Publications by Isabella Santi

Identification of aminopyrimidine-sulfonamides as potent modulators of Wag31-mediated cell elongation in mycobacteria

Stewart Cole, Kai Johnsson, John McKinney, Graham Knott, Neeraj Dhar, Ruben Hartkoorn, Isabella Santi, Anthony Vocat, Gaëlle Séraphine Kolly, Monica Rengifo Gonzalez

There is an urgent need to discover new antitubercular agents with novel mechanisms of action in order to tackle the scourge of drug-resistant tuberculosis. Here, we report the identification of such a molecule - an AminoPYrimidine-Sulfonamide (APYS1) that ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

The studies of ParA and ParB dynamics reveal asymmetry of chromosome segregation in mycobacteria

John McKinney, Isabella Santi, Djenet Bousbaine

Active segregation of bacterial chromosomes usually involves the action of ParB proteins, which bind in proximity of chromosomal origin (oriC) regions forming nucleoprotein complexes - segrosomes. Newly duplicated segrosomes are moved either uni- or bidire ...

Wiley2017

Chromosome Organization and Replisome Dynamics in Mycobacterium smegmatis

John McKinney, Isabella Santi

Subcellular organization of the bacterial nucleoid and spatiotemporal dynamics of DNA replication and segregation have been studied intensively, but the functional link between these processes remains poorly understood. Here we use quantitative time-lapse ...

American Society for Microbiology2015

Adaptive Response of Group B Streptococcus to High Glucose Conditions: New Insights on the CovRS Regulation Network

Isabella Santi

Although the contribution of carbohydrate catabolism to bacterial colonization and infection is well recognized, the transcriptional changes during these processes are still unknown. In this study, we have performed comparative global gene expression analy ...

Public Library of Science2013

Single-cell dynamics of the chromosome replication and cell division cycles in mycobacteria

John McKinney, Neeraj Dhar, Isabella Santi, Djenet Bousbaine

During the bacterial cell cycle, chromosome replication and cell division must be coordinated with overall cell growth in order to maintain the correct ploidy and cell size. The spatial and temporal coordination of these processes in mycobacteria is not un ...

Nature Publishing Group2013