Archaea and the origin of eukaryotes
Nature Reviews Microbiology 16, 120 (2018).
doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2017.154
Author: Laura Eme, Anja Spang, Jonathan Lombard, Courtney W. Stairs & Thijs J. G. Ettema
Nature Reviews Microbiology15,
711–72310.1038/nrmicro.2017.133(2017)On pages 714–715 of this article, in the first paragraph of the section What do we
currently know about LECA?, the sentence “Phylogenomic and comparative genomic analyses have led to the hypothesis (Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology)
Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology - November 27, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: Laura Eme Anja Spang Jonathan Lombard Courtney W. Stairs Thijs J. G. Ettema Tags: Corrigendum Source Type: research
Functional horizontal gene transfer from bacteria to eukaryotes
Nature Reviews Microbiology 16, 67 (2018).
doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2017.137
Authors: Filip Husnik & John P. McCutcheon
Bacteria influence eukaryotic biology as parasitic, commensal or beneficial symbionts. Aside from these organismal interactions, bacteria have also been important sources of new genetic sequences through horizontal gene transfer (HGT) for eukaryotes. In this Review, we focus on gene transfers from bacteria to eukaryotes, discuss (Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology)
Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology - November 27, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: Filip Husnik John P. McCutcheon Tags: Review Source Type: research
Listeria monocytogenes: towards a complete picture of its physiology and pathogenesis
Nature Reviews Microbiology 16, 32 (2018).
doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2017.126
Authors: Lilliana Radoshevich & Pascale Cossart
Listeria monocytogenes is a food-borne pathogen responsible for a disease called listeriosis, which is potentially lethal in immunocompromised individuals. This bacterium, first used as a model to study cell-mediated immunity, has emerged over the past 20 years as a paradigm in infection biology, cell (Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology)
Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology - November 27, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: Lilliana Radoshevich Pascale Cossart Tags: Review Source Type: research
Environmental microbiology: Around the globe in 2.2 billion sequences
Nature Reviews Microbiology 16, 3 (2018).
doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2017.152
Author: Ursula Hofer
The Earth Microbiome Project has published its first comprehensive overview of global microbial diversity. The project received 27,751 samples, which originated from 43 countries and covered diverse environments ranging from ocean sediments to plant pollen. Thompson et al. isolated, amplified and sequenced 16S rRNA (Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology)
Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology - November 27, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: Ursula Hofer Tags: Research Highlight Source Type: research
Parasite development: The missing link to Plasmodium gametocytogenesis
Nature Reviews Microbiology 16, 3 (2018).
doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2017.151
Author: Ursula Hofer
Only gametocytes, the sexual forms of Plasmodium spp. parasites, can be transmitted to mosquitoes. The factors that control sexual development are incompletely understood. Marti and colleagues now identify lysophosphatidylcholine as a component in human serum that inhibits sexual development of Plasmodium falciparum. The (Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology)
Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology - November 27, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: Ursula Hofer Tags: Research Highlight Source Type: research
Bacterial Physiology: Touching base on bacterial surface sensing
Nature Reviews Microbiology 16, 3 (2018).
doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2017.150
Author: Ursula Hofer
Bacteria must have means to sense when they come into close enough contact with a surface to initiate attachment. Hug et al. now show that the flagellar motor functions as a mechanosensor. Caulobacter crescentus cells that lacked intracellular motor components were no longer (Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology)
Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology - November 27, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: Ursula Hofer Tags: Research Highlight Source Type: research
Antimicrobials: Daylight robbery by Acinetobacter
Nature Reviews Microbiology 16, 2 (2018).
doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2017.147
Author: Andrea Du Toit
Bacterial predation by Acinetobacter baylyi increases the rate of horizontal gene transfer from Escherichia coli, which leads to the acquisition of antibiotic resistance genes from prey cells. (Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology)
Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology - November 20, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: Andrea Du Toit Tags: Research Highlight Source Type: research
Evolution and genome architecture in fungal plant pathogens
Nature Reviews Microbiology 15, 771 (2017).
doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2017.143
Author: Mareike Möller & Eva H. Stukenbrock
Nature Reviews Microbiology15, 756–771 (2017)In Table 1 of this article, the species-specific hosts for both Leptosphaeria species should be crucifers (it was originally written as conifers). The mistakes have been corrected in the PDF and html (Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology)
Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology - November 10, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: Mareike M รถ ller Eva H. Stukenbrock Tags: Corrigendum Source Type: research
The enigmatic archaeal virosphere
Nature Reviews Microbiology 15, 724 (2017).
doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2017.125
Authors: David Prangishvili, Dennis H. Bamford, Patrick Forterre, Jaime Iranzo, Eugene V. Koonin & Mart Krupovic
One of the most prominent features of archaea is the extraordinary diversity of their DNA viruses. Many archaeal viruses differ substantially in morphology from bacterial and eukaryotic viruses and represent unique virus families. The distinct nature of archaeal viruses also extends to the gene composition (Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology)
Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology - November 10, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: David Prangishvili Dennis H. Bamford Patrick Forterre Jaime Iranzo Eugene V. Koonin Mart Krupovic Tags: Review Source Type: research
Archaea and the origin of eukaryotes
Nature Reviews Microbiology 15, 711 (2017).
doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2017.133
Authors: Laura Eme, Anja Spang, Jonathan Lombard, Courtney W. Stairs & Thijs J. G. Ettema
Woese and Fox's 1977 paper on the discovery of the Archaea triggered a revolution in the field of evolutionary biology by showing that life was divided into not only prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Rather, they revealed that prokaryotes comprise two distinct types of organisms, the Bacteria (Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology)
Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology - November 10, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: Laura Eme Anja Spang Jonathan Lombard Courtney W. Stairs Thijs J. G. Ettema Tags: Review Source Type: research
Environmental microbiology: Geographic coordinates guide natural product discovery
This study identifies the environmental factors that are associated with changes in bacterial secondary metabolism across natural environments on a metagenome-wide scale. (Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology)
Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology - November 10, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: Andrea Du Toit Tags: Research Highlight Source Type: research
Host response: Granzyme B's roundhouse kick against bacteria
This study identifies a new bacterial cell death pathway that is triggered by granzyme B and that can kill diverse bacteria. (Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology)
Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology - November 10, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: Ursula Hofer Tags: Research Highlight Source Type: research
A flourishing field: going back to the roots of the Archaea
Nature Reviews Microbiology 15, 705 (2017).
doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2017.144
This issue marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of the landmark article by Carl Woese and George Fox in which they proposed the Archaea as a third domain of life in addition to the Eukarya and Bacteria. (Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology)
Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology - November 10, 2017 Category: Microbiology Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
Pathogenesis of HIV-1 and Mycobacterium tuberculosis co-infection
Nature Reviews Microbiology 16, 80 (2018).
doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2017.128
Authors: Lucy C. K. Bell & Mahdad Noursadeghi
Co-infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the leading cause of death in individuals infected with HIV-1. It has long been known that HIV-1 infection alters the course of M. tuberculosis infection and substantially increases the risk of active tuberculosis (TB). It has also become (Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology)
Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology - November 7, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: Lucy C. K. Bell Mahdad Noursadeghi Tags: Review Source Type: research
The evolution of seasonal influenza viruses
Nature Reviews Microbiology 16, 60 (2018).
doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2017.146
Author: Velislava N. Petrova & Colin A. Russell (Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology)
Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology - November 7, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: Velislava N. Petrova Colin A. Russell Tags: Erratum Source Type: research
