Composition and functions of bacterial membrane vesicles

M Toyofuku, S Schild, M Kaparakis-Liaskos… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Extracellular vesicles are produced by species across all domains of life, suggesting that
vesiculation represents a fundamental principle of living matter. In Gram-negative bacteria …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging contaminants affect the microbiome of water systems—strategies for their mitigation

IB Gomes, JY Maillard, LC Simões, M Simões - NPJ Clean Water, 2020 - nature.com
The presence of emerging contaminants (ECs) in the environment has been consistently
recognized as a worldwide concern. ECs may be defined as chemicals or materials found in …

Higher abundance of core antimicrobial resistant genes in effluent from wastewater treatment plants

S Raza, H Shin, HG Hur, T Unno - Water research, 2022 - Elsevier
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) receive sewage water from a variety of sources,
including livestock farms, hospitals, industries, and households, that contain antimicrobial …

Bacterial outer membrane vesicles as potential biological nanomaterials for antibacterial therapy

W Huang, L Meng, Y Chen, Z Dong, Q Peng - Acta biomaterialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Antibiotic therapy is one of the most important approaches against bacterial infections.
However, the improper use of antibiotics and the emergence of drug resistance have …

“It takes a village”: mechanisms underlying antimicrobial recalcitrance of polymicrobial biofilms

G Orazi, GA O'Toole - Journal of Bacteriology, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Chronic infections are frequently caused by polymicrobial biofilms. Importantly, these
infections are often difficult to treat effectively in part due to the recalcitrance of biofilms to …

The extracellular vesicle generation paradox: a bacterial point of view

HM McMillan, MJ Kuehn - The EMBO Journal, 2021 - embopress.org
All bacteria produce secreted vesicles that carry out a variety of important biological
functions. These extracellular vesicles can improve adaptation and survival by relieving …

[HTML][HTML] Polymicrobial infections and biofilms: clinical significance and eradication strategies

VT Anju, S Busi, M Imchen, R Kumavath, MS Mohan… - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Biofilms are population of cells growing in a coordinated manner and exhibiting resistance
towards hostile environments. The infections associated with biofilms are difficult to control …

[HTML][HTML] Clinically relevant antibiotic resistance genes are linked to a limited set of taxa within gut microbiome worldwide

PJ Diebold, MW Rhee, Q Shi, NV Trung… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The acquisition of antimicrobial resistance (AR) genes has rendered important pathogens
nearly or fully unresponsive to antibiotics. It has been suggested that pathogens acquire AR …

[HTML][HTML] Biogenesis and biological functions of extracellular vesicles in cellular and organismal communication with microbes

Y Fang, Z Wang, X Liu, BM Tyler - Frontiers in microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) represent a prominent mechanism of transport and interaction
between cells, especially microbes. Increasing evidence indicates that EVs play a key role in …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in molecularly imprinted polymers for antibiotic analysis

G Zhao, Y Zhang, D Sun, S Yan, Y Wen, Y Wang, G Li… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
The abuse and residues of antibiotics have a great impact on the environment and
organisms, and their determination has become very important. Due to their low contents …