Bacterial cell walls are composed of the large cross‐linked macromolecule peptidoglycan,
which maintains cell shape and is responsible for resisting osmotic stresses. This is a highly …

Background Scrub typhus is a leading cause of serious febrile illness in rural Southeast Asia.
The causative agent, Orientia tsutsugamushi, is an obligate intracellular bacterium that is …

Studying emerging or neglected pathogens is often challenging due to insufficient
information and absence of genetic tools. Dual RNA-seq provides insights into host-pathogen …

Our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of bacterial infection and pathogenesis
are disproportionally derived from a small number of well-characterised species and strains. …

The rickettsial human pathogen Orientia tsutsugamushi (Ot) is an obligate intracellular Gram-negative
bacterium with one of the most highly fragmented and repetitive genomes of any …

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia MfsA (Smlt1083) is an efflux pump in the major facilitator
superfamily (MFS). Deletion of mfsA renders the strain more susceptible to paraquat, but no …

Orientia tsutsugamushi (Ot) is an obligate intracellular bacterium in the family Rickettsiaceae
that causes scrub typhus, a severe mite-borne human disease. Its mechanism of cell exit is …

Despite their clinical and biological importance, the cell biology of obligate intracellular
bacteria is less well understood than that of many free-living model organisms. One reason for …

The rickettsial human pathogen Orientia tsutsugamushi (Ot) is an obligate intracellular Gram-negative
bacterium with one of the most highly fragmented and repetitive genomes of any …

Analysis of the A. tumefaciens genome revealed estC, which encodes an esterase located
next to its transcriptional regulator estR, a regulator of esterase in the MarR family. …