Legionnaires' Disease: State of the Art Knowledge of Pathogenesis Mechanisms of Legionella

S Mondino, S Schmidt, M Rolando… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Legionella species are environmental gram-negative bacteria able to cause a severe form of
pneumonia in humans known as Legionnaires' disease. Since the identification of …

Type IV secretion in Gram‐negative and Gram‐positive bacteria

E Grohmann, PJ Christie, G Waksman… - Molecular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Type IV secretion systems (T4SSs) are versatile multiprotein nanomachines spanning the
entire cell envelope in Gram‐negative and Gram‐positive bacteria. They play important …

Regulation of small gtpases by gefs, gaps, and gdis

J Cherfils, M Zeghouf - Physiological reviews, 2013 - journals.physiology.org
Small GTPases use GDP/GTP alternation to actuate a variety of functional switches that are
pivotal for cell dynamics. The GTPase switch is turned on by GEFs, which stimulate …

A novel probe for phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate reveals multiple pools beyond the Golgi

GRV Hammond, MP Machner, T Balla - Journal of Cell Biology, 2014 - rupress.org
Abbreviations used in this paper: ANOVA, analysis of variance; FKBP, FK506 binding
protein; FRB, FKBP12-rapamycin binding; iRFP, infra-RFP; nMDP, normalized mean …

Polyphosphoinositide binding domains: Key to inositol lipid biology

GRV Hammond, T Balla - Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular …, 2015 - Elsevier
Polyphosphoinositides (PPIn) are an important family of phospholipids located on the
cytoplasmic leaflet of eukaryotic cell membranes. Collectively, they are critical for the …

RabGEFs are a major determinant for specific Rab membrane targeting

J Blümer, J Rey, L Dehmelt, T Mazel, YW Wu… - Journal of Cell …, 2013 - rupress.org
Vesicular trafficking in eukaryotes is an important process for the intracellular transport of
molecules such as soluble proteins, membrane receptors, or neurotransmitters. The spatial …

Formation of a pathogen vacuole according to Legionella pneumophila: how to kill one bird with many stones

I Finsel, H Hilbi - Cellular microbiology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
L egionella species are ubiquitous, waterborne bacteria that thrive in numerous ecological
niches. Yet, in contrast to many other environmental bacteria, L egionella spp. are also able …

An update on genetically encoded lipid biosensors

GRV Hammond, MMC Ricci, CC Weckerly… - Molecular biology of the …, 2022 - molbiolcell.org
Specific lipid species play central roles in cell biology. Their presence or enrichment in
individual membranes can control properties or direct protein localization and/or activity …

Structural and functional characterization of the two phosphoinositide binding sites of PROPPINs, a β-propeller protein family

R Krick, RA Busse, A Scacioc, M Stephan… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - pnas.org
β-propellers that bind polyphosphoinositides (PROPPINs), a eukaryotic WD-40 motif-
containing protein family, bind via their predicted β-propeller fold the polyphosphoinositides …

Bacterial Type IV secretion systems: versatile virulence machines

DE Voth, LJ Broederdorf, JG Graham - Future microbiology, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Many bacterial pathogens employ multicomponent protein complexes to deliver
macromolecules directly into their eukaryotic host cell to promote infection. Some Gram …