Bacterial siderophores in community and host interactions

J Kramer, Ö Özkaya, R Kümmerli - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2020 - nature.com
Iron is an essential trace element for most organisms. A common way for bacteria to acquire
this nutrient is through the secretion of siderophores, which are secondary metabolites that …

Soil health and sustainable agriculture

M M. Tahat, K M. Alananbeh, Y A. Othman… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
A healthy soil acts as a dynamic living system that delivers multiple ecosystem services,
such as sustaining water quality and plant productivity, controlling soil nutrient recycling …

The rhizosphere microbiome: significance of plant beneficial, plant pathogenic, and human pathogenic microorganisms

R Mendes, P Garbeva… - FEMS microbiology …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Microbial communities play a pivotal role in the functioning of plants by influencing their
physiology and development. While many members of the rhizosphere microbiome are …

Targeting virulence: can we make evolution-proof drugs?

RC Allen, R Popat, SP Diggle, SP Brown - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2014 - nature.com
Antivirulence drugs are a new type of therapeutic drug that target virulence factors,
potentially revitalising the drug-development pipeline with new targets. As antivirulence …

Beyond iron: non-classical biological functions of bacterial siderophores

TC Johnstone, EM Nolan - Dalton Transactions, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Bacteria secrete small molecules known as siderophores to acquire iron from their
surroundings. For over 60 years, investigations into the bioinorganic chemistry of these …

Micro-scale determinants of bacterial diversity in soil

M Vos, AB Wolf, SJ Jennings… - FEMS microbiology …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Soil habitats contain vast numbers of microorganisms and harbor a large portion of the
planet's biological diversity. Although high-throughput sequencing technologies continue to …

Iron acquisition systems of gram-negative bacterial pathogens define TonB-dependent pathways to novel antibiotics

PE Klebba, SMC Newton, DA Six, A Kumar… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Iron is an indispensable metabolic cofactor in both pro-and eukaryotes, which engenders a
natural competition for the metal between bacterial pathogens and their human or animal …

Division of labor in biofilms: the ecology of cell differentiation

JV Gestel, H Vlamakis, R Kolter - Microbial Biofilms, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
One of the most remarkable features of the evolutionary process is its capacity to construct.
In billions of years a primordial soup of organic compounds evolved to the theater of life …

Evolutionary dynamics of natural product biosynthesis in bacteria

MG Chevrette, K Gutiérrez-García… - Natural product …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2008 up to 2019 The forces of biochemical adaptive evolution operate at the level
of genes, manifesting in complex phenotypes and the global biodiversity of proteins and …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence attenuation by inhibiting siderophore functions

GJ Jeong, F Khan, S Khan, N Tabassum… - Applied Microbiology …, 2023 - Springer
Pseudmonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative bacterium known to be ubiquitous and
recognized as one of the leading causes of infections such as respiratory, urinary tract …