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B regulates IS256-mediated Staphylococcus aureus biofilm phenotypic variation
Valle Turrillas, Jaione
; Vergara Irigaray, Marta ; Merino, Nekane; Penadés, José R.; Lasa Uzcudun, Íñigo (American Society for Microbiology, 2007)
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Biofilm formation in Staphylococcus aureus is subject to phase variation, and biofilm-negative derivatives emerge sporadically from a biofilm-positive bacterial population. To date, the only known mechanism for generating ... -
Bacillus thuringiensis toxins: an overview of their biocidal activity
Palma Dovis, Leopoldo; Muñoz, Delia ; Berry, Colin; Murillo Martínez, Jesús ; Caballero Murillo, Primitivo (MDPI, 2014)
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Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is a Gram positive, spore-forming bacterium that synthesizes parasporal crystalline inclusions containing Cry and Cyt proteins, some of which are toxic against a wide range of insect orders, ... -
Bap, a biofilm matrix protein of Staphylococcus aureus prevents cellular internalization through binding to GP96 host receptor
Valle Turrillas, Jaione; Latasa Osta, Cristina ; Gil Puig, Carmen ; Toledo Arana, Alejandro ; Solano Goñi, Cristina ; Penadés, José R.; Lasa Uzcudun, Íñigo (Public Library of Science, 2012)
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The biofilm matrix, composed of exopolysaccharides, proteins, nucleic acids and lipids, plays a well-known role as a defence structure, protecting bacteria from the host immune system and antimicrobial therapy. However, ... -
Bap, a Staphylococcus aureus surface protein involved in biofilm formation
Cucarella, Carme; Solano Goñi, Cristina; Valle Turrillas, Jaione ; Amorena Zabalza, Beatriz ; Lasa Uzcudun, Íñigo ; Penadés, José R. (American Society for Microbiology, 2001)
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Identification of new genes involved in biofilm formation is needed to understand the molecular basis of strain variation and the pathogenic mechanisms implicated in chronic staphylococcal infections. A biofilm-producing ... -
Base pairing interaction between 5′- and 3′-UTRs controls icaR mRNA translation in Staphylococcus aureus
Ruiz de los Mozos Aliaga, Igor; Vergara Irigaray, Marta ; Segura, Víctor; Villanueva San Martín, Maite ; Bitarte, Nerea ; Saramago, Margarida; Domingues, Susana; Arraiano, Cecilia M.; Fechter, Pierre; Romby, Pascale; Valle Turrillas, Jaione ; Solano Goñi, Cristina ; Lasa Uzcudun, Íñigo ; Toledo Arana, Alejandro (Public Library of Science, 2013)
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The presence of regulatory sequences in the 39 untranslated region (39-UTR) of eukaryotic mRNAs controlling RNA stability and translation efficiency is widely recognized. In contrast, the relevance of 39-UTRs in bacterial ... -
Beta-lactam antibiotics induce the SOS response and horizontal transfer of virulence factors in Staphylococcus aureus
Maiques, Elisa; Ubeda, Carles; Campoy Sánchez, Susana; Salvador, Noelia; Lasa Uzcudun, Íñigo; Novick, Richard P.; Barbé, Jordi; Penadés, José R. (American Society for Microbiology, 2006)
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Antibiotics that interfere with DNA replication and cell viability activate the SOS response. In Staphylococcus aureus, the antibiotic-induced SOS response promotes replication and high-frequency horizontal transfer ... -
Binding of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis Cry4Ba to Cyt1Aa has an important role in synergism
(Elsevier, 2011) Artículo / Artikulua
Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis (Bti) produces at least four different crystal proteins that are specifically toxic to different mosquito species and that belong to two non-related family of toxins, Cry and ... -
Biofilm dispersion and quorum sensing
Solano Goñi, Cristina; Echeverz Sarasúa, Maite ; Lasa Uzcudun, Íñigo (Elsevier, 2014)
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Biofilm development and quorum sensing are closely interconnected processes. Biofilm formation is a cooperative group behaviour that involves bacterial populations living embedded in a self produced extracellular matrix. ... -
Biofilm matrix exoproteins induce a protective immune response against Staphylococcus aureus biofilm infection
Gil Puig, Carmen; Solano Goñi, Cristina ; Burgui Erice, Saioa ; Latasa Osta, Cristina ; García Martínez, Begoña ; Toledo Arana, Alejandro ; Lasa Uzcudun, Íñigo ; Valle Turrillas, Jaione (American Society for Microbiology, 2014)
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The Staphylococcus aureus biofilm mode of growth is associated with several chronic infections that are very difficult to treat due to the recalcitrant nature of biofilms to clearance by antimicrobials. Accordingly, there ... -
Biofilm switch and immune response determinants at early stages of infection
Valle Turrillas, Jaione; Solano Goñi, Cristina ; García Martínez, Begoña ; Toledo Arana, Alejandro ; Lasa Uzcudun, Íñigo (Elsevier (Cell Press), 2013)
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Biofilm development is recognized as a major virulence factor underlying most chronic bacterial infections. When a biofilm community is established, planktonic cells growing in the surroundings of a tissue switch to a ... -
Both free indole-3-acetic acid and photosynthetic performance are important players in the response of Medicago truncatula to urea and ammonium nutrition under axenic conditions
Esteban Terradillos, Raquel; Royo Castillejo, Beatriz; Urarte Rodríguez, Estíbaliz; Zamarreño, Ángel M.; García Mina, José M.; Morán Juez, José Fernando (Frontiers Media, 2016)
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We aimed to identify the early stress response and plant performance of Medicago truncatula growing in axenic medium with ammonium or urea as the sole source of nitrogen, with respect to nitrate-based nutrition. Biomass ... -
Brucella abortus ornithine lipids are dispensable outer membrane components devoid of a marked pathogen-associated molecular pattern
Palacios Chaves, Leyre; Conde Álvarez, Raquel; Gil Ramírez, Yolanda; Zúñiga Ripa, Amaia; Barquero-Calvo, Elías; Chacón Díaz, Carlos; Chaves Olarte, Esteban; Arce Gorvel, Vilma; Gorvel, Jean-Pierre; Moreno, Edgardo; Miguel, María Jesús de; Grilló Dolset, María Jesús; Moriyón Uría, Ignacio; Iriarte, Maite (Public Library of Science, 2011)
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The brucellae are alpha-Proteobacteria facultative intracellular parasites that cause an important zoonosis. These bacteria escape early detection by innate immunity, an ability associated to the absence of marked ... -
Brucellosis vaccines: assessment of brucella melitensis lipopolysaccharide rough mutants defective in core and O-polysaccharide synthesis and export
González, David; Grilló Dolset, María Jesús; Miguel, María Jesús de; Ali, Tara; Arce Gorvel, Vilma; Delrue, Rose May; Conde Álvarez, Raquel; Muñoz Álvaro, Pilar María; López Goñi, Ignacio; Iriarte, Maite; Marín, Clara M.; Weintraub, Andrej; Widmalm, Goeran; Zygmunt, Michel; Letesson, Jean-Jacques; Gorvel, Jean-Pierre; Blasco, José María; Moriyón Uría, Ignacio (Public Library of Science, 2008)
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Background: The brucellae are facultative intracellular bacteria that cause brucellosis, one of the major neglected zoonoses. In endemic areas, vaccination is the only effective way to control this disease. Brucella ... -
BvrR/BvrS-controlled outer membrane proteins Omp3a and Omp3b are not essential for Brucella abortus virulence
(American Society for Microbiology, 2007) Artículo / Artikulua
The Brucella abortus two-component regulatory system BvrR/BvrS controls the expression of outer membrane proteins (Omp) Omp3a (Omp25) and Omp3b (Omp22). Disruption of bvrS or bvrR generates avirulent mutants with altered ... -
Calcium inhibits bap-dependent multicellular behavior in Staphylococcus aureus
Arrizubieta, M. J.; Toledo Arana, Alejandro; Amorena Zabalza, Beatriz ; Penadés, José R.; Lasa Uzcudun, Íñigo (American Society for Microbiology, 2004)
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Bap (biofilm-associated protein) is a 254-kDa staphylococcal surface protein implicated in formation of biofilms by staphylococci isolated from chronic mastitis infections. The presence of potential EF-hand motifs in the ... -
Characterization of nontypable haemophilus influenzae isolates recovered from adult patients with underlying chronic lung disease reveals genotypic and phenotypic traits associated with persistent infection
Garmendia, Junkal; Viadas Martínez, Cristina; Calatayud, Laura; Mell, Joshua Chang; Martí Lliteras, Pau; Euba, Begoña; Llobet, Enrique; Gil Puig, Carmen ; Bengoechea Alonso, José Antonio; Redfield, Rosemary J.; Liñares, Josefina (Public Library of Science, 2014)
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Nontypable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) has emerged as an important opportunistic pathogen causing infection in adults suffering obstructive lung diseases. Existing evidence associates chronic infection by NTHi to the ... -
Characterization of ovine A3Z1 restriction properties against small ruminant lentiviruses (SRLVs)
Pablo Maiso, Lorena de; Glaría Ezquer, Idoia; Crespo, Helena ; Nistal Villán, Estanislao; Andrésdóttir, Valgerdur; Andrés Cara, Damián de ; Amorena Zabalza, Beatriz ; Reina Arias, Ramsés (MDPI, 2017)
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Intrinsic factors of the innate immune system include the apolipoprotein B editing enzyme catalytic polypeptide-like 3 (APOBEC3) protein family. APOBEC3 inhibits replication of different virus families by cytosine deamination ... -
A chloroplast transgenic approach to hyper-express and purify human serum albumin, a protein highly susceptible to proteolytic degradation
Fernández San Millán, Alicia; Mingo Castel, Ángel; Miller, Michael; Daniell, Henry (Wiley / Blackwell, 2003)
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Human Serum Albumin (HSA) accounts for 60% of the total protein in blood serum and it is the most widely used intravenous protein in a number of human therapies. HSA, however, is currently extracted only from blood because ... -
A chloroplast-derived Toxoplasma gondiiGRA4 antigen used as an oral vaccine protects against toxoplasmosis in mice
Yácono, María del L.; Farrán Blanch, Inmaculada; Becher, Melina L.; Sander, Valeria; Sánchez, Vanesa R.; Martín, Valentina; Veramendi Charola, Jon ; Clemente, Marina (Wiley, 2012)
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The parasitic protozoan Toxoplasma gondii, the causal agent of toxoplasmosis, can infect most mammals and birds. In human medicine, T. gondii can cause complications in pregnant women and immunodeficient individuals, while ... -
Chrysodeixis chalcites nucleopolyhedrovirus (ChchNPV): natural occurrence and efficacy as a biological insecticide on young banana plants in greenhouse and open-field conditions on the Canary Islands
Fuentes Barrera, Ernesto Gabriel; Hernández Suárez, Estrella; Simón de Goñi, Oihane; Williams, Trevor; Caballero Murillo, Primitivo (Public Library of Science, 2017)
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Chrysodeixis chalcites, an important pest of banana crops on the Canary Islands, is usually controlled by chemical insecticides. The present study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of the most prevalent isolate of the ...
