Universal membrane-labeling combined with expression of Katushka far-red fluorescent protein enables non-invasive dynamic and longitudinal quantitative 3D dual-color fluorescent imaging of multiple bacterial strains in mouse intestine.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The compatible solute trehalose is involved in the osmostress response of Rhizobium etli, the microsymbiont of Phaseolus vulgaris. In this work, we reconstructed trehalose metabolism in R. etli, and investigated its role in cellular adaptation and survival to heat and desiccation stress under free living con...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Reina-Bueno M,Argandoña M,Nieto JJ,Hidalgo-García A,Iglesias-Guerra F,Delgado MJ,Vargas C

更新日期：2012-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microbiota from different niches within the canine oral cavity were profiled and compared. Supragingival plaque and stimulated saliva, were collected alongside samples from the buccal and tongue dorsum mucosa, from 14 Labrador retrievers at three timepoints within a 1 month timeframe. The V3-V4 region of the...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Ruparell A,Inui T,Staunton R,Wallis C,Deusch O,Holcombe LJ

更新日期：2020-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Flavobacterium columnare (Bacteroidetes) is the causative agent of columnaris disease in farmed freshwater fish around the world. The bacterium forms three colony morphotypes (Rhizoid, Rough and Soft), but the differences of the morphotypes are poorly known. We studied the virulence of the morphotypes produc...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Laanto E,Penttinen RK,Bamford JK,Sundberg LR

更新日期：2014-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Extended-spectrum cephalosporin resistance (ESC-R) in Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae is a healthcare threat; high gastrointestinal carriage rates are reported from South-east Asia. Colonisation prevalence data in Cambodia are lacking. The aim of this study was to determine gastrointestinal coloni...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： van Aartsen JJ,Moore CE,Parry CM,Turner P,Phot N,Mao S,Suy K,Davies T,Giess A,Sheppard AE,Peto TEA,Day NPJ,Crook DW,Walker AS,Stoesser N

更新日期：2019-03-12 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:The ability of an intracellular pathogen to establish infection depends on the capacity of the organism to survive and replicate inside the host. Mycobacterium fortuitum is a bacteria that contains genes involved in the detoxification of the oxygen reactive species such as those produced by the host during t...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Núñez MC,Menéndez MC,Rebollo MJ,García MJ

更新日期：2008-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacteria excrete costly toxins to defend their ecological niche. The evolution of such antagonistic interactions between individuals is expected to depend on both the social environment and the strength of resource competition. Antagonism is expected to be weak among highly similar genotypes because most ind...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Schoustra SE,Dench J,Dali R,Aaron SD,Kassen R

更新日期：2012-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hepatitis B virus (HBV), because of its error-prone viral polymerase, has a high mutation rate leading to widespread substitutions, deletions, and insertions in the HBV genome. Deletions may significantly change viral biological features complicating the progression of liver diseases. However, the clinical c...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Zhang D,Dong P,Zhang K,Deng L,Bach C,Chen W,Li F,Protzer U,Ding H,Zeng C

更新日期：2012-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Establishing an optimal proportion of nitrifying microbial populations, including ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB), nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB), complete nitrite oxidizers (comammox) and ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA), is important for ensuring the efficiency of nitrification in water treatment systems...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Scarascia G,Cheng H,Harb M,Hong PY

更新日期：2017-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Changes in aboveground plant species diversity as well as variations of environmental conditions such as exposure of ecosystems to elevated concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide may lead to changes in metabolic activity, composition and diversity of belowground microbial communities, both bacterial an...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Grüter D,Schmid B,Brandl H

更新日期：2006-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is known as a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Investigation of the MRSA's virulence and resistance mechanisms is a continuing concern toward controlling such burdens through using high throughput whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) and molecular diagnost...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Ali MS,Isa NM,Abedelrhman FM,Alyas TB,Mohammed SE,Ahmed AE,Ahmed ZSA,Lau NS,Garbi MI,Amirul AA,Seed AO,Omer RA,Mohamed SB

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The dspA (hik33) gene, coding for a putative sensory histidine kinase, is conserved in plastids (ycf26) and cyanobacteria. It has been linked with a number of different stress responses in cyanobacteria. RESULTS:We constructed an insertional mutant of dspA (ycf26) in Synechocystis 6803. We found little phen...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Morrison SS,Mullineaux CW,Ashby MK

更新日期：2005-08-02 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:The phytohormone indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) is widely distributed among plant-associated bacteria. Certain strains of the Pseudomonas syringae complex can further metabolize IAA into a less biologically active amino acid conjugate, 3-indole-acetyl-ε-L-lysine, through the action of the iaaL gene. In P. syring...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Castillo-Lizardo MG,Aragón IM,Carvajal V,Matas IM,Pérez-Bueno ML,Gallegos MT,Barón M,Ramos C

更新日期：2015-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) is a portable, broadly applicable method for classifying bacterial isolates at an intra-species level. This methodology provides clinical and scientific investigators with a standardized means of monitoring evolution within bacterial populations. MLST uses the DNA sequences...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Adamiak P,Vanderkooi OG,Kellner JD,Schryvers AB,Bettinger JA,Alcantara J

更新日期：2014-06-03 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:Coxiella burnetii is the causative agent of Q-fever, a widespread zoonosis. Due to its high environmental stability and infectivity it is regarded as a category B biological weapon agent. In domestic animals infection remains either asymptomatic or presents as infertility or abortion. Clinical presentation i...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Panning M,Kilwinski J,Greiner-Fischer S,Peters M,Kramme S,Frangoulidis D,Meyer H,Henning K,Drosten C

更新日期：2008-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Photorhabdus are Gram negative bacteria that are pathogenic to insect larvae whilst also having a mutualistic interaction with nematodes from the family Heterorhabditis. Iron is an essential nutrient and bacteria have different mechanisms for obtaining both the ferrous (Fe2+) and ferric (Fe3+) forms of this ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Watson RJ,Millichap P,Joyce SA,Reynolds S,Clarke DJ

更新日期：2010-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mob family proteins are conserved between animals, plants and fungi and are essential for the activation of NDR kinases that control crucial cellular processes like cytokinesis, proliferation and morphology. RESULTS:We identified a hypomorphic allele of ChMOB2 in a random insertional mutant (vir-88) of the ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Schmidpeter J,Dahl M,Hofmann J,Koch C

更新日期：2017-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accurate identification of Aspergillus species is a very important subject. Mass spectral fingerprinting using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) is generally employed for the rapid identification of fungal isolates. However, the results are based on s...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Nakamura S,Sato H,Tanaka R,Kusuya Y,Takahashi H,Yaguchi T

更新日期：2017-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alleviating arsenic (As) contamination is a high-priority environmental issue. Hyperaccumulator plants may harbor endophytic bacteria able to detoxify As. Therefore, we investigated the distribution, diversity, As (III) resistance levels, and resistance-related functional genes of arsenite-resistant bacteria...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Gu Y,Wang Y,Sun Y,Zhao K,Xiang Q,Yu X,Zhang X,Chen Q

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The antibiotics generally used in farm animals are rapidly losing their effectiveness all over the world as bacteria develop antibiotic resistance. Like some other pathogenic bacteria multidrug-resistant strains of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) are also frequently found in animals ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Hossain MA,Park HC,Lee KJ,Park SW,Park SC,Kang J

更新日期：2020-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ClpP is important for bacterial growth and plays an indispensable role in cellular protein quality control systems by refolding or degrading damaged proteins, but the physiological significance of ClpP in Enterococcus faecalis remains obscure. A clpP deletion mutant (△clpP) was constructed using the E. faeca...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Zheng J,Wu Y,Lin Z,Wang G,Jiang S,Sun X,Tu H,Yu Z,Qu D

更新日期：2020-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fibronectin-binding protein A (FnBPA) mediates adhesion of Staphylococcus aureus to fibronectin, fibrinogen and elastin. We previously reported that S. aureus strain P1 encodes an FnBPA protein where the fibrinogen/elastin-binding domain (A domain) is substantially divergent in amino acid sequence from the a...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Loughman A,Sweeney T,Keane FM,Pietrocola G,Speziale P,Foster TJ

更新日期：2008-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clostridium thermocellum is a Gram-positive thermophilic anaerobic bacterium with the unusual capacity to convert cellulosic biomass into ethanol and hydrogen. Identification and characterization of protein complexes in C. thermocellum are important toward understanding its metabolism and physiology. RESULT...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Peng Y,Luo Y,Yu T,Xu X,Fan K,Zhao Y,Yang K

更新日期：2011-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neisseria gonorrhoeae is an obligate human pathogen that causes significant worldwide morbidity. N. gonorrhoeae expresses lipooligosaccharide (LOS), a phase variable molecule that plays an important role during pathogenesis of the organism. Alteration in the structure of gonococcal LOS correlates with altere...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Patrone JB,Stein DC

更新日期：2007-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The naked mole-rat (NMR, Heterocephalus glaber) is being bred as a novel laboratory animal due to its unique biological characteristics, including longevity, cancer resistance, hypoxia tolerance, and pain insensitivity. It is expected that differences exist between the microbiota of wild NMRs and that of NMR...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Cong W,Xing J,Feng Y,Wang J,Fu R,Yue B,He Z,Lin L,Yang W,Cheng J,Sun W,Cui S

更新日期：2018-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infection with Brucella melitensis (B. melitensis) is one of the most important causes of abortion in goats and sheep, and also causes severe systemic disease in exposed humans. In Ethiopia, based on seroepidemiological studies, brucellosis is known to be endemic. However, there is little information on the ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Tekle M,Legesse M,Edao BM,Ameni G,Mamo G

更新日期：2019-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nitric oxide (NO) is produced as part of the host immune response to bacterial infections, including urinary tract infections. The enzyme flavohemoglobin, coded by the hmp gene, is involved in protecting bacterial cells from the toxic effects of NO and represents a potentially interesting target for developm...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Bang CS,Kinnunen A,Karlsson M,Önnberg A,Söderquist B,Persson K

更新日期：2014-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acinetobacter baumannii is a gram-negative bacterium which causes opportunistic infections in immunocompromised hosts. Genome plasticity has given rise to a wide range of strain variation with respect to antimicrobial resistance profiles and expression of virulence factors which lead to altered phenotypes as...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Boone RL,Whitehead B,Avery TM,Lu J,Francis JD,Guevara MA,Moore RE,Chambers SA,Doster RS,Manning SD,Townsend SD,Dent L,Marshall D,Gaddy JA,Damo SM

更新日期：2021-01-09 00:00:00