Modified high-throughput Nile red fluorescence assay for the rapid screening of oleaginous yeasts using acetic acid as carbon source.

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:Microbiome and metagenomic studies have given rise to a new understanding of microbial colonization of various human tissues and their ability to impact our health. One human microbiome growing in notoriety, the vaginal microbiome, stands out given its importance for women's health, and is peculiar in terms ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Brandt K,Barrangou R

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Iron plays important roles in the growth, reproduction and pathogenicity of Aeromonas hydrophila. In this study, we detected and compared the mRNA and protein expression profiles of A. hydrophila under normal and iron restricted medium with 200 μM 2,2-Dipyridyl using RNA Sequencing (RNA-seq) and isobaric tag...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Teng T,Xi B,Chen K,Pan L,Xie J,Xu P

更新日期：2018-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The emergence of antibiotic resistant pathogenic bacteria has reduced our ability to combat infectious diseases. At the same time the numbers of new antibiotics reaching the market have decreased. This situation has created an urgent need to discover novel antibiotic scaffolds. Recently, the application of p...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Hoerr V,Duggan GE,Zbytnuik L,Poon KK,Große C,Neugebauer U,Methling K,Löffler B,Vogel HJ

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Saudi Arabia is mostly barren except the southwestern highlands that are susceptible to environmental changes, a hotspot for biodiversity, but poorly studied for microbial diversity and composition. In this study, 454-pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA gene hypervariable region V6 was used to analyze soil bacterial ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Yasir M,Azhar EI,Khan I,Bibi F,Baabdullah R,Al-Zahrani IA,Al-Ghamdi AK

更新日期：2015-03-14 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:The evolution of mycoplasmas from a common ancestor with Firmicutes has been characterized not only by genome down-sizing but also by horizontal gene transfer between mycoplasma species sharing a common host. The mechanisms of these gene transfers remain unclear because our knowledge of the mycoplasma mobile...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Breton M,Tardy F,Dordet-Frisoni E,Sagne E,Mick V,Renaudin J,Sirand-Pugnet P,Citti C,Blanchard A

更新日期：2012-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genus Arsenophonus is a group of symbiotic, mainly insect-associated bacteria with rapidly increasing number of records. It is known from a broad spectrum of hosts and symbiotic relationships varying from parasitic son-killers to coevolving mutualists.The present study extends the currently known diversi...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Nováková E,Hypsa V,Moran NA

更新日期：2009-07-20 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:Most living cells uptake phosphate, an indispensable nutrient for growth from their natural environment. In Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, the cells lack phosphate-inorganic transport (Pit) system but contain two phosphate-specific transport (Pst) systems, Pst1 and Pst2. We investigated the kinetics of Pi uptak...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Burut-Archanai S,Eaton-Rye JJ,Incharoensakdi A

更新日期：2011-10-11 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:Salmonella enterica and Campylobacter jejuni are amongst the more prevalent bacterial pathogens that cause foodborne diseases. These microorganisms are common contaminants of poultry and poultry products. This study was aimed to evaluate the antibacterial activity of metallic copper surfaces on these importa...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Faúndez G,Troncoso M,Navarrete P,Figueroa G

更新日期：2004-04-30 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:Leptospires lack many of the homologs for oxidative defense present in other bacteria, but do encode homologs of the Bacteriodes aerotolerance (Bat) proteins, which have been proposed to fulfill this function. Bat homologs have been identified in all families of the phylum Spirochaetes, yet a specific functi...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Stewart PE,Carroll JA,Dorward DW,Stone HH,Sarkar A,Picardeau M,Rosa PA

更新日期：2012-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ureaplasma urealyticum is a major pathogen associated with many diseases. The ability of U. urealyticum to protect itself from oxidative stress is likely to be important for its pathogenesis and survival, but its oxidative stress tolerance mechanisms remain unclear. This study investigates the antioxidant ac...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Dai G,Li R,Chen H,Jiang C,You X,Wu Y

更新日期：2015-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is one of the primary causes of bone infections which are often chronic and difficult to eradicate. Bacteria like S. aureus may survive upon internalization in cells and may be responsible for chronic and recurrent infections. In this study, we compared the responses of a ph...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Hamza T,Li B

更新日期：2014-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The high demand for ethanol in the U.S. has generated large stocks of wet distillers grains (DG), a byproduct from the manufacture of ethanol from corn and sorghum grains. Little is known, however, about the potential influence of dietary DG on fecal microbial community structure. A better understanding of t...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Rice WC,Galyean ML,Cox SB,Dowd SE,Cole NA

更新日期：2012-02-24 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:HSV-1 is a common pathogen that infects 50-90% of the human population worldwide. HSV-1 causes numerous infection-related diseases, some of which are severely life-threatening. There are antiviral medications with activity against HSV-1. However, with the emergence of drug-resistant mutant strains of HSV-1, ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Huang Q,Hou J,Yang P,Yan J,Yu X,Zhuo Y,He S,Xu F

更新日期：2019-12-07 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:Plant endophytic bacteria play an important role benefiting plant growth or being pathogenic to plants or organisms that consume those plants. Multiple species of bacteria have been found co-inhabiting plants, both cultivated and wild, with viruses and fungi. For these reasons, a general understanding of pla...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Ding T,Palmer MW,Melcher U

更新日期：2013-01-03 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: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: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:Participation of renal cells in the pathogenesis of staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) is critical for late cleansing and sequestration of the antigens facilitated by CD1d mediated antigen sensing and recognition. This is a noted deviation from the typical antigen recognition process that recruits the major ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Hammamieh R,Chakraborty N,Lin Y,Shupp JW,Miller SA,Morris S,Jett M

更新日期：2015-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the high prevalence of genotype 1b hepatitis C virus (HCV) among patients, a cell culture system that permits entire viral life cycle of genotype 1b isolates is limited. To develop a cell-cultured hepatitis C virus (HCVcc) of genotype 1b, the proper combination of HCV genomic variants and host cells ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Mori KI,Matsumoto A,Maki N,Ichikawa Y,Tanaka E,Yagi S

更新日期：2016-09-27 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:Fungi are the second most abundant type of human pathogens. Invasive fungal pathogens are leading causes of life-threatening infections in clinical settings. Toxicity to the host and drug-resistance are two major deleterious issues associated with existing antifungal agents. Increasing a host's tolerance and...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Kidane YH,Lawrence C,Murali TM

更新日期：2013-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enterococcus is ubiquitous in nature and is a commensal of both the bovine and human gastrointestinal (GI) tract. It is also associated with clinical infections in humans. Subtherapeutic administration of antibiotics to cattle selects for antibiotic resistant enterococci in the bovine GI tract. Antibiotic re...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Beukers AG,Zaheer R,Goji N,Amoako KK,Chaves AV,Ward MP,McAllister TA

更新日期：2017-03-08 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