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  • The study provides insights into how insects and their endosymbionts can manipulate plant defences.

    • Andrea Du Toit
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 22, P: 188

  • This study describes Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus trimeric fibre proteins with diverse adhesive tips that enable the identification of a broad range of prey.

    • Andrea Du Toit
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 22, P: 119

  • This study reports that intracellular cord formation by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an important feature of early pathogenesis.

    • Andrea Du Toit
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 21, P: 769

  • This study provides insights into the mechanism whereby Citrobacter rodentium transitions from the intestinal lumen to its mucosal niche.

    • Andrea Du Toit
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 21, P: 552

  • This study reports how fluid flow is linked to changes in gene expression in bacterial pathogens.

    • Andrea Du Toit
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 21, P: 277

  • Oomycetes use a slicing mechanism depending on polarized hyphae to invade plant hosts.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 19, P: 549

    • Elitza I. Tocheva
    • Davi R. Ortega
    • Grant J. Jensen
    Correspondence
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 14, P: 600

  • This study uncovers how Yersinia pestis is protected from engulfment by macrophages by the capsule-like antigen F1.

    • Andrea Du Toit
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 318

    • Andrea Du Toit
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 16, P: 394

    • Andrea Du Toit
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 16, P: 521

    • Majda Bratovič
    Research Highlights
    Nature Chemical Biology
    Volume: 17, P: 749

  • This study shows that gut bacteria accumulate host-targeted drugs intracellularly, which affects the therapeutic effect of the drug as well as metabolite secretion of the accumulating bacteria without much having an impact on bacterial growth.

    • Andrea Du Toit
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 19, P: 682

  • This study suggests that two syntrophic Clostridium species can fuse and exchange cellular material, creating hybrid cells.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 18, P: 604

  • Upon host colonization, increased vesiculation accelerates the modulation of the cell surface composition of Vibrio cholerae, which confers resistance to host-derived antimicrobial peptides and bile.

    • Andrea Du Toit
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 18, P: 122-123

  • This study shows that a subpopulation of bacteria assumes a hypermutable phenotype during antibiotic treatment, which accelerates resistance development.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 17, P: 398-399

  • The results of this study suggest that the Mla pathway may be involved in anterograde phospholipid transport to the bacterial outer membrane.

    • Andrea Du Toit
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 17, P: 528

  • This study shows that bacteria can maintain efficient chemotaxis in the presence of obstacles by reducing their tumbling frequency.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 17, P: 462-463

  • A recent study finds that cell growth and division in Staphylococcus aureus are regulated by an amidase that cleaves peptides from uncrosslinked peptidoglycan and a partner protein.

    • Ashley York
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 18, P: 122

  • This study describes a novel fungus-related microbial eukaryote that infects marine diatoms.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 18, P: 62-63

  • An early effector of Chlamydia pneumoniae induces curvature of the host plasma membrane, which is sensed by a key regulator of endocytosis that is subsequently recruited to promote internalization of the pathogen.

    • Andrea Du Toit
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 18, P: 192-193

  • This study identifies the first effector of contractile injection systems with nuclease activity that targets eukaryotic organisms.

    • Andrea Du Toit
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 17, P: 529

  • This study shows that surface-attached bacteria modulate flagellar rotation to promote persistence at the surface.

    • Andrea Du Toit
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 18, P: 3

  • This study reports that the intracellular c-di-GMP levels are reduced in Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium during infection of macrophages to promote survival.

    • Andrea Du Toit
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 17, P: 335

  • This study shows that antibiotic persistence in Salmonella enterica can arise through slow growth alone without the need of previously suggested mechanisms.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 17, P: 589

  • A recent study reports a force-independent form of flow-sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

    • Ashley York
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 17, P: 398-399

  • This study reports a mechanism whereby a Staphylococcus aureus protease induces itch by activating a host receptor on sensory neurons in the skin.

    • Andrea Du Toit
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 22, P: 61

  • Computational, molecular and structural analyses reveal the presence of bacterial histones that bind DNA to form dense, DNA-enveloping fibres in Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus.

    • Bibhusita Pani
    • Evgeny Nudler
    News & Views
    Nature Microbiology
    Volume: 8, P: 1939-1941

  • This study provides evidence that lipopolysaccharides are pushed from the inner membrane to the outer membrane of the bacterial cell envelope over a protein bridge.

    • Katharine H. Wrighton
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 16, P: 184-185

  • This study shows that ATP depletion lowers the antibiotic target activity and thus functions as a general mechanism for the formation of persisters.

    • Andrea Du Toit
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 15, P: 194

  • Two new studies investigate how bacteria respond with slow or no growth during unfavourable conditions.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 17, P: 266-267

  • Two new studies investigate cell division in the human pathogensChlamydia trachomatis and Borreliaspp.

    • Naomi Attar
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 14, P: 605

  • This study identifies an emergent phenotype that enables Escherichia coli to escape near-lethal concentrations of antibiotics.

    • Ashley York
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 17, P: 64

  • Two new studies provide a structural basis to help us understand the periodic assembly of cyanobacterial clock proteins.

    • Ashley York
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 15, P: 256-257

  • This study investigates the benefits of division of labour during extracellular matrix production within biofilms and show that both genetic and phenotypic strategies for a division of labour promote biofilm formation.

    • Ashley York
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 16, P: 454-455

  • Two new studies provide insights into the assembly of the division machinery.

    • Andrea Du Toit
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 16, P: 716-717

  • This study found that when filamentous actinomycetes are exposed to osmotic stress they extrude previously undetected cell wall-deficient cells, termed S-cells, that enable actinomycetes to thrive under hyperosmotic stress conditions.

    • Andrea Du Toit
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 17, P: 65

    • Karin Kuehnel
    Research Highlights
    Nature Chemical Biology
    Volume: 14, P: 1

    • Rachel David
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 11, P: 4

  • A new study shows that a unique tetrameric form of c-di-GMP controls development inStreptomyces venezuelaeby mediating dimerization of a transcription factor.

    • Christina Tobin Kåhrström
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 12, P: 724-725