pathogen in the widespread biofilm-induced
“chronic” multi-systems inflammatory disease (s) including Alzheimer's disease (AD). It is …

Rationally designed TLR4 ligands for vaccine adjuvant discovery

KA Gregg, E Harberts, FM Gardner, MR Pelletier… - MBio, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Adjuvant properties of bacterial cell wall components like MPLA (monophosphoryl lipid A)
are well described and have gained FDA approval for use in vaccines such as Cervarix …