ABC transporters of antimicrobial peptides in Firmicutes bacteria - phylogeny, function and regulation

Lantibiotics: How do producers become self-protected?

(2012) Zainab Alkhatib et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

GraXSR Proteins Interact with the VraFG ABC Transporter To Form a Five-Component System Required for Cationic Antimicrobial Peptide Sensing and Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

(2011) Mélanie Falord et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

In VitroStudies Indicate a High Resistance Potential for the Lantibiotic Nisin in Staphylococcus aureus and Define a Genetic Basis for Nisin Resistance

(2011) Katy L. Blake et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Bacitracin sensing and resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

(2011) Yuuma Yoshida et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Coevolution of ABC Transporters and Two-Component Regulatory Systems as Resistance Modules against Antimicrobial Peptides in Firmicutes Bacteria

(2011) S. Dintner et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Lantibiotic Transporter Requires Cooperative Functioning of the Peptidase Domain and the ATP Binding Domain

(2011) Mami Nishie et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

NsaRS is a cell-envelope-stress-sensing two-component system of Staphylococcus aureus

(2011) S. L. Kolar et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

The dlt operon confers resistance to cationic antimicrobial peptides in Clostridium difficile

(2011) Shonna M. McBride et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Target recognition, resistance, immunity and genome mining of class II bacteriocins from Gram-positive bacteria

(2011) M. Kjos et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Antimicrobial peptide sensing and detoxification modules: unravelling the regulatory circuitry of Staphylococcus aureus

(2011) Susanne Gebhard et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Bacitracin and nisin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus: a novel pathway involving the BraS/BraR two-component system (SA2417/SA2418) and both the BraD/BraE and VraD/VraE ABC transporters

(2011) Aurélia Hiron et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Broad-spectrum antimicrobial peptide resistance by MprF-mediated aminoacylation and flipping of phospholipids

(2011) Christoph M. Ernst et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

SMART 7: recent updates to the protein domain annotation resource

(2011) I. Letunic et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Investigation of the Staphylococcus aureus GraSR Regulon Reveals Novel Links to Virulence, Stress Response and Cell Wall Signal Transduction Pathways

(2011) Mélanie Falord et al.   PLoS One

The ABC Transporter AnrAB Contributes to the Innate Resistance of Listeria monocytogenes to Nisin, Bacitracin, and Various  -Lactam Antibiotics

(2010) B. Collins et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Peptide Antibiotic Sensing and Detoxification Modules ofBacillus subtilis

(2010) Anna Staroń et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

The BceABRS Four-Component System Regulates the Bacitracin-Induced Cell Envelope Stress Response in Streptococcus mutans

(2010) J. Ouyang et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Identification of a Genetic Locus Responsible for Antimicrobial Peptide Resistance inClostridium difficile

(2010) Shonna M. McBride et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Functional Significance of the E Loop, a Novel Motif Conserved in the Lantibiotic Immunity ATP-Binding Cassette Transport Systems

(2010) K. i. Okuda et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Molecular and Genetic Characterization of a Novel Bacteriocin Locus in Enterococcus avium Isolates from Infants

(2009) D. J. Birri et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Transcriptome analysis of the responses of Staphylococcus aureus to antimicrobial peptides and characterization of the roles of vraDE and vraSR in antimicrobial resistance

(2009) Milla Pietiäinen et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Study on the dissemination of the bcrABDR cluster in Enterococcus spp. reveals that the BcrAB transporter is sufficient to confer high-level bacitracin resistance

(2009) Renata Matos et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS

Characterization of four plasmids harboured in a Lactobacillus brevis strain encoding a novel bacteriocin, brevicin 925A, and construction of a shuttle vector for lactic acid bacteria and Escherichia coli

(2009) T. Wada et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Direct stimulus perception and transcription activation by a membrane-bound DNA binding protein

(2009) Susanne Gebhard et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Cross-immunity and immune mimicry as mechanisms of resistance to the lantibiotic lacticin 3147

(2009) Lorraine A. Draper et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

MicrobesOnline: an integrated portal for comparative and functional genomics

(2009) P. S. Dehal et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Functional Analysis of the Quorum-Sensing Streptococcal Invasion Locus (sil)

(2009) Ilia Belotserkovsky et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Binding Specificity of the Lantibiotic-Binding Immunity Protein NukH

(2008) K.-i. Okuda et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Lantibiotic Immunity

(2008) Colin Hill et al.   CURRENT PROTEIN & PEPTIDE SCIENCE

Protein co-evolution, co-adaptation and interactions

(2008) Florencio Pazos et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

The identification of response regulator-specific binding sites reveals new roles of two-component systems in Bacillus cereus and closely related low-GC Gram-positives

(2008) Mark de Been et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Molecular Analysis of BcrR, a Membrane-bound Bacitracin Sensor and DNA-binding Protein fromEnterococcus faecalis

(2008) Jonathan C. Gauntlett et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Bacitracin sensing in Bacillus subtilis

(2008) Eva Rietkötter et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

The Transporter Classification Database: recent advances

(2008) M. H. Saier et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH