A study in Nature Genetics uses organotypic gut models to reveal genome-wide genetic determinants of Shigella colonization, spotlighting type III secretion system effectors as crucial for early ...

Following quality filtering, high-throughput sequencing was performed on distinct soil bacterial 16S rRNAs in the PV field, resulting in 979,402 clean reads. The number of genuine high-quality ...

The story of Arctic animal survival is one of nature’s most remarkable demonstrations of adaptation and resilience. Through sophisticated physiological mechanisms, behavioral strategies, and ...

The General Stress Response promotes survival of bacteria in adverse conditions ... from diverse sensor domains to control the General Stress Response and other signaling across bacterial phyla. This ...

School of Medicine, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510006, China ...

In summary, this study highlights the immune system’s diverse and surprising arsenal of antimicrobial effectors, some of which are specifically designed to target intracellular bacteria and prevent ...

Antimicrobial resistance has emerged as a critical global health challenge requiring urgent multidisciplinary interventions. Pathogenic bacteria utilize six principal resistance mechanisms: (1) ...

Innovation Research Center for AIE Pharmaceutical Biology, Guangzhou Municipal and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Target & Clinical Pharmacology, the NMPA and State Key Laboratory of ...

Several of these microorganisms have developed efficient ways in which to exploit host molecules, along with molecular pathways to ensure their survival, differentiation and replication in host cells.

When antibiotics are widely used in hospitals, they create an environment where resistant strains of bacteria are more likely to survive and multiply. These hardy survivors can then share their ...