ReviewWorld journal of microbiology & biotechnology2016
Inorganic polyphosphate in the microbial world. Emerging roles for a multifaceted biopolymer.
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- Polyphosphate in Bone Tissue Engineering: From Molecular Mechanisms to Material Design.Journal of functional biomaterials · 2026Review
- A Novel Polyphosphate-Degrading Enzyme Confers Growth on Exogenous Polyphosphate in the Archaeon Haloferax volcanii.Environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- Polyphosphate Attenuates Oxidative Stress to Support Temperature Adaptability in Hot Spring Cyanobacteria.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Glycogen phase-separation drives macromolecular rearrangement and asymmetric division in E. coli.The EMBO journal · 2025Article
- Effect of phosphate availability on the dynamics of polyphosphate accumulation in microalgae.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Glycogen phase separation drives macromolecular rearrangement and asymmetric division inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Polyphosphate from Lactic Acid Bacteria: A Functional Molecule for Food and Health Applications.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Distinctive physiology of polyphosphate-accumulatingApplied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- Role of Polyphosphate as an Inorganic Chaperone to Prevent Protein Aggregation Under Copper Stress inMicroorganisms · 2024Article
- Ppn2 Polyphosphatase Improves the Ability ofJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Fluoride and gallein regulate polyphosphate accumulation in dental caries-associatedMicrobiology (Reading, England) · 2024Article
- In vitro and in vivo activities of scutellarein, a novel polyphosphate kinase 1 inhibitor against Acinetobacter baumannii infection.Microbial cell factories · 2024Article
- Demystifying polyphosphate-accumulating organisms relevant to wastewater treatment: A review of their phylogeny, metabolism, and detection.Environmental science and ecotechnology · 2024Review
- Prospects of phosphate solubilizing microorganisms in sustainable agriculture.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2024Review
- Current understandings of colibactin regulation.Microbiology (Reading, England) · 2024Review
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- Functional characterization of the gonococcal polyphosphate pseudo-capsule.PLoS pathogens · 2023Article
- Polyphosphate kinase 1 is involved in formation, the morphology and ultramicrostructure of biofilm ofHeliyon · 2023Article
- On the potential roles of phosphorus in the early evolution of energy metabolism.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Review
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Abstract
Inorganic polyphosphates (polyP) are linear polymers of tens to hundreds orthophosphate residues linked by phosphoanhydride bonds. These fairly abundant biopolymers occur in all extant forms of life, from prokaryotes to mammals, and could have played a relevant role in prebiotic evolution. Since the first identification of polyP deposits as metachromatic or volutin granules in yeasts in the nineteenth century, an increasing number of varied physiological functions have been reported. Due to their "high energy" bonds analogous to those in ATP and their properties as polyanions, polyP serve as microbial phosphagens for a variety of biochemical reactions, as a buffer against alkalis, as a storage of Ca(2+) and as a metal-chelating agent. In addition, recent studies have revealed polyP importance in signaling and regulatory processes, cell viability and proliferation, pathogen virulence, as a structural component and chemical chaperone, and as modulator of microbial stress response. This review summarizes the current status of knowledge and future perspectives of polyP functions and their related enzymes in the microbial world.
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