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ArticleMolecular microbiology2023

Shining a light on bacterial environmental cue integration and its relation to metabolism.

Yue Chen, Natalia F Quirk, Shumin Tan

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Article in Molecular microbiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Tyrosine phosphorylation coupling of one-carbon metabolism and virulence in an endogenous pathogen.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Yue ChenDepartment of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Natalia F QuirkDepartment of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Shumin TanDepartment of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1093-2576

Funding

Mycobacterium tuberculosis environmental signal integration: single cell in vivo understanding of its influence on infection heterogeneity and treatment efficacyR01AI143768 · NIAID · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI TAN, SHUMIN · 2019 to 2023
$3.0M
Elucidating the link between Mycobacterium tuberculosis potassium homeostasis and its lipid metabolism and growth in vivoR21AI171356 · NIAID · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI TAN, SHUMIN · 2022 to 2023
$454k
Unraveling the link between serine/threonine protein kinase and two-component system regulation of environment-mediated Mycobacterium tuberculosis growth arrestR21AI168597 · NIAID · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI TAN, SHUMIN · 2022 to 2023
$450k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI143768NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI168597NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI171356
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ability of a bacterium to successfully colonize its host is dependent on proper adaptation to its local environment. Environmental cues are diverse in nature, ranging from ions to bacterial-produced signals, and to host immune responses that can also be exploited by the bacteria as cues. Simultaneously, bacterial metabolism must be matched to the carbon and nitrogen sources available at a given time and location. While initial characterization of a bacterium's response to a given environmental cue or its ability to utilize a particular carbon/nitrogen source requires study of the signal in question in isolation, actual infection poses a situation where multiple signals are present concurrently. This perspective focuses on the untapped potential in uncovering and understanding how bacteria integrate their response to multiple concurrent environmental cues, and in elucidating the possible intrinsic coordination of bacterial environmental response with its metabolism.

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BacteriaCuesCarbonNitrogenCarbonNitrogenadaptationenvironmental cueshost-pathogen interactionmetabolismsignal integration

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PMID37433048
PMCPMC10348474

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