[HTML][HTML] Gonorrhea-an evolving disease of the new millennium

SA Hill, TL Masters, J Wachter - Microbial cell, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Etiology, transmission and protection: Neisseria gonorrhoeae (the gonococcus) is the
etiological agent for the strictly human sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea. Infections …

Regulators of bacterial responses to nitric oxide

S Spiro - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Nitric oxide (NO) is an intermediate of the respiratory pathway known as denitrification, and
is a by-product of anaerobic nitrite respiration in the enteric Bacteria. Pathogens are also …

A lysine–cysteine redox switch with an NOS bridge regulates enzyme function

M Wensien, FR von Pappenheim, LM Funk… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Disulfide bonds between cysteine residues are important post-translational modifications in
proteins that have critical roles for protein structure and stability, as redox-active catalytic …

The colorectal cancer microbiota alter their transcriptome to adapt to the acidity, reactive oxygen species, and metabolite availability of gut microenvironments

MTF Lamaudière, R Arasaradnam, GD Weedall… - Msphere, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
The gut microbiome is implicated in the pathology of colorectal cancer (CRC). However, the
mechanisms by which the microbiota actively contribute to disease onset and progression …

Habitat and taxon as driving forces of carbohydrate catabolism in marine heterotrophic bacteria: example of the model algae‐associated bacterium Zobellia galactanivorans Dsij …

T Barbeyron, F Thomas, V Barbe… - Environmental …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The marine flavobacterium Zobellia galactanivorans DsijT was isolated from a red alga and
by now constitutes a model for studying algal polysaccharide bioconversions. We present an …

Estradiol-Treated Female Mice as Surrogate Hosts for Neisseria gonorrhoeae Genital Tract Infections

AE Jerse, H Wu, M Packiam, RA Vonck… - Frontiers in …, 2011 - frontiersin.org
Historically, animal modeling of gonorrhea has been hampered by the exclusive adaptation
of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to humans. Genital tract infection can be established in female …

Streptomyces coelicolor vesicles: many molecules to be delivered

T Faddetta, G Renzone, A Vassallo… - Applied and …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Streptomyces coelicolor is a model organism for the study of Streptomyces, a genus of Gram-
positive bacteria that undergoes a complex life cycle and produces a broad repertoire of …

Neisseria gonorrhoeae co-opts C4b-binding protein to enhance complement-independent survival from neutrophils

LM Werner, A Alcott, F Mohlin, JC Ray… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Gc) is a human-specific pathogen that causes the sexually
transmitted infection gonorrhea. Gc survives in neutrophil-rich gonorrheal secretions, and …

Nitric Oxide in Chemostat-Cultured Escherichia coli Is Sensed by Fnr and Other Global Regulators: Unaltered Methionine Biosynthesis Indicates Lack of S Nitrosation

ST Pullan, MD Gidley, RA Jones, J Barrett… - Journal of …, 2007 - Am Soc Microbiol
We previously elucidated the global transcriptional responses of Escherichia coli to the
nitrosating agent S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO) in both aerobic and anaerobic chemostats …

Widespread distribution in pathogenic bacteria of di-iron proteins that repair oxidative and nitrosative damage to iron-sulfur centers

TW Overton, MC Justino, Y Li, JM Baptista… - Journal of …, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
Expression of two genes of unknown function, Staphylococcus aureus scdA and Neisseria
gonorrhoeae dnrN, is induced by exposure to oxidative or nitrosative stress. We show that …