Antimicrobial resistance in ESKAPE pathogens

DMP De Oliveira, BM Forde, TJ Kidd… - Clinical microbiology …, 2020‏ - journals.asm.org
Antimicrobial-resistant ESKAPE (E nterococcus faecium, S taphylococcus aureus, K
lebsiella pneumoniae, A cinetobacter baumannii, P seudomonas aeruginosa, and E …

A field guide to eukaryotic transposable elements

JN Wells, C Feschotte - Annual review of genetics, 2020‏ - annualreviews.org
Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile DNA sequences that propagate within genomes.
Through diverse invasion strategies, TEs have come to occupy a substantial fraction of …

Bridge RNAs direct programmable recombination of target and donor DNA

MG Durrant, NT Perry, JJ Pai, AR Jangid… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Genomic rearrangements, encompassing mutational changes in the genome such as
insertions, deletions or inversions, are essential for genetic diversity. These rearrangements …

Structural mechanism of bridge RNA-guided recombination

M Hiraizumi, NT Perry, MG Durrant, T Soma… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Insertion sequence (IS) elements are the simplest autonomous transposable elements found
in prokaryotic genomes. We recently discovered that IS110 family elements encode a …

Mobile genetic elements associated with antimicrobial resistance

SR Partridge, SM Kwong, N Firth… - Clinical microbiology …, 2018‏ - journals.asm.org
Strains of bacteria resistant to antibiotics, particularly those that are multiresistant, are an
increasing major health care problem around the world. It is now abundantly clear that both …

Metallo-β-lactamases in the age of multidrug resistance: from structure and mechanism to evolution, dissemination, and inhibitor design

G Bahr, LJ Gonzalez, AJ Vila - Chemical reviews, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the major problems in current practical medicine. The
spread of genes coding for resistance determinants among bacteria challenges the use of …

Diversity, evolution, and classification of the RNA-guided nucleases TnpB and Cas12

H Altae-Tran, SA Shmakov, KS Makarova… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - pnas.org
The TnpB proteins are transposon-associated RNA-guided nucleases that are among the
most abundant proteins encoded in bacterial and archaeal genomes, but whose functions in …

Evolutionary mining and functional characterization of TnpB nucleases identify efficient miniature genome editors

G **ang, Y Li, J Sun, Y Huo, S Cao, Y Cao, Y Guo… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
As the evolutionary ancestor of Cas12 nuclease, the transposon (IS200/IS605)-encoded
TnpB proteins act as compact RNA-guided DNA endonucleases. To explore their …

Deciphering the transfers of antibiotic resistance genes under antibiotic exposure conditions: driven by functional modules and bacterial community

Q Zhao, W Guo, H Luo, C **ng, H Wang, B Liu, Q Si… - Water Research, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Antibiotics can exert selective pressures on sludge as well as affect the emergence and
spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). However, the underlying mechanisms of …

The impact of insertion sequences on bacterial genome plasticity and adaptability

J Vandecraen, M Chandler, A Aertsen… - Critical reviews in …, 2017‏ - Taylor & Francis
Transposable elements (TE), small mobile genetic elements unable to exist independently
of the host genome, were initially believed to be exclusively deleterious genomic parasites …