Surviving the acid test: responses of gram-positive bacteria to low pH

PD Cotter, C Hill - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2003 - Am Soc Microbiol
Gram-positive bacteria possess a myriad of acid resistance systems that can help them to
overcome the challenge posed by different acidic environments. In this review the most …

Stress responses in lactic acid bacteria

M Van De Guchte, P Serror, C Chervaux… - Lactic Acid Bacteria …, 2002 - Springer
Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) constitute a heterogeneous group of bacteria that are traditionally
used to produce fermented foods. The industrialization of food bio-transformations increased …

Escherichia coli acid resistance: tales of an amateur acidophile

JW Foster - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2004 - nature.com
Gastrointestinal pathogens are faced with an extremely acidic environment. Within moments,
a pathogen such as Escherichia coli O157: H7 can move from the nurturing pH 7 …

Mechanisms of acid tolerance in bacteria and prospects in biotechnology and bioremediation

Y Liu, H Tang, Z Lin, P Xu - Biotechnology advances, 2015 - Elsevier
Acidogenic and aciduric bacteria have developed several survival systems in various acidic
environments to prevent cell damage due to acid stress such as that on the human gastric …

Regulation Systems of Bacteria such as Escherichia coli in Response to Nutrient Limitation and Environmental Stresses

K Shimizu - Metabolites, 2013 - mdpi.com
An overview was made to understand the regulation system of a bacterial cell such as
Escherichia coli in response to nutrient limitation such as carbon, nitrogen, phosphate …

Deep genome annotation of the opportunistic human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae D39

J Slager, R Aprianto, JW Veening - Nucleic acids research, 2018 - academic.oup.com
A precise understanding of the genomic organization into transcriptional units and their
regulation is essential for our comprehension of opportunistic human pathogens and how …

Proton motive force disruptors block bacterial competence and horizontal gene transfer

A Domenech, AR Brochado, V Sender, K Hentrich… - Cell host & …, 2020 - cell.com
Streptococcus pneumoniae is a commensal of the human nasopharynx that can also cause
severe antibiotic-resistant infections. Antibiotics drive the spread of resistance by inducing S …

Metabolic Regulation of a Bacterial Cell System with Emphasis on Escherichia coli Metabolism

K Shimizu - International Scholarly Research Notices, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
It is quite important to understand the overall metabolic regulation mechanism of bacterial
cells such as Escherichia coli from both science (such as biochemistry) and engineering …

The fabM Gene Product of Streptococcus mutans Is Responsible for the Synthesis of Monounsaturated Fatty Acids and Is Necessary for Survival at Low pH

EM Fozo, RG Quivey Jr - Journal of bacteriology, 2004 - Am Soc Microbiol
Previously, it has been demonstrated that the membrane fatty acid composition of
Streptococcus mutans is affected by growth pH (EM Fozo and RG Quivey, Jr., Appl. Environ …

The LuxS/AI-2 Quorum-Sensing System of Streptococcus pneumoniae Is Required to Cause Disease, and to Regulate Virulence- and Metabolism-Related Genes in …

MK Yadav, JE Vidal, YY Go, SH Kim… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Objective: Streptococcus pneumoniae colonizes the nasopharynx of children, and from
nasopharynx it could migrate to the middle ear and causes acute otitis media (AOM). During …