Pseudomonas aeruginosa adaptation and evolution in patients with cystic fibrosis

E Rossi, R La Rosa, JA Bartell, RL Marvig… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Intense genome sequencing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from cystic fibrosis (CF)
airways has shown inefficient eradication of the infecting bacteria, as well as previously …

Antibiotic combination therapy: a strategy to overcome bacterial resistance to aminoglycoside antibiotics

N Wang, J Luo, F Deng, Y Huang… - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
After the first aminoglycoside antibiotic streptomycin being applied in clinical practice in the
mid-1940s, aminoglycoside antibiotics (AGAs) are widely used to treat clinical bacterial …

Phage proteins target and co-opt host ribosomes immediately upon infection

M Gerovac, K Chihara, L Wicke, B Böttcher… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Bacteriophages must seize control of the host gene expression machinery to replicate. To
bypass bacterial anti-phage defence systems, this host takeover occurs immediately upon …

Compensatory evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa's slow growth phenotype suggests mechanisms of adaptation in cystic fibrosis

R La Rosa, E Rossi, AM Feist, HK Johansen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Long-term infection of the airways of cystic fibrosis patients with Pseudomonas aeruginosa
is often accompanied by a reduction in bacterial growth rate. This reduction has been …

[HTML][HTML] The many antibiotic resistance and tolerance strategies of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

D Sindeldecker, P Stoodley - Biofilm, 2021 - Elsevier
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a bacterial pathogen associated with a wide range of infections
and utilizes several strategies to establish and maintain infection including biofilm …

Aminoglycoside resistance: updates with a focus on acquired 16S ribosomal RNA methyltransferases

JI Wachino, Y Doi, Y Arakawa - Infectious Disease Clinics, 2020 - id.theclinics.com
(Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter
baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter spp) pathogens, has become a …

Compact IF2 allows initiator tRNA accommodation into the P site and gates the ribosome to elongation

RS Basu, MB Sherman, MG Gagnon - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
During translation initiation, initiation factor 2 (IF2) holds initiator transfer RNA (fMet-
tRNAifMet) in a specific orientation in the peptidyl (P) site of the ribosome. Upon subunit …

Structural basis of sequestration of the anti-Shine-Dalgarno sequence in the Bacteroidetes ribosome

V Jha, B Roy, D Jahagirdar, ZA McNutt… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Genomic studies have indicated that certain bacterial lineages such as the Bacteroidetes
lack Shine-Dalgarno (SD) sequences, and yet with few exceptions ribosomes of these …

Current knowledge and future directions in developing strategies to combat Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection

SK Dolan - Journal of molecular biology, 2020 - Elsevier
In the face of growing antimicrobial resistance, there is an urgent need for the development
of effective strategies to target Pseudomonas aeruginosa. This metabolically versatile …

Structural and mechanistic insights into the function of Leishmania ribosome lacking a single pseudouridine modification

KS Rajan, S Aryal, DG Hiregange, A Bashan… - Cell Reports, 2024 - cell.com
Leishmania is the causative agent of cutaneous and visceral diseases affecting millions of
individuals worldwide. Pseudouridine (Ψ), the most abundant modification on rRNA …