Orientia tsutsugamushi
is a genetically intractable obligate intracellular bacterium, causes scrub typhus, and has one of the largest known armamentariums of ankyrin repeat-containing effectors (Anks). Most have a C-terminal F-box presumed to interact with the SCF ubiquitin ligase complex primarily based on their ability to bind overexpressed Skp1.
Anaplasma phagocytophilum
causes granulocytic anaplasmosis, a globally emerging zoonosis that can be severe, even fatal, and for which antibiotic treatment options are limited.
A. phagocytophilum
lives in an endosomal-like compartment that interfaces with multiple organelles and from which it must ultimately exit to spread within the host. How the bacterium accomplishes these tasks is poorly understood.
Increased prevalence and abundance of
Selenomonas sputigena
have been associated with periodontitis, a chronic inflammatory disease of tooth-supporting tissues, for more than 50 years. Over the past decade, molecular surveys of periodontal disease using 16S and shotgun metagenomic sequencing approaches have confirmed the disease association of classically recognized periodontal pathogens such as
Porphyromonas gingivalis
,
Treponema denticola
, and
Tannerella forsythia
while highlighting previously underappreciated organisms such as
Filifactor alocis
and
S. sputigena
.
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