Sneaky tactics: Ingenious immune evasion mechanisms of Bartonella

Y **, X Li, L Liu, F **u, X Yi, H Chen, X You - Virulence, 2024‏ - Taylor & Francis
Gram-negative Bartonella species are facultative intracellular bacteria that can survive in the
harsh intracellular milieu of host cells. They have evolved strategies to evade detection and …

The depths of virus exaptation

EV Koonin, M Krupovic - Current opinion in virology, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•Viruses and their components are repeatedly exapted for diverse host
functions.•Virus components are often exapted to function in antiviral defense.•Defective …

Evolutionary Timeline and Genomic Plasticity Underlying the Lifestyle Diversity in Rhizobiales

S Wang, A Meade, HM Lam, H Luo - Msystems, 2020‏ - journals.asm.org
Members of the order Rhizobiales include those capable of nitrogen fixation in nodules as
well as pathogens of animals and plants. This lifestyle diversity has important implications …

Adaptive radiations in natural populations of prokaryotes: innovation is key

M Vos, D Padfield, C Quince… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Prokaryote diversity makes up most of the tree of life and is crucial to the functioning of the
biosphere and human health. However, the patterns and mechanisms of prokaryote …

[HTML][HTML] Recombination in bacterial genomes: evolutionary trends

AE Shikov, IA Savina, AA Nizhnikov, KS Antonets - Toxins, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Bacterial organisms have undergone homologous recombination (HR) and horizontal gene
transfer (HGT) multiple times during their history. These processes could increase fitness to …

[HTML][HTML] Co-opting bacterial viruses for DNA exchange: structure and regulation of gene transfer agents

EJ Banks, TBK Le - Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Horizontal gene transfer occurs via a range of mechanisms, including transformation,
conjugation and bacteriophage transduction. Gene transfer agents (GTAs) are an …

Role of distinct type‐IV‐secretion systems and secreted effector sets in host adaptation by pathogenic Bartonella species

A Wagner, C Dehio - Cellular Microbiology, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
The α‐proteobacterial genus Bartonella comprises a large number of facultative intracellular
pathogens that share a common lifestyle hallmarked by hemotrophic infection and arthropod …

Bartonella gene transfer agent: Evolution, function, and proposed role in host adaptation

M Québatte, C Dehio - Cellular microbiology, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
The processes underlying host adaptation by bacterial pathogens remain a fundamental
question with relevant clinical, ecological, and evolutionary implications. Zoonotic …

Packaging of Dinoroseobacter shibae DNA into Gene Transfer Agent Particles Is Not Random

J Tomasch, H Wang, ATK Hall, D Patzelt… - Genome Biology and …, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
Gene transfer agents (GTAs) are phage-like particles which contain a fragment of genomic
DNA of the bacterial or archaeal producer and deliver this to a recipient cell. GTA gene …

Control of a gene transfer agent cluster in Caulobacter crescentus by transcriptional activation and anti-termination

NT Tran, TBK Le - Nature Communications, 2024‏ - nature.com
Abstract Gene Transfer Agents (GTAs) are phage-like particles that cannot self-multiply and
be infectious. Caulobacter crescentus, a bacterium best known as a model organism to …