ReviewMicrobiology spectrum2016
Surviving Between Hosts: Sporulation and Transmission.
Review in Microbiology spectrum, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.
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39 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Investigating the effects of synbiotics, postbiotics and bacilli in the modulation of gut microbiota and the survival of Litopenaeus vannamei challenged with Vibrio parahaemolyticus.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2025Article
- Identification of sporulation genes in Bacillus anthracis highlights similarities and significant differences with Bacillus subtilis.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Prediction of sporulating Firmicutes from uncultured gut microbiota using SpoMAG, an ensemble learning tool.PeerJ · 2025Article
- Molecular architecture of the assembly of Bacillus spore coat protein GerQ revealed by cryo-EM.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Review
- Epiphytic and endophytic bacteria on Camellia oleifera phyllosphere: exploring region and cultivar effect.BMC ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Approaching pathogenicbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Assembling the Bacillus subtilis Spore Coat Basement Layer on Spherical Supported Lipid Bilayers.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024Article
- Analysis of Sporulation inPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Metagenomic analysis of gut microbiome and resistome of Whooper and Black Swans: a one health perspective.BMC genomics · 2023Article
- Large-Scale Identification of Known and Novel RRNPP Quorum-Sensing Systems by RRNPP_Detector Captures Novel Features of Bacterial, Plasmidic, and Viral Coevolution.Molecular biology and evolution · 2023Article
- Expression profiles of sporulation genes in multidrug-resistantExperimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.) · 2023Article
- A design of experiments screen reveals that Clostridium novyi-NT spore germinant sensing is stereoflexible for valine and its analogs.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Targeting the Impossible: A Review of New Strategies against Endospores.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Role of serine/threonine protein phosphatase PrpN in the life cycle of Bacillus anthracis.PLoS pathogens · 2022Article
- An Adaptable and Modular Set of Laboratory Exercises Connecting Genotype to Phenotype in Sporulating Bacillus subtilis.Journal of microbiology & biology education · 2021Article
- Sequence Variability of pXO1-Located Pathogenicity Genes ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Enigmatic Pilus-Like Endospore Appendages ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- Skin-penetrating nematodes exhibit life-stage-specific interactions with host-associated and environmental bacteria.BMC biology · 2021Article
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Abstract
To survive adverse conditions, some bacterial species are capable of developing into a cell type, the "spore," which exhibits minimal metabolic activity and remains viable in the presence of multiple environmental challenges. For some pathogenic bacteria, this developmental state serves as a means of survival during transmission from one host to another. Spores are the highly infectious form of these bacteria. Upon entrance into a host, specific signals facilitate germination into metabolically active replicating organisms, resulting in disease pathogenesis. In this article, we will review spore structure and function in well-studied pathogens of two genera, Bacillus and Clostridium, focusing on Bacillus anthracis and Clostridium difficile, and explore current data regarding the lifestyles of these bacteria outside the host and transmission from one host to another.
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