Taxonomy, physiology, and natural products of Actinobacteria

EA Barka, P Vatsa, L Sanchez… - Microbiology and …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Actinobacteria are Gram-positive bacteria with high G+ C DNA content that constitute one of
the largest bacterial phyla, and they are ubiquitously distributed in both aquatic and …

Streptomyces morphogenetics: dissecting differentiation in a filamentous bacterium

K Flärdh, MJ Buttner - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2009 - nature.com
During the life cycle of the filamentous bacteria Streptomyces, morphological differentiation
is closely integrated with fundamental growth and cell-cycle processes, as well as with truly …

The complex extracellular biology of Streptomyces

KF Chater, S Biró, KJ Lee, T Palmer… - FEMS microbiology …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Streptomycetes, soil-dwelling mycelial bacteria that form sporulating aerial branches, have
an exceptionally large number of predicted secreted proteins, including many exported via …

Sortases and the art of anchoring proteins to the envelopes of gram-positive bacteria

LA Marraffini, AC DeDent… - … and molecular biology …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
The cell wall envelopes of gram-positive bacteria represent a surface organelle that not only
functions as a cytoskeletal element but also promotes interactions between bacteria and …

Hydrophobins: the protein-amphiphiles of filamentous fungi

MB Linder, GR Szilvay, T Nakari-Setälä… - FEMS microbiology …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Hydrophobins are surface active proteins produced by filamentous fungi. They have a role in
fungal growth as structural components and in the interaction of fungi with their environment …

Natural products in soil microbe interactions and evolution

MF Traxler, R Kolter - Natural product reports, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2015 In recent years, bacterial interspecies interactions mediated by small
molecule natural products have been found to give rise to a surprising array of phenotypes …

[HTML][HTML] The role of functional amyloids in bacterial virulence

N Van Gerven, SE Van der Verren, DM Reiter… - Journal of molecular …, 2018 - Elsevier
Amyloid fibrils are best known as a product of human and animal protein misfolding
disorders, where amyloid formation is associated with cytotoxicity and disease. It is now …

Diversity, biogenesis and function of microbial amyloids

LP Blanco, ML Evans, DR Smith, MP Badtke… - Trends in …, 2012 - cell.com
Amyloid is a distinct β-sheet-rich fold that many proteins can acquire. Frequently associated
with neurodegenerative diseases in humans, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and …

Signals and regulators that govern Streptomyces development

JR McCormick, K Flärdh - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Streptomyces coelicolor is the genetically best characterized species of a populous genus
belonging to the gram-positive Actinobacteria. Streptomycetes are filamentous soil …

Two decades of studying functional amyloids in microorganisms

SA Levkovich, E Gazit, DL Bar-Yosef - Trends in Microbiology, 2021 - cell.com
In the past two decades, amyloids, typically associated with human diseases, have been
described to play various functional roles in nearly all life forms. The structural and functional …