Stress physiology of lactic acid bacteria

K Papadimitriou, Á Alegría, PA Bron… - Microbiology and …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are important starter, commensal, or pathogenic microorganisms.
The stress physiology of LAB has been studied in depth for over 2 decades, fueled mostly by …

Small RNAs in bacteria and archaea: who they are, what they do, and how they do it

EGH Wagner, P Romby - Advances in genetics, 2015 - Elsevier
Small RNAs are ubiquitously present regulators in all kingdoms of life. Most bacterial and
archaeal small RNAs (sRNAs) act by antisense mechanisms on multiple target mRNAs …

Genome-Wide Identification of Regulatory RNAs in the Human Pathogen Clostridium difficile

OA Soutourina, M Monot, P Boudry, L Saujet… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Clostridium difficile is an emergent pathogen, and the most common cause of nosocomial
diarrhea. In an effort to understand the role of small noncoding RNAs (sRNAs) in C. difficile …

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 …

Control of Virulence by Small RNAs in Streptococcus pneumoniae

B Mann, T van Opijnen, J Wang, C Obert… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Small noncoding RNAs (sRNAs) play important roles in gene regulation in both prokaryotes
and eukaryotes. Thus far, no sRNA has been assigned a definitive role in virulence in the …

Grad‐seq in a Gram‐positive bacterium reveals exonucleolytic sRNA activation in competence control

J Hör, G Garriss, S Di Giorgio, LM Hack… - The EMBO …, 2020 - embopress.org
RNA–protein interactions are the crucial basis for many steps of bacterial gene expression,
including post‐transcriptional control by small regulatory RNA s (sRNA s). In stark contrast to …

Small regulatory RNAs from low-GC Gram-positive bacteria

S Brantl, R Brückner - RNA biology, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) that act by base-pairing were first discovered in so-called
accessory DNA elements—plasmids, phages, and transposons—where they control …

Comparative analyses of selection operating on nontranslated intergenic regions of diverse bacterial species

HA Thorpe, SC Bayliss, LD Hurst, EJ Feil - Genetics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
To date, the existing very large genome sequence datasets of many bacterial species have
not been exploited to quantify the strength and direction of... Nontranslated intergenic …

Grad-seq identifies KhpB as a global RNA-binding protein in Clostridioides difficile that regulates toxin production

V Lamm-Schmidt, M Fuchs, J Sulzer, M Gerovac… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Much of our current knowledge about cellular RNA–protein complexes in bacteria is derived
from analyses in gram-negative model organisms, with the discovery of RNA-binding …

Post-vaccine epidemiology of serotype 3 pneumococci identifies transformation inhibition through prophage-driven alteration of a non-coding RNA

MJ Kwun, AV Ion, HC Cheng, JC D'Aeth, S Dougan… - Genome Medicine, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background The respiratory pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae (the
pneumococcus) is a genetically diverse bacterium associated with over 101 …