Pseudomonas aeruginosa adaptation and evolution in patients with cystic fibrosis

E Rossi, R La Rosa, JA Bartell, RL Marvig… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Intense genome sequencing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from cystic fibrosis (CF)
airways has shown inefficient eradication of the infecting bacteria, as well as previously …

Roadmap on emerging concepts in the physical biology of bacterial biofilms: from surface sensing to community formation

GCL Wong, JD Antani, PP Lele, J Chen, B Nan… - Physical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Bacterial biofilms are communities of bacteria that exist as aggregates that can adhere to
surfaces or be free-standing. This complex, social mode of cellular organization is …

Mammalian histones facilitate antimicrobial synergy by disrupting the bacterial proton gradient and chromosome organization

T Doolin, HM Amir, L Duong, R Rosenzweig… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
First proposed as antimicrobial agents, histones were later recognized for their role in
condensing chromosomes. Histone antimicrobial activity has been reported in innate …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa transcriptome adaptations from colonization to biofilm infection of skin wounds

P D'Arpa, SLR Karna, T Chen, KP Leung - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
In burn patients Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection is a major cause of morbidity. Analysis
of the pathogen's gene expression as it transitions from colonization to acute and then …

Dual effect: high NADH levels contribute to efflux-mediated antibiotic resistance but drive lethality mediated by reactive oxygen species

A Arce-Rodríguez, D Pankratz, M Preusse, PI Nikel… - MBio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
In light of the antibiotic crisis, emerging strategies to sensitize bacteria to available
antibiotics should be explored. Several studies on the mechanisms of killing suggest that …

Pf4 Phage Variant Infection Reduces Virulence-Associated Traits in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

D Tortuel, A Tahrioui, A David, M Cambronel… - Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Pf4 is a filamentous bacteriophage integrated as a prophage into the genome of
Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1. Pf4 virions can be produced without killing P. aeruginosa …

FLIMJ: An open-source ImageJ toolkit for fluorescence lifetime image data analysis

D Gao, PR Barber, JV Chacko, MA Kader Sagar… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
In the field of fluorescence microscopy, there is continued demand for dynamic technologies
that can exploit the complete information from every pixel of an image. One imaging …

Current knowledge and future directions in developing strategies to combat Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection

SK Dolan - Journal of molecular biology, 2020 - Elsevier
In the face of growing antimicrobial resistance, there is an urgent need for the development
of effective strategies to target Pseudomonas aeruginosa. This metabolically versatile …

[HTML][HTML] From bacteria to biomedicine: Developing therapies exploiting NAD+ metabolism

Y Chen, Y Ying, J Lalsiamthara, Y Zhao, S Imani… - Bioorganic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) serves as a critical cofactor in cellular
metabolism and redox reactions. Bacterial pathways rely on NAD+ participation, where its …

Sub-Inhibitory Antibiotic Exposure and Virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

C Nolan, V Behrends - Antibiotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a prime opportunistic pathogen, one of the most important
causes of hospital-acquired infections and the major cause of morbidity and mortality in …