Cells within cells: Rickettsiales and the obligate intracellular bacterial lifestyle

J Salje - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021‏ - nature.com
The Rickettsiales are a group of obligate intracellular vector-borne Gram-negative bacteria
that include many organisms of clinical and agricultural importance, including Anaplasma …

[HTML][HTML] The bacterial pangenome as a new tool for analysing pathogenic bacteria

L Rouli, V Merhej, PE Fournier, D Raoult - New microbes and new …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
The bacterial pangenome was introduced in 2005 and, in recent years, has been the subject
of many studies. Thanks to progress in next-generation sequencing methods, the …

Tick-borne rickettsioses around the world: emerging diseases challenging old concepts

P Parola, CD Paddock, D Raoult - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2005‏ - journals.asm.org
During most of the 20th century, the epidemiology of tick-borne rickettsioses could be
summarized as the occurrence of a single pathogenic rickettsia on each continent. An …

Toxin–antitoxin loci are highly abundant in free-living but lost from host-associated prokaryotes

DP Pandey, K Gerdes - Nucleic acids research, 2005‏ - academic.oup.com
Prokaryotic chromosomes code for toxin–antitoxin (TA) loci, often in multiple copies. In E.
coli, experimental evidence indicates that TA loci are stress-response elements that help …

The ADP/ATP translocator is not essential for the mitochondrial permeability transition pore

JE Kokoszka, KG Waymire, SE Levy, JE Sligh, J Cai… - Nature, 2004‏ - nature.com
A sudden increase in permeability of the inner mitochondrial membrane, the so-called
mitochondrial permeability transition, is a common feature of apoptosis and is mediated by …

Genome sequences of the human body louse and its primary endosymbiont provide insights into the permanent parasitic lifestyle

EF Kirkness, BJ Haas, W Sun, HR Braig… - Proceedings of the …, 2010‏ - pnas.org
As an obligatory parasite of humans, the body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus) is an
important vector for human diseases, including epidemic typhus, relapsing fever, and trench …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial minimalism: genome reduction in bacterial pathogens

NA Moran - Cell, 2002‏ - cell.com
When bacterial lineages make the transition from free-living or facultatively parasitic life
cycles to permanent associations with hosts, they undergo a major loss of genes and DNA …

Phylogenomics of the Reproductive Parasite Wolbachia pipientis wMel: A Streamlined Genome Overrun by Mobile Genetic Elements

M Wu, LV Sun, J Vamathevan, M Riegler, R Deboy… - PLoS …, 2004‏ - journals.plos.org
The complete sequence of the 1,267,782 bp genome of Wolbachia pipientis w Mel, an
obligate intracellular bacteria of Drosophila melanogaster, has been determined …

Diversity of bacterial type II toxin–antitoxin systems: a comprehensive search and functional analysis of novel families

R Leplae, D Geeraerts, R Hallez… - Nucleic acids …, 2011‏ - academic.oup.com
Type II toxin–antitoxin (TA) systems are generally composed of two genes organized in an
operon, encoding a labile antitoxin and a stable toxin. They were first discovered on …

Is Q fever an emerging or re-emerging zoonosis?

N Arricau-Bouvery, A Rodolakis - Veterinary research, 2005‏ - hal.science
Q fever is a zoonotic disease considered as emerging or re-emerging in many countries. It is
caused by Coxiella burnetii, a bacterium develo** spore-like forms that are highly …