Viruses and Evolution - Viruses First? A Personal Perspective.

abstract：:Zoysia japonica brown spot was caused by necrotrophic fungus Rhizoctonia solani invasion, which led to severe financial loss in city lawn and golf ground maintenance. However, little was known about the molecular mechanism of R. solani pathogenicity in Z. japonica. In this study we examined early stage interaction bet...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhu C,Ai L,Wang L,Yin P,Liu C,Li S,Zeng H

更新日期：2016-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Microorganisms play a crucial role in biogeochemical cycles and ecosystem processes, but the key factors driving microbial community structure are poorly understood, particularly in alpine environments. In this study, we aim to disentangle the relative contribution of abiotic and biotic factors shaping bacterial and f...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang C,Michalet R,Liu Z,Jiang X,Wang X,Zhang G,An L,Chen S,Xiao S

更新日期：2020-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:PromA plasmids are broad host range (BHR) plasmids, which are often cryptic and hence have an uncertain ecological role. We present three novel PromA γ plasmids which carry genes associated with degradation of the phenylurea herbicide linuron, two of which originated from unrelated Hydrogenophaga hosts isolated from d...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Werner J,Nour E,Bunk B,Spröer C,Smalla K,Springael D,Öztürk B

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus (L. casei) Zhang is a koumiss-originated probiotic strain, which was used as a model in a long-term antibiotics-driven evolution experiment to reveal bacterial evolutionary dynamics; and we isolated gentamycin-resistant L. casei Zhang descendents. To decipher the gentamycin resistance mechanism, here we ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang W,Guo H,Cao C,Li L,Kwok LY,Zhang H,Sun Z

更新日期：2017-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Although being a common aim of many microbial ecology studies, measuring individual physiological conditions of a microbial group or species within a complex consortium is still a challenge. Here, we propose a novel approach that is based on the quantification of sequentially extracted extracellular (exDNA) and intrac...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Nagler M,Podmirseg SM,Mayr M,Ascher-Jenull J,Insam H

更新日期：2020-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary dark tea is used as raw material for compressed dark tea, such as Fu brick tea, Hei brick tea, Hua brick tea, and Qianliang tea. Pile-fermentation is the key process for the formation of the characteristic properties of primary dark tea, during which the microorganism plays an important role. In this study, th...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Li Q,Chai S,Li Y,Huang J,Luo Y,Xiao L,Liu Z

更新日期：2018-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The family Reoviridae is one of the largest virus families with genomes composed of 9-12 double-stranded RNA segments. It includes members infecting organisms from protists to humans. It is well known that reovirus genomes are prone to various types of genome alterations including intragenic rearrangement and reassort...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Tanaka T,Eusebio-Cope A,Sun L,Suzuki N

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa uses quorum sensing (QS) to regulate the production of public goods such as the secreted protease elastase. P. aeruginosa requires the LasI-LasR QS circuit to induce elastase and enable growth on casein as the sole carbon and energy source. The LasI-LasR system also induces a second QS circuit, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yan H,Wang M,Sun F,Dandekar AA,Shen D,Li N

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The respiratory diseases caused by rhinovirus, respiratory syncytial virus, and influenza virus represent a large social and financial burden on healthcare worldwide. Although all three viruses have distinctly unique properties in terms of infection and replication, they share the ability to exploit/manipulate the hos...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Caly L,Ghildyal R,Jans DA

更新日期：2015-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter concisus is a bacterium that is associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Immunosuppressive drugs including azathioprine (AZA) and mercaptopurine (MP), and anti-inflammatory drug such as 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA) are commonly used to treat patients with IBD. This study aimed to examine the ef...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Liu F,Ma R,Riordan SM,Grimm MC,Liu L,Wang Y,Zhang L

更新日期：2017-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Spices have been used since ancient times. Although they have been employed mainly as flavoring and coloring agents, their role in food safety and preservation have also been studied in vitro and in vivo. Spices have exhibited numerous health benefits in preventing and treating a wide variety of diseases such as cance...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gottardi D,Bukvicki D,Prasad S,Tyagi AK

更新日期：2016-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The proton pump rhodopsin is widely found in marine bacteria and archaea, where it functions to capture light energy and convert it to ATP. While found in several lineages of dinoflagellates, this gene has not been studied in Prorocentrales species and whether it functionally tunes to light spectra and intensities as ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Shi X,Li L,Guo C,Lin X,Li M,Lin S

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Food contamination by staphylococcal enterotoxins (SEs) is responsible for many food poisoning outbreaks (FPOs) each year, and they represent the third leading cause of FPOs in Europe. SEs constitute a protein family with 27 proteins. However, enzyme immunoassays can only detect directly in food the five classical SEs...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Merda D,Felten A,Vingadassalon N,Denayer S,Titouche Y,Decastelli L,Hickey B,Kourtis C,Daskalov H,Mistou MY,Hennekinne JA

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian paramyxovirus serotype 3 (APMV-3) causes infection in a wide variety of avian species, but it does not cause apparent diseases in chickens. On the contrary, APMV-1, also known as Newcastle disease virus (NDV), can cause severe disease in chickens. Currently, natural low virulence strains of NDV are used as live-...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yoshida A,Samal SK

更新日期：2017-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Separating the contributions of anaerobic oxidation of methane and organoclastic sulfate reduction in the overall sedimentary sulfur cycle of marine sediments has benefited from advances in isotope biogeochemistry. Particularly, the coupling of sulfur and oxygen isotopes measured in the residual sulfate pool (δ18OSO4 ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Antler G,Pellerin A

更新日期：2018-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In Appalachian ecosystems, forest disturbance has long-term effects on microbially driven biogeochemical processes such as nitrogen (N) cycling. However, little is known regarding long-term responses of forest soil microbial communities to disturbance in the region. We used 16S and ITS sequencing to characterize soil ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Osburn ED,McBride SG,Aylward FO,Badgley BD,Strahm BD,Knoepp JD,Barrett JE

更新日期：2019-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Our laboratory has previously developed a qRT-PCR assay to assess drug efficacy on the growth of Cryptosporidium parvum in vitro by detecting the levels of parasite 18S rRNA. This approach displayed up to four orders of magnitude of linear dynamic range and was much less labor-intensive than the traditional microscopi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang H,Zhu G

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies of bacterial speciation have claimed to support the biological species concept-that reduced recombination is required for bacterial populations to diverge into species. This conclusion has been reached from the discovery that ecologically distinct clades show lower rates of recombination than that which...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Melendrez MC,Becraft ED,Wood JM,Olsen MT,Bryant DA,Heidelberg JF,Rusch DB,Cohan FM,Ward DM

更新日期：2016-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:H9N2 avian influenza virus is a zoonotic agent with a broad host range that can contribute genetic information to H5 or H7N9 subtype viruses, which are significant threats to both humans and birds. Thus, there is a great need for a vaccine to control H9N2 avian influenza. Three mutant viruses of an H9N2 virus A/chicke...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chen S,Zhu Y,Yang D,Yang Y,Shi S,Qin T,Peng D,Liu X

更新日期：2017-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimycotic chemosensitization and its mode of action are of growing interest. Currently, use of antifungal agents in agriculture and medicine has a number of obstacles. Foremost of these is development of resistance or cross-resistance to one or more antifungal agents. The generally high expense and negative impact, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Campbell BC,Chan KL,Kim JH

更新日期：2012-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Cronobacter spp. are bacterial pathogens that cause neonatal meningitis, septicemia, and necrotizing enterocolitis in infants with a lethality rate of 40-80%. Powdered infant formulas (PIF) have been implicated as the main vehicles of transmission. This pathogen can also cause infection through contaminated expressed ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Parra-Flores J,Aguirre J,Juneja V,Jackson EE,Cruz-Córdova A,Silva-Sanchez J,Forsythe S

更新日期：2018-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The DedA family is a conserved membrane protein family found in most organisms. A Burkholderia thailandensis DedA family protein, named DbcA, is required for high-level colistin (polymyxin E) resistance, but the mechanism awaits elucidation. Modification of lipopolysaccharide lipid A with the cationic sugar aminoarabi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Panta PR,Doerrler WT

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The aquatic bird, egret, could carry antibiotic resistance (AR) from a contaminated waterway (Jin River, Chengdu, China) into the surrounding environment (Wangjianglou Park). A systematic study was carried out on the unique environmental dissemination mode of AR mediated by birds. The minimum inhibitory concentrations...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wu J,Huang Y,Rao D,Zhang Y,Yang K

更新日期：2018-04-20 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：:Extracellular cytochromes are hypothesized to facilitate the final steps of electron transfer between the outer membrane of the metal-reducing bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens and solid-phase electron acceptors such as metal oxides and electrode surfaces during the course of respiration. The triheme c-type cytochrom...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zacharoff LA,Morrone DJ,Bond DR

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:B-vitamins are recognized as essential organic growth factors for many organisms, although little is known about their abundance and distribution in marine ecosystems. Despite their metabolic functions regulating important enzymatic reactions, the methodology to directly measure different B-vitamins in aquatic environ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Barada LP,Cutter L,Montoya JP,Webb EA,Capone DG,Sañudo-Wilhelmy SA

更新日期：2013-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cordycepin, isolated from the traditional medicinal fungus Cordyceps militaris, has gained much attention due to its various clinical functions. Previous reports of L-alanine addition could significantly improve cordycepin production, but the molecular mechanism remains unknown. In this study, transcriptome analysis o...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chen BX,Wei T,Xue LN,Zheng QW,Ye ZW,Zou Y,Yang Y,Yun F,Guo LQ,Lin JF

更新日期：2020-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemophilus parasuis is known as a commensal organism discovered in the upper respiratory tract of swine where the pathogenic bacteria survive in various adverse environmental stress. QseC, a histidine protein kinase of the two-component regulatory systems CheY/QseC, is involved in the environmental adaptation in bact...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： He L,Dai K,Wen X,Ding L,Cao S,Huang X,Wu R,Zhao Q,Huang Y,Yan Q,Ma X,Han X,Wen Y

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The deep sea is one of the largest but least understood ecosystems on earth. Knowledge about the diversity and distribution patterns as well as drivers of microbial eukaryote (including ciliates) along the water column, particularly below the photic zone, is scarce. In this study, we investigated the diversity of pela...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhao F,Filker S,Xu K,Huang P,Zheng S

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The translation of enterovirus 71 (EV71) is mediated by an internal ribosome entry site (IRES)-dependent manner. EV71 IRES comprises five highly structured domains (domains II-VI) in the 5'-untranslated region of the viral mRNA. A conserved AUG triplet residing in domain VI is proposed to be the ribosome entry site. I...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Su YS,Tsai AH,Ho YF,Huang SY,Liu YC,Hwang LH

更新日期：2018-06-19 00:00:00