Anna Maikova

is the widespread anaerobic spore-forming bacterium that is a major cause of potentially lethal nosocomial infections associated with antibiotic therapy worldwide. Due to the increase in severe forms associated with...

CRISPR (lustered egularly nterspaced hort alindromic epeats)-Cas (CRISPR-associated) systems provide prokaryotes with efficient protection against foreign nucleic acid invaders. We have recently demonstrated the defensive interference function of a CRISPR-Cas...

Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are widespread on mobile genetic elements and in bacterial chromosomes. In type I TA, synthesis of the toxin protein is prevented by the transcription of an antitoxin...

The human enteropathogen constitutes a key public health issue in industrialized countries. Many aspects of pathophysiology and adaptation inside the host remain poorly understood. We have recently reported that this...

Over the last decades the enteric bacterium (novel name ) - has emerged as an important human nosocomial pathogen. It is a leading cause of hospital-acquired diarrhea and represents a...

Clostridium difficile, a major human enteropathogen, must cope with foreign DNA invaders and multiple stress factors inside the host. We have recently provided an experimental evidence of defensive function of...

The responses of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells to low temperatures have not been extensively studied compared with other stresses. Like other organisms, this green alga has heat shock protein 70s (HSP70s)...

Type II restriction-modification (R-M) systems encode a restriction endonuclease that cleaves DNA at specific sites, and a methyltransferase that modifies same sites protecting them from restriction endonuclease cleavage. Type II...