A Metabolic Trade-Off Modulates Policing of Social Cheaters in Populations of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

abstract：:Aluminum (Al)-resistant plant cultivars can recruit beneficial microbes to alleviate the stresses. However, the mechanism of how rhizobacterial communities strengthen Al tolerance of wild soybean has not been addressed. The aim of this study was to investigate the bacterial community structure in the rhizosphere of Al...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Shi Q,Jin J,Liu Y,Zhang Y,Cai Z,Ma Q,Cheng Y,Wen R,Nian H,Lian T

更新日期：2020-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of how antibodies are generated and function could help develop effective vaccines and antibody-based therapeutics against viruses such as HIV-1, SARS coronavirus (SARS CoV), and Hendra and Nipah viruses (henipaviruses). Although broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against the HIV-1 were observed...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Prabakaran P,Zhu Z,Chen W,Gong R,Feng Y,Streaker E,Dimitrov DS

更新日期：2012-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteae, and especially Proteus mirabilis, are often the cause of urinary tract infections (UTIs) in humans. They were reported as carriers of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) genes, and recently of carbapenemases, mostly carried by the Salmonella genomic island 1 (SGI1) and Proteus genomic island 1 (PGI1). Protea...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Schultz E,Cloeckaert A,Doublet B,Madec JY,Haenni M

更新日期：2017-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The digestive tract microbiota (DTM) plays a plethora of functions that enable hosts to exploit novel niches. However, our understanding of the DTM of birds, particularly passerines, and the turnover of microbial communities along the digestive tract are limited. To better understand how passerine DTMs are assembled, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Bodawatta KH,Sam K,Jønsson KA,Poulsen M

更新日期：2018-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is the prototypic beta-herpesvirus and widespread throughout the human population. While infection is asymptomatic in healthy individuals, it can lead to high morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised persons. Importantly, HCMV evolved multiple strategies to interfere with immune cell f...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Heilingloh CS,Grosche L,Kummer M,Mühl-Zürbes P,Kamm L,Scherer M,Latzko M,Stamminger T,Steinkasserer A

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Eurasian or European beaver (Castor fiber) is the second-largest living rodent after the capybara. It is a semi-aquatic animal known for building dams and lodges. They strictly feed on lignocellulose-rich plants and correspondingly harbor cellulolytic microbial communities in their digestive tract. In this study, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Pratama R,Schneider D,Böer T,Daniel R

更新日期：2019-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Soft Rot Pectobacteriaceae (SRP; Pectobacterium spp. and Dickeya spp., formerly known as pectinolytic Erwinia spp.) are necrotrophic bacterial pathogens infecting a large number of plant species worldwide, including agriculturally-important crops. Despite the SRP importance in agriculture, little is known about the ba...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Czajkowski R

更新日期：2019-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial communities inhabiting high-altitude spring ecosystems are subjected to extreme changes in solar irradiance and temperature throughout the diel cycle. Here, using 16S rRNA gene tag pyrosequencing (cDNA) we determined the composition of actively transcribing bacteria from spring waters experimentally exposed ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Molina V,Hernández K,Dorador C,Eissler Y,Hengst M,Pérez V,Harrod C

更新日期：2016-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia pestis, responsible for causing fulminant plague, has evolved clonally from the enteric pathogen, Y. pseudotuberculosis, which in contrast, causes a relatively benign enteric illness. An ~97% nucleotide identity over 75% of their shared protein coding genes is maintained between these two pathogens, leaving m...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Martínez-Chavarría LC,Vadyvaloo V

更新日期：2015-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Straw returns to the soil is an effective way to improve soil organic carbon and reduce air pollution by straw burning, but this may increase CH4 and N2O emissions risks in paddy soils. Biochar has been used as a soil amendment to improve soil fertility and mitigate CH4 and N2O emissions. However, little is known abou...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang YQ,Bai R,Di HJ,Mo LY,Han B,Zhang LM,He JZ

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is the causative agent for toxoplasmosis. The rhoptry protein 1 (ROP1) is secreted by rhoptry, an apical secretory organelle of the parasite. ROP1 plays an important role in host cell invasion. In this study, the efficacy of ROP1 as a vaccine candidate against toxoplasmosis was evaluated through intr...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Sonaimuthu P,Ching XT,Fong MY,Kalyanasundaram R,Lau YL

更新日期：2016-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to understand the biofilm formation mechanism of Propionibacterium acnes by analyzing the components and structure of the biofilms. P. acnes strains were isolated from the surface of explanted cardiac pacemaker devices that exhibited no clinical signs of infection. Culture tests using a simple ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Okuda KI,Nagahori R,Yamada S,Sugimoto S,Sato C,Sato M,Iwase T,Hashimoto K,Mizunoe Y

更新日期：2018-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The alarming rise in the prevalence of antibiotic resistance among pathogenic bacteria poses a unique challenge for the development of effective therapeutic agents. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have attracted a great deal of attention as a possible solution to the increasing problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Liu G,Yang F,Li F,Li Z,Lang Y,Shen B,Wu Y,Li W,Harrison PL,Strong PN,Xie Y,Miller K,Cao Z

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to Earth's changing climate, the ongoing and foreseeable spreading of mycotoxigenic Aspergillus species has increased the possibility of mycotoxin contamination in the feed and food production chain. These harmful mycotoxins have aroused serious health and economic problems since their first appearance. The most p...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ráduly Z,Szabó L,Madar A,Pócsi I,Csernoch L

更新日期：2020-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:When an individual is exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) three outcomes are possible: bacterial clearance, active disease, or latent infection. It is generally believed that most individuals exposed to Mtb become latently infected and carry the mycobacteria for life. How Mtb is maintained during this latent i...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： McDaniel MM,Krishna N,Handagama WG,Eda S,Ganusov VV

更新日期：2016-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Lentinula edodes mycelia (LEM) solid culture extracts contain many bioactive compounds with diverse pharmacological activities such as antitumor, antiviral, and immunopotentiating effects. In this study, we examined the anti-influenza virus activity of LEM in vitro and in vivo. LEM directly inhibited influenza virus g...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kuroki T,Lee S,Hirohama M,Taku T,Kumakura M,Haruyama T,Nagata K,Kawaguchi A

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) target the stratified epidermis, and can causes diseases ranging from benign condylomas to malignant tumors. Infections of HPVs in the genital tract are among the most common sexually transmitted diseases, and a major risk factor for cervical cancer. The virus targets epithelial cells in ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kajitani N,Satsuka A,Kawate A,Sakai H

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The worldwide dissemination of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) has become a major therapeutic concern in clinical settings. Enterobacter cloacae is a major pathogen that causes serious hospital-acquired infections. We investigated the clinical characteristics and molecular mechanisms of the first IMP-...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lee JH,Bae IK,Lee CH,Jeong S

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:IgaA is an integral inner membrane protein that was discovered as repressor of the RcsCDB phosphorelay system in the intracellular pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. The RcsCDB system, conserved in many members of the family Enterobacteriaceae, regulates expression of varied processes including motility...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Pucciarelli MG,Rodríguez L,García-Del Portillo F

更新日期：2017-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Human endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) have been found to be associated with different diseases, e.g., multiple sclerosis (MS). Most human ERVs integrated in our genome are not competent to replicate and these sequences are presumably silent. However, transcription of human ERVs can be reactivated, e.g., by hypoxia. Int...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Brütting C,Narasimhan H,Hoffmann F,Kornhuber ME,Staege MS,Emmer A

更新日期：2018-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The threat of bioterrorism and pandemics has highlighted the urgency for rapid and reliable bioaerosol detection in different environments. Safeguarding against such threats requires continuous sampling of the ambient air for pathogen detection. In this study we investigated the efficacy of the Airborne Sample Analysi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Sharma A,Clark E,McGlothlin JD,Mittal SK

更新日期：2015-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Modified cyclic dipeptides represent a diverse family of microbial secondary metabolites. They display a broad variety of biological and pharmacological activities and have long been recognized as privileged structures with the ability to bind to a wide range of receptors. This is due to their conformationally constra...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Giessen TW,Marahiel MA

更新日期：2015-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasmosis, which is one of the most widespread zoonoses worldwide, has a high incidence and infection can result in severe disease in humans and livestock. Citrate synthase (CS) is a component of nearly all living cells that plays a vital role in the citric acid cycle, which is the central metabolic pathway of aer...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Liu X,Ma Q,Sun X,Lu M,Ehsan M,Hasan MW,Xu L,Yan R,Song X,Li X

更新日期：2017-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing the final titer of a multi-gene metabolic pathway can be viewed as a multivariate optimization problem. While numerous multivariate optimization algorithms exist, few are specifically designed to accommodate the constraints posed by genetic engineering workflows. We present a strategy for optimizing express...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Heinsch SC,Das SR,Smanski MJ

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections due to meropenem-nonsusceptible bacterial strains (MNBSs) with meropenem minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) ≥ 16 mg/L have become an urgent problem. Currently, the optimal treatment strategy for these cases remains uncertain due to some limitations of currently available mono- and combination therapy ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Song X,Wu Y,Cao L,Yao D,Long M

更新日期：2019-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobials are the most commonly prescribed drugs in the swine industry. While antimicrobials are an effective treatment for serious bacterial infections, their use has been associated with major adverse effects on health. It has been shown that antimicrobials have substantial direct and indirect impacts on the sw...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zeineldin M,Aldridge B,Lowe J

更新日期：2019-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapidly changing concentrations of substrates frequently occur during large-scale microbial cultivations. These changing conditions, caused by large mixing times, result in a heterogeneous population distribution. Here, we present a powerful and efficient modeling approach to predict the influence of varying substrate...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Nieß A,Löffler M,Simen JD,Takors R

更新日期：2017-06-28 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：:Candida haemulonii is an emerging opportunistic pathogen resistant to most antifungal drugs currently used in clinical arena. Metal complexes containing 1,10-phenanthroline (phen) chelating ligands have well-established anti-Candida activity against different medically relevant species. This study utilized larvae of G...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gandra RM,McCarron P,Viganor L,Fernandes MF,Kavanagh K,McCann M,Branquinha MH,Santos ALS,Howe O,Devereux M

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:During the summer months, wet (hyporheic) soils associated with ephemeral streams and lake edges in the Antarctic Dry Valleys (DVs) become hotspots of biological activity and are hypothesized to be an important source of carbon and nitrogen for arid DV soils. Recent research in the DV has focused on the geochemistry a...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Niederberger TD,Sohm JA,Gunderson TE,Parker AE,Tirindelli J,Capone DG,Carpenter EJ,Cary SC

更新日期：2015-01-28 00:00:00