Translational control in pathogenic bacteria is fundamental to gene expression and affects virulence and other infection phenotypes. We used an enhanced ribosome profiling protocol coupled with parallel transcriptomics to capture accurately the global translatome of two evolutionarily distant pathogenic bacteria-the Gram-negative bacterium Salmonella and the Gram-positive bacterium Listeria. We find that the two bacteria use different mechanisms to translationally regulate protein synthesis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSerine β-lactamases are dominant causes of β-lactam resistance in isolates. Recently, this has driven clinical deployment of the β-lactam-β-lactamase inhibitor pairs ceftazidime/avibactam and meropenem/vaborbactam. We show that four steps, i.
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