The Methyltransferase AflSet1 Is Involved in Fungal Morphogenesis, AFB1 Biosynthesis, and Virulence of Aspergillus flavus.

abstract：:The present study was designed to clarify the taxonomic status of two species classified as Bacillus cereus sensu lato, namely B. cereus sensu stricto and Bacillus thuringiensis. To this end, nearly 900 whole genome sequences of strains assigned to these taxa were the subject of comparative genomic and phylogenomic an...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Baek I,Lee K,Goodfellow M,Chun J

更新日期：2019-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermatophytes are the most common cause of onychomycosis, counting for 90% fungal nail infection. Although dermatophyte pathogens are normally susceptible to antifungal agents, onychomycosis often results in refractory chronic disease, and the formation of biofilms frequently underlines the inadequate responses and re...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chen B,Sun Y,Zhang J,Chen R,Zhong X,Wu X,Zheng L,Zhao J

更新日期：2019-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Mining industries produce vast waste streams that pose severe environmental pollution challenge. Conventional techniques of treatment are usually inefficient and unsustainable. Biological technique employing the use of microorganisms is a competitive alternative to treat mine wastes and recover toxic heavy metals. Mic...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ayangbenro AS,Olanrewaju OS,Babalola OO

更新日期：2018-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Radix pseudostellariae L. is a common and popular Chinese medication. However, continuous monoculture has increased its susceptibility to severe diseases. We identified two pathogenic microorganisms, Talaromyces helicus M. (KU355274) and Kosakonia sacchari W. (KU324465), and their antagonistic bacterium, Bacillus pumi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wu H,Wu L,Wang J,Zhu Q,Lin S,Xu J,Zheng C,Chen J,Qin X,Fang C,Zhang Z,Azeem S,Lin W

更新日期：2016-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the pattern of antimicrobial resistance in Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis isolates in Shanghai, China from 2005 to 2014. We found the first isolates with resistance to the fourth-generation cephalosporin cefepime starting in 2010. Furthermore, we analyzed the epidemic character...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Fu Y,Xu X,Zhang L,Xiong Z,Ma Y,Wei Y,Chen Z,Bai J,Liao M,Zhang J

更新日期：2020-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Acidithiobacillus caldus is an extremely acidophilic sulfur-oxidizer with specialized characteristics, such as tolerance to low pH and heavy metal resistance. To gain novel insights into its genetic complexity, we chosen six A. caldus strains for comparative survey. All strains analyzed in this study differ in geograp...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang X,Liu X,He Q,Dong W,Zhang X,Fan F,Peng D,Huang W,Yin H

更新日期：2016-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been sparse in low- and middle-income countries, therefore, its population structure is unknown for many regions. We conducted a pilot surveillance of MRSA in the maternity ward of a teaching hospital in Armenia, to characterize th...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Jamrozy D,Misra R,Xu Z,Ter-Stepanyan MM,Kocharyan KS,Cave R,Hambardzumyan AD,Mkrtchyan HV

更新日期：2019-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The soil microbiome is a complex living network that plays essential roles in agricultural systems, regardless of the level of intensification. However, the effects of agricultural management on the soil microbiome and the association with plant productivity remain largely unclear. Here, we studied the responses of th...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mas-Carrió E,Dini-Andreote F,Brossi MJL,Salles JF,Olff H

更新日期：2018-10-31 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：:Aeolian prokaryotic communities (APC) are important components of bioaerosols that are transported freely or attached to dust particles suspended in the atmosphere. Terrestrial and marine ecosystems are known to release and receive significant prokaryote loads into and from the surrounded atmospheric air. However, com...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Aalismail NA,Díaz-Rúa R,Ngugi DK,Cusack M,Duarte CM

更新日期：2020-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Asperphenamate is a small peptide natural product that has gained much interest due to its antitumor activity. In the recent years numerous bioactive synthetic asperphenamate analogs have been reported, whereas only a handful of natural analogs either of microbial or plant origin has been discovered. Herein we describ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Subko K,Wang X,Nielsen FH,Isbrandt T,Gotfredsen CH,Ramos MC,Mackenzie T,Vicente F,Genilloud O,Frisvad JC,Larsen TO

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria gonorrhoeae is the etiological factor of the sexually transmitted gonorrhea disease that may lead, under specific conditions, to systemic infections. The gonococcal genome encodes many restriction modification (RM) systems, which main biological role is to defend the pathogen from potentially harmful foreign...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kwiatek A,Mrozek A,Bacal P,Piekarowicz A,Adamczyk-Popławska M

更新日期：2015-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is an endemic mycosis in Latin American caused by the thermodimorphic fungi of the genus Paracoccidioides spp. Notably, a Th1 immune response is required to control PCM. In this context, dendritic cells (DCs) seem to be essential players in capture, processing and presentation of Paracocci...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Silva LBR,Taira CL,Dias LS,Souza ACO,Nosanchuk JD,Travassos LR,Taborda CP

更新日期：2019-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Fresh vegetables including baby greens, microgreens, and sprouts can host human pathogens without exhibiting any visible signs of spoilage. It is clear that the vast majority of foodborne disease outbreaks associated with vegetable produce are not simply a result of an oversight by a producer, as it was shown that zoo...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Henriquez T,Lenzi A,Baldi A,Marvasi M

更新日期：2020-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The study evaluated the in vitro antimicrobial and antibiofilm efficacy of an antimicrobial peptide (AMP), lactoferricin (17-30) [Lfcin (17-30)], against biofilm-forming multi-drug-resistant (MDR) strains of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC), and subsequently, the in vivo antimicrobial efficacy was assessed in...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Vergis J,Malik SS,Pathak R,Kumar M,Ramanjaneya S,Kurkure NV,Barbuddhe SB,Rawool DB

更新日期：2020-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The alarming spread of bacterial resistance to traditional antibiotics has warranted the study of alternative antimicrobial agents. Quorum sensing (QS) is a chemical cell-to-cell communication mechanism utilized by bacteria to coordinate group behaviors and establish infections. QS is integral to bacterial survival, a...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Miller KP,Wang L,Chen YP,Pellechia PJ,Benicewicz BC,Decho AW

更新日期：2015-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Cereals-derived foods represent a key constituent in the diet of many populations. In particular, pasta is consumed in large quantities throughout the world in reason of its nutritive importance, containing significant amounts of complex carbohydrates, proteins, B-vitamins, and iron. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are a h...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Capozzi V,Russo P,Fragasso M,De Vita P,Fiocco D,Spano G

更新日期：2012-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence and spread of multi-drug resistant (MDR) especially carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae is a major emerging threat to public health, leading to excess in mortality rate as high as 50-86%. MDR K. pneumoniae manifests all broad mechanisms of drug resistance, hence development of new drugs to treat M...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Cheepurupalli L,Raman T,Rathore SS,Ramakrishnan J

更新日期：2017-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Morganella morganii is a commensal bacterium and opportunistic pathogen often present in the gut of humans and animals. We report the 4.3 Mbp draft genome sequence of a M. morganii isolated in association with an Escherichia coli from broilers in Portugal that showed macroscopic lesions consistent with colisepticemia....

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Jones-Dias D,Clemente L,Moura IB,Sampaio DA,Albuquerque T,Vieira L,Manageiro V,Caniça M

更新日期：2016-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Nowadays, contamination of agricultural commodities with fungi and their mycotoxins is one of the most annoying with regard to food safety and pose serious health risk. Therefore, there is a requisite to propose suitable mitigation strategies to reduce the contamination of fungi and mycotoxins in agricultural commodit...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kalagatur NK,Kamasani JR,Siddaiah C,Gupta VK,Krishna K,Mudili V

更新日期：2018-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Shewanella oneidensis strain MR-1 is a facultative anaerobic bacterium capable of respiring a multitude of electron acceptors, many of which require the Mtr respiratory pathway. The core Mtr respiratory pathway includes a periplasmic c-type cytochrome (MtrA), an integral outer-membrane β-barrel protein (MtrB), and an ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Coursolle D,Gralnick JA

更新日期：2012-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria, like all cells, must precisely duplicate their genomes before they divide. Regulation of this critical process focuses on forming a pre-replicative nucleoprotein complex, termed the orisome. Orisomes perform two essential mechanical tasks that configure the unique chromosomal replication origin, oriC to star...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Leonard AC,Rao P,Kadam RP,Grimwade JE

更新日期：2019-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The subcellular localization (SCL) of proteins provides important clues to their function in a cell. In our efforts to predict useful vaccine targets against Gram-negative bacteria, we noticed that misannotated start codons frequently lead to wrongly assigned SCLs. This and other problems in SCL prediction, such as th...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Paramasivam N,Linke D

更新日期：2011-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Crinivirus includes the whitefly-transmitted members of the family Closteroviridae. Whitefly-transmitted viruses have emerged as a major problem for world agriculture and are responsible for diseases that lead to losses measured in the billions of dollars annually. Criniviruses emerged as a major agricultura...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Tzanetakis IE,Martin RR,Wintermantel WM

更新日期：2013-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of mycobiota remains relatively unexplored due to the lack of sufficient available reference strains and databases compared to those of bacterial microbiome studies. Deep sequencing of Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) regions is the de facto standard for fungal diversity analysis. However, results are often...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Motooka D,Fujimoto K,Tanaka R,Yaguchi T,Gotoh K,Maeda Y,Furuta Y,Kurakawa T,Goto N,Yasunaga T,Narazaki M,Kumanogoh A,Horii T,Iida T,Takeda K,Nakamura S

更新日期：2017-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cactaceae represents one of the most species-rich families of succulent plants native to arid and semi-arid ecosystems, yet the associations Cacti establish with microorganisms and the rules governing microbial community assembly remain poorly understood. We analyzed the composition, diversity, and factors influencing...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Fonseca-García C,Coleman-Derr D,Garrido E,Visel A,Tringe SG,Partida-Martínez LP

更新日期：2016-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the effects of gastric non-H. pylori Helicobacter species(NHPH) on the structure and potential function of gastric microbiota, we employed 16S rRNA gene sequencing on 164 gastric biopsy specimens from NHPH (H. suis, H. felis, H. salomonis) /H. pylori coinfection individuals, H. pylori monoinfection individu...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Peng X,Zhou L,Gong Y,Song Z,He L,Lin S,Zhang J

更新日期：2017-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic gene clusters (MGCs), physically co-localized genes participating in the same metabolic pathway, are signature features of fungal genomes. MGCs are most often observed in specialized metabolism, having evolved in individual fungal lineages in response to specific ecological needs, such as the utilization of ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wisecaver JH,Rokas A

更新日期：2015-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, 39 sediment samples were collected from Qilian Island, Iltis Bank, and Yongxing Island in Xuande Atoll in the South China Sea (SCS), and the microbial community structures and distribution were analyzed. The microbial community was influenced by both natural environmental factors and human activities. T...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang B,Li Y,Xiang SZ,Yan Y,Yang R,Lin MP,Wang XM,Xue YL,Guan XY

更新日期：2020-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Janthinobacterium and Duganella are well-known for their antifungal effects. Surprisingly, almost nothing is known on molecular aspects involved in the close bacterium-fungus interaction. To better understand this interaction, we established the genomes of 11 Janthinobacterium and Duganella isolates in combination wit...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Haack FS,Poehlein A,Kröger C,Voigt CA,Piepenbring M,Bode HB,Daniel R,Schäfer W,Streit WR

更新日期：2016-10-26 00:00:00