Chromobacterium violaceum delivers violacein, a hydrophobic antibiotic, to other microbes in membrane vesicles

Violacein Targets the Cytoplasmic Membrane of Bacteria

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The Cytotoxic Necrotizing Factor of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis (CNFy) is Carried on Extracellular Membrane Vesicles to Host Cells

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Antibacterial mode of action of violacein from Chromobacterium violaceum UTM5 against Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

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Membrane vesicle-mediated bacterial communication

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Staphylococcus aureus extracellular vesicles (EVs): surface-binding antagonists of biofilm formation

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Combined Application of Bacterial Predation and Violacein to Kill Polymicrobial Pathogenic Communities

(2017) Hansol Im et al.   Scientific Reports

Bacterial membrane vesicles transport their DNA cargo into host cells

(2017) Natalie J. Bitto et al.   Scientific Reports

Caenorhabditis elegans employs innate and learned aversion in response to bacterial toxic metabolites tambjamine and violacein

(2016) Francesco Ballestriero et al.   Scientific Reports

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

(2015) Carmen Schwechheimer et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

High-level production of violacein by the newly isolated Duganella violaceinigra str. NI28 and its impact on Staphylococcus aureus

(2015) Seong Yeol Choi et al.   Scientific Reports

Violacein: Properties and Production of a Versatile Bacterial Pigment

(2015) Seong Yeol Choi et al.   Biomed Research International

Production of Outer Membrane Vesicles by the Plague Pathogen Yersinia pestis

(2014) Justin L. Eddy et al.   PLoS One

Antinematode Activity of Violacein and the Role of the Insulin/IGF-1 Pathway in Controlling Violacein Sensitivity in Caenorhabditis elegans

(2014) Francesco Ballestriero et al.   PLoS One

Towards an understanding of bacterial metabolites prodigiosin and violacein and their potential for use in commercial sunscreens

(2014) R. K. Suryawanshi et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COSMETIC SCIENCE

Stress-Induced Outer Membrane Vesicle Production by Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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Synergistic antimicrobial profiling of violacein with commercial antibiotics against pathogenic micro-organisms

(2013) Shankar Subramaniam et al.   PHARMACEUTICAL BIOLOGY

Isolation and characterization of a novel violacein-like pigment producing psychrotrophic bacterial species Janthinobacterium svalbardensis sp. nov

(2012) Jerneja Ambrožič Avguštin et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Membrane Vesicle Formation as a Multiple-Stress Response Mechanism Enhances Pseudomonas putida DOT-T1E Cell Surface Hydrophobicity and Biofilm Formation

(2012) Thomas Baumgarten et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Offense and defense: microbial membrane vesicles play both ways

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Microbial production of the drugs violacein and deoxyviolacein: analytical development and strain comparison

(2011) André L. Rodrigues et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS

Antibacterial activity of violacein against Staphylococcus aureus isolated from Bovine Mastitis

(2011) Luciana Lacorte Cazoto et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIBIOTICS

Purple-Pigmented Violacein-Producing Duganella spp. Inhabit the Rhizosphere of Wild and Cultivated Olives in Southern Spain

(2011) Sergio Aranda et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

The Bacterially Produced Metabolite Violacein Is Associated with Survival of Amphibians Infected with a Lethal Fungus

(2009) M. H. Becker et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Skin microbes on frogs prevent morbidity and mortality caused by a lethal skin fungus

(2009) Reid N Harris et al.   ISME Journal

Violacein-Producing Collimonas sp. from the Sea Surface Microlayer of Costal Waters in Trøndelag, Norway

(2009) Sigrid Hakvåg et al.   Marine Drugs

A Quorum-Sensing Antagonist Targets Both Membrane-Bound and Cytoplasmic Receptors and Controls Bacterial Pathogenicity

(2009) Lee R. Swem et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Production of violet pigment by a newly isolated psychrotrophic bacterium from a glacier in Xinjiang, China

(2008) Yuan Lu et al.   BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL

Amphibian Chemical Defense: Antifungal Metabolites of the Microsymbiont Janthinobacterium lividum on the Salamander Plethodon cinereus

(2008) Robert M. Brucker et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY