Mycoplasmosis

N Ferguson‐Noel, NK Armour… - Diseases of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Avian mycoplasmosis is a collection of diseases of worldwide distribution caused by
bacteria in the genus Mycoplasma affecting several bird species. This chapter offers detailed …

Elongation factor Tu is a multifunctional and processed moonlighting protein

M Widjaja, KL Harvey, L Hagemann, IJ Berry… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Many bacterial moonlighting proteins were originally described in medically, agriculturally,
and commercially important members of the low G+ C Firmicutes. We show Elongation factor …

The application of terminomics for the identification of protein start sites and proteoforms in bacteria

IJ Berry, JR Steele, MP Padula, SP Djordjevic - Proteomics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Protein terminomics, or the study of amino acids sequences at the protein amino or carboxyl
terminus has rapidly evolved as a proteomic discipline due to significant methodological …

Novel Candidates for Vaccine Development Against Mycoplasma Capricolum Subspecies Capripneumoniae (Mccp)—Current Knowledge and Future Prospects

MI Yatoo, OR Parray, Muheet, RA Bhat, QU Nazir… - Vaccines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Exploration of novel candidates for vaccine development against Mycoplasma capricolum
subspecies capripneumoniae (Mccp), the causative agent of contagious caprine …

Repeat regions R1 and R2 in the P97 paralogue Mhp271 of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae bind heparin, fibronectin and porcine cilia

AT Deutscher, C Jenkins, FC Minion… - Molecular …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, the causative agent of porcine enzootic pneumonia, adheres
to ciliated respiratory epithelia resulting in ciliostasis and epithelial cell death. The cilium …

Post-translational processing targets functionally diverse proteins in Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae

JL Tacchi, BBA Raymond, PA Haynes… - Open …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae is a genome-reduced, cell wall-less, bacterial pathogen with a
predicted coding capacity of less than 700 proteins and is one of the smallest self-replicating …

Characterization of cleavage events in the multifunctional cilium adhesin Mhp684 (P146) reveals a mechanism by which Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae regulates …

DR Bogema, AT Deutscher, LK Woolley, LM Seymour… - MBio, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae causes enormous economic losses to swine production
worldwide by colonizing the ciliated epithelium in the porcine respiratory tract, resulting in …

Implication of glycerol and phospholipid transporters in Mycoplasma pneumoniae growth and virulence

S Großhennig, SR Schmidl, G Schmeisky… - Infection and …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Mycoplasma pneumoniae, the causative agent of atypical pneumonia, is one of the bacteria
with the smallest genomes that are nonetheless capable of independent life. Because of …

Mycoplasma lipoproteins are major determinants of neutrophil extracellular trap formation

C Cacciotto, T Cubeddu, MF Addis… - Cellular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Neutrophil granulocytes are paramount to innate responses as major effectors of acute
inflammation. Among the various strategies enacted by neutrophils to eliminate microbes …

MHJ_0125 is an M42 glutamyl aminopeptidase that moonlights as a multifunctional adhesin on the surface of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae

MW Robinson, KA Buchtmann, C Jenkins… - Open …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Bacterial aminopeptidases play important roles in pathogenesis by providing a source of
amino acids from exogenous proteins, destroying host immunological effector peptides and …