Mechanistic and functional studies of Bacillus biofilms assembly on plants, and their impact in sustainable agriculture and food safety

Project Information

BacBio

Grant agreement ID: 637971

DOI 10.3030/637971

Project closed

EC signature date 16 February 2015

Start date 1 March 2015

End date 28 February 2021

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 453 562,50

EU contribution € 1 453 562,50

Coordinated by

UNIVERSIDAD DE MALAGA
Spain

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (11)

Multifunctional Amyloids in the Biology of Gram-Positive Bacteria

Author(s): Ana Álvarez-Mena, Jesús Cámara-Almirón, Antonio de Vicente, Diego Romero
Published in: Microorganisms, Issue 8/12, 2020, Page(s) 2020, ISSN 2076-2607
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms8122020

Biofilm formation displays intrinsic offensive and defensive features of Bacillus cereus

Author(s): Joaquín Caro-Astorga, Elrike Frenzel, James R. Perkins, Ana Álvarez-Mena, Antonio de Vicente, Juan A. G. Ranea, Oscar P. Kuipers, Diego Romero
Published in: npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, Issue 6/1, 2020, ISSN 2055-5008
Publisher: Springer Nature Limited
DOI: 10.1038/s41522-019-0112-7

More than words: the chemistry behind the interactions in the plant holobiont

Author(s): María Victoria Berlanga‐Clavero, Carlos Molina‐Santiago, Antonio Vicente, Diego Romero
Published in: Environmental Microbiology, Issue 22/11, 2020, Page(s) 4532-4544, ISSN 1462-2912
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15197

The extracellular matrix protects Bacillus subtilis colonies from Pseudomonas invasion and modulates plant co-colonization

Author(s): Carlos Molina-Santiago, John R. Pearson, Yurena Navarro, María Victoria Berlanga-Clavero, Andrés Mauricio Caraballo-Rodriguez, Daniel Petras, María Luisa García-Martín, Gaelle Lamon, Birgit Haberstein, Francisco M. Cazorla, Antonio de Vicente, Antoine Loquet, Pieter C. Dorrestein, Diego Romero
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 10/1, 2019, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09944-x

Molecular architecture of bacterial amyloids in Bacillus biofilms

Author(s): Nadia El Mammeri, Jesus Hierrezuelo, James Tolchard, Jesús Cámara-Almirón, Joaquín Caro-Astorga, Ana Álvarez-Mena, Antoine Dutour, Mélanie Berbon, Jayakrishna Shenoy, Estelle Morvan, Axelle Grélard, Brice Kauffmann, Sophie Lecomte, Antonio de Vicente, Birgit Habenstein, Diego Romero, Antoine Loquet
Published in: The FASEB Journal, 2019, Page(s) fj.201900831R, ISSN 0892-6638
Publisher: Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
DOI: 10.1096/fj.201900831r

Functional Amyloids in Health and Disease

Author(s): Antoine Loquet, Sven J. Saupe, Diego Romero
Published in: Journal of Molecular Biology, Issue 430/20, 2018, Page(s) 3629-3630, ISSN 0022-2836
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2018.07.024

Beyond the expected: the structural and functional diversity of bacterial amyloids

Author(s): Jesús Cámara-Almirón, Joaquin Caro-Astorga, Antonio de Vicente, Diego Romero
Published in: Critical Reviews in Microbiology, Issue 44/6, 2018, Page(s) 653-666, ISSN 1040-841X
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/1040841x.2018.1491527

Two genomic regions encoding exopolysaccharide production systems have complementary functions in B. cereus multicellularity and host interaction

Author(s): Joaquin Caro-Astorga, Ana Álvarez-Mena, Jesús Hierrezuelo, Juan Antonio Guadix, Zahira Heredia-Ponce, Yohanna Arboleda-Estudillo, Elena González-Munoz, Antonio de Vicente, Diego Romero
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 10/1, 2020, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-57970-3

A community resource for paired genomic and metabolomic data mining

Author(s): Michelle A. Schorn, Stefan Verhoeven, Lars Ridder, Florian Huber, Deepa D. Acharya, Alexander A. Aksenov, Gajender Aleti, Jamshid Amiri Moghaddam, Allegra T. Aron, Saefuddin Aziz, Anelize Bauermeister, Katherine D. Bauman, Martin Baunach, Christine Beemelmanns, J. Michael Beman, María Victoria Berlanga-Clavero, Alex A. Blacutt, Helge B. Bode, Anne Boullie, Asker Brejnrod, Tim S. Bugni, Alexandra
Published in: Nature Chemical Biology, Issue 17/4, 2021, Page(s) 363-368, ISSN 1552-4450
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41589-020-00724-z

Dual functionality of the amyloid protein TasA in Bacillus physiology and fitness on the phylloplane

Author(s): Jesús Cámara-Almirón, Yurena Navarro, Luis Díaz-Martínez, María Concepción Magno-Pérez-Bryan, Carlos Molina-Santiago, John R. Pearson, Antonio de Vicente, Alejandro Pérez-García, Diego Romero
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 11/1, 2020, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15758-z

Sporulation is dispensable for the vegetable‐associated life cycle of the human pathogen Bacillus cereus

Author(s): María Luisa Antequera‐Gómez, Luis Díaz‐Martínez, Juan Antonio Guadix, Ana María Sánchez‐Tévar, Sara Sopeña‐Torres, Jesús Hierrezuelo, Hung K. Doan, Johan H.J. Leveau, Antonio Vicente, Diego Romero
Published in: Microbial Biotechnology, 2021, ISSN 1751-7915
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd and Society for Applied Microbiology
DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.13816