Streptococcus canis Are a Single Population Infecting Multiple Animal Hosts Despite the Diversity of the Universally Present M-Like Protein SCM.

abstract：:Weaning is one of the most stressful challenges in the pig's life, which contributes to dysfunctions of intestinal and immune system, disrupts the gut microbial ecosystem, and therefore compromises the growth performance and health of piglets. To mitigate the negative impact of the stress on early-weaned piglets, effe...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Xu J,Li Y,Yang Z,Li C,Liang H,Wu Z,Pu W

更新日期：2018-08-23 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

abstract：:The rumen and the hindgut represent two different fermentation organs in herbivorous mammals, with the former producing much more methane than the latter. The objective of this study was to elucidate the microbial underpinning of such differential methane outputs between these two digestive organs. Methane production ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mi L,Yang B,Hu X,Luo Y,Liu J,Yu Z,Wang J

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Cobamides are a family of enzyme cofactors that include vitamin B12 (cobalamin) and are produced solely by prokaryotes. Structural variability in the lower axial ligand has been observed in cobamides produced by diverse organisms. Of the three classes of lower ligands, the benzimidazoles are uniquely found in cobamide...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Crofts TS,Men Y,Alvarez-Cohen L,Taga ME

更新日期：2014-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants are the source of various natural compounds with pharmaceutical and nutraceutical importance which have shown numerous health benefits with relatively fewer side effects. However, extraction of these compounds from native producers cannot meet the ever-increasing demands of the growing population due to, among ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chouhan S,Sharma K,Zha J,Guleria S,Koffas MAG

更新日期：2017-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MDRSA) remains a great challenge despite a decade of research on antimicrobial compounds against their infections. In the present study, various acyclic amines and diamines were chemically synthesized and tested for their antimicrobial as well as antibiofilm activity against...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kaur G,Balamurugan P,Vasudevan S,Jadav S,Princy SA

更新日期：2017-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Benthic diatoms are dominant primary producers in intertidal mudflats and constitute a major source of organic carbon to consumers and decomposers residing within these ecosystems. They typically form biofilms whose species richness, community composition and productivity can vary in response to environmental drivers ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Koedooder C,Stock W,Willems A,Mangelinckx S,De Troch M,Vyverman W,Sabbe K

更新日期：2019-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii is one of the most important opportunistic pathogens that causes serious health care associated complications in critically ill patients. In the current study we report on the diversity of the clinical multi-drug resistant (MDR) A. baumannii in Kuwait by molecular characterization. One hundred ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Vali L,Dashti K,Opazo-Capurro AF,Dashti AA,Al Obaid K,Evans BA

更新日期：2015-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Azole-resistant (azole-R) Aspergillus is an increasing challenge worldwide. Patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) are at risk of Aspergillus colonization and disease due to a favorable lung environment for microorganisms. We performed a nationwide study in 2018 of azole-non-susceptible Aspergillus in CF patients and comp...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Risum M,Hare RK,Gertsen JB,Kristensen L,Johansen HK,Helweg-Larsen J,Abou-Chakra N,Pressler T,Skov M,Jensen-Fangel S,Arendrup MC

更新日期：2020-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Desulfotomaculum reducens strain MI-1 is a Gram-positive, sulfate-reducing bacterium also capable of reducing Fe(III). Metal reduction in Gram-positive bacteria is poorly understood. Here, we investigated Fe(III) reduction with lactate, a non-fermentable substrate, as the electron donor. Lactate consumption is concomi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Dalla Vecchia E,Shao PP,Suvorova E,Chiappe D,Hamelin R,Bernier-Latmani R

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we found that our isolate Shewanella decolorationis NTOU1 is able to degrade acetate under anaerobic condition with concomitant implementation of extracellular electron transfer (EET). With +0.63 V (vs. SHE) poised on the anode, in a 72-h experiment digesting acetate, only 2 mM acetate was consum...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Li SL,Wang YJ,Chen YC,Liu SM,Yu CP

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We explore the potential of bacterial secretion systems as tools for genomic modification of human cells. We previously showed that foreign DNA can be introduced into human cells through the Type IV A secretion system of the human pathogen Bartonella henselae. Moreover, the DNA is delivered covalently attached to the ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Guzmán-Herrador DL,Steiner S,Alperi A,González-Prieto C,Roy CR,Llosa M

更新日期：2017-08-22 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：: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：:Filamentous fungi are an abundant source of bioactive secondary metabolites (SMs). In many cases, the biosynthetic processes of SMs are not well understood. This work focuses on a group of SMs, the alkylcitric acids, each of which contains a saturated alkyl "tail," and a citrate-derived "head." We initially identified...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Palys S,Pham TTM,Tsang A

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The increased association of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) with veal calves has led the United States Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service to report results of veal meat contaminated with the Top 7 serogroups separately from beef cattle. However, detection methods that can also prov...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Luedtke BE,Bosilevac JM

更新日期：2015-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The commensal fungus Candida albicans is the major cause of fungal systemic infection in immuno-compromised patients, with a mortality rate approaching 50% in the case of bloodstream infections. There is therefore a clear need to better understand fungal biology during infection to improve treatment. One of the partic...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Pierrehumbert A,Ischer F,Coste AT

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Putrescine is widely used in industrial production of bioplastics, pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and surfactants. Although engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum has been successfully used to produce high levels of putrescine, the overall cellular physiological and metabolic changes caused by overproduction of putres...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Li Z,Liu JZ

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Lower-termites are one of the best studied symbiotic systems in insects. Their ability to feed on a nitrogen-poor, wood-based diet with help from symbiotic microbes has been under investigation for almost a century. A unique microbial consortium living in the guts of lower termites is essential for wood-feeding. Host ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Peterson BF,Scharf ME

更新日期：2016-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Melioidosis is a common infectious disease in Southeast Asia and Northern Australia. In Hainan, several cases have been reported, but no systematic study has yet been done on the molecular epidemiology profiles of the organism. An investigation of the molecular epidemiology links and population structure of Burkholder...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhu X,Chen H,Li S,Wang LC,Wu DR,Wang XM,Chen RS,Li ZJ,Liu ZG

更新日期：2020-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The biocontrol fungus Trichoderma longibrachiatum SMF2 secretes a large quantity of peptaibols that have been shown to have a range of biological activities and therefore great application values. However, the mechanism of the regulatory expression of peptaibols is still unclear. The putative methyltransferase LaeA/LA...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Shi JC,Shi WL,Zhou YR,Chen XL,Zhang YZ,Zhang X,Zhang WX,Song XY

更新日期：2020-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptidoglycan (PGN) recognition proteins (PGLYRPs) are a highly conserved group of host defense proteins in insects and mammals that sense bacterial cell wall PGN and act bactericidally or cleave PGN by amidase function. Streptococcus (S.) pneumoniae is one of the top five killers worldwide and causes, e.g., pneumonia...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Dabrowski AN,Conrad C,Behrendt U,Shrivastav A,Baal N,Wienhold SM,Hackstein H,N'Guessan PD,Aly S,Reppe K,Suttorp N,Zahlten J

更新日期：2019-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The Solfatara volcano near Naples (Italy), the origin of the recently discovered verrucomicrobial methanotroph Methylacidiphilum fumariolicum SolV was shown to contain ammonium ([Formula: see text]) at concentrations ranging from 1 to 28 mM. Ammonia (NH3) can be converted to toxic hydroxylamine (NH2OH) by the particul...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mohammadi SS,Pol A,van Alen T,Jetten MSM,Op den Camp HJM

更新日期：2017-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Foraminifera are ubiquitous marine protists with an important role in the benthic carbon cycle. However, morphological observations often fail to resolve their exact taxonomic placement and there is a lack of field studies on their particular trophic preferences. Here, we propose the application of metabarcoding as a ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chronopoulou PM,Salonen I,Bird C,Reichart GJ,Koho KA

更新日期：2019-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacteriosis is the most frequently reported bacterial food-borne illness in the European Union and contaminated broiler meat is considered the most important source of infection in humans. The aim of the present study was to evaluate real-time PCR (qPCR) and digital PCR (dPCR) for quantification of Campylobacte...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Papić B,Pate M,Henigman U,Zajc U,Gruntar I,Biasizzo M,Ocepek M,Kušar D

更新日期：2017-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the resident (16S rDNA) and the active (16S rRNA) members of soil archaeal and bacterial communities during rice plant development by sampling three growth stages (vegetative, reproductive and maturity) under field conditions. Additionally, the microbial community was investigated in two non-flooded fields ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Breidenbach B,Conrad R

更新日期：2015-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we reported the biosynthesis of intracellular cadmium sulfide quantum dots (CdS QDs) at low temperatures by the Antarctic strain Pseudomonas fragi GC01. Here we studied the role of volatile sulfur compounds (VSCs) in the biosynthesis of CdS QDs by P. fragi GC01. The biosynthesis of nanoparticles was evaluat...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gallardo-Benavente C,Carrión O,Todd JD,Pieretti JC,Seabra AB,Durán N,Rubilar O,Pérez-Donoso JM,Quiroz A

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological nitrogen fixation plays a crucial role in the nitrogen cycle. An ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen, reducing it to ammonium, was described for multiple species of Bacteria and Archaea. The transcriptional regulatory network for nitrogen fixation was extensively studied in several representatives of the cl...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Tsoy OV,Ravcheev DA,Čuklina J,Gelfand MS

更新日期：2016-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymyxin antibiotic colistin shows in vitro activity against Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. However, an increased incidence of colistin-resistant isolates has been recently observed. In addition, in vitro evaluation of colistin susceptibility for this organism has been problematic. The aims of this study were to i...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Martínez-Servat S,Yero D,Huedo P,Marquez R,Molina G,Daura X,Gibert I

更新日期：2018-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin C is a critical dietary nutrient in human which has a wide range of regulatory effects on gene expression and physiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that leads to a dormant drug-tolerant phenotype. In the presence of iron, vitamin C shows a high bactericidal activity even in the drug resistant phenotype of M...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mishra A,Sarkar D

更新日期：2015-05-18 00:00:00