In the genus Pseudomonas, zinc homeostasis is mediated by a complete set of import and
export systems, whose expression is precisely controlled by three transcriptional regulators …

Industrial activities often generate by-products that are difficult to degrade, harmful to the
environment and, toxic to most of the life forms on earth. Heavy metals are toxic elements …

Toll-like receptor (TLR)-inducible zinc toxicity is a recently described macrophage
antimicrobial response used against bacterial pathogens. Here we investigated deployment …

Protist predation is a crucial biotic driver modulating bacterial populations and functional
traits. Previous studies using pure cultures have demonstrated that bacteria with copper (Cu) …

The social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum has been a preferred model organism during
the last 50 years, particularly for the study of cell motility and chemotaxis, phagocytosis and …

Innate immune cells such as macrophages and neutrophils initiate protective inflammatory
responses and engage antimicrobial responses to provide frontline defence against …

The study of metabolic changes associated with host–pathogen interactions have largely
focused on the strategies that microbes use to subvert host metabolism to support their own …

The development of industry has resulted in excessive environmental zinc exposure which
has caused various health problems in a wide range of organisms including humans. The …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a pathogenic mycobacterium that causes tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis is a significant global health concern that poses numerous clinical challenges …

Several intracellular pathogens, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, damage
endomembranes to access the cytosol and subvert innate immune responses. The host …