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Dipshikha Chakravortty is an Indian microbiologist, molecular pathologist and a professor at the department of Microbiology and Cell Biology at the Indian Institute of Science. Known for her studies on Salmonella and antibacterial resistance, Chakravortty is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded her the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for her contributions to biosciences, in 2010. [1] Prof. Chakravortty has been elected as an prestigious INSA Council member, which will be functional from January 2024 Prof Chakravortty is among the top3% of the Scientists in India https://www.adscientificindex.com/scientist/dipshikha-chakravortty/298893
Dipshikha Chakravortty was born in 1968 [2] at Jabalpur, in the second largest Indian state of Madhya Pradesh to Santosh Kumar Chakravortty and Bani Chakravortty. [3] Her early schooling was in Mumbai where the family had moved soon after her birth. After earning a bachelor's degree in microbiology from LAD College for Women of Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, and a master's degree in microbiology from the University of Nagpur. She did her doctoral studies, assisted by junior and senior research fellowships, under the guidance of K. S. Nandakumar at the National Centre for Cell Science which secured her a Ph.D. from Savitribai Phule Pune University. [4] Thereafter, she moved to Japan for her post-doctoral studies and completed it under the supervision of Takashi Yokochi of Aichi Medical University. Subsequently, she took up a research position at the laboratory of Michael Hensel in Erlangen, Germany, and worked there on an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship. On her return to India in 2004, she joined the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) as a faculty, [5] where she holds the position of a professor. [4] At IISc, she has established her laboratory, Molecular Pathogenesis Lab [6] and hosts a number of researchers and scholars. [7]
Chakravortty resides at IISc Campus, in Bengaluru, Karnataka. [2]
Chakravortty's research focus is on antibacterial resistance with special emphasis on Salmonella [5] and she is known to have done work on the pathogenesis of Salmonella Typhimurium, a gram negative bacterium pathogen. [8] Her laboratory works on diseases such as Typhoid, and the host-pathogen interaction with regard to the disease, with a view to develop a vaccine with a long-time memory against the pathogen. [6] The team led by her has been successful in developing a treatment protocol for sepsis which uses a Bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein, a type of glycoprotein, which has been found to neutralize the bacterial endotoxin, one of the primary causative factors of sepsis. [9] Her studies have been documented by way of a number of articles [10] [note 1] and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 169 of them. [11] Besides, she has contributed chapters to books edited by others. [12] She has also mentored many research scholars in their doctoral studies. [7] [13]
Dipshikha Chakravortty was a Hostel Chair during the critical time of the Covid Pandemic from 2019 to 2021 Jan, during which she along with the team established the Student isolation center and took care of more than 4500 students. Personally, she has taken care of them and nurtured their mental well-being during this critical phase. Her mentorship skills lead the young students from her group to take up various leading positions in institutes and other Universities, including IISc. Apart from taking care of students from Biological Sciences, she also took care of students across the division. During Dipshikha’s tenure as a Hostel Chair, she has been subjected to the harsh reality of Covid in the hostel. It is then that she created a group “ Cheers in Quarantine” where all the students who got into isolation were taken care of and kept entertained by keeping their morale high. During that time she conducted various online musical evenings and fun time, so that everybody is in good spirits. Her extreme dedication and love for the students got her the nickname “Mother India”. One of her poems which she wrote and read during one of the online evenings,
Feverish, headache, body ache
No smell, no taste, all taste same
Nose got Dugged and throat got swabbed
Went to the lab to get it cracked
Sitting in the room and spending time
Where 1 sec seems 1 year
Tring Tring Tring , rang the phone
Heart raced fast and mind went blank
Positive, Negative, Positive, Negative
Finally announced Positive
Pack your bags and take your essentials
Wondering what went wrong
Wore mask and used sanitizers
Where did I go wrong, What did I do wrong
Virus tricked every way
Got inside and pave its way
14 days of Quarantine will make it go away
Not to Worry
CHEERS IN QUARANTINE
Prof Dipshikha Chakravortty, also wrote a preface for the Book with a beautiful piece composed by her
RIGHT TO LIVE
We are tiny We are small
You need microscope to see us all
Still we are mighty and will kill you all
Give us stress, Give us pain
Still your efforts will go in vain
We are community, strong and high
Treat us with respect and we will treat you right
We were not bad, but you made us so
We will become worse if you continue to do so
Hold back and keep quiet
We will be in harmony throughout our life!
( REF- Preface By Dipshikha Chakravortty for the Book-Resistance- Tales from post-antibiotic world, 2019)
Prof Dipshikha Chakravortty, received the prestigious Tata Innovation Fellowship, 2020–21, for her overall research excellence. Prof. Chakravortty was awarded the prestigious Yogmaya Devi Award in Biological/Medical Sciences, in recognition of significant research contributions in any branch of Biological/Medical Sciences for 2021. The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) of the Government of India awarded her the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2010. [1] The National Academy of Sciences, India elected her as a fellow in 2012 [14] and she became an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 2017. [15] The Indian Academy of Sciences elected her as a fellow in 2021. [16] She is also a recipient of Prof S. K. Chatterjee award of the Indian Institute of Science (2021), [17] NASI-Reliance Platinum Jubilee Award (2015), [18] DAE SRC Outstanding Investigator Award (2015), [19] Alexander von Humboldt fellowship [20] and was a member of the IISc Team that won gold medal at iGEM 2017 and iGEM 2018 contest, held in Boston. [21] https://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?user=b978y2oAAAAJ&hl=en
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Chatterjee R, Gangisetty S, Chakravortty D, 2023, SNAREs: a double-edged sword for intravacuolar bacterial pathogens within host cells. Trends in Microbiology,doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2023.11.002
Bhowmick J, Nag M, Ghosh P, Rajmani R, Karmakar K, Chandra K, Chatterjee R, Chatterjee J, Chakravortty D*, and Raghavan Varadarajan*, 2023, A CcdB-toxin derived peptide acts as a broad-spectrum antibacterial therapeutic in infected mice, EMBO Rep (In press) (* Equal corresponding author)
Chatterjee R, Gangi Setty SR, Chakravortty D, 2023, "Syntaxin 3-SPI 2 dependent crosstalk facilitates the division of Salmonella containing vacuole (SCV)" Traffic, Apr 28. doi: 10.1111/tra.12887. Online ahead of print.
Chatterjee R, Chaudhuri D, Gangi Setty SR, Chakravortty D, 2023, Deceiving The Big Eaters: Salmonella Typhimurium SopB subverts host cell Xenophagy in macrophages via dual mechanisms. Microbes Infect. 2023 Apr 3:105128. Doi 10.1016/j.micinf.2023.105128.
V Hariharan, AR Chowdhury, D Chakravortty*, S Basu, * 2023, phoP maintains the environmental persistence and virulence of pathogenic bacteria in mechanically stressed desiccated droplets, iScience, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106580
Guttapadu R, Prakash N, M A, Chatterjee R, S M, M J, Sastry UM, Subramanyam JR, Chakravortty D, R KS, Chandra, 2023, Profiling system-wide variations and similarities between Rheumatic Heart Disease and Acute Rheumatic Fever-A pilot analysis. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2023 Apr 5;17(4):e0011263. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0011263
Apte S, Bhutda S, Ghosh S, Sharma K, Barton TE, Dibyachintan S, Sahay O, Roy S, Sinha AR, Adicherla H, Rakshit J, Tang S, Datey A, Santra S, Joseph J, Sasidharan S, Hammerschmidt S, Chakravortty D, Oggioni MR, Santra MK, Neill DR, Banerjee A,2023, An innate pathogen sensing strategy involving ubiquitination of bacterial surface proteins., Sci Adv. 2023 Mar 22;9(12):eade1851. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.ade1851.
Chatterjee R, Chowdhury AR, Nair AV, Hajra D, Kar A, Datey A, Shankar S, Mishra RK, Chandra N, Chakravortty D , 2023, Salmonella Typhimurium PgtE is an essential arsenal to defend against the host resident antimicrobial peptides. Microbiol Res. 2023 Jun;271:127351. doi: 10.1016/j.micres.2023.127351
Karmakar K, Chakraborty S, Kumar JR, Nath U, Nataraja KN, Chakravortty D, 2023, Role of lactoyl-glutathione lyase of Salmonella in the colonization of plants under salinity stress. Res Microbiol. 2023 Feb 24;174(4):104045. doi: 10.1016/j.resmic.2023.104045
Chowdhury A R, Sah S, Varshney U, Chakravortty D, 2022, Salmonella Typhimurium outer membrane protein A (OmpA) renders protection from nitrosative stress of macrophages by maintaining the stability of bacterial outer membrane, PLoS Path ,doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010708. Online ahead of print.
Chowdhury, A R, Mukherjee, D, Singh, AK, Chakravortty, D, 2022, Loss of outer membrane protein A (OmpA) impairs the survival of Salmonella Typhimurium by inducing membrane damage in the presence of ceftazidime and meropenem, J Antimicrob Chemother, Sep 30:dkac327. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkac327
Hajra D, Nair AV, Roy Chowdhury A, Mukherjee S, Chatterjee R, Chakravortty D , 2022Salmonella Typhimurium U32 peptidase, YdcP, promotes bacterial survival by conferring protection against in vitro and in vivo oxidative stress..Microb Pathog. 2022 doi: 10.1016/j.micpath.2022.105862.
12. Punith N., Singh AK, ,Ananthanarasimhan J., Boopathy B , Chatterjee, R, Hemanth M., Chakravortty D, Rao L, 2022 , Generation of neutral pH high-strength plasma-activated water from a pin to water discharge and its bactericidal activity on multidrug-resistant pathogens, Plasma Process and Polymers, https://doi.org/10.1002/ppap.202200133 13. Rasheed A, Hegde O, Chatterjee R, Sampathirao SR, Chakravortty D *, Basu S*, 2022, Physics of Self-Assembly and Morpho-Topological Changes of Klebsiella pneumoniae in Desiccating Sessile Droplets, J Colloid Interface Sci. Sep 26;629(Pt B):620-631. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.09.100. Online ahead of print. 14. Ramakrishnan R, Singh AK, Singh S, Chakravortty D, Das D,2022, Enzymatic Dispersion of Biofilms: An Emerging Biocatalytic Avenue to Combat Biofilm-Mediated Microbial Infections. .J Biol Chem. 2022 Aug 5:102352. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102352. 15. Chandra K, Roy Chowdhury A, Chatterjee R, Chakravortty D, 2022, GH18 family glycoside hydrolase Chitinase A of Salmonella enhances virulence by facilitating invasion and modulating host immune responses, PLoS Path., Apr 28;18(4):e1010407. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010407. 16. Chakraborty S, Chatterjee R, Chakravortty D. Evolving and assembling to pierce through: Evolutionary and structural aspects of antimicrobial peptides. Comput Struct Biotechnol J. 2022 May 10;20:2247-2258. doi: 10.1016/j.csbj.2022.05.002 17. Karmakar K, Bhattacharya R, Sharma A, Parmar K, Nath U, Nataraja KN, N E, Sharma G, Chakravortty D , 2022, Lysinibacillus macroides-mediated control of cellulose-producing morphotype of Salmonella. J Sci Food Agric doi: 10.1002/jsfa.12016. 18. Hegde O, Chatterjee R, Rasheed A, Chakravortty D *, Basu S *, 2022, Multiscale vapor- mediated dendritic pattern formation and bacterial aggregation in complex respiratory biofluid droplets, J Colloid Interface Sci. 15;606(Pt 2):2011-2023. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2021.09.158. Epub 2021 Oct 6. 19. Vadlamudi, G, Thirumalaikumaran SK, Chakravortty D, Saha,A, Basu s, 2022, Penetration and aerosolization of cough droplet spray through face masks: A unique pathway of transmission of infection Physics of Fluids 34 (5), 05210
20. Chakravortty D*,Basu S Nandakumar KS , 2021 Spacefareres, protect our planets from falling debris, Nature , 597,178 , doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02396-8 21. Majee S, Saha A, Chaudhuri S, Chakravortty D, Basu S.2021, Two-dimensional mathematical framework for evaporation dynamics of respiratory droplets. Phys Fluids (1994). 2021 Oct;33(10):103302. doi: 10.1063/5.0064635. Epub 2021 Oct 1( special feature article) 22. S Majee, AR Chowdhury, A Chattopadhyay, R Pinto, A Agharkar,, Chakravortty D*, Basu S*, 2021, Spatiotemporal evaporating droplet dynamics on fomites enhances long term bacterial pathogenesis, Commun. Biol , Oct 8;4(1):1173. doi: 10.1038/s42003-021- 02711-z. 23. Krishan B, Gupta D, Vadlamudi G, Sharma S, Chakravorty D, Basu S, 2021, Efficacy of homemade face masks against human coughs: Insights on penetration, atomization and aerosolization of cough droplets, Physics of Fluid, 33,093309 ( Chosen as featured article) 24. Chakravortty D, Nandakumar KS , 2021, Lessons from the pandemic: taking a covid- like approach to other diseases., BMJ. 2021 Jul 1;374:n1644. doi: 10.1136/bmj.n1644 25. Hajra D, Nair AV, Chakravortty D , 2021, An elegant nano-injection machinery for sabotaging the host: Role of Type III secretion system in virulence of different human and animal pathogenic bacteria. Phys Life Rev. 2021 May 26:S1571-0645(21)00036-1. doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2021.05.007. 26. Gopalam R, Datey A, Bijoor S, Chakravortty D, Tumaney AW , 2021, Biochemical Characterization of Acyl-CoA: Lysophosphatidylcholine Acyltransferase (LPCAT) Enzyme from the Seeds of Salvia hispanica. Mol Biotechnol. Jun 15. doi: 10.1007/s12033-021-00354-3. 27. Yadav S, Singh AK, Agrahari AK, Pandey AK, Gupta MK, Chakravortty D, Tiwari VK, Prakash P.2021,Galactose-Clicked Curcumin-Mediated Reversal of Meropenem Resistance among Klebsiella pneumoniae by Targeting Its Carbapenemases and the AcrAB-TolC Efflux System, Antibiotics (Basel), 4:388. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics10040388 28. Ravichandran S, Banerjee U, Dr GD, Kandukuru R, Thakur C, Chakravortty D, Balaji KN, Singh A, Chandra N, 2021, VB 10, a new blood biomarker for differential diagnosis and recovery monitoring of acute viral and bacterial infections, EBioMedicine. 67:103352. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2021.103352. Online ahead of print 29. Dhingra D, Marathe SM, Sharma N, Marathe A, Chakravortty D, 2021, Modelling immune response to Salmonella during typhoid, Int Immunol , DOI- 10.1093/intimm/dxab003 30. Singh Y , Datey A, Chakravortty D, Tumaney AW, 2021, Novel Cell-Based Assay to Investigate Monoacylglycerol Acyltransferase 2 Inhibitory Activity Using HIEC-6 Cell Line, ACS Omega (https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.0c05950) 31. Chatterjee R, Chowdhury AR, Mukherjee D, Chakravortty D,2021, Lipid larceny: Channelizing host Lipids for establishing successful pathogenesis by bacteria, Virulence. 2020 Dec 26. doi: 10.1080/21505594.2020.1869441. Online ahead of print. 32. Marathe SA, Chakravortty D, The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020: Celebrating the collaborative efforts leading to a tool (CRISPR-Cas) for rewriting a code of life, CURRENT SCIENCE 119 (10), 1603-1605 33. Datey A, Gopalan J, Chakravortty D, 2020, Needleless or Noninvasive Delivery Technology., Methods Mol Biol. 2021;2183:437-446. 34. Hajra D, Datey A, Chakravortty D ,2020, Attenuation Methods for Live Vaccines., Methods Mol Biol. 2021;2183:331-356. 35. Karmakar K, Krishna S, Majumdar S, Nath U, Nataraj KN, Prakash NB, Chakravortty D,2020, Co-cultivation of Beta vulgaris limits the pre-harvest colonization of foodborne pathogen (Salmonella spp.) on tomato Int J Food Microbiol. 2020 Jun 20;332:108768. doi: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2020.108768. Online ahead of print. 36. Bhosle A, Datey A, Chandrasekharan G, Singh D, Chakravortty D*, Chandra N*, A Strategic Target Rescues Trimethoprim Sensitivity in Escherichia coli., iScience. 2020 Mar 16;23(4):100986. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.100986. (* Equal corresponding author) 37. K Khulbe, K Karmakar, S Ghosh, K Chandra, D Chakravortty, G Mugesh,2020, Nanoceria-Based Phospholipase-Mimetic Cell Membrane Disruptive Anti-Biofilm Agents, ACS Applied Bio Materials,3,7,4316-4628. 38. Datey A, Thaha A C S, Patil S, Gopalan J and Chakravortty D,2019, Shockwave therapy efficiently cures multispecies chronic periodontitis in a humanized rat model, Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol. [doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2019.00382] 39. Hussain A, Shaik S, Ranjan A, Suresh A, Sarker N, Semmler T, Lothar W, Alam M, Watanabe H, Chakravortty D and Niyaz Ahmed,2019 Genomic and functional characterization of poultry Escherichia coli from India revealed diverse Extended- spectrum β-lactamase -producing lineages with shared virulence profiles, Front. Microbiol. [doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02766] 40. Nagarajan D, Roy N, Kulkarni O, Datey A, Ravichandran S, Thakur C, Sandeep T, Aprameya IV, Sarma SP, Chakravortty D*, Chandra N*, 2019, Omega76: A designed antimicrobial peptide to 1 combat carbapenem and tigecycline resistant ESKAPE pathogens Science Advances , 24;5(7):eaax1946. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aax1946. eCollection (* Equal corresponding author) 41. Mukherjee T, Udupa VAV, Prakhar P, Chandra K, Chakravortty D, Balaji KN, 2018, Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor-responsive indoleamine 2, 3 dioxygenase confers immune homeostasis during S. flexneri infection. J Infect Dis. 2019 Jan 7. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiz009 42. Chatterjee R, Shreenivas MM, Sunil R, Chakravortty D,2018, Enteropathogens: Tuning Their Gene Expression for Hassle-Free Survival. Front Microbiol. 2019 Jan 9;9:3303. 43. Gogoi M, Chandra K, Sarikhani M, Ramani R, Sundareshan, NR, Chakravortty D,2018, Salmonella escapes adaptive immune response via SIRT2 mediated modulation of innate immune response in dendritic cells., PLoS Pathogen, 14(11):e1007437 44. Karmakar K, Nath U, Karaba N, Chakravortty D, 2018,. Root mediated uptake of Salmonella is different from phyto-pathogen and associated with colonization of edible organs, BMC Plant Biology, 18,344. 45. Surve MV, Bhutda S, Datey Am Anil Am Rawat S, Pushpakaran A, Singh D, Kim KS, Chakravortty D, Banerjee A, 2018, Heterogeneity in pneumolysin expression governs the fate of Streptococcus pneumoniae during blood-brain barrier trafficking, PLoS Pathogen (http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1007168) 46. Datey A, Chakravortty D, Gopalan J, 2018, An overview of a novel use of shockwaves to alter membrane permeability , Comment on “Shock wave induced permeabilization on mammalian cell, Phy Life Rev, S1571-0645(18)30082-4. 47. Chaudhuri D, Roy Chowdhury A, Biswas B, Chakravortty D, 2018, Salmonella Typhimurium infection leads to colonization of the mouse brain and is not completely cured with antibiotics, Front Microbiol, 18;9:1632. 48. Gogoi M, Sreenivas MM, Chakravortty D, 2018, Hoodwinking the Big-Eater to Prosper: The Salmonella-Macrophage Paradigm, J Innate Immun, Jul 24:1-11. doi: 10.1159/000490953. [Epub ahead of print] 49. Tripathy A Kumar A , Roy Chowdhury a‡ Karmakar K, Purighalla S, Sambandamurthy V, Chakravortty D*‡ and Sen P*, 2018, A nanowire-based flexible antibacterial surface reduces the viability of drug-resistant nosocomial pathogen, ACS Appl Nano Mater, DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.8b00397. 50. Gogoi M, Ravikumar V, Dixit NM, Chakravortty D. 2018. Salmonella escapes K63 ubiquitination mediated MHC II endosomal proteolysis via modulation of endosomal acidification in dendritic cells. Pathog Dis. doi: 10.1093/femspd/ftx125. [Epub ahead of print 51. Nagarajan D, Nagarajan T, Roy N, Kulkarni O, Ravichandran S, Mishra M, Chakravortty D, Chandra N .2018. Computational antimicrobial peptide design and evaluation against multidrug-resistant clinical isolates of bacteria., J Biol Chem, doi10.1074/jbc.M117.805499. [Epub ahead of print 52. Subburaj J, Datey A, Gopalan J, Chakravortty D.2017. Insights into the mechanism of a novel shockwave-assisted needle-free drug delivery device driven by in situ-generated oxyhydrogen mixture which provides efficient protection against mycobacterial infections., J Biol Eng. 2017 Dec 12;11:48. doi: 10.1186/s13036-017-0088-x. eCollection 2017 53. Hussain A, Shaik S, Ranjan A, Nandanwar N, Tiwari SK, Majid M, Baddam R, Qureshi IA, Semmler T, Wieler LH, Islam MA, Chakravortty D, Ahmed N. 2017. Risk of Transmission of Antimicrobial Resistant Escherichia coli from Commercial Broiler and Free-Range Retail Chicken in India .Front Microbiol doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02120. eCollection 2017 54. Chandra K, Garai P, Chatterjee J, Chakravortty D.2017. Peptide transporter YjiY influences the expression of the virulence gene mgtC to regulate biofilm formation in Salmonella. FEMS Microbiol Lett. doi: 10.1093/femsle/fnx236. 55. Datey A , Subburaj J, Gopalan J, Chakravortty D. 2017,Mechanism of transformation in Mycobacteria using a novel shockwave assisted technique driven by in situ generated oxyhydrogen, Sci Rep, 7(1):8645. 56. Balakrishnan A, Chakravortty D. 2017, Epithelial cell damage activates Bactericidal/permeability increasing-protein (BPI) expression in intestinal epithelium, Frontiers in Microbiol, In Press 57. Mudakavi RJ, Vanamali S, Charkavortty D, Raichur A. 2017, Development of arginine based nanocarriers for targeting and treatment of intracellular Salmonella, RSC Advances, 12, 58. Balakrishnan A, Schnare M, Chakravortty D. 2016 Of men not mice: Bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI) expressed in human macrophages acts as a phagocytic receptor and modulates entry and replication of Gram-negative bacteria., Frontiers in Immunol. 7,455. 59. Balakrishnan A, DasSarma P, Bhattacharjee O, Kim JM, DasSarma S, Chakravortty D. 2016, Halobacterial nano vesicles displaying murine bactericidal permeability-increasing protein rescue mice from lethal endotoxic shock., Sci Rep. Sep 20;6:33679. 60. Mayuri Gogoi, Akshay Datey, Chakravortty D, 2016, Arginine transporters and its role in pathogenesis, Current Opinion in Microbiology, 29,43-48. 61. Tiwary CS , Mudakavi RJ, Kishore S, Kashyap S, Elumalai R, Chakravortty D, Raichur AM,. Chattopadhyay K, 2016, Magnetic iron nanoparticles for in vivo targeted delivery and as biocompatible contrast agents, RSC Advances, DOI: 10.1039/C6RA14817D 62. Garai P, Chandra K, Chakravortty D,2016, Bacterial peptide transporters: Messengers of nutrition to virulence., Virulence,1-13. 63. Datey A, Thaha A, Patil S, Jagadeesh G, Chakravortty D, 2016, Enhancing the efficiency of desensitizing agents with shockwave treatment – A new paradigm in dentinal hypersensitivity management, RSC Advances, In press, DOI:101039/c6ra12342b 64. Marathe SA, Balakrishnan A, Negi VD, Sakorey D, Chandra N, Chakravortty D,2016, Curcumin Reduces the Motility of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium by Binding to the Flagella thereby Leading to Flagellar Fragility and Shedding. J Bacteriol. 198,1798-811 65. DasSarma P, Negi VD, Balakrishnan A, Kim JM, Karan R, Chakravortty D, DasSarma S., Procedia Vaccinol. 2015;9:16-23 66. Srinandan CS, ElangoM, Gnanadhas DP, Chakravortty D, 2015, Conflict and cooperation in Salmonella biofilm, Frontiers in Microbiology, 6,1468. 67. Gnanadhas DP, Elango M, Datey A, Dipshikha Chakravortty,2015,Chronic lung infection by Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm is cured by L-Methionine in combination with antibiotic therapy. Sci Rep ( NPG), 5,16043. 68. Gnanadhas DP, ElangoM, Janardhanraj S , Srinandan CS , Strugnell RA, Gopalan J, Chakravortty D, 2015, Successful treatment of biofilm infections using shockwaves combined with antibiotic therapy, Sci Rep ( NPG), 5:17440. 69. Gnanadhas DP, Elango E, Thomas MB, Gopalan J , Chakravortty D,2015, Remotely triggered micro-shockwave responsive drug delivery system for resolving diabetic wound infection and controlling blood sugar levels, RSC Advances, 5, 13234-13238. 70. Chakraborty S, Gogoi M, Chakravortty D, 2015 , Lactoylglutathione lyase, a Critical Enzyme in Methylglyoxal Detoxification, Contributes to Survival of Salmonella in the Nutrient Rich Environment Virulence, 6, 50-65. 71. Radhakrishnan K, Gupta S, Gnanadhas DP, Datey A, Ramamurthy PC , Chakravortty D , Raichur AM, 2015, Mesoporous Silica - Chondroitin Sulphate Hybrid Nanoparticles for Targeted and Bio-responsive Drug Delivery, New J Chemistry (RSC), 39, 1754 – 1760. 72. Garai P, Lahiri A, Ghosh D, Chatterjee J, Chakravortty D, 2015, Peptide utilizing carbon starvation gene yjiY is required for flagella mediated infection caused by Salmonella, Microbiology (SGM) , 73. Radhakrishnan K, Thomas MB, Gnanadhas DP, Ramamurthy PC , Chakravortty D , Raichur AM, 2015, Stimuli responsive protamine based biodegradable nanocapsules for enhanced bioavailability and intracellulardelivery of anticancer agents, J Nanopart Res., 17, 1-12 74. P DasSarma, VD Negi, A Balakrishnan, JM Kim, R Karan, D Chakravortty , S DasSarma, 2015, Haloarchaeal Gas Vesicle Nanoparticles Displaying Salmonella Antigens as a Novel Approach to Vaccine Development, Procedia in Vaccinology 9, 16-23 75. Chakraborty S, Chaudhuri D, Balakrishnan A, Chakravortty D, 2014, Salmonella methylglyoxal detoxification by STM3117 encoded Lactoylglutathione lyase affects virulence in Coordination with SPI-2 and Phagosomal acidification, Microbiology, 160,1999-2017 76. Chakraborty S, Karmakar K, Chakravortty D,2014, Cells producing their own nemesis: Understanding Methylglyoxal metabolism, IUBMB Life, 66,667-678. 77. DasSarma P, Negi V, Balakrishnan A, Karan R, Barnes S, Ekulona F, Chakravortty D**, DasSarma S**,2014, Haloarchaeal gas vesicle nanoparticles displaying Salmonella SopB antigen reduce bacterial burden when administered with live attenuated bacteria, Vaccine, (**equal corresponding author), 32,4543-4549. 78. Radhakrishnan K, Gupta S, Gnanadhas DP, Ramamurthy PC , ChakravorttyD , Raichur AM, 2014, Dual enzyme responsive and targeted nanocapsules for intracellular delivery of anticancer agents, RSC Advances, 4,45961-45968. 79. Lahiri C, Pawar S, Sabarinathan R, Ashraf MI, Chand Y, Chakravortty D,2014, Interactome analyses of Salmonella pathogenicity islands reveal SicA indispensable for virulence. J Theor Biol., 5193,461-5. 80. Garai P, Gogoi M, Gopal G, Radhakrishnan Y, Nandakumar KS, Chakravortty D, 2014, The basics and advances of immunomodulators and antigen presentation-A key to development of potent memory response against pathogens, Expt Opin Therapeutic Biol, 14,1383-1397. 81. Radhakrishnan K, Gupta S, Gnanadhas DP, Ramamurthy PC , ChakravorttyD , and Raichur AM, 2014, Protamine-Capped Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for Biologically Triggered Drug Release, Part. Part. Syst. Charact.,31, 449–458. 82. Gnanadhas DP, Thomas MD , Thomas R, Raichur AM, Chakravortty D, 2013, Interaction of silver nanoparticles with serum proteins affects their antimicrobial activity in vivo, Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 57,4945-55. 83. Gnanadhas DP, Thomas MD , Elango M, Raichur AM, Chakravortty D, 2013, Chitosan- Dextran sulfate nanocapsule drug delivery system as an effective therapeutic against Salmonella, an intraphagosomal pathogen, J Antimicrob Chemother, 68,2576-86. 84. Marathe SA, Kumar R, Ajitkumar P, Nagaraja V, Chakravortty D, 2013, Curcumin reduces the antimicrobial activity of ciprofloxacin against Salmonella Typhimurium and Salmonella Typhi, J Antimicrob Chemother.,68,139-52. 85. Eswarappa SM, Janice J, Balasundaram SV, Chakravortty D,2013, Non-neutral evolution in non-LEE-encoded type III effectors of attaching and effacing Escherichia coli., Microbes Infect., 15,147-151. 86. Thomas MB, Radhakrishnan K, Gnanadhas DP, Chakravortty D, Raichur AM, 2013, Intracellular delivery of doxorubicin encapsulated in novel pH-responsive chitosan/heparin nanocapsules. Int J Nanomedicine, 8:267-73. 87. Mukherjee B, Mukhopadhyay R, Bannerjee B, Chowdhury S, Mukherjee S, Naskar K, Allam US, Chakravortty D, Sundar S, Dujardin JC, Roy S, 2013, Antimony-resistant but not antimony-sensitive Leishmania donovani up-regulates host IL-10 to overexpress multidrug- resistant protein 1. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA,110,E575-582. 88. Gnanadhas DP, Marathe SA, Chakravortty D,2013, Biocides - resistance, cross- resistance mechanisms and assessment. Expert Opin Investig Drugs, 22,191-206. 89. Balakrishnan A, Marathe SA, Joglekar M, Chakravortty D, 2013, Bactericidal/permeability increasing protein: A multifaceted protein with functions beyond LPS neutralization. Innate Immun, 19,339-347. 90. Marathe SA, Sen M, Dasgupta I, Chakravortty D, 2012, Differential modulation of intracellular survival of cytosolic and vacuolar pathogens by curcumin, Antimicrob Agents Chemother,56,5555-67. 91. Rakesh SG, Gnanadhas DP, Allam US, Nataraja KN, Barhai PK, Jagadeesh G, Chakravortty D, 2012, Development of micro-shock wave assisted dry particle and fluid jet delivery system, Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. ,96,647-52. 92. Garai P, Gnanadhas DP, Chakravortty D,2012, Salmonella enterica serovars Typhimurium and Typhi as model organisms: Revealing paradigm of host-pathogen interactions. Virulence, 3, 377-388. 93. Marathe SA, Datey AA, Chakravortty D ,2012, Herbal Cocktail as Anti-infective: Promising Therapeutic for the Treatment of Viral Diseases. Recent Pat Antiinfect Drug Discov, 7,123-132. 94. Allam US, Krishna MG, Sen M, Thomas R, Lahiri A, Gnanadhas DP, Chakravortty D, 2012, Acidic pH induced STM1485 gene is essential for intracellular replication of Salmonella.Virulence, 3,1-14. 95. Marathe SA, Chowdhury R, Bhattacharya R, Nagarajan AG, Chakravortty D, 2012, Direct detection of Salmonella without pre-enrichment in milk, ice-cream and fruit juice by PCR against hilA gene. Food Control, 23, 559-563. 96. Marathe SA, Lahiri A, Negi VD, Chakravortty D, 2012, Typhoid fever & vaccine development: A partially answered question. Indian J Med Res, 135,161-169. 97. Iyer N, Marathe SA, Chaudhari D, Garai P, ChakravorttyD, 2012, Immunomodulation using agonists and antagonists: potential clinical applications. Expt Opin Invest drug, 21, 67-81. 98. Shivakumar D, Lahiri C, Chakravortty D,2012, Computational studies on histidine kinase protein BaeS to target multidrug-resistant Salmonella, Med Chem Res, 22,1804-1811. 99. Wiese M, Gerlach RG, Popp I, Matuszak J, Mahapatro M, Castiglione K, Chakravortty D, Willam C, Hensel M, Bogdan C, Jantsch J, 2012, Hypoxia- mediated impairment of the mitochondrial respiratory chain inhibits the bactericidal activity of macrophages. Infect Immun. 80, 1455-1466. 100. Divya Prakash G, Anish RV, Jagadeesh G, Chakravortty D,2011, Bacterial transformation using micro-shock waves. Anal Biochem, 419, 292-301. 101. Jagadeesh G, Prakash GD, Rakesh SG, Allam US, Krishna MG, Eswarappa SM, Chakravortty D,2011, Needleless vaccine delivery using micro-shock waves. Clin Vaccine Immunol, 4,539-45. 102. Marathe SA, dasgupta I, Chakravortty D , 2011, Multifaceted roles of curcumin: two sides of a coin!,Expt Opin Therapeutic Biol, 11,1485-99. 103. Garai P, Marathe SA, Chakravortty D, 2011, Effectors of Salmonella pathogenicity island 2: An island crucial to the life of Salmonella.Virulence, 2,177-80. 104. Bansal K, Trinath J, Chakravortty D, Patil SA, Balaji KN, 2011, Pathogen-specific TLR2 protein activation programs macrophages to induce Wnt-beta-catenin signaling. J Biol Chem, 286, 37032-44. 105. Chakravortty D, 2011, Water-free hand wash- How safe is our gut? Current Science,100,606. 106. Lahiri A, Ananthalakshmi TK, Nagarajan A, Ray S, Chakravortty D, 2011, TolA Mediates Differential Detergent Resistance Pattern between the Salmonella serovars Typhi and Typhimurium. Microbiology-SGM, 157, 1402-1415. 107. Allam US, Gopala KM, Lahiri, A, Joy O, Chakravortty D, 2011, Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium lacking hfq gene confers protective immunity against murine typhoid. PLoS ONE, 2, e16667. 108. Das P, Lahiri A, Lahiri A, Sen M, Iyer N, Kapoor N, Balaji KN, Chakravortty D, 2010, Cationic Amino Acid Transporters and Salmonella Typhimurium ArgT collectively Regulate Arginine availability towards Intracellular Salmonella Growth. PLoS ONE, 5, e15466. 109. Lahiri A, Das P, Vani J, Shaila MS, Chakravortty D, 2010, TLR 9 activation in dendritic cells enhances salmonella killing and antigen presentation via involvement of the reactive oxygen species. PLoS One, 5, e13772. 110. Eswarappa SM, Negi VD, Chakraborty S, Chandrasekhar Sagar BK, Chakravortty D,2010, Division of the Salmonella-containing vacuole and depletion of acidic lysosomes in Salmonella-infected host cells are novel strategies of Salmonella enterica to avoid lysosomes. Infect Immun, 78, 68-79.(featured in faculty of 1000) Negi VD, Nagarajan AG, Chakravortty D, 2010, A safe vaccine (DV-STM-07) against Salmonella infection prevents abortion and confers protective immunity to the pregnant and new born mice. PLoS One, 5, e9139. 111. Marathe SA, Ray S,Chakravortty D, 2010, Curcumin increases the pathogenicity of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium in murine model. PLoS One, 5, e11511. 112. Lahiri A, Eswarappa SM, Das P, Chakravortty D, 2010, Altering the balance between pathogen containing vacuoles and lysosomes: A lesson from Salmonella. Virulence, 1, 325- 329. 113. Lahiri A, Das P,Chakravortty D, 2010, New tricks new ways: Exploitation of a multifunctional enzyme arginase by pathogens. Virulence, 6, 1-3. 114. Lahiri A, Iyer N, Das P, Chakravortty D,2010, Visiting the cell biology of Salmonella infection. Microbes Infect, 12, 809-818. 115. Das P, Lahiri A, Chakravortty D,2010, Modulation of the arginase pathway in the context of microbial pathogenesis: a metabolic enzyme moonlighting as an immune modulator. PLoS Pathog, 6, e1000899. 116. Chakravortty D, 2010, Salmonella Vaccine: A Black Sheep. Current Science, 98, 149- 150 117. Nayak M, Kotian A, Marathe S, Chakravortty D, 2009, Detection of microorganisms using biosensors-a smarter way towards detection techniques. Biosens Bioelectron, 25, 661-667. 118. Nagarajan AG, Karnam G, Lahiri A, Allam US, Chakravortty D,2009, Reliable means of diagnosis and serovar determination of blood-borne Salmonella strains: quick PCR amplification of unique genomic loci by novel primer sets. J Clin Microbiol, 47, 2435-2441 119. Nagarajan AG, Balasundaram SV, Janice J, Karnam G, Eswarappa SM, Chakravortty D, 2009, SopB of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a potential DNA vaccine candidate in conjugation with live attenuated bacteria. Vaccine, 27, 2804-2811. 120. Marathe S, Negi VD, Chakravortty D,2009, Curcumin! Spicy panacea for all-- friend or foe. Vaccine, 28, 291-292. 121. Lahiri A, Das P, Chakravortty D,2009,Salmonella Typhimurium: insight into the multi- faceted role of the LysR-type transcriptional regulators in Salmonella. Int J Biochem Cell Biol, 41, 2129-2133. 122. Eswarappa SM, Karnam G, Nagarajan AG, Chakraborty S, Chakravortty D, 2009, lac repressor is an antivirulence factor of Salmonella enterica: its role in the evolution of virulence in Salmonella. PLoS One, 4, e5789. 123. Eswarappa SM, Janice J, Balasundaram SV, Dixit NM, Chakravortty D, 2009, Host- specificity of Salmonella enterica serovar Gallinarum: insights from comparative genomics. Infect Genet Evol, 9, 468-473. 124. Das P, Lahiri A, Chakravortty D, 2009, Novel role of the nitrite transporter NirC in Salmonella pathogenesis: SPI2-dependent suppression of inducible nitric oxide synthase in activated macrophages. Microbiology, 155, 2476-2489. 125. Sakure S, Negi VD, Mitra SK, Nandakumar KS, Chakravortty D,2008, Vaccine with herbal adjuvant--a better cocktail to combat the infection. Vaccine, 26, 3387-3388. 126. Lahiri A, Das P, Chakravortty D,2008, Arginase modulates Salmonella induced nitric oxide production in RAW264.7 macrophages and is required for Salmonella pathogenesis in mice model of infection. Microbes Infect, 10, 1166-1174. 127. Lahiri A, Das P, Chakravortty D, 2008, The LysR-type transcriptional regulator Hrg counteracts phagocyte oxidative burst and imparts survival advantage to Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. Microbiology, 154, 2837-2846. 128. Lahiri A, Da, P, Chakravortty D,2008,Engagement of TLR signaling as adjuvant: towards smarter vaccine and beyond. Vaccine, 26, 6777-6783. 129. Jantsch J, Chakravortty D, Turza N, Prechtel AT, Buchholz B, Gerlach RG, Volke M, Glasner J, Warnecke C, Wiesener MS. et al.,2008, Hypoxia and hypoxia- inducible factor-1 alpha modulate lipopolysaccharide-induced dendritic cell activation and function. J Immunol, 180, 4697-4705. 130. Eswarappa SM, Pareek V,Chakravortty D,2008, Role of actin cytoskeleton in LPS-induced NF-kappaB activation and nitric oxide production in murine macrophages. Innate Immun, 14, 309-318. 131. Eswarappa SM, Panguluri KK, Hensel M, Chakravortty D,2008, The yejABEF operon of Salmonella confers resistance to antimicrobial peptides and contributes to its virulence. Microbiology, 154, 666-678. 132. Eswarappa SM, Janice J, Nagarajan AG, Balasundaram SV, Karnam G, Dixit NM, Chakravortty D,2008,Differentially evolved genes of Salmonella pathogenicity islands: insights into the mechanism of host specificity in Salmonella. PLoS One, 3, e3829. 133. Eswarappa SM, Basu N, Joy O, Chakravortty D, 2008, Folimycin (concanamycin A) inhibits LPS-induced nitric oxide production and reduces surface localization of TLR4 in murine macrophages. Innate Immun, 14, 13-24 134. Negi VD, Singhamahapatra S, Chakravortty D,2007, Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium strain lacking pmrG-HM-D provides excellent protection against salmonellosis in murine typhoid model. Vaccine, 25, 5315-5323. 135. Chakravortty D, Rohde M, Jager L, Deiwick J, Hensel M, 2005, Formation of a novel surface structure encoded by Salmonella Pathogenicity Island 2. EMBO J, 24, 2043-2052. 136. Hansen-Wester I, Chakravortty D, Hensel M, 2004, Functional transfer of Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 to Salmonella bongori and Escherichia coli. Infect Immun, 72, 2879- 2888. 137. Cheminay C, Chakravortty D, Hensel M,2004,Role of neutrophils in murine salmonellosis. Infect Immun, 72, 468-477. 138. Jantsch J, Cheminay C, Chakravortty D, Lindig T, Hein J, Hensel M, 2003, Intracellular activities of Salmonella enterica in murine dendritic cells. Cell Microbiol, 5, 933-945. 139. Chakravortty D, Hensel M, 2003, Inducible nitric oxide synthase and control of intracellular bacterial pathogens. Microbes Infect, 5, 621-627. 140. Chakravortty D, Hensel M, 2002,Salmonella selectively stops traffic: response from Chakravortty and Hensel. Trends Microbiol, 10, 392-393. 141. Chakravortty D, Hansen-Wester I, Hensel M, 2002, Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 mediates protection of intracellular Salmonella from reactive nitrogen intermediates. J Exp Med, 195, 1155-1166. 142. Sugiyama T, Koide N, Chakravortty D, Kato Y, Mu MM, Yoshida T, Yokochi T,2001,The expression of membrane-bound CD14 renders mouse B-1 cells susceptible to LPS. J Endotoxin Res, 7, 223-226. 143. Mu MM, Chakravortty D, Takahashi K, Kato Y, Sugiyama T, Koide N, Morikawa A, Yoshida T, Yokochi T, 2001, Production of experimental autoimmune sialadenitis in mice immunized with homologous salivary gland extract and Klebsiella O3 lipopolysaccharide. J Autoimmun, 16, 29-36. 144. Mu MM, Chakravortty D, Sugiyama T, Koide N, Takahashi K, Mori I, Yoshida T, Yokochi T, 2001, The inhibitory action of quercetin on lipopolysaccharide- induced nitric oxide production in RAW 264.7 macrophage cells. J Endotoxin Res, 7, 431-438. 145. Koide N, Sugiyama T, Kato Y, Chakravortty D, Mu MM, Yoshida T, Hamano T, Yokochi T, 2001, Mouse B1 cell line responds to lipopolysaccharide via membrane- bound CD14. J Endotoxin Res, 7, 39-43. 146. Chakravortty D, KatoY, Sugiyama T, Koide N, Mu MM, Yoshida T, Yokochi T, 2001, Inhibition of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase augments lipopolysaccharide- induced cell proliferation in CD14-expressing Chinese hamster ovary cells. Infect Immun, 69, 931-936. 147. Chakravortty D, Kato Y, Sugiyama T, Koide N, Mu MM, Yoshida T, Yokochi T, 2001, The inhibitory action of sodium arsenite on lipopolysaccharide-induced nitric oxide production in RAW 267.4 macrophage cells: a role of Raf-1 in lipopolysaccharide signaling. J Immunol, 166, 2011-2017. 148. Chakravortty D, Kato Y, Sugiyama T, Koide N, Mu MM, Yoshida T, Yokochi, T, 2001, Inhibition of caspase 3 abrogates lipopolysaccharide-induced nitric oxide production by preventing activation of NF-kappaB and c-Jun NH2-terminal kinase/stress-activated protein kinase in RAW 264.7 murine macrophage cells. Infect Immun, 69, 1315-1321. 149. Morikawa A, Koide N, Kato Y, Sugiyama T, Chakravortty D, Yoshida T, Yokochi T,2000, Augmentation of nitric oxide production by gamma interferon in a mouse vascular endothelial cell line and its modulation by tumor necrosis factor alpha and lipopolysaccharide. Infect Immun, 68, 6209-6214. 150. Koide N, Kato Y, Sugiyama T, Chakravortty D, Mu MM, Yoshida T, Yokochi T, 2000, Exacerbation of vascular endothelial injury in the generalized Shwartzman reaction by the administration of anti-E-selectin antibody. Microbiol Immunol, 44, 197-200. 151. Kato Y, Zhao M, Morikawa A, Sugiyama T, Chakravortty D, Koide N, Yoshida T, Tapping RI, Yang Y, Yokochi T. et al,2000,Big mitogen-activated kinase regulates multiple members of the MEF2 protein family. J Biol Chem, 275, 18534-18540. 152. Chakravortty D, Nanda Kumar KS,2000,Bacterial lipopolysaccharide induces cytoskeletal rearrangement in small intestinal lamina propria fibroblasts: actin assembly is essential for lipopolysaccharide signaling. Biochim Biophys Acta, 1500, 125-136. 153. Chakravortty D , Koide N, Kato Y, Sugiyama T, Mu MM, Yoshida T, Yokochi, T,2000,The inhibitory action of butyrate on lipopolysaccharide- induced nitric oxide production in RAW 264.7 murine macrophage cells. J Endotoxin Res, 6, 243-247 154. 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Koide N, Narita K, Kato Y, Sugiyama T, Chakravortty D, Morikawa A, Yoshida T, Yokochi T,1999, Expression of Fas and Fas ligand on mouse renal tubular epithelial cells in the generalized shwartzman reaction and its relationship to apoptosis. Infect Immun, 67, 4112-4118. 158. Chakravortty D, Kumar KS, 1999, Interaction of lipopolysaccharide with human small intestinal lamina propria fibroblasts favors neutrophil migration and peripheral blood mononuclear cell adhesion by the production of proinflammatory mediators and adhesion molecules. Biochim Biophys Acta, 1453, 261-272. 159. Chakravortty D, Kumar KS, 1999, Modulation of barrier function of small intestinal epithelial cells by lamina propria fibroblasts in response to lipopolysaccharide: possible role in TNF alpha in inducing barrier dysfunction. Microbiol Immunol, 43, 527-533. 160. 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Salmonella is a genus of rod-shaped (bacillus) gram-negative bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae. The two known species of Salmonella are Salmonella enterica and Salmonella bongori. S. enterica is the type species and is further divided into six subspecies that include over 2,650 serotypes. Salmonella was named after Daniel Elmer Salmon (1850–1914), an American veterinary surgeon.
Salmonella enterica is a rod-shaped, flagellate, facultative anaerobic, Gram-negative bacterium and a species of the genus Salmonella. It is divided into six subspecies, arizonae (IIIa), diarizonae (IIIb), houtenae (IV), salamae (II), indica (VI), and enterica (I). A number of its serovars are serious human pathogens; many of them are serovars of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica.
Adhesins are cell-surface components or appendages of bacteria that facilitate adhesion or adherence to other cells or to surfaces, usually in the host they are infecting or living in. Adhesins are a type of virulence factor.
Burkholderia mallei is a Gram-negative, bipolar, aerobic bacterium, a human and animal pathogen of genus Burkholderia causing glanders; the Latin name of this disease (malleus) gave its name to the species causing it. It is closely related to B. pseudomallei, and by multilocus sequence typing it is a subspecies of B. pseudomallei.B. mallei evolved from B. pseudomallei by selective reduction and deletions from the B. pseudomallei genome. Unlike B. pseudomallei and other genus members, B. mallei is nonmotile; its shape is coccobacillary measuring some 1.5–3.0 μm in length and 0.5–1.0 μm in diameter with rounded ends.
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis is a Gram-negative bacterium that causes Far East scarlet-like fever in humans, who occasionally get infected zoonotically, most often through the food-borne route. Animals are also infected by Y. pseudotuberculosis. The bacterium is urease positive.
Polymyxin B, sold under the brand name Poly-Rx among others, is an antibiotic used to treat meningitis, pneumonia, sepsis, and urinary tract infections. While it is useful for many Gram negative infections, it is not useful for Gram positive infections. It can be given by injection into a vein, muscle, or cerebrospinal fluid or inhaled. The injectable form is generally only used if other options are not available. It is also available as the combinations bacitracin/polymyxin B and neomycin/polymyxin B/bacitracin for use on the skin.
Lyme disease, or borreliosis, is caused by spirochetal bacteria from the genus Borrelia, which has 52 known species. Three species are the main causative agents of the disease in humans, while a number of others have been implicated as possibly pathogenic. Borrelia species in the species complex known to cause Lyme disease are collectively called Borrelia burgdorferisensu lato (s.l.), not to be confused with the single species Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, a member of the complex, which is responsible for nearly all cases of Lyme disease in North America.
Burkholderia thailandensis is a nonfermenting motile, Gram-negative bacillus that occurs naturally in soil. It is closely related to Burkholderia pseudomallei, but unlike B. pseudomallei, it only rarely causes disease in humans or animals. The lethal inoculum is approximately 1000 times higher than for B. pseudomallei. It is usually distinguished from B. pseudomallei by its ability to assimilate arabinose. Other differences between these species include lipopolysaccharide composition, colony morphology, and differences in metabolism.
The Hfq protein encoded by the hfq gene was discovered in 1968 as an Escherichia coli host factor that was essential for replication of the bacteriophage Qβ. It is now clear that Hfq is an abundant bacterial RNA binding protein which has many important physiological roles that are usually mediated by interacting with Hfq binding sRNA.
Virulence-related outer membrane proteins, or outer surface proteins (Osp) in some contexts, are expressed in the outer membrane of gram-negative bacteria and are essential to bacterial survival within macrophages and for eukaryotic cell invasion.
An Hfq binding sRNA is an sRNA that binds the bacterial RNA binding protein called Hfq. A number of bacterial small RNAs which have been shown to bind to Hfq have been characterised . Many of these RNAs share a similar structure composed of three stem-loops. Several studies have expanded this list, and experimentally validated a total of 64 Hfq binding sRNA in Salmonella Typhimurium. A transcriptome wide study on Hfq binding sites in Salmonella mapped 126 Hfq binding sites within sRNAs. Genomic SELEX has been used to show that Hfq binding RNAs are enriched in the sequence motif 5′-AAYAAYAA-3′. Genome-wide study identified 40 candidate Hfq-dependent sRNAs in plant pathogen Erwinia amylovora. 12 of them were confirmed by Northern blot.
Viable but nonculturable (VBNC) bacteria refers as to bacteria that are in a state of very low metabolic activity and do not divide, but are alive and have the ability to become culturable once resuscitated.
Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica is a subspecies of Salmonella enterica, the rod-shaped, flagellated, aerobic, Gram-negative bacterium. Many of the pathogenic serovars of the S. enterica species are in this subspecies, including that responsible for typhoid.
Proteus penneri is a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterium. It is an invasive pathogen and a cause of nosocomial infections of the urinary tract or open wounds. Pathogens have been isolated mainly from the urine of patients with abnormalities in the urinary tract, and from stool. P. penneri strains are naturally resistant to numerous antibiotics, including penicillin G, amoxicillin, cephalosporins, oxacillin, and most macrolides, but are naturally sensitive to aminoglycosides, carbapenems, aztreonam, quinolones, sulphamethoxazole, and co-trimoxazole. Isolates of P. penneri have been found to be multiple drug-resistant (MDR) with resistance to six to eight drugs. β-lactamase production has also been identified in some isolates.
OmpT is an aspartyl protease found on the outer membrane of Escherichia coli. OmpT is a subtype of the family of omptin proteases, which are found on some gram-negative species of bacteria.
The alpha-D-phosphohexomutases are a large superfamily of enzymes, with members in all three domains of life. Enzymes from this superfamily are ubiquitous in organisms from E. coli to humans, and catalyze a phosphoryl transfer reaction on a phosphosugar substrate. Four well studied subgroups in the superfamily are:
OSU-03012 (AR-12) is a celecoxib derivative with anticancer and anti-microbial activity. Unlike celecoxib, OSU-03012 does not inhibit COX, but inhibits several other important enzymes instead which may be useful in the treatment of some forms of cancer, When combined with PDE5 inhibitors such as sildenafil or tadalafil, OSU-03012 was found to show enhanced anti-tumour effects in cell culture.
When considering pathogens, host adaptation can have varying descriptions. For example, in the case of Salmonella, host adaptation is used to describe the "ability of a pathogen to circulate and cause disease in a particular host population." Another usage of host adaptation, still considering the case of Salmonella, refers to the evolution of a pathogen such that it can infect, cause disease, and circulate in another host species.
Proteobiotics are natural metabolites which are produced by fermentation process of specific probiotic strains. These small oligopeptides were originally discovered in and isolated from culture media used to grow probiotic bacteria and may account for some of the health benefits of probiotics.
The IsrM RNA is a small non-coding RNA discovered in Salmonella pathogenicity island, which is not found in E.coli. It is important for invasion of epithelial cells, intracellular replication inside macrophages, virulence and colonisation in mice. It targets the SopA and HilE mRNAs, virulence factors essential for bacterial invasion. It is a first pathogenicity island-encoded sRNA shown to be directly involved in Salmonella pathogenesis.