Renate Lux

TL;DR: This review describes some of the interesting interspecies-interaction scenarios in oral microbial communities, which indicate that the whole is much more than the simple sum of its parts, since the interactions between different parts resulted in many new physiological functions which cannot be observed with individual components.

TL;DR: This first completed genome for a human-associated TM7 phylotype revealed a complete lack of amino acid biosynthetic capacity, and comparative genomics analyses with uncultivated environmental TM7 assemblies show remarkable conserved gene synteny and only minimal gene loss/gain that may have occurred as TM7x adapted to conditions within the human host.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the interaction of type IV pili with amine-containing polysaccharides on cell and slime-trail surfaces may trigger pilus retraction, resulting in S-motility and Slime-trailing behaviors.

TL;DR: Findings indicate that radD is responsible for arginine‐inhibitable adherence of F.’nucleatum and provides definitive molecular evidence that F.Nucleatum adhesins play a vital role in inter‐species adherence and multispecies biofilm formation.

TL;DR: It is found that in mutant strains HPr-like proteins could substitute for HPr in transport but did not mediate chemotactic signaling, suggesting the following model for signal transduction in PTS-dependent chemotaxis.