In vitro interactions of Candida parapsilosis wild type and lipase deficient mutants with human monocyte derived dendritic cells.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The last step in the maturation process of the large subunit of [NiFe]-hydrogenases is a proteolytic cleavage of the C-terminal by a hydrogenase specific protease. Contrary to other accessory proteins these hydrogenase proteases are believed to be specific whereby one type of hydrogenases specific protease o...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Devine E,Holmqvist M,Stensjö K,Lindblad P

更新日期：2009-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A major obstacle to industrial-scale astaxanthin production by the yeast Phaffia rhodozyma is the strong inhibitory effect of high glucose concentration on astaxanthin synthesis. We investigated, for the first time, the mechanism of the regulatory effect of high glucose (> 100 g/L) at the metabolite and tran...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Miao L,Chi S,Wu M,Liu Z,Li Y

更新日期：2019-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:"Candidatus Phytoplasma aurantifolia", is the causative agent of witches' broom disease in Mexican lime trees (Citrus aurantifolia L.), and is responsible for major losses of Mexican lime trees in Southern Iran and Oman. The pathogen is strictly biotrophic, and thus is completely dependent on living host cel...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Zamharir MG,Mardi M,Alavi SM,Hasanzadeh N,Nekouei MK,Zamanizadeh HR,Alizadeh A,Salekdeh GH

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pseudomonas syringae is pathogenic to a large number of plant species. For host colonization and disease progression, strains of this bacterium utilize an array of type III-secreted effectors and other virulence factors, including small secreted molecules such as syringolin A, a peptide derivative that inhib...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Dudnik A,Dudler R

更新日期：2014-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wolbachia are the most widely spread endosymbiotic bacteria, present in a wide variety of insects and two families of nematodes. As of now, however, relatively little genomic data has been available. The Wolbachia symbiont can be parasitic, as described for many arthropod systems, an obligate mutualist, as i...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Lefoulon E,Clark T,Borveto F,Perriat-Sanguinet M,Moulia C,Slatko BE,Gavotte L

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Though important in the context of food microbiology and as potential pathogens in immuno-compromised humans, bacterial isolates belonging to the genus Pediococcus are best known for their association with contamination of ethanol fermentation processes (beer, wine, or fuel ethanol). Use of antimicrobial com...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Haakensen M,Vickers DM,Ziola B

更新日期：2009-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ColRS two-component system has been shown to contribute to the membrane functionality and stress tolerance of Pseudomonas putida as well as to the virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and plant pathogenic Xanthomonas species. However, the conditions activating the ColRS pathway and the signal(s) sensed by...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Ainsaar K,Mumm K,Ilves H,Hõrak R

更新日期：2014-06-20 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:Footrot and interdigital dermatitis are endemic infectious diseases in all sheep farming regions, impairing welfare and production. The development of efficacious vaccines against the primary causative pathogen has been hampered by the extensive antigenic diversity of Dichelobacter nodosus. Understanding the...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Davies PL,Blanchard AM,Staley CE,Bollard NJ,Coffey TJ,Tötemeyer S

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacteria employ multiple mechanisms to control gene expression and react to their constantly changing environment. Bacterial growth in rich laboratory medium is a dynamic process in which bacteria utilize nutrients from simple to complex and change physical properties of the medium, as pH, during the process...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Sitkiewicz I,Musser JM

更新日期：2009-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is an increasing interest to better understand endosymbiont capabilities in insects both from an ecological point of view and for pest control. Blochmannia floridanus provides important nutrients for its host, the ant Camponotus, while the bacterium in return is provided with a niche to proliferate. Bl...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Gaudermann P,Vogl I,Zientz E,Silva FJ,Moya A,Gross R,Dandekar T

更新日期：2006-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Porphyromonas gingivalis is the foremost oral pathogen of adult periodontitis in humans. However, the mechanisms of bacterial invasion and the resultant destruction of the gingival tissue remain largely undefined. RESULTS:We report host-P. gingivalis interactions in primary human gingival fibroblast (HGF) c...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Urnowey S,Ansai T,Bitko V,Nakayama K,Takehara T,Barik S

更新日期：2006-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The gut comprises an essential barrier that protects both invertebrate and vertebrate animals from invasion by microorganisms. Disruption of the balanced relationship between indigenous gut microbiota and their host can result in gut bacteria eliciting host responses similar to those caused by invasive patho...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Broderick NA,Raffa KF,Handelsman J

更新日期：2010-04-27 00:00:00

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-resistance genes encoding aminoglycoside modifying enzymes and 16S rRNA methyltransferases are main factors contributing to increasing resistance to aminoglycosides. Characterization and distribution of antimicrobial resistance gene profiles provide important information on the potential d...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Hu X,Xu B,Yang Y,Liu D,Yang M,Wang J,Shen H,Zhou X,Ma X

更新日期：2013-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Gifsy-I phage integrates into the Salmonella Typhimurium chromosome via an integrase mediated, site-specific recombination mechanism. Excision of the Gifsy-I phage requires three proteins, the Gifsy-I integrase (Int), the Gifsy-I excisionase (Xis) protein, and host encoded Integration Host Factor (IHF). ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Flanigan A,Gardner J

更新日期：2008-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Predicting antibiotic resistance before it emerges at clinical settings constitutes a novel approach for preventing and fighting resistance of bacterial pathogens. To analyse the possibility that novel plasmid-encoded quinolone resistance determinants (Qnr) can emerge and disseminate among bacterial pathogen...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Sánchez MB,Hernández A,Rodríguez-Martínez JM,Martínez-Martínez L,Martínez JL

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Francisella tularensis is a fastidious, Gram-negative coccobacillus and is the causative agent of tularemia. To assess viability yet overcome lengthy incubation periods, a culture-based PCR method was used to detect early growth of the lowest possible number of F. tularensis cells. This method utilized a pre...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Buse HY,Morris BJ,Rice EW

更新日期：2020-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dispersal from Candida albicans biofilms that colonize catheters is implicated as a primary factor in the link between contaminated catheters and life threatening blood stream infections (BSI). Appropriate in vitro C. albicans biofilm models are needed to probe factors that induce detachment events. RESULTS...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Sellam A,Al-Niemi T,McInnerney K,Brumfield S,Nantel A,Suci PA

更新日期：2009-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alpha-isopropylmalate synthase (alpha-IPMS) is the key enzyme that catalyzes the first committed step in the leucine biosynthetic pathway. The gene encoding alpha-IPMS in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, leuA, is polymorphic due to the insertion of 57-bp repeat units referred to as Variable Number of Tandem Repea...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Yindeeyoungyeon W,Likitvivatanavong S,Palittapongarnpim P

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many plants have been used in traditional medicine for their antibacterial, antifungal, antiprotozoal, antiviral, antidiarrhoeal, analgesic, antimalarial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anticancer activities. In order to find novel antimicrobial and antiviral agents, the aim of the present study was the ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Di Petrillo A,Fais A,Pintus F,Santos-Buelga C,González-Paramás AM,Piras V,Orrù G,Mameli A,Tramontano E,Frau A

更新日期：2017-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many bacterial extracytoplasmic proteins are stabilized by intramolecular disulfide bridges that are formed post-translationally between their cysteine residues. This protein modification plays an important role in bacterial pathogenesis, and is facilitated by the Dsb (disulfide bond) family of the redox pro...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Grabowska AD,Wandel MP,Łasica AM,Nesteruk M,Roszczenko P,Wyszyńska A,Godlewska R,Jagusztyn-Krynicka EK

更新日期：2011-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), widespread pollutants in the marine environment, can produce adverse effects in marine organisms and can be transferred to humans through seafood. Our knowledge of PAH-degrading bacterial populations in the marine environment is still very limited, and mainly originat...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Lozada M,Riva Mercadal JP,Guerrero LD,Di Marzio WD,Ferrero MA,Dionisi HM

更新日期：2008-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Saccharomyces cerevisiae multicellular communities are sustained by a scaffolding extracellular matrix, which provides spatial organization, and nutrient and water availability, and ensures group survival. According to this tissue-like biology, the yeast extracellular matrix (yECM) is analogous to the higher...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Faria-Oliveira F,Carvalho J,Ferreira C,Hernáez ML,Gil C,Lucas C

更新日期：2015-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The bacterial surface protein internalin (InlA) is a major virulence factor of the food-born pathogen Listeria monocytogenes. It plays a critical role in the bacteria crossing the host intestinal barrier by a species-specific interaction with the cell adhesion molecule E-cadherin. In mice, the interaction of...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Bergmann S,Beard PM,Pasche B,Lienenklaus S,Weiss S,Gahan CG,Schughart K,Lengeling A

更新日期：2013-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Beijing lineage of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is causing concern due to its global distribution and its involvement in severe outbreaks. Studies focused on this lineage are mainly restricted to geographical settings where its prevalence is high, whereas those in other areas are scarce. In this study, we ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Alonso M,Alonso Rodriguez N,Garzelli C,Martínez Lirola M,Herranz M,Samper S,Ruiz Serrano MJ,Bouza E,García de Viedma D

更新日期：2010-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sigma factors are one of the components of RNA polymerase holoenzymes, and an essential factor of transcription initiation in bacteria. Corynebacterium glutamicum possesses seven genes coding for sigma factors, most of which have been studied to some detail; however, the role of SigD in transcriptional regul...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Taniguchi H,Busche T,Patschkowski T,Niehaus K,Pátek M,Kalinowski J,Wendisch VF

更新日期：2017-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enterobacter sakazakii is an emergent pathogen associated with ingestion of infant formula and accurate identification is important in both industrial and clinical settings. Bacterial species can be difficult to accurately characterise from complex biochemical datasets and computer algorithms can potentially...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Iversen C,Lancashire L,Waddington M,Forsythe S,Ball G

更新日期：2006-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Gram-negative phytopathogenic bacterium Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris recruits the hrp/T3SS system to inject pathogenicity effector proteins into host cells and uses the rpf/DSF cell-cell signaling system to regulate the expression of virulence factors such as extracellular enzymes and polysaccha...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Jiang BL,Jiang GF,Liu W,Yang LC,Yang LY,Wang L,Hang XH,Tang JL

更新日期：2018-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous is a basidiomycetous yeast that synthesizes astaxanthin, a carotenoid with great biotechnological impact. The ergosterol and carotenoid synthetic pathways derive from the mevalonate pathway and involve cytochrome P450 enzymes. Among these enzymes, the CYP51 family, which is invo...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Leiva K,Werner N,Sepúlveda D,Barahona S,Baeza M,Cifuentes V,Alcaíno J

更新日期：2015-04-25 00:00:00