Tissue repair in myxobacteria: A cooperative strategy to heal cellular damage

Sibling Rivalry in Myxococcus xanthus Is Mediated by Kin Recognition and a Polyploid Prophage

(2016) Arup Dey et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Tunneling nanotubes mediate rescue of prematurely senescent endothelial cells by endothelial progenitors: exchange of lysosomal pool

(2016) Kaoru Yasuda et al.   Aging-US

Transfer of mitochondria via tunneling nanotubes rescues apoptotic PC12 cells

(2015) X Wang et al.   CELL DEATH AND DIFFERENTIATION

Seeing is believing: novel imaging techniques help clarify microbial nanowire structure and function

(2015) Derek R. Lovley et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Emerging physiological and pathological implications of tunneling nanotubes formation between cells

(2015) Sajjad Sisakhtnezhad et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Reducing systems protecting the bacterial cell envelope from oxidative damage

(2015) Isabelle S. Arts et al.   FEBS LETTERS

How Myxobacteria Cooperate

(2015) Pengbo Cao et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Supramolecular assemblies underpin turnover of outer membrane proteins in bacteria

(2015) Patrice Rassam et al.   NATURE

Outer-membrane vesicles from Gram-negative bacteria: biogenesis and functions

(2015) Carmen Schwechheimer et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Cell rejuvenation and social behaviors promoted by LPS exchange in myxobacteria

(2015) Christopher Vassallo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Entry and exit of bacterial outer membrane proteins

(2015) Rajeev Misra   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Metabolic cross-feeding via intercellular nanotubes among bacteria

(2015) Samay Pande et al.   Nature Communications

Nutritional stress induces exchange of cell material and energetic coupling between bacterial species

(2015) Saida Benomar et al.   Nature Communications

Biosynthesis and Export of Bacterial Lipopolysaccharides

(2014) Chris Whitfield et al.   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Determinants and Functions of Mitochondrial Behavior

(2014) Katherine Labbé et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Dealing with damage: Plasma membrane repair mechanisms

(2014) Annette Draeger et al.   BIOCHIMIE

A Genetic Screen in Myxococcus xanthus Identifies Mutants That Uncouple Outer Membrane Exchange from a Downstream Cellular Response

(2014) A. Dey et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Myxobacteria Produce Outer Membrane-Enclosed Tubes in Unstructured Environments

(2014) X. Wei et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Bacterial solutions to multicellularity: a tale of biofilms, filaments and fruiting bodies

(2014) Dennis Claessen et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Tumor-stromal cross talk: direct cell-to-cell transfer of oncogenic microRNAs via tunneling nanotubes

(2014) Venugopal Thayanithy et al.   Translational Research

Biofilms Formed by Gram-Negative Bacteria Undergo Increased Lipid A Palmitoylation, Enhancing In Vivo Survival

(2014) S. Chalabaev et al.   mBio

A bird’s-eye view of autophagy

(2013) Petro Starokadomskyy et al.   Autophagy

Bacterial biofilm development as a multicellular adaptation: antibiotic resistance and new therapeutic strategies

(2013) César de la Fuente-Núñez et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

MicroRNAs Transfer from Human Macrophages to Hepato-Carcinoma Cells and Inhibit Proliferation

(2013) A. Aucher et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Kissing and nanotunneling mediate intermitochondrial communication in the heart

(2013) X. Huang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dual Molecular Signals Mediate the Bacterial Response to Outer-Membrane Stress

(2013) S. Lima et al.   SCIENCE

H-Ras transfers from B to T cells via tunneling nanotubes

(2013) N Rainy et al.   Cell Death & Disease

Molecular Recognition by a Polymorphic Cell Surface Receptor Governs Cooperative Behaviors in Bacteria

(2013) Darshankumar T. Pathak et al.   PLoS Genetics

On the cause of aging and control of lifespan

(2012) Vadim N. Gladyshev   BIOESSAYS

Production of Outer Membrane Vesicles and Outer Membrane Tubes by Francisella novicida

(2012) W. D. McCaig et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Identification of the cglC, cglD, cglE, and cglF Genes and Their Role in Cell Contact-Dependent Gliding Motility in Myxococcus xanthus

(2012) D. T. Pathak et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Different Modalities of Intercellular Membrane Exchanges Mediate Cell-to-cell P-glycoprotein Transfers in MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cells

(2012) Jennifer Pasquier et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Cell Contact–Dependent Outer Membrane Exchange in Myxobacteria: Genetic Determinants and Mechanism

(2012) Darshankumar T. Pathak et al.   PLoS Genetics

Multifaceted Roles of Tunneling Nanotubes in Intercellular Communication

(2012) Ludovica Marzo et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Wound Repair: Toward Understanding and Integration of Single-Cell and Multicellular Wound Responses

(2011) Kevin J. Sonnemann et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Uncovering the Mystery of Gliding Motility in the Myxobacteria

(2011) Beiyan Nan et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Resistance of bacterial biofilms to disinfectants: a review

(2011) A. Bridier et al.   BIOFOULING

Evidence of direct cell-cell fusion in Borrelia by cryogenic electron tomography

(2011) Mikhail Kudryashev et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Outer membrane continuity and septosome formation between vegetative cells in the filaments of Anabaena sp. PCC 7120

(2011) Laura Wilk et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Just scratching the surface: an expanding view of the Cpx envelope stress response

(2011) Stefanie L. Vogt et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

OmpT Outer Membrane Proteases of Enterohemorrhagic and Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Contribute Differently to the Degradation of Human LL-37

(2011) Jenny-Lee Thomassin et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Heterologous protein transfer within structured myxobacteria biofilms

(2011) Xueming Wei et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Cell-to-cell transport via the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum

(2011) Deborah A. Barton et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Biological Functions and Biogenesis of Secreted Bacterial Outer Membrane Vesicles

(2010) Adam Kulp et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Protein Quality Control in the Bacterial Periplasm

(2010) Melisa Merdanovic et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Mesenchymal stem cells rescue cardiomyoblasts from cell death in an in vitro ischemia model via direct cell-to-cell connections

(2010) Attila Cselenyák et al.   BMC CELL BIOLOGY

Tunneling-nanotube development in astrocytes depends on p53 activation

(2010) Y Wang et al.   CELL DEATH AND DIFFERENTIATION

Cytoplasm and organelle transfer between mesenchymal multipotent stromal cells and renal tubular cells in co-culture

(2010) Egor Y. Plotnikov et al.   EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH

Membrane tubules attach Salmonella  Typhimurium to eukaryotic cells and bacteria

(2010) Svetlana I. Galkina et al.   FEMS IMMUNOLOGY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Mechanisms of cellular communication through intercellular protein transfer

(2010) Khawaja Ashfaque Ahmed et al.   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE

Direct Exchange of Electrons Within Aggregates of an Evolved Syntrophic Coculture of Anaerobic Bacteria

(2010) Z. M. Summers et al.   SCIENCE

The Bacterial Cell Envelope

(2010) T. J. Silhavy et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Integration of Single and Multicellular Wound Responses

(2009) Andrew G. Clark et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Mitochondrial ‘kiss-and-run’: interplay between mitochondrial motility and fusion–fission dynamics

(2009) Xingguo Liu et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Intercellular exchange of proteins: The immune cell habit of sharing

(2009) Oded Rechavi et al.   FEBS LETTERS

An ABC transport system that maintains lipid asymmetry in the Gram-negative outer membrane

(2009) J. C. Malinverni et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

FLO1 Is a Variable Green Beard Gene that Drives Biofilm-like Cooperation in Budding Yeast

(2008) Scott Smukalla et al.   CELL

Regulation by destruction: design of the σE envelope stress response

(2008) Sarah E Ades   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Mechanism of intercellular molecular exchange in heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria

(2008) Conrad W Mullineaux et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Tunneling nanotube (TNT)-like structures facilitate a constitutive, actomyosin-dependent exchange of endocytic organelles between normal rat kidney cells☆

(2008) Steffen Gurke et al.   EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH

Structural basis for the regulated protease and chaperone function of DegP

(2008) Tobias Krojer et al.   NATURE

Membrane lipid homeostasis in bacteria

(2008) Yong-Mei Zhang et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Asymmetric segregation of protein aggregates is associated with cellular aging and rejuvenation

(2008) A. B. Lindner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA