Characterization of alpha-isopropylmalate synthases containing different copy numbers of tandem repeats in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prevotella intermedia is a Gram-negative black-pigmenting oral anaerobe associated with periodontitis in humans, and has a haem requirement for growth, survival and virulence. It produces an iron porphyrin-containing pigment comprising monomeric iron (III) protoporphyrin IX (Fe(III)PPIX.OH; haematin). The ba...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Byrne DP,Manandhar SP,Potempa J,Smalley JW

更新日期：2015-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aminoglycoside antibiotic gentamicin was supposed to induce a crosstalk between the Cpx- and the Arc-two-component systems (TCS). Here, we investigated the physical interaction of the respective TCS components and compared the results with their respective gene expression and protein abundance. The findi...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Ćudić E,Surmann K,Panasia G,Hammer E,Hunke S

更新日期：2017-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bifidobacteria is one of the major gut commensal groups found in infants. Their colonization is commonly associated with beneficial effects to the host through mechanisms like niche occupation and nutrient competition against pathogenic bacteria. Iron is an essential element necessary for most microorganisms...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Vazquez-Gutierrez P,Lacroix C,Jaeggi T,Zeder C,Zimmerman MB,Chassard C

更新日期：2015-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The date palm root borer Oryctes agamemnon (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) is one of the major pests of palms. In Saudi Arabia, both larvae and adults of Oryctes are particularly troublesome, especially during the establishment of young date palm orchards. Endosymbiotic bacteria are known to have a key role in fo...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： El-Sayed WS,Ibrahim RA

更新日期：2015-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The influence of the membrane-bound AAA+ protease FtsH on membrane and cytoplasmic proteins of Corynebacterium glutamicum was investigated in this study. For the analysis of the membrane fraction, anion exchange chromatography was combined with SDS-PAGE, while the cytoplasmic protein fraction was studied by ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Lüdke A,Krämer R,Burkovski A,Schluesener D,Poetsch A

更新日期：2007-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hfq is a widely conserved bacterial RNA-binding protein which generally mediates the global regulatory activities involv ed in physiological process and virulence. The goal of this study was to characterize the biological function of hfq gene in Xanthomonas axonpodis pv. citri (Xac), the causal agent of citr...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Liu X,Yan Y,Wu H,Zhou C,Wang X

更新日期：2019-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:DING proteins constitute a conserved and broadly distributed set of proteins found in bacteria, fungi, plants and animals (including humans). Characterization of DING proteins from animal and plant tissues indicated ligand-binding ability suggesting a role for DING proteins in cell signaling and biomineraliz...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Zhang XX,Scott K,Meffin R,Rainey PB

更新日期：2007-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Total community rDNA was used to determine the diversity of bacteria and archaea from water, wet sediment and microbial mats samples of hot springs in the Eastern lowlands of Eritrea. The temperatures of the springs range from 49.5 °C to 100 °C while pH levels varied from 6.97 to 7.54. Akwar and Maiwooi have...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Ghilamicael AM,Budambula NLM,Anami SE,Mehari T,Boga HI

更新日期：2017-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Staphylococcus aureus is an opportunistic commensal bacterium that mostly colonizes the skin and soft tissues. The pathogenicity of S. aureus is due to both its ability to resist antibiotics, and the production of toxins. Here, we characterize a group of genes responsible for toxin production and antibiotic ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Sina H,Ahoyo TA,Moussaoui W,Keller D,Bankolé HS,Barogui Y,Stienstra Y,Kotchoni SO,Prévost G,Baba-Moussa L

更新日期：2013-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Campylobacter jejuni (C. jejuni) is a leading cause of foodborne gastroenteritis worldwide. This bacterium lacks many of the classical virulence factors, and flagellum-associated persistent colonization has been shown to be crucial for its pathogenesis. The flagellum plays a multifunctional role in C. jejuni...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Ren F,Li X,Tang H,Jiang Q,Yun X,Fang L,Huang P,Tang Y,Li Q,Huang J,Jiao XA

更新日期：2018-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biofilm is a fundamental bacterial survival mode which proceeds through three main generalized phases: adhesion, maturation, and dispersion. Lactobacilli spp. (LB) are critical components of gut and reproductive health and are widely used probiotics. Evaluation of time-dependent mechanisms of biofilm formati...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Martinez S,Garcia JG,Williams R,Elmassry M,West A,Hamood A,Hurtado D,Gudenkauf B,Ventolini G,Schlabritz-Loutsevitch N

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Affecting the core functional microbiome, peculiar high level taxonomic unbalances of the human intestinal microbiota have been recently associated with specific diseases, such as obesity, inflammatory bowel diseases, and intestinal inflammation. RESULTS:In order to specifically monitor microbiota unbalance...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Candela M,Consolandi C,Severgnini M,Biagi E,Castiglioni B,Vitali B,De Bellis G,Brigidi P

更新日期：2010-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thermotolerant Campylobacter is among the more prevalent bacterial pathogens that cause foodborne diseases. This study aimed at evaluating the occurrence of thermotolerant Campylobacter contamination in chicken carcasses and processing plant stations (chilling water, scalding water, defeathering machinery, e...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Figueroa G,Troncoso M,López C,Rivas P,Toro M

更新日期：2009-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Central nervous system disease is the most serious form of tuberculosis, and is associated with high mortality and severe neurological sequelae. Though recent clinical reports suggest an association of distinct Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains with central nervous system disease, the microbial virulence fa...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Be NA,Bishai WR,Jain SK

更新日期：2012-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since 1994, Brucella strains have been isolated from a wide range of marine mammals. They are currently recognized as two new Brucella species, B. pinnipedialis for the pinniped isolates and B. ceti for the cetacean isolates in agreement with host preference and specific phenotypic and molecular markers. In ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Maquart M,Le Flèche P,Foster G,Tryland M,Ramisse F,Djønne B,Al Dahouk S,Jacques I,Neubauer H,Walravens K,Godfroid J,Cloeckaert A,Vergnaud G

更新日期：2009-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) has been considered a beneficial bacterial group, found as part of the microbiota of diverse hosts, including humans and various animals. However, the mechanisms of how hosts and LAB interact are still poorly understood. Previous work demonstrates that 13 species of Lactobacillus a...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Butler È,Alsterfjord M,Olofsson TC,Karlsson C,Malmström J,Vásquez A

更新日期：2013-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification and characterization of intervening sequences (IVSs) within 23S rRNA genes from Campylobacter organisms including atypical campylobacters were carried out using two PCR primer pairs, designed to generate helix 25 and 45 regions. RESULTS:Only C. sputorum biovar sputorum LMG7975 and fecalis LMG...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Tazumi A,Kakinuma Y,Misawa N,Moore JE,Millar BC,Matsuda M

更新日期：2009-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whole-genome sequencing using high throughput technologies has revolutionized and speeded up the scientific investigation of bacterial genetics, biochemistry, and molecular biology. Lactic acid bacteria (LABs) have been extensively used in fermentation and more recently as probiotics in food products that pr...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： El Jeni R,Ghedira K,El Bour M,Abdelhak S,Benkahla A,Bouhaouala-Zahar B

更新日期：2020-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The emergence and spread of multidrug resistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MDR-MRSA) has serious health consequences in the presence of sub-MIC antibiotics. Therefore, this study was designed to evaluate β-lactamase activity, efflux activity, biofilm formation, and gene expression pattern i...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Jo A,Ahn J

更新日期：2016-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) biofilm producers represent an important etiological agent of many chronic human infections. Antibiotics and host immune responses are largely ineffective against bacteria within biofilms. Alternative actions and novel antimicrobials should be considered. In...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Dakheel KH,Rahim RA,Neela VK,Al-Obaidi JR,Hun TG,Isa MNM,Yusoff K

更新日期：2019-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mycoplasma pneumoniae has previously been characterized as a micro-organism that is genetically highly stable. In spite of this genetic stability, homologous DNA recombination has been hypothesized to lie at the basis of antigenic variation of the major surface protein, P1, of M. pneumoniae. In order to iden...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Sluijter M,Hoogenboezem T,Hartwig NG,Vink C

更新日期：2008-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing age, several co-morbidities, environmental contamination, antibiotic exposure and other intestinal perturbations appear to be the greatest risk factors for C. difficile infection (CDI). Therefore, elderly care home residents are considered particularly vulnerable to the infection. The main objecti...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Rodriguez C,Taminiau B,Korsak N,Avesani V,Van Broeck J,Brach P,Delmée M,Daube G

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：ERRATUM:Upon publication of the original article (1) it was highlighted by the authors that a grant awarded to support the research work of the study was missed in the acknowledgements. It should also be acknowledged that the grant titled "Genotyping and Molecular Epidemiological Characteristic of Bacillus anthracis in...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Li S,Ma Q,Chen H,Wang D,Liu Y,Wei X,You L,Yao G,Tian K,Tang G

更新日期：2018-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several intracellular bacterial pathogens have evolved subtle strategies to subvert vesicular trafficking pathways of their host cells to avoid killing and to replicate inside the cells. Brucellae are Gram-negative facultative intracellular bacteria that are responsible for brucellosis, a worldwide extended ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Hamer I,Goffin E,De Bolle X,Letesson JJ,Jadot M

更新日期：2014-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Probiotics are live microorganisms that, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit on the host, are now accepted as suitable alternatives to antibiotics in the control of animal infections and improving animal production. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) with remarkable functional properties h...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Reuben RC,Roy PC,Sarkar SL,Alam RU,Jahid IK

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acetic acid has been used to clean and disinfect surfaces in the household for many decades. The antimicrobial efficacy of cleaning procedures can be considered particularly important for young, old, pregnant, immunocompromised people, but may also concern other groups, particularly with regards to the COVID...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Zinn MK,Bockmühl D

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The catabolite control protein CcpA is a transcriptional regulator conserved in many Gram-positives, controlling the efficiency of glucose metabolism. Here we studied the role of Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579 CcpA in regulation of metabolic pathways and expression of enterotoxin genes by comparative transcripto...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： van der Voort M,Kuipers OP,Buist G,de Vos WM,Abee T

更新日期：2008-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Iron is an essential nutrient but can be toxic at high intracellular concentrations and organisms have evolved tightly regulated mechanisms for iron uptake and homeostasis. Information on iron management mechanisms is available for organisms living at circumneutral pH. However, very little is known about how...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Osorio H,Martínez V,Nieto PA,Holmes DS,Quatrini R

更新日期：2008-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the present work, we describe a group of anomalous dose-response (DR) profiles and develop a dynamic model that is able to explain them. Responses were obtained from conventional assays of three antimicrobial agents (nisin, pediocin and phenol) against two microorganisms (Carnobacterium piscicola and Leuc...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Murado MA,Vázquez JA

更新日期：2010-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The kinetoplast DNA (kDNA) of trypanosomatids consists of an unusual arrangement of circular molecules catenated into a single network. The diameter of the isolated kDNA network is similar to that of the entire cell. However, within the kinetoplast matrix, the kDNA is highly condensed. Studies in Crithidia f...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Cavalcanti DP,Shimada MK,Probst CM,Souto-Padrón TC,de Souza W,Goldenberg S,Fragoso SP,Motta MC

更新日期：2009-06-04 00:00:00