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ReviewAdvances in experimental medicine and biology2024

Clostridioides difficile Sporulation.

Mónica Serrano, Diogo Martins, Adriano O Henriques

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Review in Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Mónica SerranoInstituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Oeiras, Portugal. serrano@itqb.unl.pt.
Diogo MartinsInstituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Oeiras, Portugal.
Adriano O HenriquesInstituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Oeiras, Portugal.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Some members of the Firmicutes phylum, including many members of the human gut microbiota, are able to differentiate a dormant and highly resistant cell type, the endospore (hereinafter spore for simplicity). Spore-formers can colonize virtually any habitat and, because of their resistance to a wide variety of physical and chemical insults, spores can remain viable in the environment for long periods of time. In the anaerobic enteric pathogen Clostridioides difficile the aetiologic agent is the oxygen-resistant spore, while the toxins produced by actively growing cells are the main cause of the disease symptoms. Here, we review the regulatory circuits that govern entry into sporulation. We also cover the role of spores in the infectious cycle of C. difficile in relation to spore structure and function and the main control points along spore morphogenesis.

Indexed as

Clostridioides difficileGastrointestinal MicrobiomeHumansMorphogenesisOxygenPhysical ExaminationOxygenExosporiumIntercellular communicationMorphological checkpointsSpore coatSporulation

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PMID38175480

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