The stringent response and physiological roles of (pp) pGpp in bacteria

SE Irving, NR Choudhury, RM Corrigan - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
The stringent response is a stress signalling system mediated by the alarmones guanosine
tetraphosphate (ppGpp) and guanosine pentaphosphate (pppGpp) in response to nutrient …

Regulatory themes and variations by the stress-signaling nucleotide alarmones (p) ppGpp in bacteria

BW Anderson, DK Fung, JD Wang - Annual Review of Genetics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Bacterial stress-signaling alarmones are important components of a protective network
against diverse stresses such as nutrient starvation and antibiotic assault. pppGpp and …

ppGpp coordinates nucleotide and amino-acid synthesis in E. coli during starvation

B Wang, RA Grant, MT Laub - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
Summary (p) ppGpp is a nucleotide messenger universally produced in bacteria following
nutrient starvation. In E. coli, ppGpp inhibits purine nucleotide synthesis by targeting several …

Two P or not two P: understanding regulation by the bacterial second messengers (p) ppGpp

G Bange, DE Brodersen, A Liuzzi… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Under stressful growth conditions and nutrient starvation, bacteria adapt by synthesizing
signaling molecules that profoundly reprogram cellular physiology. At the onset of this …

The nucleotide pGpp acts as a third alarmone in Bacillus, with functions distinct from those of (p)ppGpp

J Yang, BW Anderson, A Turdiev, H Turdiev… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The alarmone nucleotides guanosine tetraphosphate and pentaphosphate, commonly
referred to as (p) ppGpp, regulate bacterial responses to nutritional and other stresses …

The nucleotide messenger (p)ppGpp is an anti-inducer of the purine synthesis transcription regulator PurR in Bacillus

BW Anderson, MA Schumacher, J Yang… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The nucleotide messenger (p) ppGpp allows bacteria to adapt to fluctuating environments by
reprogramming the transcriptome. Despite its well-recognized role in gene regulation,(p) …

Possible roles for basal levels of (p) ppGpp: growth efficiency vs. surviving stress

L Fernández-Coll, M Cashel - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Two (p) ppGpp nucleotide analogs, sometimes abbreviated simply as ppGpp, are
widespread in bacteria and plants. Their name alarmone reflects a view of their function as …

Diversity of mechanisms to control bacterial GTP homeostasis by the mutually exclusive binding of adenine and guanine nucleotides to IMP dehydrogenase

D Fernández‐Justel, Í Marcos‐Alcalde… - Protein …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
IMP dehydrogenase (IMPDH) is an essential enzyme that catalyzes the rate‐limiting step in
the guanine nucleotide pathway. In eukaryotic cells, GTP binding to the regulatory domain …

ppGpp functions as an alarmone in metazoa

D Ito, H Kawamura, A Oikawa, Y Ihara… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Guanosine 3′, 5′-bis (pyrophosphate)(ppGpp) functions as a second messenger
in bacteria to adjust their physiology in response to environmental changes. In recent years …

Molecular mechanism of regulation of the purine salvage enzyme XPRT by the alarmones pppGpp, ppGpp, and pGpp

BW Anderson, A Hao, KA Satyshur, JL Keck… - Journal of molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
The alarmones pppGpp and ppGpp mediate starvation response and maintain purine
homeostasis to protect bacteria. In the bacterial phyla Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes …