The population genetics of commensal Escherichia coli

O Tenaillon, D Skurnik, B Picard… - Nature reviews …, 2010‏ - nature.com
The primary habitat of Escherichia coli is the vertebrate gut, where it is the predominant
aerobic organism, living in symbiosis with its host. Despite the occurrence of recombination …

E. coli as an All-Rounder: The Thin Line Between Commensalism and Pathogenicity

A Leimbach, J Hacker, U Dobrindt - Between pathogenicity and …, 2013‏ - Springer
Escherichia coli is a paradigm for a versatile bacterial species which comprises harmless
commensal as well as different pathogenic variants with the ability to either cause intestinal …

A functional selection reveals previously undetected anti-phage defence systems in the E. coli pangenome

CN Vassallo, CR Doering, ML Littlehale… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
The ancient, ongoing coevolutionary battle between bacteria and their viruses,
bacteriophages, has given rise to sophisticated immune systems including restriction …

Engineered phage with antibacterial CRISPR–Cas selectively reduce E. coli burden in mice

YE Gencay, D Jasinskytė, C Robert, S Semsey… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Antibiotic treatments have detrimental effects on the microbiome and lead to antibiotic
resistance. To develop a phage therapy against a diverse range of clinically relevant …

Systematic exploration of Escherichia coli phage–host interactions with the BASEL phage collection

E Maffei, A Shaidullina, M Burkolter, Y Heyer… - PLoS …, 2021‏ - journals.plos.org
Bacteriophages, the viruses infecting bacteria, hold great potential for the treatment of
multidrug-resistant bacterial infections and other applications due to their unparalleled …

ClermonTy**: an easy-to-use and accurate in silico method for Escherichia genus strain phyloty**

J Beghain, A Bridier-Nahmias… - Microbial …, 2018‏ - microbiologyresearch.org
The genus Escherichia is composed of Escherichia albertii, E. fergusonii, five cryptic
Escherichia clades and E. coli sensu stricto. Furthermore, the E. coli species can be divided …

Bacterial NLR-related proteins protect against phage

EM Kibby, AN Conte, AM Burroughs, TA Nagy… - Cell, 2023‏ - cell.com
Bacteria use a wide range of immune pathways to counter phage infection. A subset of these
genes shares homology with components of eukaryotic immune systems, suggesting that …

Bacterial persistence promotes the evolution of antibiotic resistance by increasing survival and mutation rates

EM Windels, JE Michiels, M Fauvart… - The ISME …, 2019‏ - academic.oup.com
Persisters are transiently antibiotic-tolerant cells that complicate the treatment of bacterial
infections. Both theory and experiments have suggested that persisters facilitate genetic …

The microbiome of uncontacted Amerindians

JC Clemente, EC Pehrsson, MJ Blaser, K Sandhu… - Science …, 2015‏ - science.org
Most studies of the human microbiome have focused on westernized people with life-style
practices that decrease microbial survival and transmission, or on traditional societies that …