Complementary DNA/RNA-Based Profiling: Characterization of Corrosive Microbial Communities and Their Functional Profiles in an Oil Production Facility.

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen commonly infecting immunocompromised patients with diseases like cystic fibrosis (CF) and cancers and has high rates of recurrence and mortality. The treatment efficacy can be significantly worsened by the multidrug resistance (MDR) of P. aeruginosa, and there is inc...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Guo DD,Luo LM,Ma HL,Zhang SP,Xu H,Zhang H,Wang Y,Yuan Y,Wang Z,He YX

更新日期：2020-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we determined that diallyl disulfide (DADS) from garlic oil can inhibit Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 pathogenic factors by inactivating the transcription of key genes from three quorum sensing (QS) systems (las, rhl, and pqs) based on the effects of DADS on growth, virulence factor production (elastase, pyo...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Li WR,Ma YK,Xie XB,Shi QS,Wen X,Sun TL,Peng H

更新日期：2019-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Dollar spot is caused by the fungus Clarireedia jacksonii and is the most common disease of golf course turfgrass in temperate climates. Oxalic acid (OA) is an important pathogenicity factor in other fungal plant pathogens, such as the dicot pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, but its role in C. jacksonii pathogenicity...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Townsend RV,Rioux RA,Kabbage M,Stephens C,Kerns JP,Koch P

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Root-associated fungi are key contributors to ecosystem functioning, however, the factors which determine community assembly are still relatively poorly understood. This study simultaneously quantified the roles of geographical distance, environmental heterogeneity and time in determining root-associated fungal commun...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Barnes CJ,van der Gast CJ,Burns CA,McNamara NP,Bending GD

更新日期：2016-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bacteria produce cytolytic toxins that target host cells or other competing microbes. It is well known that environmental factors control toxin expression, however, recent work suggests that some bacteria manipulate the fold of these protein toxins to control their function. The β-sheet rich amyloid fold is a hig...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Syed AK,Boles BR

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the pre-erythrocytic asymptomatic phase of malarial infection, sporozoites develop transiently inside less than 100 hepatocytes that subsequently release thousands of merozoites. Killing of these hepatocytes by cytotoxic T cells (CTLs) confers protection to subsequent malarial infection, suggesting that this bo...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Bertolino P,Bowen DG

更新日期：2015-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we addressed the question how a mevalonate (MVA)-auxotrophic Staphylococcus aureusΔmvaS mutant can revert to prototrophy. This mutant couldn't grow in the absence of MVA. However, after a long lag-phase of 4-6 days the mutant adapted from auxotrophic to prototrophic phenotype. During that time, it acquir...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Reichert S,Ebner P,Bonetti EJ,Luqman A,Nega M,Schrenzel J,Spröer C,Bunk B,Overmann J,Sass P,François P,Götz F

更新日期：2018-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Realization of the importance of microbiome studies, coupled with the decreasing sequencing cost, has led to the exponential growth of microbiome data. A number of these microbiome studies have focused on understanding changes in the microbial community over time. Such longitudinal microbiome studies have the potentia...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Baksi KD,Kuntal BK,Mande SS

更新日期：2018-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Prions are molecules characterized by self-propagation, which can undergo a conformational switch leading to the creation of new prions. Prion proteins have originally been associated with the development of mammalian pathologies; however, recently they have been shown to contribute to the environmental adaptation in ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Tetz G,Tetz V

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: The gut microbiota is increasingly recognized as playing an important role in the development of obesity, but the influence of gender remains elusive. Using a large cohort of Chinese adults, our study aimed to identify differences in gut microbiota as a function of body mass index (BMI) and investigate gen...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gao X,Zhang M,Xue J,Huang J,Zhuang R,Zhou X,Zhang H,Fu Q,Hao Y

更新日期：2018-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The growing human population is currently facing an unprecedented challenge regarding global food sustainability. Thus, it is of paramount to maintain food production and quality while avoiding a negative impact on climate change and the environment at large. Along the food chain, several practices could compromise fu...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gutiérrez D,Fernández L,Rodríguez A,García P

更新日期：2019-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Probiotic bacteria, according to the definition adopted by the World Health Organization in 2002, are live microorganisms, which when administered in adequate amounts confer a health benefit to the host. Recent studies show that the same probiotic strain produced and/or preserved under different storage conditions, ma...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Vinderola G,Binetti A,Burns P,Reinheimer J

更新日期：2011-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Avibacterium paragallinarum, the causative agent of infectious coryza, is known to release outer membrane vesicles (OMVs). In the present study, we investigated the composition, bioactivities, and functional properties of the OMVs of A. paragallinarum. Following extraction and purification, the OMVs were observed to b...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mei C,Sun AH,Blackall PJ,Xian H,Li SF,Gong YM,Wang HJ

更新日期：2020-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is the causative agent for toxoplasmosis. The rhoptry protein 1 (ROP1) is secreted by rhoptry, an apical secretory organelle of the parasite. ROP1 plays an important role in host cell invasion. In this study, the efficacy of ROP1 as a vaccine candidate against toxoplasmosis was evaluated through intr...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Sonaimuthu P,Ching XT,Fong MY,Kalyanasundaram R,Lau YL

更新日期：2016-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of biochar to soil is considered to have the potential for long-term soil carbon sequestration, as well as for improving plant growth and suppressing soil pathogens. In our study we evaluated the effect of biochar on the plant growth of soybeans, as well as on the community composition of root-associat...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Egamberdieva D,Wirth S,Behrendt U,Abd Allah EF,Berg G

更新日期：2016-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:It was reported that exopolysaccharides (EPSs) from lactobacilli are able to differentially modulate mucosal antiviral immunity. Although research has described the ability of EPSs derived from Streptococcus thermophilus to modulate the mucosal immune system, their impact on antiviral immunity was less explored. In th...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mizuno H,Tomotsune K,Islam MA,Funabashi R,Albarracin L,Ikeda-Ohtsubo W,Aso H,Takahashi H,Kimura K,Villena J,Sasaki Y,Kitazawa H

更新日期：2020-05-19 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：:The effects of environmental and dispersal processes on macrofungi community assembly remain unclear. Further, it is not well understood if community assembly differs for different functional guilds of macrofungi, e.g., soil and rotten-wood macrofungi. In this study, using 2433 macrofungi sporocarps belonging to 217 s...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chen Y,Svenning JC,Wang X,Cao R,Yuan Z,Ye Y

更新日期：2018-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue poses a serious public health risk to nearly half the global population. It causes ~400 million infections annually and is considered to be one of the fastest spreading vector-borne diseases. Four distinct serotypes of dengue viruses (DENV-1, -2, -3, and -4) cause dengue disease, which may be either mild or ext...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Tripathi L,Mani S,Raut R,Poddar A,Tyagi P,Arora U,de Silva A,Swaminathan S,Khanna N

更新日期：2015-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Arginine-aspartate-aspartate (RDD) family, representing a category of transmembrane proteins containing one highly conserved arginine and two highly conserved aspartates, has been functionally uncharacterized as yet. Here we present the characterization of a member of this family designated RDD from the moderate halop...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Shao L,Abdel-Motaal H,Chen J,Chen H,Xu T,Meng L,Zhang Z,Meng F,Jiang J

更新日期：2018-04-25 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：:Dysbiosis of the gut microbiome, including elevated abundance of putative leading bacterial triggers such as E. coli in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients, is of great interest. To date, most E. coli studies in IBD patients are focused on clinical isolates, overlooking their relative abundances and turnover ove...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Fang X,Monk JM,Nurk S,Akseshina M,Zhu Q,Gemmell C,Gianetto-Hill C,Leung N,Szubin R,Sanders J,Beck PL,Li W,Sandborn WJ,Gray-Owen SD,Knight R,Allen-Vercoe E,Palsson BO,Smarr L

更新日期：2018-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio parahaemolyticus, a halophilic bacterium often found in the marine or estuarine environment is a well-known enteropathogen responsible for foodborne outbreaks associated with seafood. The pathogenic strains of V. parahaemolyticus are marked by the presence of thermostable direct hemoylsin (tdh) and/or TDH relat...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Narayanan SV,Joseph TC,Peeralil S,Mothadaka MP,Lalitha KV

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the isolation, characterization, and development of a robust genetic system for a halophilic, Fe(II)-oxidizing bacterium isolated from a vertical borehole originating 714 m below the surface located in the Soudan Iron Mine in northern Minnesota, USA. Sequence analysis of the 16S rRNA gene places the isolate ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Bonis BM,Gralnick JA

更新日期：2015-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-targeting bacteria elicit anticancer effects by infiltrating hypoxic regions, releasing toxic agents and inducing immune responses. Although current research has largely focused on the influence of chemical and immunological aspects on the mechanisms of bacterial therapy, the impact of physical effects is still ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mascheroni P,Meyer-Hermann M,Hatzikirou H

更新日期：2020-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) are nano-sized proteoliposomes discharged from the cell envelope of Gram-negative bacteria. OMVs normally contain toxins, enzymes and other factors, and are used as vehicles in a process that has been considered a generalized, evolutionarily conserved delivery system among bacteria. Furt...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Nevermann J,Silva A,Otero C,Oyarzún DP,Barrera B,Gil F,Calderón IL,Fuentes JA

更新日期：2019-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:QepA is one of the genes that confer quinolone resistance in bacteria. The aim of this study was to analyze the genetic structures of plasmids that carry a qepA3, a recently discovered allele of qepA in Enterobacteriaceae clinical isolates. 656 non-redundant Enterobacteriaceae clinical isolates were screened for the q...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang D,Huang X,Chen J,Mou Y,Li H,Yang L

更新日期：2015-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Metagenomic sequencing with the Oxford Nanopore MinION sequencer offers potential for point-of-care testing of infectious diseases in clinical settings. To improve cost-effectiveness, multiplexing of several, barcoded samples upon a single flow cell will be required during sequencing. We generated a unique sequencing ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Xu Y,Lewandowski K,Lumley S,Pullan S,Vipond R,Carroll M,Foster D,Matthews PC,Peto T,Crook D

更新日期：2018-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Application of nitrogen (N) fertilizers, predominantly as urea, is a major source of reactive N in the environment, with wide ranging effects including increased greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere and aquatic eutrophication. The soil microbial community is the principal driver of soil N cycling; thus, impro...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Staley C,Breuillin-Sessoms F,Wang P,Kaiser T,Venterea RT,Sadowsky MJ

更新日期：2018-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity to distinguish between living and dead cells is an important, but often unrealized, attribute of rapid detection methods for foodborne pathogens. In this study, the numbers of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 after inoculation onto Romaine lettuce plants and on plastic (abiotic) surfaces were me...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ju W,Moyne AL,Marco ML

更新日期：2016-02-26 00:00:00