Recent advances in understanding enteric pathogenic Escherichia coli

MA Croxen, RJ Law, R Scholz… - Clinical microbiology …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Although Escherichia coli can be an innocuous resident of the gastrointestinal tract, it also
has the pathogenic capacity to cause significant diarrheal and extraintestinal diseases …

Pathogenicity Factors of Genomic Islands in Intestinal and Extraintestinal Escherichia coli

M Desvaux, G Dalmasso, R Beyrouthy… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Escherichia coli is a versatile bacterial species that includes both harmless commensal
strains and pathogenic strains found in the gastrointestinal tract in humans and warm …

Bacterial antimicrobial metal ion resistance

JL Hobman, LC Crossman - Journal of medical …, 2015 - microbiologyresearch.org
Metals such as mercury, arsenic, copper and silver have been used in various forms as
antimicrobials for thousands of years with until recently, little understanding of their mode of …

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 …

The evolution of the Escherichia coli phylogeny

RR Chaudhuri, IR Henderson - Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 2012 - Elsevier
Escherichia coli is familiar to biologists as a classical model system, ubiquitous in molecular
biology laboratories around the world. Outside of the laboratory, E. coli strains exist as an …

Identification of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) clades with long-term global distribution

A von Mentzer, TR Connor, LH Wieler, T Semmler… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC), a major cause of infectious diarrhea, produce heat-
stable and/or heat-labile enterotoxins and at least 25 different colonization factors that target …

Discovery of the curcumin metabolic pathway involving a unique enzyme in an intestinal microorganism

A Hassaninasab, Y Hashimoto… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Polyphenol curcumin, a yellow pigment, derived from the rhizomes of a plant (Curcuma
longa Linn) is a natural antioxidant exhibiting a variety of pharmacological activities and …

Production and function of immunoglobulin A

TW Hand, A Reboldi - Annual review of immunology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Among antibodies, IgA is unique because it has evolved to be secreted onto mucosal
surfaces. The structure of IgA and the associated secretory component allow IgA to survive …

The opportunistic nature of gut commensal microbiota

P Dey, S Ray Chaudhuri - Critical reviews in microbiology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The abundance of gut commensals has historically been associated with health-promoting
effects despite the fact that the definition of good or bad microbiota remains condition …

Caenorhabditis elegans, a model organism for investigating immunity

EK Marsh, RC May - Applied and environmental microbiology, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has been a powerful experimental organism for
almost half a century. Over the past 10 years, researchers have begun to exploit the power …