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Annual Review of Microbiology

Volume 77, 2023

Mechanisms of Virulence Reprogramming in Bacterial Pathogens

Abstract

Bacteria are single-celled organisms that carry a comparatively small set of genetic information, typically consisting of a few thousand genes that can be selectively activated or repressed in an energy-efficient manner and transcribed to encode various biological functions in accordance with environmental changes. Research over the last few decades has uncovered various ingenious molecular mechanisms that allow bacterial pathogens to sense and respond to different environmental cues or signals to activate or suppress the expression of specific genes in order to suppress host defenses and establish infections. In the setting of infection, pathogenic bacteria have evolved various intelligent mechanisms to reprogram their virulence to adapt to environmental changes and maintain a dominant advantage over host and microbial competitors in new niches. This review summarizes the bacterial virulence programming mechanisms that enable pathogens to switch from acute to chronic infection, from local to systemic infection, and from infection to colonization. It also discusses the implications of these findings for the development of new strategies to combat bacterial infections.

Keyword(s): c-di-GMP, interkingdom cell–cell communication, quorum sensing, two-component system, virulence programming
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Mechanisms of Virulence Reprogramming in Bacterial Pathogens
Annual Review of Microbiology 77, 561 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-micro-032521-025954
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