Contribution of Nlrp3 Inflammasome Activation Mediated by Suilysin to Streptococcal Toxic Shock-like Syndrome.

abstract：:Proteus mirabilis is an important etiological agent of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) owing to its efficient crystalline biofilm formation and virulence enzyme production. Hence, the present study explicated the antibiofilm and antivirulence efficacies of 2-hydroxy-4-methoxybenzaldehyde (HMB) ag...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Durgadevi R,Abirami G,Alexpandi R,Nandhini K,Kumar P,Prakash S,Veera Ravi A

更新日期：2019-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanotechnology monitors a leading agricultural controlling process, especially by its miniature dimension. Additionally, many potential benefits such as enhancement of food quality and safety, reduction of agricultural inputs, enrichment of absorbing nanoscale nutrients from the soil, etc. allow the application of nan...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Prasad R,Bhattacharyya A,Nguyen QD

更新日期：2017-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized the single subunit RNA polymerase from Klebsiella phage KP34. The enzyme is unique among known bacteriophage RNA polymerases in that it recognizes two unrelated promoter sequences, which provided clues for the evolution of phage single-subunit RNA polymerases. As the first representative enzyme f...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lu X,Wu H,Xia H,Huang F,Yan Y,Yu B,Cheng R,Drulis-Kawa Z,Zhu B

更新日期：2019-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms are assemblages of microorganisms attached to each other, or to a surface, and encased in a protective, self-produced matrix. Such associations are now recognized as the predominant microbial growth mode. The physiology of cells in biofilms differs from that of the planktonic cells on which most research has ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Penesyan A,Paulsen IT,Gillings MR,Kjelleberg S,Manefield MJ

更新日期：2020-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid molecular techniques that evaluate eggs for the presence of foodborne pathogens is an essential component to poultry food safety monitoring. Interestingly, it is not just table eggs that contribute to outbreaks of foodborne disease. Broiler layer production actively contributes to sustaining of foodborne pathoge...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rothrock MJ Jr,Feye KM,Kim SA,Park SH,Locatelli A,Hiett KL,Gamble J,Sellers H,Ricke SC

更新日期：2018-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocytes mediate the first line of defense against infectious diseases in humans as well as animals and they are well known as multitasking cells. They can mediate antimicrobial activity by different strategies depending on the pathogen they encounter. Besides phagocytosis, a key strategy against extracellular pat...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： de Buhr N,Bonilla MC,Jimenez-Soto M,von Köckritz-Blickwede M,Dolz G

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV reservoirs persist in infected individuals despite combination antiretroviral therapy and can be identified in secondary lymphoid tissues, in intestinal tissues, in the central nervous system as well as in blood. Clinical trials have begun to explore effects of small molecule interventions to perturb the latent vi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Denton PW,Søgaard OS,Tolstrup M

更新日期：2019-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic lipodepsipeptides produced by Pseudomonas spp. (Ps-CLPs) are biosurfactants that constitute a diverse class of versatile bioactive natural compounds with promising application potential. While chemically diverse, they obey a common structural blue-print, allowing the definition of 14 distinct groups with multip...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Geudens N,Martins JC

更新日期：2018-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The High Arctic is dominated by polar desert habitats whose microbial communities are poorly understood. In this study, we used next generation sequencing to describe the α- and β-diversity of microbial communities in polar desert soils from the Kongsfjorden region of Svalbard. Ten phyla dominated the soils and accoun...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： McCann CM,Wade MJ,Gray ND,Roberts JA,Hubert CR,Graham DW

更新日期：2016-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The complexity of the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease) has led to the quest of empirically drug therapies, combining immunosuppressant agents, biological therapy and modulators of the microbiota. Helminth parasites have been proposed as an alternative treatment of the...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Roig J,Saiz ML,Galiano A,Trelis M,Cantalapiedra F,Monteagudo C,Giner E,Giner RM,Recio MC,Bernal D,Sánchez-Madrid F,Marcilla A

更新日期：2018-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Petroleum pollution is a severe environmental issue. Comprehensively revealing the genetic backgrounds of hydrocarbon-degrading microorganisms contributes to developing effective methods for bioremediation of crude oil-polluted environments. Marine bacterium Achromobacter sp. HZ01 is capable of degrading hydrocarbons ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hong YH,Ye CC,Zhou QZ,Wu XY,Yuan JP,Peng J,Deng H,Wang JH

更新日期：2017-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the importance and/or mechanisms of biological mineral oxidation in sediments, partially due to the difficulties associated with culturing mineral-oxidizing microbes. We demonstrate that electrochemical enrichment is a feasible approach for isolation of microbes capable of gaining electrons from ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rowe AR,Chellamuthu P,Lam B,Okamoto A,Nealson KH

更新日期：2015-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Shewanella oneidensis is one of the best-understood model organisms for extracellular electron transfer. Endogenously produced and exported flavin molecules seem to play an important role in this process and mediate the connection between respiratory enzymes on the cell surface and the insoluble substrate by acting as...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Arinda T,Philipp LA,Rehnlund D,Edel M,Chodorski J,Stöckl M,Holtmann D,Ulber R,Gescher J,Sturm-Richter K

更新日期：2019-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior to harvest, maize kernels are invaded by a diverse population of fungal organisms that comprise the microbiome of the grain mass. Poor post-harvest practices and improper drying can lead to the growth of mycotoxigenic storage fungi and deterioration of grain quality. Hermetic storage bags are a low-cost technolo...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lane B,Sharma S,Niu C,Maina AW,Wagacha JM,Bluhm BH,Woloshuk CP

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) is an important forage grass with high yield and superior quality in temperate regions which is widely used in parks, sport field, and other places. However, perennial ryegrass is moderately tolerant to salinity stress compared to other commercial cultivars and salt stress reduces t...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Li X,Han S,Wang G,Liu X,Amombo E,Xie Y,Fu J

更新日期：2017-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally, chemical agents such as formalin (FA) and β-propiolactone (BPL) have long been used for the preparation of inactivated vaccines or toxoids. It has been shown that FA extensively modifies vaccine antigens and thus affects immunogenicity profiles, sometimes compromising the protective efficacy of the vacc...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lee YH,Jang YH,Byun YH,Cheong Y,Kim P,Lee YJ,Lee YJ,Sung JM,Son A,Lee HM,Lee J,Yang SW,Song JM,Seong BL

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study used a combination of 16S rRNA MiSeq sequencing strategy and gas chromatograph time of flight mass spectrometer (GC-TOF/MS) technique to investigate the effects of starch sources on the colonic microbiota and their metabolites in finishing pigs. A total of 72 crossbred barrows were allocated to three...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yu M,Li Z,Chen W,Rong T,Wang G,Ma X

更新日期：2019-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Wheezing is a lower respiratory tract symptom induced by various viral respiratory infections. Epidemiological studies have revealed the phenotypes of wheezing in early childhood which have different risk factors for the development of asthma among school age children. The major viral species causing wheezing in child...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Inoue Y,Shimojo N

更新日期：2013-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:While modern developments in agriculture have allowed for increases in crop yields and rapid human population growth, they have also drastically altered biogeochemical cycles, including the biotransformation of nitrogen. Denitrification is a critical process performed by bacteria and fungi that removes nitrate in surf...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Tomasek A,Staley C,Wang P,Kaiser T,Lurndahl N,Kozarek JL,Hondzo M,Sadowsky MJ

更新日期：2017-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The lumenal surfaces of human body are lined by a monolayer of epithelia that together with mucus secreting cells and specialized immune cells form the mucosal barrier. This barrier is one of the most fundamental components of the innate immune system, protecting organisms from the vast environmental microbiota. The m...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Engel J,Eran Y

更新日期：2011-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA viruses have a great potential for genetic variation, rapid evolution and adaptation. Characterization of the genetic variation of viral populations provides relevant information on the processes involved in virus evolution and epidemiology and it is crucial for designing reliable diagnostic tools and developing e...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rubio L,Guerri J,Moreno P

更新日期：2013-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain better understanding of the distributions of the culturable Lactobacillus species in the chicken intestinal tract, we collected ceca, and distal ileum from 10 3-weeks-old broiler chickens. Lactobacillus strains from cecal lumen contents (M-CL), and those associated with mucosa of ceca (M-CM) and ileum (M-IM) w...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Adhikari B,Kwon YM

更新日期：2017-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterobacter sp. M4 and other bacterial strains were isolated from plant soft rot disease. Virulent phages such as EspM4VN isolated from soil are trending biological controls for plant disease. This phage has an icosahedral head (100 nm in diameter), a neck, and a contractile sheath (100 nm long and 18 nm wide). It be...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Thanh NC,Nagayoshi Y,Fujino Y,Iiyama K,Furuya N,Hiromasa Y,Iwamoto T,Doi K

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Two human-infecting avian influenza viruses (AIVs), H7N9 and H10N8, have emerged in China, which further indicate that the H9N2 subtype of AIVs, as an internal gene donor, may have an important role in the generation of new viruses with cross-species transmissibility and pathogenicity. H9N2 viruses that contain such i...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ye G,Liang CH,Hua DG,Song LY,Xiang YG,Guang C,Lan CH,Ping HY

更新日期：2016-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Communities of methanogens, anaerobic methanotrophic archaea and aerobic methanotrophic bacteria (MOB) were compared by profiling polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-amplified products of mcrA and pmoA genes encoded by methyl-coenzyme M reductase alpha subunit and particulate methane monooxygenase alpha subunit, respectiv...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhou Z,Chen J,Cao H,Han P,Gu JD

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania are transmitted by the bite of their sand fly vector and this has a significant influence on the virulence of the resulting infection. From our studies into the interaction between parasite, vector, and host we have uncovered an important missing ingredient during Leishmania transmission. Leishmania activel...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rogers ME

更新日期：2012-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial associations are integral to all eukaryotes. Mutualism, the interaction of two species for the benefit of both, is an important aspect of microbial associations, with evidence that multicellular organisms in particular benefit from microbes. However, the microbe's perspective has largely been ignored, and it...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Garcia JR,Gerardo NM

更新日期：2014-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) relies heavily on the host cellular machinery for production of viral progeny. To exploit cellular proteins for replication and to overcome host factors with antiviral activity, HIV has evolved a set of regulatory and accessory proteins to shape an optimized environment for its repli...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chen L,Keppler OT,Schölz C

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A multidisciplinary, collaborative project was conducted to determine the prevalence and distribution of soil-borne zoonotic pathogens in Lahore district of Pakistan and ascertain its Public Health Significance. Using a grid-based sampling strategy, soil samples (n = 145) were collected from villages (n = 29, 5 sample...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Shabbir MZ,Jamil T,Ali AA,Ahmad A,Naeem M,Chaudhary MH,Bilal M,Ali MA,Muhammad K,Yaqub T,Bano A,Mirza AI,Shabbir MA,McVey WR,Patel K,Francesconi S,Jayarao BM,Rabbani M

更新日期：2015-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus fumigatus is the main etiologic agent of invasive aspergillosis (IA). Other Aspergillus species belonging to the section Fumigati (A. fumigatus complex) may occasionally be the cause of IA. These strains are often misidentified, as they cannot be distinguished from A. fumigatus by conventional morphologica...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lamoth F

更新日期：2016-05-17 00:00:00