Mechanistic insights into host adaptation, virulence and epidemiology of the phytopathogen Xanthomonas

SQ An, N Potnis, M Dow, FJ Vorhölter… - FEMS microbiology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Xanthomonas is a well-studied genus of bacterial plant pathogens whose members cause a
variety of diseases in economically important crops worldwide. Genomic and functional …

Biofilm dispersion and quorum sensing

C Solano, M Echeverz, I Lasa - Current opinion in microbiology, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•Biofilm development and quorum sensing are social bacterial
behaviours.•Quorum sensing regulates genes involved in biofilm development.•Quorum …

The DSF family of cell–cell signals: an expanding class of bacterial virulence regulators

RP Ryan, S An, JH Allan, Y McCarthy, JM Dow - PLoS pathogens, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Many pathogenic bacteria use cell–cell signaling systems involving the synthesis and
perception of diffusible signal molecules to control virulence as a response to cell density or …

Cyclic di-GMP signalling and the regulation of bacterial virulence

RP Ryan - Microbiology, 2013 - microbiologyresearch.org
Signal transduction pathways involving the second messenger cyclic di-GMP [bis-(3′-5′)-
cyclic di-guanosine monophosphate] occur widely in bacteria where they act to link …

Functional genes profile of atmospheric dust in the east Mediterranean suggests widespread anthropogenic influence on aerobiome composition

D Gat, R Zimmermann, Y Rudich - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The microbiome of atmospheric dust events has raised increasing interest in the last
decade, resulting in numerous studies that characterized the different parameters affecting …

Lysobacter enzymogenes uses two distinct cell-cell signaling systems for differential regulation of secondary-metabolite biosynthesis and colony morphology

G Qian, Y Wang, Y Liu, F Xu, YW He, L Du… - Applied and …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Lysobacter enzymogenes is a ubiquitous environmental bacterium that is emerging as a
potentially novel biological control agent and a new source of bioactive secondary …

Genomics and transcriptomics of Xanthomonas campestris species challenge the concept of core type III effectome

B Roux, S Bolot, E Guy, N Denancé, M Lautier… - BMC genomics, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Background The bacterial species Xanthomonas campestris infects a wide range of
Brassicaceae. Specific pathovars of this species cause black rot (pv. campestris), bacterial …

Diffusible signal factor (DSF)-mediated quorum sensing modulates expression of diverse traits in Xanthomonas citri and responses of citrus plants to promote disease

L Li, J Li, Y Zhang, N Wang - BMC genomics, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Background The gram-negative Xanthomonas genus contains a large group of
economically important plant pathogens, which cause severe diseases on many crops …

Diffusible signal factor‐dependent quorum sensing in pathogenic bacteria and its exploitation for disease control

JM Dow - Journal of Applied Microbiology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Cell‐to‐cell signals of the diffusible signal factor (DSF) family are cis‐2‐unsaturated fatty
acids of differing chain length and branching pattern. DSF signalling has been described in …

The Putative Enoyl-Coenzyme A Hydratase DspI Is Required for Production of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm Dispersion Autoinducer cis-2-Decenoic Acid

DT Amari, CNH Marques, DG Davies - Journal of bacteriology, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
In the present study, we report the identification of a putative enoyl-coenzyme A (CoA)
hydratase/isomerase that is required for synthesis of the biofilm dispersion autoinducer cis-2 …