Pathogenicity and virulence regulation of Vibrio cholerae at the interface of host-gut microbiome interactions

A Hsiao, J Zhu - Virulence, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Gram-negative bacterium Vibrio cholerae is responsible for the severe
diarrheal pandemic disease cholera, representing a major global public health concern …

Breathing life into pathogens: the influence of oxygen on bacterial virulence and host responses in the gastrointestinal tract

B Marteyn, FB Scorza, PJ Sansonetti… - Cellular …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The gastrointestinal tract provides a variety of environmental challenges to any bacterium
seeking to successfully colonize or cause disease in a host. A major obstacle is the varied …

Bicarbonate Induces Vibrio cholerae Virulence Gene Expression by Enhancing ToxT Activity

BH Abuaita, JH Withey - Infection and immunity, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
Vibrio cholerae is a gram-negative bacterium that is the causative agent of cholera, a severe
diarrheal illness. The two biotypes of V. cholerae O1 capable of causing cholera, classical …

The LysR-Type Virulence Activator AphB Regulates the Expression of Genes in Vibrio cholerae in Response to Low pH and Anaerobiosis

G Kovacikova, W Lin, K Skorupski - Journal of bacteriology, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
AphB is a LysR-type activator that initiates the expression of the virulence cascade in Vibrio
cholerae by cooperating with the quorum-sensing-regulated activator AphA at the tcpPH …

Vibrio cholerae anaerobic induction of virulence gene expression is controlled by thiol-based switches of virulence regulator AphB

Z Liu, M Yang, GL Peterfreund… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Bacterial pathogens have evolved sophisticated signal transduction systems to coordinately
control the expression of virulence determinants. For example, the human pathogen Vibrio …

Adaptation of Vibrio cholerae to Hypoxic Environments

E Bueno, V Pinedo, F Cava - Frontiers in microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Bacteria can colonize virtually any environment on Earth due to their remarkable capacity to
detect and respond quickly and adequately to environmental stressors. Vibrio cholerae is a …

The highly variable microbiota associated to intestinal mucosa correlates with growth and hypoxia resistance of sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, submitted to different …

FJ Gatesoupe, C Huelvan, N Le Bayon, H Le Delliou… - BMC microbiology, 2016 - Springer
Background The better understanding of how intestinal microbiota interacts with fish health
is one of the key to sustainable aquaculture development. The present experiment aimed at …

The crystal structure of AphB, a virulence gene activator from Vibrio cholerae, reveals residues that influence its response to oxygen and pH

JL Taylor, RS De Silva, G Kovacikova, W Lin… - Biophysical …, 2012 - cell.com
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. The muscleblind-like protein 1
(MBNL1) is an RNA binding protein that regulates mRNA alternative splicing. It is implicated …

The Entner-Doudoroff pathway is obligatory for gluconate utilization and contributes to the pathogenicity of Vibrio cholerae

T Patra, H Koley, T Ramamurthy, AC Ghose… - Journal of …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT The Entner-Doudoroff (ED) pathway has recently been shown to play an
important role in sugar catabolism for many organisms although very little information is …

A Genome-Wide Approach to Discovery of Small RNAs Involved in Regulation of Virulence in Vibrio cholerae

ES Bradley, K Bodi, AM Ismail, A Camilli - PLoS pathogens, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Small RNAs (sRNAs) are becoming increasingly recognized as important regulators in
bacteria. To investigate the contribution of sRNA mediated regulation to virulence in Vibrio …