New ribosome-inactivating proteins and other proteins with protein synthesis–inhibiting activities

JH Wong, H Bao, TB Ng, HHL Chan, CCW Ng… - Applied microbiology …, 2020 - Springer
Ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) consist of three varieties. Type 1 RIPs are single-
chained and approximately 30-kDa in molecular weight. Type 2 RIPs are double-chained …

Effect of host fruit, temperature and Wolbachia infection on survival and development of Ceratitis capitata immature stages

NK Dionysopoulou, SA Papanastasiou, GA Kyritsis… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae), holds an impressive
record of successful invasions promoted by the growth and development of international fruit …

Drosophila melanogaster Transcriptome Response to Different Wolbachia Strains

NE Gruntenko, MA Deryuzhenko… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Wolbachia is a maternally inherited, intercellular bacterial symbiont of insects and some
other invertebrates. Here, we investigated the effect of two different Wolbachia strains …

Diverse toxin repertoire but limited metabolic capacities inferred from the draft genome assemblies of three Spiroplasma (Citri clade) strains associated with …

P Ramirez, H Martinez Montoya, R Aramayo, M Mateos - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Spiroplasma (Class Mollicutes) is a diverse wall-less bacterial genus whose members are
strictly dependent on eukaryotic hosts (mostly arthropods and plants), with which they …

Preliminary Characterization of Phage-Like Particles from the Male-Killing Mollicute Spiroplasma poulsonii (an Endosymbiont of Drosophila)

P Ramirez, JC Leavitt, JJ Gill, M Mateos - Current Microbiology, 2023 - Springer
Bacteriophages are vastly abundant, diverse, and influential, but with few exceptions (eg the
Proteobacteria genera Wolbachia and Hamiltonella), the role of phages in heritable bacteria …