Genetics of Acquired Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Proteus spp.

abstract：:Understanding how proteins evolve is important, and the order of amino acids being recruited into the genetic codons was found to be an important factor shaping the amino acid composition of proteins. The latest work about the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) makes it possible to determine the potential factors s...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Du MZ,Zhang C,Wang H,Liu S,Wei W,Guo FB

更新日期：2018-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Flow cytometric analysis is a reliable and convenient method for investigating molecules at the single cell level. Previously, recombinant human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) strains were constructed that express a fluorescent reporter, either enhanced green fluorescent protein, or DsRed, which allow the monit...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Terahara K,Yamamoto T,Mitsuki YY,Shibusawa K,Ishige M,Mizukoshi F,Kobayashi K,Tsunetsugu-Yokota Y

更新日期：2012-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluates the antibacterial activity of the Copaifera duckei Dwyer oleoresin and two isolated compounds [eperu-8(20)-15,18-dioic acid and polyalthic acid] against bacteria involved in primary endodontic infections and dental caries and assesses the cytotoxic effect of these substances against a normal cell ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Abrão F,Alves JA,Andrade G,de Oliveira PF,Ambrósio SR,Veneziani RCS,Tavares DC,Bastos JK,Martins CHG

更新日期：2018-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) and NK cells play a crucial role in the first phase of host defense against infections. Group B Streptococcus (GBS) and Streptococcus suis are encapsulated streptococci causing severe systemic inflammation, leading to septicemia and meningitis. Yet, the involvement of NK cells in the innate immun...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lemire P,Galbas T,Thibodeau J,Segura M

更新日期：2017-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is characterized by a dynamic process and highly variable progression. Although extensive comparisons have been reported between the minority of non-progressors (NPGs) and the majority of progressors (PGs), the underlying mechanism is still unclear. One reason for this is t...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Cong Z,Tong L,Wang Y,Su A,Chen T,Wei Q,Xue J,Qin C

更新日期：2020-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron microscopy is a powerful tool in the field of microbiology. It has played a key role in the rapid diagnosis of viruses in patient samples and has contributed significantly to the clarification of virus structure and function, helping to guide the public health response to emerging viral infections. In the pre...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Brahim Belhaouari D,Fontanini A,Baudoin JP,Haddad G,Le Bideau M,Bou Khalil JY,Raoult D,La Scola B

更新日期：2020-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC), weaning is associated with environmentally acquired and inflammation-associated enteric disorders. Dietary intake of high amylose maize starch (HAMS) can promote commensal fermentative bacteria and drive the production of short chain fatty acids (SCFAs). By stabilizing commen...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang Y,Mortimer EK,Katundu KGH,Kalanga N,Leong LEX,Gopalsamy GL,Christophersen CT,Richard AC,Shivasami A,Abell GCJ,Young GP,Rogers GB

更新日期：2019-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) are emerging worldwide. In South America, clinical isolates presenting such a phenotype usually do not belong to the globally distributed international clone 2 (IC2). The majority of these isolates are also resistant to multiple other antimicrobials and are often des...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Nodari CS,Cayô R,Streling AP,Lei F,Wille J,Almeida MS,de Paula AI,Pignatari ACC,Seifert H,Higgins PG,Gales AC

更新日期：2020-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-resolved environmental metagenomic sequencing has uncovered substantial previously unrecognized microbial diversity relevant for understanding the ecology and evolution of the biosphere, providing a more nuanced view of the distribution and ecological significance of traits including phototrophy across diverse ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ward LM,Cardona T,Holland-Moritz H

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Horizontal gene transfer within diverse bacterial populations occurs through multiple mechanisms of exchange. The most established routes of gene transfer, transduction, transformation, and conjugation, have been characterized in detail, revealing the advantages and limitations of each mechanism. More recently, inters...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Nazarian P,Tran F,Boedicker JQ

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 518 in vol. 7, PMID: 27148207.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Davis-Richardson AG,Russell JT,Dias R,McKinlay AJ,Canepa R,Fagen JR,Rusoff KT,Drew JC,Kolaczkowski B,Emerich DW,Triplett EW

更新日期：2016-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection involves a variety of viral and host factors, some of which promote the infection process. A small nucleolar RNA, C/D box 126 (SNORD126), was previously shown to be associated with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, the role of SNORD126 in HCV infection, which is one of the prim...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Qian X,Xu C,Wu B,Tang H,Zhao P,Qi Z

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella is an important human food-borne zoonosis bacterial pathogen, and can cause clinically severe diarrhea. There is an urgent need to develop a specific, sensitive, and rapid methodology for detection of this pathogen. In this study, loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) combined with magnetic immunocapt...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang L,Wei Q,Han Q,Chen Q,Tai W,Zhang J,Song Y,Xia X

更新日期：2018-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is a common cause of health-care acquired diarrhea, resulting in a spectrum of disease from mild diarrhea to life-threatening illness. Sixty Lactobacillus strains were screened for anti-C. difficile activity using a co-culture method. Based on their ability to inhibit C. difficile, L. gasseri APC...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Quigley L,Coakley M,Alemayehu D,Rea MC,Casey PG,O'Sullivan Ó,Murphy E,Kiely B,Cotter PD,Hill C,Ross RP

更新日期：2019-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternaria brassicicola is a necrotrophic fungus causing black spot disease and is an economically important seed-borne pathogen of cultivated brassicas. Seed transmission is a crucial component of its parasitic cycle as it promotes long-term survival and dispersal. Recent studies, conducted with the Arabidopsis thali...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： N'Guyen GQ,Raulo R,Marchi M,Agustí-Brisach C,Iacomi B,Pelletier S,Renou JP,Bataillé-Simoneau N,Campion C,Bastide F,Hamon B,Mouchès C,Porcheron B,Lemoine R,Kwasiborski A,Simoneau P,Guillemette T

更新日期：2019-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Mobile genetic elements, including plasmids, drive the evolution of prokaryotic genomes through the horizontal transfer of genes allowing genetic exchange between bacteria. Moreover, plasmids carry accessory genes, which encode functions that may offer an advantage to the host. Thus, it is expected that in a certain e...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Perez MF,Kurth D,Farías ME,Soria MN,Castillo Villamizar GA,Poehlein A,Daniel R,Dib JR

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Salar de Huasco, defined as a polyextreme environment, is a high altitude saline wetland in the Chilean Altiplano (3800 m.a.s.l.), permanently exposed to the highest solar radiation doses registered in the world. We present here the first comparative proteomics study of a photoheterotrophic bacterium, Rhodobacter sp.,...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Pérez V,Hengst M,Kurte L,Dorador C,Jeffrey WH,Wattiez R,Molina V,Matallana-Surget S

更新日期：2017-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The VPAP30 strain was isolated as the highly predominant bacteria from an episode of massive larval mortality occurring in a commercial culture of the Chilean scallop Argopecten purpuratus. The main aims of this study were, to characterize and identify the pathogenic strain using biochemical and molecular methods to d...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rojas R,Miranda CD,Santander J,Romero J

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Newborns and unvaccinated infants, compared to other age groups, are more susceptible to pertussis infection, manifesting severe symptoms leading to a higher mortality. The recent increase in pertussis cases demands more effective strategies to overcome this major health problem. In parallel with maternal-immunization...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Martin Aispuro P,Ambrosis N,Zurita ME,Gaillard ME,Bottero D,Hozbor DF

更新日期：2020-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Chagas disease (Cd) or American human trypanosomiasis is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi and affects ~7 million people, mostly in Latin America. The infective trypomastigote forms of the parasite can invade several human blood cell populations, including monocytes and dendritic cells (DC). Although these cells display a w...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lonien SCH,Malvezi AD,Suzukawa HT,Yamauchi LM,Yamada-Ogatta SF,Rizzo LV,Bordignon J,Pinge-Filho P

更新日期：2017-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulator of citrate metabolism, CitO, from Enterococcus faecalis belongs to the FCD family within the GntR superfamily. In the presence of citrate, CitO binds to cis-acting sequences located upstream of the cit promoters inducing the expression of genes involved in citrate utilization. The quantification of the m...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Blancato VS,Pagliai FA,Magni C,Gonzalez CF,Lorca GL

更新日期：2016-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep-sea hydrothermal vent environments are characterized by high hydrostatic pressure and sharp temperature and chemical gradients. Horizontal gene transfer is thought to play an important role in the microbial adaptation to such an extreme environment. In this study, a 21.4-kb DNA fragment was identified as a genomi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Li Z,Li X,Xiao X,Xu J

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Intramembrane proteases (IMPs) are a unique class of proteases that catalyze the proteolysis within the membrane and regulate diverse cellular processes in various organisms. RseP, an Escherichia coli site-2 protease (S2P) family IMP, is involved in the regulation of an extracytoplasmic stress response through the cle...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Miyake T,Hizukuri Y,Akiyama Y

更新日期：2020-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine the dynamics of marine fluorescent organic matter (FOM) using high-resolution spatial data, in situ fluorometers have been used in the open ocean. In this study, we measured FOM during the Global Ocean Ship-based Hydrographic Investigations Program (GO-SHIP) expedition from early December 2019 to...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Shigemitsu M,Uchida H,Yokokawa T,Arulananthan K,Murata A

更新日期：2020-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the effective use of antiretroviral therapy, the remainder of a latently HIV-1-infected reservoir mainly in the resting memory CD4+ T lymphocyte subset has provided a great setback toward viral eradication. While host transcriptional silencing machinery is thought to play a dominant role in HIV-1 latency, HIV-...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kamori D,Ueno T

更新日期：2017-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Meningococcal lipoprotein, Factor H binding protein (FHbp), is the sole antigen of the Trumenba vaccine (Pfizer) and one of four antigens of the Bexsero vaccine (GSK) targeting Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B isolates. Lipidation of FHbp is assumed to occur for all isolates. We show in the majority of a collection ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： da Silva RAG,Karlyshev AV,Oldfield NJ,Wooldridge KG,Bayliss CD,Ryan A,Griffin R

更新日期：2019-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:As a natural severe contaminant of stored grains and other crops worldwide, Aspergillus flavus can produce aflatoxins (AFs), the most powerful naturally producing toxic and hepatocarcinogenic compounds. AFs production is regulated by diverse factors including AFs cluster genes, transcription factors, regulators, and e...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Li X,Jiang Y,Ma L,Ma X,Liu Y,Shan J,Ma K,Xing F

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the taxonomic composition of the bacterioplankton of the epipelagic zone of the Atlantic Ocean along a latitudinal transect (51°S-47°N) using Illumina sequencing of the V5-V6 region of the 16S rRNA gene and inferred co-occurrence networks. Bacterioplankon community composition was distinct for Longhursti...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Milici M,Deng ZL,Tomasch J,Decelle J,Wos-Oxley ML,Wang H,Jáuregui R,Plumeier I,Giebel HA,Badewien TH,Wurst M,Pieper DH,Simon M,Wagner-Döbler I

更新日期：2016-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep subsurface aquifers despite difficult access, represent important water resources and, at the same time, are key locations for subsurface engineering activities for the oil and gas industries, geothermal energy, and CO2 or energy storage. Formation water originating from a 760 m-deep geological gas storage aquife...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Aüllo T,Berlendis S,Lascourrèges JF,Dessort D,Duclerc D,Saint-Laurent S,Schraauwers B,Mas J,Patriarche D,Boesinger C,Magot M,Ranchou-Peyruse A

更新日期：2016-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycotoxins cause a huge threaten to agriculture, food safety, and human and animal life. Among them, aflatoxins (AFs) have always been considered the most potent carcinogens, and filamentous fungi from Aspergillus genus are their major producers, especially A. flavus. Although the biosynthesis path of these chemicals ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yao G,Yue Y,Fu Y,Fang Z,Xu Z,Ma G,Wang S

更新日期：2018-08-07 00:00:00