The Magnetic Receptor of Monascus ruber M7: Gene Clone and Its Heterologous Expression in Escherichia coli.

abstract：:Dodecyl protocatechuate (dodecyl) is a derivative of protocatechuic acid (3,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid) that possesses anti-oxidant and antifungal properties. Nanostructured lipid systems (NLS) can potentiate the action of many antifungal agents, reducing the required dose and side effects by improving their activity. Th...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Medina-Alarcón KP,Singulani JL,Voltan AR,Sardi JCO,Petrônio MS,Santos MB,Polaquini CR,Regasini LO,Bolzani VS,da Silva DHS,Chorilli M,Mendes-Giannini MJS,Fusco-Almeida AM

更新日期：2017-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of present study was the simulation of an oil spill accompanied by burial of significant amount of petroleum hydrocarbons (PHs) in coastal sediments. Approximately 1000 kg of sediments collected in Messina harbor were spiked with Bunker C furnace fuel oil (6500 ppm). The rapid consumption of oxygen by aero...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Genovese M,Crisafi F,Denaro R,Cappello S,Russo D,Calogero R,Santisi S,Catalfamo M,Modica A,Smedile F,Genovese L,Golyshin PN,Giuliano L,Yakimov MM

更新日期：2014-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue virus (DENV) infection causes several diseases ranging from dengue fever to life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome characterized by endothelial dysfunction, vascular leakage, and shock. Here, we identify a potential mechanism by which DENV induces tissue injury and vascular leakage ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Pan P,Zhang Q,Liu W,Wang W,Yu Z,Lao Z,Zhang W,Shen M,Wan P,Xiao F,Shereen MA,Zhang W,Tan Q,Liu Y,Liu X,Wu K,Liu Y,Li G,Wu J

更新日期：2019-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The FUT2 gene encodes an α-1,2-fucosyltransferase responsible for the expression of ABO histo-blood-group antigens on mucosal surfaces and bodily secretions. Individuals who carry at least one functional allele are known as "secretors," whereas those homozygous for loss-of-function mutations are known as "non-secretor...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rausch P,Künzel S,Suwandi A,Grassl GA,Rosenstiel P,Baines JF

更新日期：2017-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiobacillus denitrificans is a chemolithoautotrophic bacterium capable of anaerobic, nitrate-dependent U(IV) and Fe(II) oxidation, both of which can strongly influence the long-term efficacy of in situ reductive immobilization of uranium in contaminated aquifers. We previously identified two c-type cytochromes involv...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Beller HR,Zhou P,Legler TC,Chakicherla A,Kane S,Letain TE,A O'Day P

更新日期：2013-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular DNA is found in all environments and is a dynamic component of the microbial ecosystem. Microbial cells produce and interact with extracellular DNA through many endogenous mechanisms. Extracellular DNA is processed and internalized for use as genetic information and as a major source of macronutrients, a...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chimileski S,Dolas K,Naor A,Gophna U,Papke RT

更新日期：2014-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome sequences of several giant marine sulfur-oxidizing bacteria present evidence of a possible post-transcriptional regulatory network that may have been transmitted to or from two distantly related bacteria lineages. The draft genome of a Cand. "Maribeggiatoa" filament from the Guaymas Basin (Gulf of Californi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： MacGregor BJ

更新日期：2015-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The sea surface microlayer (SML) is located at the air-sea interface, with microorganisms and organic matter in the SML influencing air-sea exchange processes. Yet understanding of the SML bacterial (bacterioneuston) community composition and assembly remains limited. Availability of organic matter, UV radiation and w...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zäncker B,Cunliffe M,Engel A

更新日期：2018-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to characterize a lactic acid bacterium 4I1, isolated from the freshwater fish, Zacco koreanus. Morphological, biochemical, and molecular characterization of 4I1 revealed it to be Pediococcus pentosaceus 4I1. The cell free supernatant (CFS) of P. pentosaceus 4I1 exhibited significant (p < 0.0...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Bajpai VK,Han JH,Rather IA,Park C,Lim J,Paek WK,Lee JS,Yoon JI,Park YH

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiological heterogeneity of cells within a microbial population imparts resilience to stresses such as antimicrobial treatments and nutrient limitation. This resilience is partially due to a subpopulation of cells that can survive such stresses and regenerate the community. Microfluidic approaches now provide a...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Pratt SL,Zath GK,Akiyama T,Williamson KS,Franklin MJ,Chang CB

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The shallow-sea hydrothermal vents at White Point (WP) in Palos Verdes on the southern California coast support microbial mats and provide easily accessed settings in which to study chemolithoautotrophic sulfur cycling. Previous studies have cultured sulfur-oxidizing bacteria from the WP mats; however, almost nothing ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Miranda PJ,McLain NK,Hatzenpichler R,Orphan VJ,Dillon JG

更新日期：2016-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Many DNA virus replication-related proteins are associated with promyelocytic leukemia protein (PML), a component of nuclear domain 10 (ND10), which has been investigated for its potential involvement in viral replication. In the case of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) lytic gene products, K8 (K-bZIP), ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hossain MG,Ohsaki E,Honda T,Ueda K

更新日期：2018-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The increased use of molecular identification methods and mass spectrometry has revealed that Acinetobacter spp. of the A. baumannii (Ab) group other than A. baumannii are increasingly being recovered from human samples and may pose a health challenge if neglected. In this study 76 isolates of 5 species within the Ab ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Cosgaya C,Ratia C,Marí-Almirall M,Rubio L,Higgins PG,Seifert H,Roca I,Vila J

更新日期：2019-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:While the skin microbiome has been shown to play important roles in health and disease in several species, the effects of altitude on the skin microbiome and how high-altitude skin microbiomes may be associated with health and disease states remains largely unknown. Using 16S rRNA marker gene sequencing, we characteri...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zeng B,Zhao J,Guo W,Zhang S,Hua Y,Tang J,Kong F,Yang X,Fu L,Liao K,Yu X,Chen G,Jin L,Shuai S,Yang J,Si X,Ning R,Mishra S,Li Y

更新日期：2017-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Biogenic transformation of Fe minerals, associated with extracellular electron transfer (EET), allows microorganisms to exploit high-potential refractory electron acceptors for energy generation. EET-capable thermophiles are dominated by hyperthermophilic archaea and Gram-positive bacteria. Information on their EET pa...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gavrilov SN,Zavarzina DG,Elizarov IM,Tikhonova TV,Dergousova NI,Popov VO,Lloyd JR,Knight D,El-Naggar MY,Pirbadian S,Leung KM,Robb FT,Zakhartsev MV,Bretschger O,Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus species are widely exploited as biocontrol agents because of their efficiency in impeding various plant pathogens with multifaceted approach. In this study, Bacillus species were isolated from rhizosphere of various plants viz., carnations, cotton, turmeric, and bananas in Tamil Nadu state of India. Their pot...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Vinodkumar S,Nakkeeran S,Renukadevi P,Malathi VG

更新日期：2017-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bay of Bengal (BoB) is the largest bay in the world and presents a unique marine environment that is subjected to severe weather, a distinct hydrographic regime and a large anthropogenic footprint. Despite these features and the BoB's overall economic significance, this ecosystem and its microbiome remain among th...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Angelova AG,Ellis GA,Wijesekera HW,Vora GJ

更新日期：2019-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Both intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms regulating bacterial expression have been elucidated and described, however, such studies have mainly focused on local effects on the two-dimensional structure of the prokaryote genome while long-range as well as spatial interactions influencing gene expression are still only po...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Krogh TJ,Franke A,Møller-Jensen J,Kaleta C

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the remarkable efficacy in treating mycobacterial infections, rifamycin and its derivatives are still first-line antimycobacterial drugs. It has been intensely studied to increase rifamycin yield from Amycolatopsis mediterranei, and nitrate is found to provide a stable and remarkable stimulating effect on t...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Liu X,Liu Y,Lei C,Zhao G,Wang J

更新日期：2020-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus epidermidis is a commensal bacterium which widely colonizes in human skin and mucous membrane and rarely causes clinically manifested infections. S. epidermidis surface protein I (SesI) is considered to be the major virulence factor of S. epidermidis infection, but its pathogenesis is not clear. Here, w...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Qi X,Jin Y,Duan J,Hao Z,Wang S,Guo Y,Lv J,Hu L,Wang L,Yu F

更新日期：2018-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Spread and persistence of antibiotic resistance pose a severe threat to human health, yet there is still lack of knowledge about reservoirs of antibiotic resistant bacteria in the environment. We took the opportunity of the Joint Danube Survey 3 (JDS3), the world's biggest river research expedition of its kind in 2013...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kittinger C,Lipp M,Baumert R,Folli B,Koraimann G,Toplitsch D,Liebmann A,Grisold AJ,Farnleitner AH,Kirschner A,Zarfel G

更新日期：2016-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The family Marseilleviridae, defined as a group of icosahedral double-stranded DNA viruses with particle size of approximately 250 nm and genome size of 350-380 kbp, belongs to the nucleo-cytoplasmic family of large DNA viruses. The family Marseilleviridae is currently classified into lineages A-E. In this study, we i...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Aoki K,Hagiwara R,Akashi M,Sasaki K,Murata K,Ogata H,Takemura M

更新日期：2019-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Agricultural intensification accelerates the degradation of cropland, and restoration has been managed by changing its vegetation. However, the keystone microbiome that drives the decomposition of plant-associated organic matter in the restoration is poorly understood. In this study, we established a 14-year field res...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang Z,Han X,Yan J,Zou W,Wang E,Lu X,Chen X

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The rice bacterial blight pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) injects transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs) that bind and activate host "susceptibility" (S) genes important for disease. Clade III SWEET genes are major S genes for bacterial blight. The resistance genes xa5, which reduces TALE activity...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Carpenter SCD,Mishra P,Ghoshal C,Dash PK,Wang L,Midha S,Laha GS,Lore JS,Kositratana W,Singh NK,Singh K,Patil PB,Oliva R,Patarapuwadol S,Bogdanove AJ,Rai R

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridioides difficile is the leading cause of worldwide antibiotics-associated diarrhea. In this study, we report the construction and evaluation of a novel bacteriophage lysin-human defensin fusion protein targeting C. difficile. The fusion protein, designated LHD, is composed of two parts connected by a 3-repeati...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Peng Z,Wang S,Gide M,Zhu D,Lamabadu Warnakulasuriya Patabendige HM,Li C,Cai J,Sun X

更新日期：2019-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Our laboratory has previously developed a qRT-PCR assay to assess drug efficacy on the growth of Cryptosporidium parvum in vitro by detecting the levels of parasite 18S rRNA. This approach displayed up to four orders of magnitude of linear dynamic range and was much less labor-intensive than the traditional microscopi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang H,Zhu G

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) is threatened by the introduced ascomycete Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, the causal agent of ash dieback. Endophytic fungi are known to modulate their host's resistance against pathogens. To understand possible consequences of ash dieback on the endophytic mycobiome, F. excelsior leave...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Schlegel M,Queloz V,Sieber TN

更新日期：2018-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Bifidobacterium represents a genus within the phylum Actinobacteria which is one of the major phyla in the healthy intestinal tract of humans. Bifidobacterium is one of the most abundant genera in adults, but its predominance is even more pronounced in infants, especially during lactation, when they can constitute the...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ruiz L,Delgado S,Ruas-Madiedo P,Sánchez B,Margolles A

更新日期：2017-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:PromA plasmids are broad host range (BHR) plasmids, which are often cryptic and hence have an uncertain ecological role. We present three novel PromA γ plasmids which carry genes associated with degradation of the phenylurea herbicide linuron, two of which originated from unrelated Hydrogenophaga hosts isolated from d...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Werner J,Nour E,Bunk B,Spröer C,Smalla K,Springael D,Öztürk B

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) is a viable and financially feasible tool for timely and comprehensive diagnosis of drug resistance in developed countries. With the increase in the incidence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), second-line anti-TB drugs are gaining importance. However, genetic resis...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chen X,He G,Wang S,Lin S,Chen J,Zhang W

更新日期：2019-07-31 00:00:00