Small RNAs in bacteria and archaea: who they are, what they do, and how they do it

EGH Wagner, P Romby - Advances in genetics, 2015 - Elsevier
Small RNAs are ubiquitously present regulators in all kingdoms of life. Most bacterial and
archaeal small RNAs (sRNAs) act by antisense mechanisms on multiple target mRNAs …

[HTML][HTML] Comparing bioinformatic gene expression profiling methods: microarray and RNA-Seq

KJ Mantione, RM Kream, H Kuzelova… - … science monitor basic …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Understanding the control of gene expression is critical for our understanding of the
relationship between genotype and phenotype. The need for reliable assessment of …

Comprehensive Essentiality Analysis of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Genome via Saturating Transposon Mutagenesis

MA DeJesus, ER Gerrick, W Xu, SW Park, JE Long… - MBio, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
For decades, identifying the regions of a bacterial chromosome that are necessary for
viability has relied on map** integration sites in libraries of random transposon mutants to …

Genome sequencing of 161 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from China identifies genes and intergenic regions associated with drug resistance

H Zhang, D Li, L Zhao, J Fleming, N Lin, T Wang… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
The worldwide emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant
(XDR) tuberculosis threatens to make this disease incurable,. Drug resistance mechanisms …

PE/PPE proteins mediate nutrient transport across the outer membrane of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Q Wang, HIM Boshoff, JR Harrison, PC Ray, SR Green… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis has an unusual outer membrane that lacks canonical porin
proteins for the transport of small solutes to the periplasm. We discovered that 3, 3-bis-di …

Genome-wide map** of transcriptional start sites defines an extensive leaderless transcriptome in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

T Cortes, OT Schubert, G Rose, KB Arnvig, I Comas… - Cell reports, 2013 - cell.com
Deciphering physiological changes that mediate transition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
between replicating and nonreplicating states is essential to understanding how the …

Global Assessment of Genomic Regions Required for Growth in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

YJ Zhang, TR Ioerger, C Huttenhower, JE Long… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Identifying genomic elements required for viability is central to our understanding of the
basic physiology of bacterial pathogens. Recently, the combination of high-density …

Mycobacterial dormancy systems and host responses in tuberculosis

V Peddireddy, SN Doddam, N Ahmed - Frontiers in immunology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Tuberculosis (TB) caused by the intracellular pathogen, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb),
claims more than 1.5 million lives worldwide annually. Despite promulgation of multipronged …

[HTML][HTML] The Mtb proteome library: a resource of assays to quantify the complete proteome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

OT Schubert, J Mouritsen, C Ludwig, HL Röst… - Cell host & …, 2013 - cell.com
Research advancing our understanding of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) biology and
complex host-Mtb interactions requires consistent and precise quantitative measurements of …

The PhoP-Dependent ncRNA Mcr7 Modulates the TAT Secretion System in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

L Solans, J Gonzalo-Asensio, C Sala, A Benjak… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The PhoPR two-component system is essential for virulence in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
where it controls expression of approximately 2% of the genes, including those for the ESX-1 …