Do human mycoplasmas rely on iron?

A review article published in the Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal describes the putative iron-enzymes, transporters, and metalloregulators of four relevant human mycoplasmas and questions the use of iron by these minimal organisms. Alex Perálvarez-Marín, et al., Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2021. Metal utilization in genome-reduced bacteria: do human mycoplasmas rely on iron?? Abstract […]

One Health in Mycoplasmas: Antimicrobial Susceptibility and Resistance in Mycoplasmas Infecting Humans, Animals, Plants and Insects”

A special issue of Antibiotics an open access journal published monthly online by MDPI. Mycoplasmas are among the smallest forms of life in nature and exist as commensals or pathogens of organisms across the tree of life. They are associated with disease in premature newborn babies and sexually transmitted disease in adults, infectious respiratory disease […]

Mycoplasma agalactiae: The Sole Cause of Classical Contagious Agalactia?

A recent commentary by Migliore at al. (2021) recommends that contagious agalactia (CA) should only be diagnosed and confirmed when M. agalactiae is detected either by isolation or molecular methods. The other three mycoplasmas classically associated with CA (M. mycoides subsp. capri, M. capricolum subsp. capricolum and M. putrefaciens) should removed from the OIE Manual […]

MolliGen 4.0

MolliGen is a database dedicated to the comparative genomics and the genome engineering of bacteria belonging to the class Mollicutes. MolliGen provides tools for exploration and comparison of 408 genomes belonging to 163 species. Most genomes included in MolliGen are public genomes retrieved from databases such as EMBL or GenBank. A private access to store, […]