Confocal laser scanning, scanning electron, and transmission electron microscopy investigation of Enterococcus faecalis biofilm degradation using passive and active sodium hypochlorite irrigation within a simulated root canal model.

abstract：:The effect of elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration [CO2 ] on the diversity and composition of the prokaryotic community inhabiting the rhizosphere of winter barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) was investigated in a field experiment, using open-top chambers. Rhizosphere samples were collected at anthesis (flowering stage) fr...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Szoboszlay M,Näther A,Mitterbauer E,Bender J,Weigel HJ,Tebbe CC

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emerging pollutants antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are prevalent in aquatic environments such as estuary. Coastal mangrove ecosystems always serve as natural wetlands for receiving sewage which always carry ARGs. Currently, the research considering ARG distribution in mangrove ecosystems gains more interest. I...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Zhao H,Yan B,Mo X,Li P,Li B,Li Q,Li N,Mo S,Ou Q,Shen P,Wu B,Jiang C

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rod-shaped bacteria, the proper placement of the division septum at the midcell relies, at least partially, on the proteins of the Min system as an inhibitor of cell division. The main principle of Min system function involves the formation of an inhibitor gradient along the cell axis; however, the establishment of...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Makroczyová J,Jamroškovič J,Krascsenitsová E,Labajová N,Barák I

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several factors affect protein expression in Pichia pastoris, one among them is the carbon source. In this work, we studied the effect of this factor on the expression level of rabies virus glycoprotein (RABV-G) in two recombinant clones harboring seven copies of the gene of interest. The expression was driven either ...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Ben Azoun S,Kallel H

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basic cosmetics was used by volunteers belonging to high (HHG) and low (LHG) hydration groups for 4 weeks, and bacterial communities and biophysical parameters in facial skin were analyzed. Hydration level increases and transepidermal water loss and roughness decreases were observed in both groups after cosmetic use. ...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Lee HJ,Jeong SE,Lee S,Kim S,Han H,Jeon CO

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UV resistance of bacteria isolated from the marine cyanobacterium Moorea producens has not been observed previously, findings which highlight how unsafe germicidal UV irradiation for sterilization of air, food, and water could be. Further, UV resistance of Bacillus licheniformis is being observed for the first time. T...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Dzeha T,Nyiro C,Kardasopoulos D,Mburu D,Mwafaida J,Hall MJ,Burgess JG

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phellinus noxius is a pathogenic fungus that causes brown root rot disease, resulting in a widespread tree and crop mortality in the tropics and subtropics. Early stages of this disease are largely asymptomatic, hindering early diagnosis and effective treatment. We hypothesized that P. noxius infection would alter the...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Tsang KSW,Cheung MK,Lam RYC,Kwan HS

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms play a central role in the pathobiology of otitis media (OM), bronchitis, sinusitis, conjunctivitis, and pneumonia caused by nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI). Our previous studies show that extracellular DNA (eDNA) and DNABII proteins are essential components of biofilms formed by NTHI. The DNABII pr...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Devaraj A,Buzzo J,Rocco CJ,Bakaletz LO,Goodman SD

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing popularity of preservative-free cosmetics necessitates in-depth research, specifically as bacteria can react to local factors by important metabolic changes. In this respect, investigating the effect of cosmetic preparations on pathogenic strains of commensal species such as acneic forms of Cutibacterium ac...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Gannesen AV,Borrel V,Lefeuvre L,Netrusov AI,Plakunov VK,Feuilloley MGJ

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the possible effects of sulfamonomethoxine (SMM) on Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), we quantitatively evaluated the microbial shifts in the intestines of Nile tilapia in response to different doses of SMM (200 and 300 mg/kg) using 16S rRNA gene sequencing. At the phylum level, the control group (0...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Ming J,Fu Z,Ma Z,Zhou L,Zhang Z,Song C,Yuan X,Wu Q

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannitol is the major compatible solute, next to glutamate, synthesized by the opportunistic human pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii under low water activities. The key enzyme for mannitol biosynthesis, MtlD, was identified. MtlD is highly similar to the bifunctional mannitol-1-phosphate dehydrogenase/phosphatase from ...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Zeidler S,Hubloher J,König P,Ngu ND,Scholz A,Averhoff B,Müller V

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper resistance system in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 comprises two operons, copMRS and copBAC, which are expressed in response to copper in the media. copBAC codes for a heavy-metal efflux-resistance nodulation and division (HME-RND) system, while copMRS codes for a protein of unknown function, Co...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Giner-Lamia J,López-Maury L,Florencio FJ

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have evaluated the trophic level in tropical caves, and none related the microbial biomass dynamics in the immobilization of carbon and nitrogen. Here, four tropical caves of Terra Ronca State Park, Brazil, were studied: Angélica, São Bernardo, Terra Ronca I, and Terra Ronca II caves. Physical, chemical, a...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Paula CCP,Bichuette ME,Seleghim MHR

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) causes airsacculitis, polyserositis, septicemia, and other mainly extraintestinal diseases in chickens, ducks, geese, pigeons, and other avian species, and is responsible for great economic losses in the avian industry. The autoinducer 2 (AI-2) quorum sensing system is widely p...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Yu L,Li W,Zhang M,Cui Y,Chen X,Ni J,Yu L,Shang F,Xue T

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodothermus marinus, a marine aerobic thermophile, was first isolated from an intertidal hot spring in Iceland. In recent years, the R. marinus strain PRI 493 has been genetically modified, which opens up possibilities for targeted metabolic engineering of the species, such as of the carotenoid biosynthetic pathway. ...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Ron EYC,Plaza M,Kristjansdottir T,Sardari RRR,Bjornsdottir SH,Gudmundsson S,Hreggvidsson GO,Turner C,van Niel EWJ,Nordberg-Karlsson E

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. dysgalactiae (SDSD) is a major cause of bovine mastitis and has been regarded as an animal-restricted pathogen, although rare infections have been described in humans. Previous studies revealed the presence of virulence genes encoded by phages of the human pathogen Group A Streptococc...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Alves-Barroco C,Roma-Rodrigues C,Raposo LR,Brás C,Diniz M,Caço J,Costa PM,Santos-Sanches I,Fernandes AR

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Directed enzyme prodrug therapy (DEPT) is a cancer chemotherapy strategy in which bacterial enzymes are delivered to a cancer site before prodrug administration, resulting in prodrug activation at the cancer site and more localized treatment. A major limitation to DEPT is the poor effectiveness of the most studied enz...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Ball P,Halliwell J,Anderson S,Gwenin V,Gwenin C

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By taking advantage of the ballistoconidium-forming capabilities of members of the genus Sporobolomyces, we recovered ten isolates from deciduous tree leaves collected from Vermont and Washington, USA. Analysis of the small subunit ribosomal RNA gene and the D1/D2 domain of the large subunit ribosomal RNA gene indicat...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Cobban A,Edgcomb VP,Burgaud G,Repeta D,Leadbetter ER

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclease colicins bind their target receptor BtuB in the outer membrane of sensitive Escherichia coli cells in the form of a high-affinity complex with their cognate immunity proteins. The release of the immunity protein from the colicin complex is a prerequisite for cell entry of the colicin and occurs via a process ...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Vankemmelbeke M,Housden NG,James R,Kleanthous C,Penfold CN

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kalimantacin is an antimicrobial compound with strong antistaphylococcal activity that is produced by a hybrid trans-acyltransferase polyketide synthase/nonribosomal peptide synthetase system in Pseudomonas fluorescens BCCM_ID9359. We here present a systematic analysis of the substrate specificity of the glycine-incor...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Uytterhoeven B,Appermans K,Song L,Masschelein J,Lathouwers T,Michiels CW,Lavigne R

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have designed a thermoelectric heat exchanger (TEHE) for microbial fermentations that is able to produce electric power from a microbial continuous culture using the intrinsic heat generated by microbial growth. While the TEHE was connected, the system proved able to stably self-maintain both the temperature and th...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Latorre-Pérez A,Vilanova C,Alcaina JJ,Porcar M

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A robust DNA extraction method is important to identify the majority of microorganisms present in environmental microbial communities and to enable a consistent comparison between different studies. Here, 15 manual and four automated commercial DNA extraction kits were evaluated for their efficiency to extract DNA fro...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Burbach K,Seifert J,Pieper DH,Camarinha-Silva A

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although microorganisms play crucial roles in ecosystems, metagenomic analyses of soil samples are quite scarce, especially in the Southern Hemisphere. In this work, the microbial diversity of soil samples from an Atlantic Forest and Caatinga was analyzed using a metagenomic approach. Proteobacteria and Actinobacteria...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Pacchioni RG,Carvalho FM,Thompson CE,Faustino AL,Nicolini F,Pereira TS,Silva RC,Cantão ME,Gerber A,Vasconcelos AT,Agnez-Lima LF

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a good environmental microorganism capable of degrading decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-209). This paper studied the effect of Cu2+ and humic acid (HA) extracted from e-waste contaminated soils on biodegradation of BDE-209 by P. aeruginosa. The adsorption isotherms of Cu2+ on HA, the crude enzym...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Liu Y,Gong A,Qiu L,Li J,Li F

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most DNA assembly methods require bacterial amplification steps, which restrict its application to genes that can be cloned in the bacterial host without significant toxic effects. However, genes that cannot be cloned in bacteria do not necessarily exert toxic effects on the final host. In order to tackle this issue, ...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Cataldo VF,Salgado V,Saa PA,Agosin E

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FtsZ - a prokaryotic tubulin homolog - is one of the central components of bacterial division machinery. At the early stage of cytokinesis FtsZ forms the so-called Z-ring at mid-cell that guides septum formation. Many approaches were used to resolve the structure of the Z-ring, however, researchers are still far from ...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Vedyaykin AD,Vishnyakov IE,Polinovskaya VS,Khodorkovskii MA,Sabantsev AV

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sairecabur volcano (5971 m), in the Atacama Desert, is a high-altitude extreme environment with high daily temperature variations, acidic soils, intense UV radiation, and low availability of water. Four different species of yeasts were isolated from this region using oligotrophic media, identified and characterize...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Pulschen AA,Rodrigues F,Duarte RT,Araujo GG,Santiago IF,Paulino-Lima IG,Rosa CA,Kato MJ,Pellizari VH,Galante D

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to colistin, mediated by chromosomal mutations and more recently, by plasmid-borne mcr genes, is increasingly being reported in bacterial isolates taken from humans, animals, farms, foods, and the environment. To easily identify and contain this quickly spreading menace, efficient diagnostics that are cheap...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Osei Sekyere J

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In our previous work, we demonstrated that viable but nonculturable (VBNC) Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 were converted to culturable by coculture with eukaryotic cells. Furthermore, we isolated a factor converting VBNC V. cholerae to culturable (FCVC) from a eukaryotic cell line, HT-29. In this study, we purified FCVC ...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Senoh M,Hamabata T,Takeda Y

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Newcastle disease, caused by virulent strain of Newcastle disease virus (NDV), is an acute, highly contagious disease that is prevalent worldwide and is responsible for serious economic losses to the poultry industry. In the current study, we compared the early immune responses in chickens infected with two strains of...

journal_title：MicrobiologyOpen

authors： Zhang T,Ren M,Liu C,Xu L,Wang F,Han Z,Shao Y,Ma D

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00