Role of Dilution Rate and Nutrient Availability in the Formation of Microbial Biofilms.

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is responsible for causing toxoplasmosis, one of the most prevalent zoonotic parasitoses worldwide. The mechanisms that mediate T. gondii infection of pigs (the most common source of human infection) and renal tissues are still unknown. To identify the critical alterations that take place in the tran...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhou CX,Elsheikha HM,Zhou DH,Liu Q,Zhu XQ,Suo X

更新日期：2016-05-13 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：:Food grade micro- or nano-carrier systems (NCS) are being developed to improve the controlled release of antimicrobial agents. To augment the stability of liposomal NCS and to overcome the limitations associated with the use of free bacteriocin (nisin) in the food system, multi-component colloidosomes (MCCS) were deve...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Niaz T,Shabbir S,Noor T,Abbasi R,Raza ZA,Imran M

更新日期：2018-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucellosis is one of the most common zoonotic epidemics worldwide. Brucella, the etiological pathogen of brucellosis, has unique virulence characteristics, including the ability to survive within the host cell. Hfq is a bacterial chaperone protein that is involved in the survival of the pathogen under stress conditio...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lei S,Zhong Z,Ke Y,Yang M,Xu X,Ren H,An C,Yuan J,Yu J,Xu J,Qiu Y,Shi Y,Wang Y,Peng G,Chen Z

更新日期：2016-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of additives in food products has become an important public health concern. In recent reports, dietary emulsifiers have been shown to affect the gut microbiota, contributing to a pro-inflammatory phenotype and metabolic syndrome. So far, it is not yet known whether similar microbiome shifts are observable for...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Miclotte L,De Paepe K,Rymenans L,Callewaert C,Raes J,Rajkovic A,Van Camp J,Van de Wiele T

更新日期：2020-11-05 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：:Atypical porcine pestivirus (APPV) is an RNA virus newly discovered from swine in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. This novel virus has been confirmed as the cause of congenital tremor (CT) in piglets, which causes extensive economic losses to the swine industry. To investigate the genetic diversity and evolutionary re...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Xie Y,Wang X,Su D,Feng J,Wei L,Cai W,Li J,Lin S,Yan H,He D

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Aquatic ecosystems are frequently considered as the final receiving environments of anthropogenic pollutants such as pharmaceutical residues or antibiotic resistant bacteria, and as a consequence tend to form reservoirs of antibiotic resistance genes. Considering the global threat posed by the antibiotic resistance, t...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： De la Cruz Barrón M,Merlin C,Guilloteau H,Montargès-Pelletier E,Bellanger X

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Innovations in next-generation sequencing technology have introduced new avenues in microbial studies through "omics" approaches. This technology has considerably augmented the knowledge of the microbial world without isolation prior to their identification. With an enormous volume of bacterial "omics" data, considera...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Parmar KM,Gaikwad SL,Dhakephalkar PK,Kothari R,Singh RP

更新日期：2017-04-07 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：:Probiotic bacteria have been associated with various health benefits and included in overwhelming number of foods. Today, probiotic supplements are consumed with increasing regularity and record a rapidly growing economic value. With billions of heterogeneous populations of probiotics per serving, probiotic supplement...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang Y,Jiang Y,Deng Y,Yi C,Wang Y,Ding M,Liu J,Jin X,Shen L,He Y,Wu X,Chen X,Sun C,Zheng M,Zhang R,Ye H,An H,Wong A

更新日期：2020-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current study, we focused on the mechanism underlying starch flocculation by the sweet potato sour liquid. The traditional microbial techniques and 16S rDNA sequencing revealed that Lactobacillus was dominant flocculating microorganism in sour liquid. In total, 86 bacteria, 20 yeasts, and 10 molds were isolated...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang L,Yu Y,Li X,Li X,Zhang H,Zhang Z,Xu Y

更新日期：2017-07-25 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：:Microbial community ecology studies have traditionally utilized culture-based methodologies, though the advent of next-generation amplicon sequencing has facilitated superior resolution analyses of complex microbial communities. Here, we used culture-dependent and -independent approaches to explore the influence of la...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kavamura VN,Robinson RJ,Hayat R,Clark IM,Hughes D,Rossmann M,Hirsch PR,Mendes R,Mauchline TH

更新日期：2019-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Aflatoxins are highly toxic carcinogens that detrimentally influence profitability of agriculture and the health of humans and domestic animals. Several phylogenetically distinct fungi within Aspergillus section Flavi have S-morphology (average sclerotial size < 400 μm), and consistently produce high concentrations of...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Singh P,Callicott KA,Orbach MJ,Cotty PJ

更新日期：2020-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Combatting antimicrobial resistant (AMR) using a One-Health approach is essential as various bacteria, including Escherichia coli, a common bacteria, are becoming increasingly resistant and livestock may be a reservoir. The AMR gene content of 492 E. coli, isolated from 56 pig farms across Great Britain in 2014-2015, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： AbuOun M,O'Connor HM,Stubberfield EJ,Nunez-Garcia J,Sayers E,Crook DW,Smith RP,Anjum MF

更新日期：2020-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes is a food-borne pathogen that can persist in food processing plants by forming biofilms on abiotic surfaces. The benefits that bacteria can gain from living in a biofilm, i.e., protection from environmental factors and tolerance to biocides, have been linked to the biofilm structure. Different L...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Balsa-Canto E,Vilas C,López-Núñez A,Mosquera-Fernández M,Briandet R,Cabo ML,Vázquez C

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 is an RNA enveloped virus that preferentially infects CD4(+) T lymphocytes and also macrophages. In CD4(+) T cells, HIV-1 mainly buds from the host cell plasma membrane. The viral Gag polyprotein targets the plasma membrane and is the orchestrator of the HIV assembly as its expression is sufficient to promote th...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mariani C,Desdouits M,Favard C,Benaroch P,Muriaux DM

更新日期：2014-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the relationship between pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) parameters and changes in susceptibility and resistance frequency of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae CVCC 259, a piglet tissue cage (TC) infection model was established. After A. pleuropneumoniae populations maintained at 108 CFU/mL in TCs, p...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang L,Kang Z,Yao L,Gu X,Huang Z,Cai Q,Shen X,Ding H

更新日期：2018-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Edaphic cyanobacteria and algae have been extensively studied in dryland soils because they play key roles in the formation of biological soil crusts and the stabilization of soil surfaces. Yet, in temperate agricultural crop soils, little is understood about the functional significance of indigenous photosynthetic mi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Crouzet O,Consentino L,Pétraud JP,Marrauld C,Aguer JP,Bureau S,Le Bourvellec C,Touloumet L,Bérard A

更新日期：2019-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of the bacterial chromosome initiates at a single origin of replication that is called oriC. This occurs via the concerted action of numerous proteins, including DnaA, which acts as an initiator. The origin sequences vary across species, but all bacterial oriCs contain the information necessary to guide as...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wolański M,Donczew R,Zawilak-Pawlik A,Zakrzewska-Czerwińska J

更新日期：2015-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The Formyl-peptide receptor-2 (FPR2) is a seven transmembrane G protein-coupled receptor, which plays an important role in sensing of bacteria and modulation of immune responses. FPR2 is also used by viruses for their own profit. Annexin A1, one of the multiple ligands of FPR2, is incorporated in the budding virus mem...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Alessi MC,Cenac N,Si-Tahar M,Riteau B

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic bacterial persisters are responsible for the recalcitrance of chronic and persistent infections to antimicrobial therapy. Although the mechanisms of persister formation and survival have been widely studied in Escherichia coli, persistence mechanisms in Staphylococcus aureus remain largely unknown. Here, we...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang W,Chen J,Chen G,Du X,Cui P,Wu J,Zhao J,Wu N,Zhang W,Li M,Zhang Y

更新日期：2015-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of secondary plant metabolites (e.g., flavonoids) possess antiviral/antimicrobial activity. Most flavonoids, however, are difficult to study, as they are immiscible in water-based systems. The relatively new semisynthetic α-glucosyl hesperitin (GH), and the natural plant product epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lipson SM,Ozen FS,Louis S,Karthikeyan L

更新日期：2015-04-29 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：:This study aimed to describe the distribution and characterization of fecal extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)- and AmpC-producing Escherichia coli isolates from healthy companion animals and cohabiting humans. A total of 968 rectal swab samples from 340 participants, including healthy companion animals and cohabiti...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hong JS,Song W,Park HM,Oh JY,Chae JC,Jeong S,Jeong SH

更新日期：2020-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The environment of Lake Baikal is a well-known source of microbial diversity. The strain Streptomyces sp. IB2014/011-12, isolated from samples collected at Lake Baikal, was found to exhibit potent activity against Gram-positive bacteria. Here, we report isolation and characterization of linear polyketide alpiniamide A...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Paulus C,Rebets Y,Zapp J,Rückert C,Kalinowski J,Luzhetskyy A

更新日期：2018-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen years after transfer to hops, hop stunt viroid-grapevine (HSVd-g) was replaced by HSVd-hop (HSVd-h), a sequence variant that contains changes at five different positions. HSVd-g54 is a laboratory mutant derived from HSVd-g that differs from its progenitor by a single G to A substitution at position 54. While i...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Xia C,Li S,Hou W,Fan Z,Xiao H,Lu M,Sano T,Zhang Z

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Many organisms harbor circadian clocks that promote their adaptation to the rhythmic environment. While a broad knowledge of the molecular mechanism of circadian clocks has been gained through the fungal model Neurospora crassa, little is known about circadian clocks in other fungi. N. crassa belongs to the same class...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Cascant-Lopez E,Crosthwaite SK,Johnson LJ,Harrison RJ

更新日期：2020-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fic (filamentation induced by cyclic AMP) domain is a widely distributed motif with a conserved sequence of HPFx[D/E]GN[G/K]R, some of which regulate cellular activity by catalyzing the transfer of the AMP moiety from ATP to protein substrates. Some Fic proteins, including Fic-1 from the soil bacterium Pseudomonas...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lu CH,McCloskey A,Chen FR,Nakayasu ES,Zhang LQ,Luo ZQ

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00