The Claudin Family Protein FigA Mediates Ca2+ Homeostasis in Response to Extracellular Stimuli in Aspergillus nidulans and Aspergillus fumigatus.

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a major cause of hospital- and community-acquired infections placing a significant burden on the healthcare system. With the widespread of multidrug-resistant bacteria and the lack of effective antibacterial drugs, fosfomycin has gradually attracted attention as an "old drug." Thus, investigat...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Xu W,Chen T,Wang H,Zeng W,Wu Q,Yu K,Xu Y,Zhang X,Zhou T

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Gut microbes play a crucial role in the development of colorectal cancer. Chitooligosaccharides (COS), are oligomer that are depolymerized from chitosan and possess a wide range of biological activities. In this study, the effects of COS on colorectal cancer (CRC) development were evaluated using azoxymethane and dext...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wu M,Li J,An Y,Li P,Xiong W,Li J,Yan D,Wang M,Zhong G

更新日期：2019-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the high incidence of nosocomial Candida albicans infection, the first-line drugs for C. albicans infection have been heavily used, and the emergence of drug-resistant strains has gradually increased. Thus, a new antifungal drug or therapeutic method is needed. Chitosan, a product of chitin deacetylation, is co...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Shih PY,Liao YT,Tseng YK,Deng FS,Lin CH

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we showed that Bacillus amyloliquefaciens FZB42 can confer salt tolerance in plants by root inoculation under salt stress condition, and the FZB42 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) promoted plant growth and development under non-salt stress condition. In the present study, we investigated the mechanism tha...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Liu S,Tian Y,Jia M,Lu X,Yue L,Zhao X,Jin W,Wang Y,Zhang Y,Xie Z,Wang R

更新日期：2020-11-12 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 time-to-result for culture-based microorganism recovery and phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing necessitates initial use of empiric (frequently broad-spectrum) antimicrobial therapy. If the empiric therapy is not optimal, this can lead to adverse patient outcomes and contribute to increasing antibiotic...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Pesesky MW,Hussain T,Wallace M,Patel S,Andleeb S,Burnham CD,Dantas G

更新日期：2016-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Nisin, an important bacteriocin from Lactococcus lactis subsp., is primarily active against various Gram-positive bacteria. Leucocin C, produced by Leuconostoc carnosum 4010, is a class IIa bacteriocin used to inhibit the growth of Listeria monocytogenes. Because two bacteriocins have different modes of action, the co...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Fu Y,Mu D,Qiao W,Zhu D,Wang X,Liu F,Xu H,Saris P,Kuipers OP,Qiao M

更新日期：2018-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella has emerged as a well-recognized food-borne pathogen, with many strains able to form biofilms and thus cause cross-contamination in food processing environments where acid-based disinfectants are widely encountered. In the present study, RNA sequencing was employed to establish complete transcriptome profil...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Jia K,Wang G,Liang L,Wang M,Wang H,Xu X

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (aEPEC) strains are unable to produce the bundle-forming pilus (BFP), which is responsible for the localized adherence pattern, a characteristic of the pathogenicity of typical EPEC strains. The lack of BFP in aEPEC strains suggests that other fimbrial or non-fimbrial adhesin...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Munhoz DD,Nara JM,Freitas NC,Moraes CTP,Nunes KO,Yamamoto BB,Vasconcellos FM,Martínez-Laguna Y,Girón JA,Martins FH,Abe CM,Elias WP,Piazza RMF

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This work aimed to gain insight into the transition from milk to solid feeding at weaning combining genomics and metabolomics on rumen contents from goat kids treated with a methanogenic inhibitor (bromochloromethane, BCM). Sixteen goats giving birth to two kids were used. Eight does were treated (D+) with BCM after g...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Abecia L,Martínez-Fernandez G,Waddams K,Martín-García AI,Pinloche E,Creevey CJ,Denman SE,Newbold CJ,Yáñez-Ruiz DR

更新日期：2018-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic treatment of sick dairy cattle is critical for the sustainability of this production system which is vital for food security and societal prosperity in many low and middle-income countries. Given the increasingly high levels of antibiotic resistance worldwide and the challenge this presents for the treatmen...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mainda G,Lupolova N,Sikakwa L,Richardson E,Bessell PR,Malama SK,Kwenda G,Stevens MP,Bronsvoort BMD,Muma JB,Gally DL

更新日期：2019-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:To successfully infect plants, viruses replicate in an initially infected cell and then move to neighboring cells through plasmodesmata (PDs). However, the nature of the viral entity that crosses over the cell barrier into non-infected ones is not clear. The membrane-associated 6K2 protein of turnip mosaic virus (TuMV...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Grangeon R,Jiang J,Wan J,Agbeci M,Zheng H,Laliberté JF

更新日期：2013-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The Nanhai No. 1 shipwreck is a Chinese merchant ship in the Southern Song Dynasty, and now it is stored in a huge enclosed glass warehouse in Maritime Silk Road Museum in Guangdong Province. At present, the hull of the Nanhai No. 1 shipwreck is still being excavated, and a small part of the hull wood is soaked in a s...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Han Y,Huang X,Wang Y,Du J,Ma K,Chen Y,Li N,Zhang Z,Pan J

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two lytic bacteriophages, WCHABP1 and WCHABP12, were recovered from hospital sewage and were able to infect 9 and 12 out of 18 carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii clinical strains, which belonged to different clones. Electron microscopy scan showed that both bacteriophages had the similar morphology as those ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhou W,Feng Y,Zong Z

更新日期：2018-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the molecular mechanism of inflammasome activation in response to Streptococcus suis serotype 2 (SS2) infection and its contribution to the development of streptococcal toxic shock-like syndrome (STSS). Methods: To verify the role of suilysin (SLY) in STSS, we infect...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Song L,Li X,Xiao Y,Huang Y,Jiang Y,Meng G,Ren Z

更新日期：2020-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic adaptation in various environmental niches is crucial for bacterial extracellular survival and intracellular replication during infection. However, the metabolism of carbon/nitrogen sources and related regulatory mechanisms in Laribacter hongkongensis, an asaccharolytic bacterium associated with invasive inf...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Xiong L,Chan E,Teng JLL,Liu S,Lau SKP,Woo PCY

更新日期：2019-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorus (P) is an essential nutrient element for the growth of phytoplankton. How P deficiency affects population growth and the cell division cycle in dinoflagellates has only been studied in some species, and how it affects photosynthesis and cell growth remains poorly understood. In the present study, we investi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Li M,Shi X,Guo C,Lin S

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of antibiotics in farm management (growing crops and raising animals) has become a major area of concern. Its implications is the consequent emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and accordingly their access into the human food chain with passage of antibiotic resistance genes (ARG) to the normal hu...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Osman K,Badr J,Al-Maary KS,Moussa IM,Hessain AM,Girah ZM,Abo-Shama UH,Orabi A,Saad A

更新日期：2016-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The hepatitis E virus (HEV) represents a major cause of acute hepatitis worldwide. The majority of HEV cases occur in low-income countries, mainly Asia and Africa, where HEV causes large outbreaks associated with the consumption of contaminated water and high mortality in specific populations. In high-income...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rivero-Juarez A,Lopez-Lopez P,Frias M,Rivero A

更新日期：2019-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Corynebacterium glutamicum, a soil-derived gram-positive actinobacterium, has been widely used for the production of biochemical molecules such as amino acids (i.e., L-glutamate and L-lysine), nucleic acids, alcohols, and organic acids. The metabolism of the bacterium has been engineered to increase the production of ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lee MJ,Kim P

更新日期：2018-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:While combinations of probiotics with antibiotics have exhibited beneficial and adverse effects in the treatment of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), no substantive explanation has been provided for these effects. In this study, C. difficile ATCC 9689 (CD) was treated with Bifidobacterium breve (YH68) in combinat...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yang J,Yang H

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetogens can fix carbon (CO or CO2) into acetyl-CoA via the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway (WLP) that also makes them attractive cell factories for the production of fuels and chemicals from waste feedstocks. Although most biochemical details of the WLP are well understood and systems-level characterization of acetogen metab...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： de Souza Pinto Lemgruber R,Valgepea K,Gonzalez Garcia RA,de Bakker C,Palfreyman RW,Tappel R,Köpke M,Simpson SD,Nielsen LK,Marcellin E

更新日期：2019-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the mitogenome variation observed in fungal lineages seems driven by mobile genetic elements (MGEs), which have invaded their genomes throughout evolution. The variation in the distribution and nucleotide diversity of these elements appears to be the main distinction between different fungal taxa, making them ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kulik T,Brankovics B,van Diepeningen AD,Bilska K,Żelechowski M,Myszczyński K,Molcan T,Stakheev A,Stenglein S,Beyer M,Pasquali M,Sawicki J,Wyrȩbek J,Baturo-Cieśniewska A

更新日期：2020-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The vertebrate gut teems with a large, diverse, and dynamic bacterial community that has pervasive effects on gut physiology, metabolism, and immunity. Under natural conditions, these microbes share their habitat with a similarly dynamic community of eukaryotes (helminths, protozoa, and fungi), many of which are well-...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Leung JM,Graham AL,Knowles SCL

更新日期：2018-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Similar to the increased number of studies on invasive plants and animals in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, many reports were recently published on the invasion of Nostocales (cyanobacteria) to freshwater environments worldwide. Invasion and proliferation of Nostocales in new habitats have the potential to signif...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Sukenik A,Hadas O,Kaplan A,Quesada A

更新日期：2012-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotides (NAD(H)) play a vital role in various biological processes, including keeping the cellular redox balance. In this study, we investigate the regulatory responses of Streptococcus pneumoniae D39 to NADH and characterize the role of the Rex protein as a transcriptional repressor of the ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Afzal M,Shafeeq S,Kuipers OP

更新日期：2018-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Seaweeds of the intertidal regions are a rich source of surface associated bacteria and are potential source of antimicrobial molecules. In the present study, 77 epiphytic isolates from eight different algae collected from Little Andaman were enumerated. On testing for their antimicrobial activities against certain pa...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Karthick P,Mohanraju R

更新日期：2018-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile PCR ribotype (RT) 014 is well-established in both human and porcine populations in Australia, raising the possibility that C. difficile infection (CDI) may have a zoonotic or foodborne etiology. Here, whole genome sequencing and high-resolution core genome phylogenetics were performed on a contem...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Knight DR,Squire MM,Collins DA,Riley TV

更新日期：2017-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:To obtain full details of gut microbiota, including bacteria, fungi, bacteriophages, and helminths, in giant pandas (GPs), we created a comprehensive microbial genome database and used metagenomic sequences to align against the database. We delineated a detailed and different gut microbiota structures of GPs. A total ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yang S,Gao X,Meng J,Zhang A,Zhou Y,Long M,Li B,Deng W,Jin L,Zhao S,Wu D,He Y,Li C,Liu S,Huang Y,Zhang H,Zou L

更新日期：2018-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Omeprazole was shown to improve the anti-cancer effects of the nucleoside analogue 5-fluorouracil. Here, we combined omeprazole with the antiviral nucleoside analogues ribavirin and acyclovir. Omeprazole did not affect the antiviral effects of ribavirin in non-toxic concentrations up to 80 μg/mL but increased the acyc...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Michaelis M,Kleinschmidt MC,Bojkova D,Rabenau HF,Wass MN,Cinatl J Jr

更新日期：2019-12-03 00:00:00