InhA1-Mediated Cleavage of the Metalloprotease NprA Allows Bacillus cereus to Escape From Macrophages.

abstract：:Acetate is a characteristic by-product of Escherichia coli K-12 growing in batch cultures with glucose, both under aerobic as well as anaerobic conditions. While the reason underlying aerobic acetate production is still under discussion, during anaerobic growth acetate production is important for ATP generation by sub...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Schütze A,Benndorf D,Püttker S,Kohrs F,Bettenbrock K

更新日期：2020-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Hantaviruses are zoonotic agents that cause hemorrhagic fevers and are thought to be transmitted to humans by exposure to aerosolized excreta of infected rodents. Puumala virus (PUUV) is the predominant endemic hantavirus in Europe. A large proportion of PUUV-infected patients suffer from gastrointestinal ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Witkowski PT,Perley CC,Brocato RL,Hooper JW,Jürgensen C,Schulzke JD,Krüger DH,Bücker R

更新日期：2017-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are formidable causes of lung diseases throughout the world. While MTB is considered to be more virulent than NTM, host factors also play a key role in disease development. To elucidate whether there are differential immune responses to various my...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Feng Z,Bai X,Wang T,Garcia C,Bai A,Li L,Honda JR,Nie X,Chan ED

更新日期：2020-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The Arctic seasonal snowpack can extend at times over a third of the Earth's land surface. This chemically dynamic environment interacts constantly with different environmental compartments such as atmosphere, soil and meltwater, and thus, strongly influences the entire biosphere. However, the microbial community asso...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Maccario L,Vogel TM,Larose C

更新日期：2014-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A microbiome is defined as a complex collection of microorganisms and their genetic material. Studies regarding gut microbiomes of different animals have provided ecological and evolutionary information showing a strong link between health and disease. Very few studies have compared the gut microbiota of animals house...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Sandri C,Correa F,Spiezio C,Trevisi P,Luise D,Modesto M,Remy S,Muzungaile MM,Checcucci A,Zaborra CA,Mattarelli P

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In Liberibacter asiaticus, PrbP is an important transcriptional accessory protein that was found to regulate gene expression through interactions with the RNA polymerase β-subunit and a specific sequence on the promoter region. It was found that inactivation of PrbP, using the inhibitor tolfenamic acid, resulted in a ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Pan L,Gardner CL,Pagliai FA,Gonzalez CF,Lorca GL

更新日期：2017-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The sea surface microlayer (SML) is located at the air-sea interface, with microorganisms and organic matter in the SML influencing air-sea exchange processes. Yet understanding of the SML bacterial (bacterioneuston) community composition and assembly remains limited. Availability of organic matter, UV radiation and w...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zäncker B,Cunliffe M,Engel A

更新日期：2018-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An Aspergillus fumigatus vaccine based on recombinant Asp f3-protein has the potential to prevent aspergillosis in humans, a devastating fungal disease that is the prime obstacle to the success of hematopoietic cell transplantation. This vaccine protects cortisone acetate (CA)-immunosuppressed mice from invasive pulmo...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Diaz-Arevalo D,Ito JI,Kalkum M

更新日期：2012-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) cause health care-associated infections worldwide, and they are of severe concern due to limited treatment options. We report an outbreak of KPC-2-producing CRE that was caused by horizontal transmission of a promiscuous plasmid across different genera of bacteria and hosp...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Schweizer C,Bischoff P,Bender J,Kola A,Gastmeier P,Hummel M,Klefisch FR,Schoenrath F,Frühauf A,Pfeifer Y

更新日期：2019-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc has an abounding occurrence in the prokaryotes and plays paramount roles including catalytic, structural, and regulatory. Zinc uptake regulator (Zur), a Fur family transcriptional regulator, is connoted in maintaining zinc homeostasis in the pathogenic bacteria by binding to zinc and regulating the genes involved...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kandari D,Gopalani M,Gupta M,Joshi H,Bhatnagar S,Bhatnagar R

更新日期：2019-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteus mirabilis is an important etiological agent of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) owing to its efficient crystalline biofilm formation and virulence enzyme production. Hence, the present study explicated the antibiofilm and antivirulence efficacies of 2-hydroxy-4-methoxybenzaldehyde (HMB) ag...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Durgadevi R,Abirami G,Alexpandi R,Nandhini K,Kumar P,Prakash S,Veera Ravi A

更新日期：2019-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal microbiome is essential in humans to maintain physiological balance and nutrition metabolism. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy due to gallstone disease and cholecystitis can cause intestinal microbial dysbiosis, and following bile acid metabolism dysfunction, positions the patient at high risk of colorectal...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang W,Wang J,Li J,Yan P,Jin Y,Zhang R,Yue W,Guo Q,Geng J

更新日期：2018-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In the environment, bacteria live in complex multispecies communities. These communities span in scale from small, multicellular aggregates to billions or trillions of cells within the gastrointestinal tract of animals. The dynamics of bacterial communities are determined by pairwise interactions that occur between di...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Stubbendieck RM,Vargas-Bautista C,Straight PD

更新日期：2016-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of caves are formed within limestone rock and hence our understanding of cave microbiology comes from carbonate-buffered systems. In this paper, we describe the microbial diversity of Roraima Sur Cave (RSC), an orthoquartzite (SiO4) cave within Roraima Tepui, Venezuela. The cave contains a high level of m...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Barton HA,Giarrizzo JG,Suarez P,Robertson CE,Broering MJ,Banks ED,Vaishampayan PA,Venkateswaran K

更新日期：2014-11-26 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：:Listeria monocytogenes is a serious foodborne pathogen that can contaminate food during processing and can grow during food shelf-life. New types of safe and effective food contact materials embedding antimicrobial agents, like silver, can play an important role in the food industry. The present work aimed at evaluati...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Belluco S,Losasso C,Patuzzi I,Rigo L,Conficoni D,Gallocchio F,Cibin V,Catellani P,Segato S,Ricci A

更新日期：2016-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonostachys rosea is a biological control agent against Fusarium graminearum in small grain cereals and maize. Infections with F. graminearum do not only reduce the yield but, due to the production of mycotoxins, also affect the entire value chain of food and feed. In addition, production of other secondary metabolit...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gimeno A,Sohlberg E,Pakula T,Limnell J,Keller B,Laitila A,Vogelgsang S

更新日期：2019-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are obligate root symbionts that can protect their host plant against biotic stress factors such as plant-parasitic nematode (PPN) infection. PPN consist of a wide range of species with different life styles that can cause major damage in many important crops worldwide. Various mecha...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Schouteden N,De Waele D,Panis B,Vos CM

更新日期：2015-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Snow algae blooms contain bacteria, fungi, and other microscopic organisms. We surveyed 55 alpine snow algae blooms, collecting a total of 68 samples, from 12 mountains in the Coast Range of British Columbia, Canada. We used microscopy and rDNA metabarcoding to document biodiversity and query species and taxonomic ass...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yakimovich KM,Engstrom CB,Quarmby LM

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We were able to demonstrate that hydroxyectoine, in contrast to ectoine, is a good glass-forming compound. Fourier transform infrared and spin label electron spin resonance studies of dry ectoine and hydroxyectoine have shown that the superior glass-forming properties of hydroxyectoine result from stronger intermolecu...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Tanne C,Golovina EA,Hoekstra FA,Meffert A,Galinski EA

更新日期：2014-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior to harvest, maize kernels are invaded by a diverse population of fungal organisms that comprise the microbiome of the grain mass. Poor post-harvest practices and improper drying can lead to the growth of mycotoxigenic storage fungi and deterioration of grain quality. Hermetic storage bags are a low-cost technolo...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lane B,Sharma S,Niu C,Maina AW,Wagacha JM,Bluhm BH,Woloshuk CP

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Salvador, Bahia (northeastern Brazil), has been identified as the epicenter of Human T-cell leukemia virus Human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV) type 1 infection in the country. This study aims to estimate the rate of HTLV infection and the geographical distribution of this virus in this state. Methods:All HTL...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Pereira FM,de Almeida MDCC,Santos FLN,Carreiro RP,Regis-Silva CG,Galvão-Castro B,Grassi MFR

更新日期：2019-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been previously shown that RskA, the anti-Sigma factor K of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, inhibits SigK and that mutations in RskA promote high expression of the SigK regulon. The latter observation led us to hypothesize that RskA mutations lead to loss of the anti-Sigma factor function. In this report, we used n...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Veyrier FJ,Nieves C,Lefrancois LH,Trigui H,Vincent AT,Behr MA

更新日期：2020-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni is the most frequent cause of human food-borne gastroenteritis and chicken meat is the main source of infection. Recent studies showed that broiler chicken immunization against Campylobacter should be the most efficient way to lower the number of human infections by this pathogen. Induction of the...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kobierecka PA,Olech B,Książek M,Derlatka K,Adamska I,Majewski PM,Jagusztyn-Krynicka EK,Wyszyńska AK

更新日期：2016-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to investigate the ability of a culture highly enriched with the polyphosphate-accumulating organism, "Candidatus Accumulibacter phosphatis" clade IIC, to adjust their metabolism to different phosphate availabilities. For this purpose the biomass was cultivated in a sequencing batch rea...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Welles L,Abbas B,Sorokin DY,Lopez-Vazquez CM,Hooijmans CM,van Loosdrecht MC,Brdjanovic D

更新日期：2017-01-05 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：: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：:Low-dose tolerance using heat-killed mycobacteria has been tested as a means of stopping progression toward active tuberculosis (TB) lesions in a human-like murine model using C3HeB/FeJ mice. In the present study, we studied the effect of different treatment schedules with heat-killed non-tuberculous-mycobacteria (NTM...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Cardona P,Marzo-Escartín E,Tapia G,Díaz J,García V,Varela I,Vilaplana C,Cardona PJ

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant subunit vaccines are some of the safest and most effective vaccines available, but their high cost and the requirement of advanced medical infrastructure for administration make them impractical for many developing world diseases. Plant-based vaccines have shifted that paradigm by paving the way for recomb...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Specht EA,Mayfield SP

更新日期：2014-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans is an opportunist fungal pathogen that causes meningoencephalitis in immunocompromised patients. During infection, this basidiomycete yeast has to adapt to several adverse conditions, especially nutrient availability. The interruption on various amino acid biosynthetic pathways and on amino aci...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Martho KF,Brustolini OJB,Vasconcelos AT,Vallim MA,Pascon RC

更新日期：2019-11-26 00:00:00