Bacterial Metallostasis: Metal Sensing, Metalloproteome Remodeling, and Metal Trafficking

DA Capdevila, JJ Rondón, KA Edmonds… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Transition metals function as structural and catalytic cofactors for a large diversity of proteins
and enzymes that collectively comprise the metalloproteome. Metallostasis considers all …

Aminoglycoside uptake, stress, and potentiation in Gram-negative bacteria: new therapies with old molecules

M Lang, A Carvalho, Z Baharoglu… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Aminoglycosides (AGs) are long-known molecules successfully used against Gram-negative
pathogens. While their use declined with the discovery of new antibiotics, they are now …

Intermittent antibiotic treatment of bacterial biofilms favors the rapid evolution of resistance

M Usui, Y Yoshii, S Thiriet-Rupert, JM Ghigo… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Bacterial antibiotic resistance is a global health concern of increasing importance and
intensive study. Although biofilms are a common source of infections in clinical settings, little …

[HTML][HTML] An overview of the recent advances in antimicrobial resistance

M Oliveira, W Antunes, S Mota… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), frequently considered a major global public health threat,
requires a comprehensive understanding of its emergence, mechanisms, advances, and …

Bacteria exposed to antiviral drugs develop antibiotic cross-resistance and unique resistance profiles

VJ Wallace, EG Sakowski, SP Preheim… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Antiviral drugs are used globally as treatment and prophylaxis for long-term and acute viral
infections. Even though antivirals also have been shown to have off-target effects on …

Conserved 5-methyluridine tRNA modification modulates ribosome translocation

JD Jones, MK Franco, RN Giles, DE Eyler… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
While the centrality of posttranscriptional modifications to RNA biology has long been
acknowledged, the function of the vast majority of modified sites remains to be discovered …

Biosynthesis and function of 7-deazaguanine derivatives in bacteria and phages

V de Crécy-Lagard, G Hutinet… - Microbiology and …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Deazaguanine modifications play multifaceted roles in the molecular biology of DNA and
tRNA, sha** diverse yet essential biological processes, including the nuanced fine-tuning …

Epitranscriptomic rRNA fingerprinting reveals tissue-of-origin and tumor-specific signatures

I Milenkovic, S Cruciani, L Llovera, MC Lucas… - Molecular Cell, 2025 - cell.com
Mammalian ribosomal RNA (rRNA) molecules are highly abundant RNAs, decorated with
over 220 rRNA modifications. Previous works have shown that some rRNA modification …

What's the matter with MICs: Bacterial nutrition, limiting resources, and antibiotic pharmacodynamics

BA Berryhill, T Gil-Gil, JA Manuel, AP Smith… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
The MIC of an antibiotic required to prevent replication is used both as a measure of the
susceptibility/resistance of bacteria to that drug and as the single pharmacodynamic …

High-throughput method characterizes hundreds of previously unknown antibiotic resistance mutations

MJ Jago, JK Soley, S Denisov, CJ Walsh… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
A fundamental obstacle to tackling the antimicrobial resistance crisis is identifying mutations
that lead to resistance in a given genomic background and environment. We present a high …