strains associated with bone prosthesis infections cannot evade the host immune system.

Introduction: is a commensal skin bacterium that is involved in bone prosthesis infections (BPIs) and presents low-grade clinical symptoms. has been thought to escape the immune system at bone sites.

Material And Methods: Our study was carried out on a laboratory strain and two BPI-related clinical strains, one of which surprisingly induced clinical symptoms of inflammation in the patient.

A widespread family of ribosomal peptide metallophores involved in bacterial adaptation to metal stress.

Ribosomally synthesized and posttranslationally modified peptides (RiPPs) are a structurally diverse group of natural products that bacteria employ in their survival strategies. Herein, we characterized the structure, the biosynthetic pathway, and the mode of action of a RiPP family called bufferins. With thousands of homologous biosynthetic gene clusters throughout the bacterial phylogenetic tree, bufferins form by far the largest family of RiPPs modified by multinuclear nonheme iron-dependent oxidases (MNIO, DUF692 family).

Candida albicans cells exhibit media specific proteomic profiles during induction of filamentation.

Candida albicans is an opportunist pathogen responsible for a broad spectrum of infections, from superficial mycosis to the systemic disease candidiasis. C. albicans has various morphological forms, including unicellular budding yeasts, filamentous pseudohyphae and true hyphae, and the ability to switch from yeast to hyphal forms is a key survival mechanism underlying the adaptation of the pathogen to the microenvironments encountered within the host.