Pathogenicity and virulence of Listeria monocytogenes: A trip from environmental to medical microbiology

JJ Quereda, A Morón-García, C Palacios-Gorba… - Virulence, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Listeria monocytogenes is a saprophytic gram-positive bacterium, and an opportunistic
foodborne pathogen that can produce listeriosis in humans and animals. It has evolved an …

Large roles of small proteins

AT Burton, R Zeinert, G Storz - Annual Review of Microbiology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Bacterial proteins of≤ 50 amino acids, denoted small proteins or microproteins, have been
traditionally understudied and overlooked, as standard computational, biochemical, and …

[HTML][HTML] Towards the idea of molecular brains

Y Timsit, SP Grégoire - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
How can single cells without nervous systems perform complex behaviours such as
habituation, associative learning and decision making, which are considered the hallmark of …

The σB-Mediated General Stress Response of Listeria monocytogenes: Life and Death Decision Making in a Pathogen

DN Guerreiro, T Arcari, CP O'Byrne - Frontiers in microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Sensing and responding to environmental cues is critical for the adaptability and success of
the food-borne bacterial pathogen Listeria monocytogenes. A supramolecular multi-protein …

Differential stress responsiveness determines intraspecies virulence heterogeneity and host adaptation in Listeria monocytogenes

L Hafner, E Gadin, L Huang, A Frouin, F Laporte… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Microbial pathogenesis is mediated by the expression of virulence genes. However, as
microbes with identical virulence gene content can differ in their pathogenic potential, other …

Bacterial small membrane proteins: the swiss army knife of regulators at the lipid bilayer

SS Yadavalli, J Yuan - Journal of bacteriology, 2022 - journals.asm.org
Small membrane proteins represent a subset of recently discovered small proteins (≤ 100
amino acids), which are a ubiquitous class of emerging regulators underlying bacterial …

Super-resolving microscopy reveals the localizations and movement dynamics of stressosome proteins in Listeria monocytogenes

BM Tran, DS Linnik, CM Punter, WM Śmigiel… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
The human pathogen Listeria monocytogenes can cope with severe environmental
challenges, for which the high molecular weight stressosome complex acts as the sensing …

Acid stress signals are integrated into the σB-dependent general stress response pathway via the stressosome in the food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes

DN Guerreiro, MG Pucciarelli, T Tiensuu… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The general stress response (GSR) in Listeria monocytogenes plays a critical role in the
survival of this pathogen in the host gastrointestinal tract. The GSR is regulated by the …

Molecular architecture and function of the bacterial stressosome

Z Zhao, F Hajiahmadi, MS Alehashem… - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
The bacterial stressosome is a supramolecular multiprotein complex that acts as a critical
signal integration and transduction hub, orchestrating cellular responses to environmental …

Uncovering small membrane proteins in pathogenic bacteria: Regulatory functions and therapeutic potential

P Garai, A Blanc‐Potard - Molecular Microbiology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Bacterial small proteins (below 50 amino acids) encoded by small open reading frames
(sORFs) are recognized as an emerging class of functional molecules that have been …