Published in Viruses
Adaptation of the viral life cycle to host cells is necessary for efficient viral infection and replication. This evolutionary process has contributed to the mechanism for determining the host range of viruses. Orthobornaviruses, members of the family Bornaviridae , are non-segmented, negative-strand RNA viruses, and several genotypes have been iso...
Mol Plant Pathol. 2020;00:1-17. | 1 wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/mpp 1 | INTRODUC TI ON Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a plant-parasitic fungus that causes white mould disease. It is known for its aggressive necrotrophic lifestyle, which means that the fungus actively kills the plant host cells and thrives by feeding on the dead plant material, and ...
Published in Genes
The ability of pathogenic bacteria to stably infect the host depends on their capacity to respond and adapt to the host environment and on the efficiency of their defensive mechanisms. Bacterial envelope provides a physical barrier protecting against environmental threats. It also constitutes an important sensory interface where numerous sensing sy...
Published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Staphylococcus aureus ( S. aureus ) is a pathobiont of humans as well as a multitude of animal species. The high prevalence of multi-resistant and more virulent strains of S. aureus necessitates the development of new prevention and treatment strategies for S. aureus infection. Major advances towards understanding the pathogenesis of S. aureus dise...
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Avian-origin influenza viruses overcome the bottleneck of the interspecies barrier and infect humans through the evolution of variants toward more efficient replication in mammals. The dynamic adaptation of the genetic substitutions and the correlation with the virulence of avian-origin influenza virus in patients remain largely elusive. Here, base...
Published in Frontiers in Plant Science
Ralstonia solanacearum is the causative agent of bacterial wilt disease on a wide range of plant species. Besides the numerous bacterial activities required for host invasion, those involved in the adaptation to the plant environment are key for the success of infection. R. solanacearum ability to cope with the oxidative burst produced by the plant...
Published in Microorganisms
Cryptosporidium ryanae is one of the most common species for cryptosporidiosis in cattle. However, little is known of the genetic characteristics of C. ryanae due to the lack of subtyping tools. In the present study, the 60-kDa glycoprotein ( gp60 ) gene of C. ryanae was identified in whole genome sequence data and analyzed for sequence characteris...
Published in Frontiers in Plant Science
Seeds of the parasitic weed Phelipanche ramosa are well adapted to their hosts because they germinate and form haustorial structures to connect to roots in response to diverse host-derived molecular signals. P. ramosa presents different genetic groups that are preferentially adapted to certain hosts. Since there are indications that microbes play a...
Published in Trends in microbiology
Staphylococcus aureus is an important human bacterial pathogen that has a cosmopolitan host range, including livestock, companion and wild animal species. Genomic and epidemiological studies show that S. aureus has jumped between host species many times over its evolutionary history. These jumps have involved the dynamic gain and loss of host-speci...
Published in Microorganisms
Salmonella enterica with the identical antigenic formula 6,7:c:1,5 can be differentiated biochemically and by disease syndrome. One grouping, Salmonella Paratyphi C, is currently considered a typhoidal serovar, responsible for enteric fever in humans. The human-restricted typhoidal serovars ( S. Typhi and Paratyphi A, B and C) typically display hig...
