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https://read.qxmd.com/read/36988509/niche-modification-by-sulfate-reducing-bacteria-drives-microbial-community-assembly-in-anoxic-marine-sediments
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Qi-Yun Liang, Jin-Yu Zhang, Daliang Ning, Wen-Xing Yu, Guan-Jun Chen, Xuanyu Tao, Jizhong Zhou, Zong-Jun Du, Da-Shuai Mu
Sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) are essential functional microbial taxa for degrading organic matter (OM) in anoxic marine environments. However, there are little experimental data regarding how SRB regulates microbial communities. Here, we applied a top-down microbial community management approach by inhibiting SRB to elucidate their contributions to the microbial community during OM degradation. Based on the highly replicated microcosms ( n  = 20) of five different incubation stages, we found that many microbial community properties were influenced after inhibiting SRB, including the composition, structure, network, and community assembly processes...
March 29, 2023: MBio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36976029/tuberculostearic-acid-controls-mycobacterial-membrane-compartmentalization
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Malavika Prithviraj, Takehiro Kado, Jacob A Mayfield, David C Young, Annie D Huang, Daisuke Motooka, Shota Nakamura, M Sloan Siegrist, D Branch Moody, Yasu S Morita
The intracellular membrane domain (IMD) is a laterally discrete region of the mycobacterial plasma membrane, enriched in the subpolar region of the rod-shaped cell. Here, we report genome-wide transposon sequencing to discover the controllers of membrane compartmentalization in Mycobacterium smegmatis. The putative gene cfa showed the most significant effect on recovery from membrane compartment disruption by dibucaine. Enzymatic analysis of Cfa and lipidomic analysis of a cfa deletion mutant (Δ cfa ) demonstrated that Cfa is an essential methyltransferase for the synthesis of major membrane phospholipids containing a C19:0 monomethyl-branched stearic acid, also known as tuberculostearic acid (TBSA)...
March 28, 2023: MBio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36976020/serinc5-mediates-a-postintegration-block-to-hiv-1-gene-expression-in-macrophages
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Pavitra Ramdas, Ajit Chande
HIV-1 antagonizes SERINC5 by redundant mechanisms, primarily through Nef and additionally via envelope glycoprotein. Paradoxically, HIV-1 preserves Nef function to ensure the exclusion of SERINC5 from virion incorporation regardless of the availability of envelope that can confer resistance, suggesting additional roles of the virion-incorporated host factor. Here, we report an unusual mode of SERINC5 action in inhibiting viral gene expression. This inhibition is observed only in the myeloid lineage cells but not in the cells of epithelial or lymphoid origin...
March 28, 2023: MBio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36976016/structural-elucidation-of-a-protective-b-cell-epitope-on-outer-surface-protein-c-ospc-of-the-lyme-disease-spirochete-borreliella-burgdorferi
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Michael J Rudolph, Simon A Davis, H M Emranul Haque, David D Weis, David J Vance, Carol Lyn Piazza, Monir Ejemel, Lisa Cavacini, Yang Wang, M Lamine Mbow, Robert D Gilmore, Nicholas J Mantis
Outer surface protein C (OspC) plays a pivotal role in mediating tick-to-host transmission and infectivity of the Lyme disease spirochete, Borreliella burgdorferi. OspC is a helical-rich homodimer that interacts with tick salivary proteins, as well as components of the mammalian immune system. Several decades ago, it was shown that the OspC-specific monoclonal antibody, B5, was able to passively protect mice from experimental tick-transmitted infection by B. burgdorferi strain B31. However, B5's epitope has never been elucidated, despite widespread interest in OspC as a possible Lyme disease vaccine antigen...
March 28, 2023: MBio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36976004/bcg-vaccination-of-health-care-workers-does-not-reduce-sars-cov-2-infections-nor-infection-severity-or-duration-a-randomized-placebo-controlled-trial
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Juana Claus, Thijs Ten Doesschate, Cheyenne Gumbs, Cornelis H van Werkhoven, Thomas W van der Vaart, Axel B Janssen, Gaby Smits, Rob van Binnendijk, Fiona van der Klis, Debbie van Baarle, Fernanda L Paganelli, Helen Leavis, Lilly M Verhagen, Simone A Joosten, Marc J M Bonten, Mihai G Netea, Janneke H H M van de Wijgert
Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination has been hypothesized to reduce severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, severity, and/or duration via trained immunity induction. Health care workers (HCWs) in nine Dutch hospitals were randomized to BCG or placebo vaccination (1:1) in March and April 2020 and followed for 1 year. They reported daily symptoms, SARS-CoV-2 test results, and health care-seeking behavior via a smartphone application, and they donated blood for SARS-CoV-2 serology at two time points...
March 28, 2023: MBio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36976000/viral-gastroenteritis-sickness-symptoms-and-behavioral-responses
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Arash Hellysaz, Magdalena Neijd, Timo Vesikari, Lennart Svensson, Marie Hagbom
Viral infections have a major impact on physiology and behavior. The clinical symptoms of human rotavirus and norovirus infection are primarily diarrhea, fever, and vomiting, but several other sickness symptoms, such as nausea, loss of appetite, and stress response are never or rarely discussed. These physiological and behavioral changes can be considered as having evolved to reduce the spread of the pathogen and increase the chances of survival of the individual as well as the collective. The mechanisms underlying several sickness symptoms have been shown to be orchestrated by the brain, specifically, the hypothalamus...
March 28, 2023: MBio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36975997/molecular-characterization-of-the-clpc-aaa-atpase-in-the-biology-of-chlamydia-trachomatis
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Stefan Pan, Aaron A Jensen, Nicholas A Wood, Beate Henrichfreise, Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt, Derek J Fisher, Peter Sass, Scot P Ouellette
Bacterial AAA+ unfoldases are crucial for bacterial physiology by recognizing specific substrates and, typically, unfolding them for degradation by a proteolytic component. The <u>c</u>aseino<u>l</u>ytic <u>p</u>rotease (Clp) system is one example where a hexameric unfoldase (e.g., ClpC) interacts with the tetradecameric proteolytic core ClpP. Unfoldases can have both ClpP-dependent and ClpP-independent roles in protein homeostasis, development, virulence, and cell differentiation...
March 28, 2023: MBio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36971557/bacterial-type-ii-secretion-system-and-its-mitochondrial-counterpart
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REVIEW
Anna Shaliutina-Loginova, Olivera Francetic, Pavel Doležal
Over the billions of years that bacteria have been around, they have evolved several sophisticated protein secretion nanomachines to deliver toxins, hydrolytic enzymes, and effector proteins into their environments. Of these, the type II secretion system (T2SS) is used by Gram-negative bacteria to export a wide range of folded proteins from the periplasm across the outer membrane. Recent findings have demonstrated that components of the T2SS are localized in mitochondria of some eukaryotic lineages, and their behavior is consistent with the presence of a mitochondrial T2SS-derived system (miT2SS)...
March 27, 2023: MBio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36971555/scaffold-scaffold-interaction-facilitates-cell-polarity-development-in-caulobacter-crescentus
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ning Lu, Samuel W Duvall, Guohong Zhao, Kimberley A Kowallis, Chao Zhang, Wei Tan, Jingxian Sun, Haley N Petitjean, Dylan T Tomares, Guo-Ping Zhao, W Seth Childers, Wei Zhao
Cell polarity development is the prerequisite for cell differentiation and generating biodiversity. In the model bacterium Caulobacter crescentus, the polarization of the scaffold protein PopZ during the predivisional cell stage plays a central role in asymmetric cell division. However, our understanding of the spatiotemporal regulation of PopZ localization remains incomplete. In the current study, a direct interaction between PopZ and the new pole scaffold PodJ is revealed, which plays a primary role in triggering the new pole accumulation of PopZ...
March 27, 2023: MBio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36946760/illuminating-siderophore-transporter-functionality-with-thiopeptide-antibiotics
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Stephen K Dolan
The Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a leading cause of infections and mortality in immunocompromised patients. This organism can overcome iron deprivation during infection via the synthesis of two iron-chelating siderophores, pyoverdine and pyochelin, which scavenge iron from host proteins. P. aeruginosa can also uptake xenosiderophores produced by other bacteria or fungi using dedicated transporter systems. The precise substrate specificity of these siderophore transporters remains to be determined...
March 22, 2023: MBio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36946730/precise-measurement-of-the-stoichiometry-of-the-adaptive-bacterial-flagellar-switch
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Antai Tao, Guangzhe Liu, Rongjing Zhang, Junhua Yuan
The cytoplasmic ring (C-ring) of the bacterial flagellar motor controls the motor rotation direction, thereby controlling bacterial run-and-tumble behavior. The C-ring has been shown to undergo adaptive remodeling in response to changes in motor directional bias. However, the stoichiometry and arrangement of the C-ring is still unclear due to contradiction between the results from fluorescence studies and cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structural analysis. Here, by using the copy number of FliG molecules (34) in the C-ring as a reference, we precisely measured the copy numbers of FliM molecules in motors rotating exclusively counterclockwise (CCW) and clockwise (CW)...
March 22, 2023: MBio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36946727/maize-antifungal-protein-afp1-elevates-fungal-chitin-levels-by-targeting-chitin-deacetylases-and-other-glycoproteins
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lay-Sun Ma, Wei-Lun Tsai, Florensia Ariani Damei, Raviraj M Kalunke, Meng-Yun Xu, Yu-Han Lin, Hui-Chun Lee
Pathogenic fungi convert chitin to chitosan to evade plant perception and disarm chitin-triggered immune responses. Whether plants have evolved factors to counteract this evasion mechanism remains obscure. Here, we decipher the mechanism underlying the antifungal activity of maize secretory mannose-binding <u>c</u>ysteine-<u>r</u>ich <u>r</u>eceptor-like <u>s</u>ecreted <u>p</u>rotein (CRRSP), antifungal protein 1 (AFP1). AFP1 binds to multiple sites on the surface of sporidial cells, filaments, and germinated spores of the biotrophic fungus Ustilago maydis...
March 22, 2023: MBio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36946726/evidence-for-the-role-of-a-second-fc-binding-receptor-in-placental-igg-transfer-in-nonhuman-primates
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yvonne J Rosenberg, Tracy Ordonez, Urjeet S Khanwalkar, Philip Barnette, Shilpi Pandey, Iara M Backes, Claire E Otero, Benjamin S Goldberg, Andrew R Crowley, David A Leib, Mariya B Shapiro, Xiaoming Jiang, Lori A Urban, Jonathan Lees, Ann J Hessell, Sallie Permar, Nancy L Haigwood, Margaret E Ackerman
Transplacental transfer of maternal antibodies provides the fetus and newborn with passive protection against infectious diseases. While the role of the highly conserved neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn) in transfer of IgG in mammals is undisputed, recent reports have suggested that a second receptor may contribute to transport in humans. We report poor transfer efficiency of plant-expressed recombinant HIV-specific antibodies, including engineered variants with high FcRn affinity, following subcutaneous infusion into rhesus macaques close to parturition...
March 22, 2023: MBio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36939357/single-cell-genomics-reveals-the-divergent-mitochondrial-genomes-of-retaria-foraminifera-and-radiolaria
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jan-Niklas Macher, Nicole L Coots, Yu-Ping Poh, Elsa B Girard, Anouk Langerak, Sergio A Muñoz-Gómez, Savar D Sinha, Dagmar Jirsová, Rutger Vos, Richard Wissels, Gillian H Gile, Willem Renema, Jeremy G Wideman
Mitochondria originated from an ancient bacterial endosymbiont that underwent reductive evolution by gene loss and endosymbiont gene transfer to the nuclear genome. The diversity of mitochondrial genomes published to date has revealed that gene loss and transfer processes are ongoing in many lineages. Most well-studied eukaryotic lineages are represented in mitochondrial genome databases, except for the superphylum Retaria-the lineage comprising Foraminifera and Radiolaria. Using single-cell approaches, we determined two complete mitochondrial genomes of Foraminifera and two nearly complete mitochondrial genomes of radiolarians...
March 20, 2023: MBio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36939339/listeria-monocytogenes-glmr-is-an-accessory-uridyltransferase-essential-for-cytosolic-survival-and-virulence
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Daniel A Pensinger, Kimberly V Gutierrez, Hans B Smith, William J B Vincent, David S Stevenson, Katherine A Black, Krizia M Perez-Medina, Joseph P Dillard, Kyu Y Rhee, Daniel Amador-Noguez, TuAnh N Huynh, John-Demian Sauer
The cytosol of eukaryotic host cells is an intrinsically hostile environment for bacteria. Understanding how cytosolic pathogens adapt to and survive in the cytosol is critical to developing novel therapeutic interventions against these pathogens. The cytosolic pathogen Listeria monocytogenes requires glmR (previously known as yvcK ), a gene of unknown function, for resistance to cell-wall stress, cytosolic survival, inflammasome avoidance, and, ultimately, virulence in vivo . In this study, a genetic suppressor screen revealed that blocking utilization of UDP N -acetylglucosamine (UDP-GlcNAc) by a nonessential wall teichoic acid decoration pathway restored resistance to lysozyme and partially restored virulence of Δ glmR mutants...
March 20, 2023: MBio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36939331/advances-and-breakthroughs-in-ires-directed-translation-and-replication-of-picornaviruses
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REVIEW
Sahibzada Waheed Abdullah, Jin'en Wu, Xuefei Wang, Huichen Guo, Shiqi Sun
Viruses lack the properties to replicate independently due to the limited resources encoded in their genome; therefore, they hijack the host cell machinery to replicate and survive. Picornaviruses get the prerequisite for effective protein synthesis through specific sequences known as internal ribosome entry sites (IRESs). In the past 2 decades, significant progress has been made in identifying different types of IRESs in picornaviruses. This review will discuss the past and current findings related to the five different types of IRESs and various internal ribosome entry site trans -acting factors (ITAFs) that either promote or suppress picornavirus translation and replication...
March 20, 2023: MBio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36939322/fetal-loss-in-pregnant-rabbits-infected-with-genotype-3-hepatitis-e-virus-is-associated-with-altered-inflammatory-responses-enhanced-virus-replication-and-extrahepatic-virus-dissemination-with-positive-correlations-with-increased-estradiol-level
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hassan M Mahsoub, C Lynn Heffron, Anna M Hassebroek, Harini Sooryanarain, Bo Wang, Tanya LeRoith, Guillermo Raimundi Rodríguez, Debin Tian, Xiang-Jin Meng
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) causes adverse clinical outcomes in pregnant women, but the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. To delineate the mechanisms of pregnancy-associated adverse effects during HEV infection, we utilized a genotype 3 HEV from rabbit (HEV-3ra) and its cognate host (rabbits) to systematically investigate the clinical consequences, viral replication dynamics, and host immune and hormonal responses of HEV infection during pregnancy. We found a significant fetal loss of 23% in HEV-infected pregnant rabbits, indicating an early-stage miscarriage...
March 20, 2023: MBio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36939321/deep-divergence-and-genomic-diversification-of-gut-symbionts-of-neotropical-stingless-bees
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Garance Sarton-Lohéac, Carlos Gustavo Nunes da Silva, Florent Mazel, Gilles Baud, Vincent de Bakker, Sudip Das, Yassine El Chazli, Kirsten Ellegaard, Marc Garcia-Garcera, Natasha Glover, Joanito Liberti, Lorena Nacif Marçal, Aiswarya Prasad, Vincent Somerville, Germán Bonilla-Rosso, Philipp Engel
Social bees harbor conserved gut microbiotas that may have been acquired in a common ancestor of social bees and subsequently codiversified with their hosts. However, most of this knowledge is based on studies on the gut microbiotas of honey bees and bumblebees. Much less is known about the gut microbiotas of the third and most diverse group of social bees, the stingless bees. Specifically, the absence of genomic data from their microbiotas presents an important knowledge gap in understanding the evolution and functional diversity of the social bee microbiota...
March 20, 2023: MBio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36927083/the-feline-immunodeficiency-virus-envelope-signal-peptide-is-a-tetherin-antagonizing-protein
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
James H Morrison, Eric M Poeschla
Signal peptides are N-terminal peptides, generally less than 30 amino acids in length, that direct translocation of proteins into the endoplasmic reticulum and secretory pathway. The envelope glycoprotein (Env) of the nonprimate lentivirus feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) contains the longest signal peptide of all eukaryotic, prokaryotic, and viral proteins (175 amino acids), yet the reason is unknown. Tetherin is a dual membrane-anchored host protein that inhibits the release of enveloped viruses from cells...
March 16, 2023: MBio
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36927061/adaptation-of-nontypeable-haemophilus-influenzae-in-human-airways-in-copd-genome-rearrangements-and-modulation-of-expression-of-hmw1-and-hmw2
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Timothy F Murphy, Charmaine Kirkham, Adonis D'Mello, Sanjay Sethi, Melinda M Pettigrew, Hervé Tettelin
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common debilitating disorder that is the third most common cause of death globally. Chronic lower airway infection by nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) in adults with COPD increases airway inflammation, causes increased symptoms, and accelerates progressive loss of lung function. Little is known about the mechanisms by which NTHi survives in COPD airways. To explore this question, the present study analyzes, in detail, 14 prospectively collected, serial isolates of a strain that persisted for 543 days in a patient with COPD, including analysis of four gap-free complete genomes...
March 16, 2023: MBio
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