Antibiotic resistance: turning evolutionary principles into clinical reality

DI Andersson, NQ Balaban, F Baquero… - FEMS microbiology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Antibiotic resistance is one of the major challenges facing modern medicine worldwide. The
past few decades have witnessed rapid progress in our understanding of the multiple factors …

Trans-Acting Small RNAs and Their Effects on Gene Expression in Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica

J Hör, G Matera, J Vogel, S Gottesman, G Storz - EcoSal Plus, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
The last few decades have led to an explosion in our understanding of the major roles that
small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) play in regulatory circuits and the responses to stress in …

Cross-species RNA-seq for deciphering host–microbe interactions

AJ Westermann, J Vogel - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
The human body is constantly exposed to microorganisms, which entails manifold
interactions between human cells and diverse commensal or pathogenic bacteria. The …

Highly efficient 5' capping of mitochondrial RNA with NAD+ and NADH by yeast and human mitochondrial RNA polymerase

JG Bird, U Basu, D Kuster, A Ramachandran… - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Bacterial and eukaryotic nuclear RNA polymerases (RNAPs) cap RNA with the oxidized and
reduced forms of the metabolic effector nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, NAD+ and …

The extensive m5C epitranscriptome of Thermococcus kodakarensis is generated by a suite of RNA methyltransferases that support thermophily

KA Fluke, RT Fuchs, YL Tsai, V Talbott, L Elkins… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
RNAs are often modified to invoke new activities. While many modifications are limited in
frequency, restricted to non-coding RNAs, or present only in select organisms, 5 …

A natural riboswitch scaffold with self-methylation activity

L Flemmich, S Heel, S Moreno, K Breuker… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Methylation is a prevalent post-transcriptional modification encountered in coding and non-
coding RNA. For RNA methylation, cells use methyltransferases and small organic …

NAD-capped RNAs–a redox cofactor meets RNA

M Wolfram-Schauerte, K Höfer - Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2023 - cell.com
RNA modifications immensely expand the diversity of the transcriptome, thereby influencing
the function, localization, and stability of RNA. One prominent example of an RNA …

RNA localization in prokaryotes: where, when, how, and why

M Irastortza‐Olaziregi… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Only recently has it been recognized that the transcriptome of bacteria and archaea can be
spatiotemporally regulated. All types of prokaryotic transcripts—rRNAs, tRNAs, mRNAs, and …

An RNA modification enzyme directly senses reactive oxygen species for translational regulation in Enterococcus faecalis

WL Lee, A Sinha, LN Lam, HL Loo, J Liang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Bacteria possess elaborate systems to manage reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS)
arising from exposure to the mammalian immune system and environmental stresses. Here …

The emerging role of epitranscriptome in shaping stress responses in plants

Y Dhingra, S Gupta, V Gupta, M Agarwal… - Plant Cell Reports, 2023 - Springer
Key message RNA modifications and editing changes constitute 'epitranscriptome'and are
crucial in regulating the development and stress response in plants. Exploration of the …