Evolutionary Implications of Anoxygenic Phototrophy in the Bacterial Phylum Candidatus Eremiobacterota (WPS-2).

abstract：:Monacolin K (MK) is a secondary metabolite of the Monascus species that can inhibit cholesterol synthesis. Functional red mold rice (FRMR) is the fermentation product of Monascus spp., which is rich in MK. FRMR is usually employed to regulate serum cholesterol, especially for hypercholesterolemic patients who refuse s...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yanli F,Xiang Y

更新日期：2020-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida glabrata is an increasingly important cause of invasive candidiasis. In China, relatively little is known of the molecular epidemiology of C. glabrata and of its antifungal susceptibility patterns. Here we studied 411 non-duplicate C. glabrata isolates from 411 patients at 11 hospitals participating in the Nat...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hou X,Xiao M,Chen SC,Kong F,Wang H,Chu YZ,Kang M,Sun ZY,Hu ZD,Li RY,Lu J,Liao K,Hu TS,Ni YX,Zou GL,Zhang G,Fan X,Zhao YP,Xu YC

更新日期：2017-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Planctomycetes are part of the complex microbial biofilm community of a wide range of macroalgae. Recently, some studies began to unveil the great diversity of Planctomycetes present in this microenvironment and the interactions between the two organisms. Culture dependent and independent methods revealed the existenc...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lage OM,Bondoso J

更新日期：2014-06-03 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：:Although once thought to be devoid of biology, recent studies have identified salt deposits as oases for life in the hyperarid Atacama Desert. To examine spatial patterns of microbial species and key nutrient sources, we genomically characterized 26 salt crusts from three sites along a fog gradient. The communities ar...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Finstad KM,Probst AJ,Thomas BC,Andersen GL,Demergasso C,Echeverría A,Amundson RG,Banfield JF

更新日期：2017-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Verticillia cause a vascular wilt disease affecting a broad range of economically valuable crops. The fungus enters its host plants through the roots and colonizes the vascular system. It requires extracellular proteins for a successful plant colonization. The exoproteomes of the allodiploid Verticillium longisporum u...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Leonard M,Kühn A,Harting R,Maurus I,Nagel A,Starke J,Kusch H,Valerius O,Feussner K,Feussner I,Kaever A,Landesfeind M,Morgenstern B,Becher D,Hecker M,Braus-Stromeyer SA,Kronstad JW,Braus GH

更新日期：2020-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A core issue in microbial ecology is the need to elucidate the ecological processes and underlying mechanisms involved in microbial community assembly. However, the extent to which these mechanisms differ in importance based on traits of taxa with different niche breadth is poorly understood. Here, we used high-throug...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Luo Z,Liu J,Zhao P,Jia T,Li C,Chai B

更新日期：2019-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteroides is among the most abundant microorganism inhabiting the human intestine. They are saccharolytic bacteria able to use dietary or host-derived glycans as energy sources. Some Bacteroides fragilis strains contribute to the maturation of the immune system but it is also an opportunistic pathogen. The intestine...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rios-Covian D,Sánchez B,Salazar N,Martínez N,Redruello B,Gueimonde M,de Los Reyes-Gavilán CG

更新日期：2015-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Vachellia karroo (formerly Acacia karroo) is a wide-spread legume species indigenous to southern Africa. Little is known regarding the identity or diversity of rhizobia that associate with this plant in its native range in South Africa. The aims of this study were therefore: (i) to gather a collection of rhizobia asso...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Beukes CW,Boshoff FS,Phalane FL,Hassen AI,le Roux MM,Stȩpkowski T,Venter SN,Steenkamp ET

更新日期：2019-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Type IV pili (T4P) are surface-exposed protein fibers that play key roles in the bacterial life cycle via surface attachment/adhesion, biofilm formation, motility, and development. The order Myxococcales (myxobacteria) are members of the class Deltaproteobacteria and known for their large genome size and complex socia...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Sharma G,Burrows LL,Singer M

更新日期：2018-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Most bacteria grow in nature forming multicellular structures named biofilms. The bacterial second messenger cyclic diguanosine monophosphate (c-di-GMP) is a key player in the regulation of the transition from planktonic to sessile lifestyles and this regulation is crucial in the development of biofilms. In Pseudomona...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ramos-González MI,Travieso ML,Soriano MI,Matilla MA,Huertas-Rosales Ó,Barrientos-Moreno L,Tagua VG,Espinosa-Urgel M

更新日期：2016-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The Azerbaijan State Veterinary Control Service (SVCS) has conducted active serological surveillance for avian influenza (AI) in poultry since 2006, when the first outbreak of AI H5N1 occurred in Azerbaijan. Samples are collected from September to May annually and tested using a hemagglutination inhibition (HI) assay ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zeynalova S,Guliyev F,Vatani M,Abbasov B

更新日期：2015-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The amendment of crop residues produced under elevated CO2 (eCO2) may alter soil microbial community structure and their functions on residue decomposition and carbon (C) cycling in soil. The key to understanding this process is to elucidate the structure of prokaryotic communities that metabolize crop residues derive...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang Y,Yu Z,Li Y,Wang G,Tang C,Liu X,Liu J,Xie Z,Jin J

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae can enter into a viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state in order to survive in unfavorable environments. In this study, we studied the roles of five physicochemical and microbiological factors or states, namely, different strains, growth phases, oxygen, temperature, and starvation, on the development o...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wu B,Liang W,Kan B

更新日期：2016-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In this present study, we assembled and analyzed the mitogenomes of two asymbiotic and six ectomycorrhizal Amanita species based on next-generation sequencing data. The size of the eight Amanita mitogenomes ranged from 37,341 to 137,428 bp, and we considered introns to be one of the main factors contributing to the si...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Li Q,He X,Ren Y,Xiong C,Jin X,Peng L,Huang W

更新日期：2020-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Elongation factor thermal unstable Tu (EF-Tu) is a G protein that catalyzes the binding of aminoacyl-tRNA to the A-site of the ribosome inside living cells. Structural and biochemical studies have described the complex interactions needed to effect canonical function. However, EF-Tu has evolved the capacity to execute...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Harvey KL,Jarocki VM,Charles IG,Djordjevic SP

更新日期：2019-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:1,3-Propanediol (1,3-PD) is a valuable chemical intermediate in the synthesis of polyesters, polyethers, and polyurethanes, which have applications in various products such as cloth, bottles, films, tarpaulins, canoes, foam seals, high-resilience foam seating, and surface coatings. Klebsiella pneumoniae can produce 1,...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Jeng WY,Panjaitan NSD,Horng YT,Chung WT,Chien CC,Soo PC

更新日期：2017-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In filamentous fungi such as Fusarium graminearum, disruption of multiple genes of interest in the same strain (e.g., to test for redundant gene function) is a difficult task due to the limited availability of reliable selection markers. We have created a series of transformation vectors that allow antibiotic-based se...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Twaruschek K,Spörhase P,Michlmayr H,Wiesenberger G,Adam G

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The heterocyclic indole-alkaloid scytonemin is a sunscreen found exclusively among cyanobacteria. An 18-gene cluster is responsible for scytonemin production in Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133. The upstream genes scyABCDEF in the cluster are proposed to be responsible for scytonemin biosynthesis from aromatic amino acid...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ferreira D,Garcia-Pichel F

更新日期：2016-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Outbreaks of foodborne illnesses linked to fresh fruits and vegetables have been key drivers behind a wide breadth of research aiming to fill data gaps in our understanding of the total ecology of agricultural water sources such as ponds and wells and the relationship of this ecology to foodborne pathogens such as Sal...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gu G,Strawn LK,Ottesen AR,Ramachandran P,Reed EA,Zheng J,Boyer RR,Rideout SL

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis is still a major threat to global public health. Here, a novel diagnosis assay, termed as multiple cross displacement amplification combined with nanoparticle-based lateral flow biosensor (MCDA-LFB), was developed to simultaneously detect IS6110 and IS1081 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) in DNA extrac...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Jiao WW,Wang Y,Wang GR,Wang YC,Xiao J,Sun L,Li JQ,Wen SA,Zhang TT,Ma Q,Huang HR,Shen AD

更新日期：2019-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Candia tropicalis is an increasingly important human pathogen, causing nosocomial fungemia among patients with neutropenia or malignancy. However, limited research has been published concerning its pathogenicity. Based on the phenotypes of C. tropicalis in our previous study, we selected nine representative strains wi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yu S,Li W,Liu X,Che J,Wu Y,Lu J

更新日期：2016-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial degradation of nicotine is an important process to control nicotine residues in the aqueous environment. In this study, a high active nicotine degradation strain named Pseudomonas sp. JY-Q was isolated from tobacco waste extract (TWE). This strain could completely degrade 5.0 g l-1 nicotine in 24 h under opt...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Li J,Qian S,Xiong L,Zhu C,Shu M,Wang J,Jiao Y,He H,Zhang F,Linhardt RJ,Zhong W

更新日期：2017-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial populations produce phenotypic variants called persisters to survive harmful conditions. Persisters are highly tolerant to antibiotics and repopulate environments after the stress has vanished. In order to resume growth, persisters have to recover from the persistent state, but the processes behind recovery ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Spanka DT,Konzer A,Edelmann D,Berghoff BA

更新日期：2019-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A Viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state is a bacterial survival strategy under reverse conditions. It poses a significant challenge for public health and food safety. In this study, the effect of external environmental conditions including acid, nutrition, and salt concentrations on the formation of S. aureus VBNC st...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Li Y,Huang TY,Mao Y,Chen Y,Shi F,Peng R,Chen J,Yuan L,Bai C,Chen L,Wang K,Liu J

更新日期：2020-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The numerous perennial meltwater ponds distributed throughout Antarctica represent diverse and productive ecosystems central to the ecological functioning of the surrounding ultra oligotrophic environment. The dominant taxa in the pond benthic communities have been well described however, little is known regarding the...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Archer SD,McDonald IR,Herbold CW,Lee CK,Cary CS

更新日期：2015-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Pichia pastoris (Komagataella sp.) is broadly used for the production of secreted recombinant proteins. Due to the high rate of protein production, incorrectly folded proteins may accumulate in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). To restore their proper folding, the cell triggers the unfolded protein response (UPR); howev...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Raschmanová H,Zamora I,Borčinová M,Meier P,Weninger A,Mächler D,Glieder A,Melzoch K,Knejzlík Z,Kovar K

更新日期：2019-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: Invasive mold infections associated with Aspergillus species are a significant cause of mortality in immunocompromised patients. The most frequently occurring aetiological pathogens are members of the Aspergillus section Fumigati followed by members of the section Terrei. The frequency of Aspergillus terre...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zoran T,Sartori B,Sappl L,Aigner M,Sánchez-Reus F,Rezusta A,Chowdhary A,Taj-Aldeen SJ,Arendrup MC,Oliveri S,Kontoyiannis DP,Alastruey-Izquierdo A,Lagrou K,Cascio GL,Meis JF,Buzina W,Farina C,Drogari-Apiranthitou M,Gra

更新日期：2018-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV infection and illicit drugs are known to induce oxidative stress and linked with severity of viral replication, disease progression, impaired cell cycle regulation and neurodegeneration. Studies have shown that morphine accelerates HIV infection and disease progression mediated by Reactive oxygen species (ROS). Ox...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Samikkannu T,Ranjith D,Rao KV,Atluri VS,Pimentel E,El-Hage N,Nair MP

更新日期：2015-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased river loads are projected as one of the major consequences of climate change in the northern hemisphere, leading to elevated inputs of riverine dissolved organic matter (DOM) and inorganic nutrients to coastal ecosystems. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of elevated DOM on a coastal...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Traving SJ,Rowe O,Jakobsen NM,Sørensen H,Dinasquet J,Stedmon CA,Andersson A,Riemann L

更新日期：2017-03-09 00:00:00