Architecture, function, regulation, and evolution of α-glucans metabolic enzymes in prokaryotes

JO Cifuente, C Colleoni, R Kalscheuer… - Chemical …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Bacteria have acquired sophisticated mechanisms for assembling and disassembling
polysaccharides of different chemistry. α-d-Glucose homopolysaccharides, so-called α …

Trehalose and bacterial virulence

M Vanaporn, RW Titball - Virulence, 2020‏ - Taylor & Francis
Trehalose is a disaccharide of two D-glucose molecules linked by a glycosidic linkage,
which plays both structural and functional roles in bacteria. Trehalose can be synthesized …

Genomewide assessment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis conditionally essential metabolic pathways

Y Minato, DM Gohl, JM Thiede, JM Chacón… - …, 2019‏ - journals.asm.org
ABSTRACT A better understanding of essential cellular functions in pathogenic bacteria is
important for the development of more effective antimicrobial agents. We performed a …

Trehalose transport occurs via TreB in Listeria monocytogenes and it influences biofilm development and acid resistance

J Wu, O McAuliffe, CP O'Byrne - International Journal of Food Microbiology, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Listeria monocytogenes is a pathogenic bacterium that can inhabit a diverse range of
environmental niches. This is largely attributed to the high proportion of carbohydrate …

Sugar-phosphate toxicities

EF Boulanger, A Sabag-Daigle… - Microbiology and …, 2021‏ - journals.asm.org
Accumulation of phosphorylated intermediates during cellular metabolism can have wide-
ranging toxic effects on many organisms, including humans and the pathogens that infect …

Transposon sequencing reveals metabolic pathways essential for Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

AM Block, PC Wiegert, SB Namugenyi… - PLoS …, 2024‏ - journals.plos.org
New drugs are needed to shorten and simplify treatment of tuberculosis caused by
Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Metabolic pathways that M. tuberculosis requires for growth or …

Trehalose recycling promotes energy-efficient biosynthesis of the mycobacterial cell envelope

AA Pohane, CR Carr, J Garhyan, BM Swarts… - MBio, 2021‏ - journals.asm.org
The mycomembrane layer of the mycobacterial cell envelope is a barrier to environmental,
immune, and antibiotic insults. There is considerable evidence of mycomembrane plasticity …

Trehalose phosphate synthase complex-mediated regulation of trehalose 6-phosphate homeostasis is critical for development and pathogenesis in Magnaporthe …

X Chen, YS Abubakar, C Yang, X Wang, P Miao… - Msystems, 2021‏ - journals.asm.org
Trehalose biosynthesis pathway is a potential target for antifungal drug development, and
trehalose 6-phosphate (T6P) accumulation is widely known to have toxic effects on cells …

A putative terpene cyclase gene (CcPtc1) is required for fungal development and virulence in Cytospora chrysosperma

Y Yang, L Yu, X Qiu, D **ong, C Tian - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
Cytospora chrysosperma is a destructive plant pathogenic fungus, which causes canker
disease on numerous woody plants. However, knowledge concerning the interaction …

Trehalose‐6‐phosphate‐mediated phenotypic change in Acinetobacter baumannii

JJ Hubloher, S Zeidler, P Lamosa… - Environmental …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
The stress protectant trehalose is synthesized in Acinetobacter baumannii from UPD‐
glucose and glucose‐6‐phosphase via the OtsA/OtsB pathway. Previous studies proved that …