Identification of nucleoid associated proteins (NAPs) under oxidative stress in Staphylococcus aureus.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ochrobactrum anthropi is a versatile bacterial species with strains living in very diverse habitats. It is increasingly recognized as opportunistic pathogen in hospitalized patients. The population biology of the species particularly with regard to the characteristics of the human isolates is being investiga...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Romano S,Aujoulat F,Jumas-Bilak E,Masnou A,Jeannot JL,Falsen E,Marchandin H,Teyssier C

更新日期：2009-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Urine within the urinary tract is commonly regarded as "sterile" in cultivation terms. Here, we present a comprehensive in-depth study of bacterial 16S rDNA sequences associated with urine from healthy females by means of culture-independent high-throughput sequencing techniques. RESULTS:Sequencing of the V...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Siddiqui H,Nederbragt AJ,Lagesen K,Jeansson SL,Jakobsen KS

更新日期：2011-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The KdpD/KdpE two-component system of Escherichia coli regulates expression of the kdpFABC operon encoding the high affinity K+ transport system KdpFABC. The input domain of KdpD comprises a domain that belongs to the family of universal stress proteins (Usp). It has been previously demonstrated that UspC bi...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Heermann R,Lippert ML,Jung K

更新日期：2009-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Persister cells comprise a phenotypic variant that shows extreme antibiotic tolerance resulting in treatment failures of bacterial infections. While this phenomenon has posed a great threat in public health, mechanisms underlying their formation in Staphylococcus aureus remain largely unknown. Increasing evi...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Sahukhal GS,Pandey S,Elasri MO

更新日期：2017-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Streptomyces lividans is an appealing host for the production of proteins of biotechnological interest due to its relaxed exogenous DNA restriction system and its ability to secrete proteins directly to the medium through the major Sec or the minor Tat routes. Often, protein secretion displays non-uniform ti...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Valverde JR,Gullón S,García-Herrero CA,Campoy I,Mellado RP

更新日期：2019-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Salmonella enterica is a causative agent of foodborne gastroenteritis and the systemic disease known as typhoid fever. This bacterium uses two type three secretion systems (T3SSs) to translocate protein effectors into host cells to manipulate cellular function. Salmonella pathogenicity island (SPI)-2 encodes...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Cooper CA,Mulder DT,Allison SE,Pilar AV,Coombes BK

更新日期：2013-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the past decade, researchers have proposed that the pldA gene for outer membrane phospholipase A (OMPLA) is important for bacterial colonization of the human gastric ventricle. Several conserved Helicobacter pylori genes have distinct genotypes in different parts of the world, biogeographic patterns that ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Vollan HS,Tannaes T,Yamaoka Y,Bukholm G

更新日期：2012-09-13 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: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:Abundant populations of bacteria have been observed on Mir and the International Space Station. While some experiments have shown that bacteria cultured during spaceflight exhibit a range of potentially troublesome characteristics, including increases in growth, antibiotic resistance and virulence, other stu...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Kim W,Tengra FK,Shong J,Marchand N,Chan HK,Young Z,Pangule RC,Parra M,Dordick JS,Plawsky JL,Collins CH

更新日期：2013-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The emergence of carbapenemase producing bacteria, especially New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM-1) and its variants, worldwide, has raised amajor public health concern. NDM-1 hydrolyzes a wide range of β-lactam antibiotics, including carbapenems, which are the last resort of antibiotics for the treatment of...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Khan AU,Maryam L,Zarrilli R

更新日期：2017-04-27 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:Bacteria release a wide variety of small molecules including cell-to-cell signaling compounds. Gram-negative bacteria use a variety of self-produced autoinducers such as acylated homoserine lactones (acyl-HSLs) as signal compounds for quorum sensing (QS) within and between bacterial species. QS plays a signi...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Minagawa S,Inami H,Kato T,Sawada S,Yasuki T,Miyairi S,Horikawa M,Okuda J,Gotoh N

更新日期：2012-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microencapsulated organic acids and botanicals have the potential to develop into important tools for the poultry industry. A blend of organic acids and botanicals (AviPlus®P) has previously shown to reduce Salmonella and Campylobacter in chickens; however, changes to the microbiota of the jejunum and ileum ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Feye KM,Swaggerty CL,Kogut MH,Ricke SC,Piva A,Grilli E

更新日期：2020-11-02 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:Bacillus mycoides Flügge, a Gram-positive, non-motile soil bacterium assigned to Bacillus cereus group, grows on agar as chains of cells linked end to end, forming radial filaments curving clock- or counter-clockwise (SIN or DX morphotypes). The molecular mechanism causing asymmetric curving is not known: ou...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Di Franco C,Beccari E,Santini T,Pisaneschi G,Tecce G

更新日期：2002-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The increasing availability of whole genome sequences allows the gene or protein content of different organisms to be compared, leading to burgeoning interest in the relatively new subfield of pan-genomics. However, while several studies have analyzed protein content relationships in specific groups of bacte...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Trost B,Haakensen M,Pittet V,Ziola B,Kusalik A

更新日期：2010-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nucleotide sugar transporters (NSTs) play an essential role in translocating nucleotide sugars into the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus to be used as substrates in glycosylation reactions. This intracellular transport is an essential step in the biosynthesis of glycoconjugates. RESULT...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Baptista CG,Rodrigues EC,Morking P,Klinke A,Zardo ML,Soares MJ,de Aguiar AM,Goldenberg S,Ramos AS

更新日期：2015-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mosquitoes are intermediate hosts for numerous disease causing organisms. Vector control is one of the most investigated strategy for the suppression of mosquito-borne diseases. Anopheles stephensi is one of the vectors of malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax. The parasite undergoes major developmental and matu...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Rani A,Sharma A,Rajagopal R,Adak T,Bhatnagar RK

更新日期：2009-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacteriocins are antimicrobial proteins and peptides ribosomally synthesized by some bacteria which can effect both intraspecies and interspecies killing. RESULTS:Moraxella catarrhalis strain E22 containing plasmid pLQ510 was shown to inhibit the growth of M. catarrhalis strain O35E. Two genes (mcbA and mcb...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Attia AS,Sedillo JL,Hoopman TC,Liu W,Liu L,Brautigam CA,Hansen EJ

更新日期：2009-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brucellosis incidence in China is divided into three stages: high incidence (1950s-1960s), decline (1970s-1980s), and re-emergence (1990s-2010s). At the re-emergence stage, Brucellosis incidence grew exponentially and spread to all 32 provinces. We describe the magnitude and the etiological distribution chan...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Piao DR,Liu X,Di DD,Xiao P,Zhao ZZ,Xu LQ,Tian GZ,Zhao HY,Fan WX,Cui BY,Jiang H

更新日期：2018-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The environment is the likely source of many pathogenic mycobacterial species but detection of mycobacteria by bacteriological tools is generally difficult and time-consuming. Consequently, several molecular targets based on the sequences of housekeeping genes, non-functional RNA and structural ribosomal RNA...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Radomski N,Roguet A,Lucas FS,Veyrier FJ,Cambau E,Accrombessi H,Moilleron R,Behr MA,Moulin L

更新日期：2013-12-03 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:Probiotics are increasingly applied to prevent and treat a range of infectious, immune related and gastrointestinal diseases. Despite this, the mechanisms behind the putative effects of probiotics are poorly understood. One of the suggested modes of probiotic action is modulation of the endogenous gut microb...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Laursen MF,Laursen RP,Larnkjær A,Michaelsen KF,Bahl MI,Licht TR

更新日期：2017-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mycobacterium avium is an environmental mycobacterium that can be divided into the subspecies avium, hominissuis, paratuberculosis and silvaticum. Some M. avium subspecies are opportunistic pathogens for animals and humans. They are ubiquitous in nature and can be isolated from natural sources of water, soil...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Johansen TB,Olsen I,Jensen MR,Dahle UR,Holstad G,Djønne B

更新日期：2007-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The skin microbiome serves as a first line defense against pathogens in vertebrates. In amphibians, it has the potential to protect against the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatis (Bd), a likely agent of amphibian declines. Alteration of the microbiome associated with unfavorable environmental change...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Jiménez RR,Alvarado G,Sandoval J,Sommer S

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enteroaggregative (EAEC) and Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli (STEC) are a major cause of diarrhea worldwide. E. coli carrying both virulence factors characteristic for EAEC and STEC and producing extended-spectrum beta-lactamase caused severe and protracted disease during an outbreak of E. coli O104:H...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Trung NV,Nhung HN,Carrique-Mas JJ,Mai HH,Tuyen HT,Campbell J,Nhung NT,Van Minh P,Wagenaar JA,Mai NT,Hieu TQ,Schultsz C,Hoa NT

更新日期：2016-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exposure of cells to environmental stress conditions can lead to the interruption of several intracellular processes, in particular those performed by macromolecular complexes such as the spliceosome. RESULTS:During nucleotide sequencing of cDNA libraries constructed using RNA isolated from B. emersonii cel...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Georg RC,Stefani RM,Gomes SL

更新日期：2009-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the most widely accepted mechanism of action for polymyxins is related to bacterial lysis via disruption, we hypothesized that this antimicrobial drug class could have other effects on Pseudomonas aeruginosa planktonic and sessile cells. Little is known regarding oxidative burst and zeta potential (...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Lima MR,Ferreira GF,Nunes Neto WR,Monteiro JM,Santos ÁRC,Tavares PB,Denadai ÂML,Bomfim MRQ,Dos Santos VL,Marques SG,de Souza Monteiro A

更新日期：2019-05-29 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