Computational Exploration of Putative LuxR Solos in Archaea and Their Functional Implications in Quorum Sensing.

abstract：:Losses in crop yields due to disease need to be reduced in order to meet increasing global food demands associated with growth in the human population. There is a well-recognized need to develop new environmentally friendly control strategies to combat bacterial crop disease. Current control measures involving the use...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Buttimer C,McAuliffe O,Ross RP,Hill C,O'Mahony J,Coffey A

更新日期：2017-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriocins are proteinaceous antibacterial compounds, produced by diverse bacteria, which have been successfully used as: (i) food biopreservative; (ii) anti-biofilm agents; and (iii) additives or alternatives to the currently existing antibiotics, to minimize the risk of emergence of resistant strains. However, the...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Fahim HA,Khairalla AS,El-Gendy AO

更新日期：2016-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Nowadays, contamination of agricultural commodities with fungi and their mycotoxins is one of the most annoying with regard to food safety and pose serious health risk. Therefore, there is a requisite to propose suitable mitigation strategies to reduce the contamination of fungi and mycotoxins in agricultural commodit...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kalagatur NK,Kamasani JR,Siddaiah C,Gupta VK,Krishna K,Mudili V

更新日期：2018-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Cefoperazone/sulbactam has been shown to be efficacious for the treatment of infections caused by Acinetobacter baumannii; however, the mechanism underlying resistance to this synergistic combination is not well understood. In the present study, two A. baumannii isolates, AB1845 and AB2092, were isolated from a patien...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Liu X,Zheng H,Zhang W,Shen Z,Zhao M,Chen Y,Sun L,Shi J,Zhang J

更新日期：2016-08-19 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：:We investigated the interactions of air and snow over one entire winter accumulation period as well as the importance of chemical markers in a pristine free-tropospheric environment to explain variation in a microbiological dataset. To overcome the limitations of short term bioaerosol sampling, we sampled the atmosphe...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Els N,Greilinger M,Reisecker M,Tignat-Perrier R,Baumann-Stanzer K,Kasper-Giebl A,Sattler B,Larose C

更新日期：2020-05-20 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：:Maize (Zea mays L.) is one of the major crops susceptible to Aspergillus flavus infection and subsequent contamination with aflatoxins, the most potent naturally produced carcinogenic secondary metabolites. This pathogen can pose serious health concerns and cause severe economic losses due to the Food and Drug Adminis...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Raruang Y,Omolehin O,Hu D,Wei Q,Han ZQ,Rajasekaran K,Cary JW,Wang K,Chen ZY

更新日期：2020-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Porcine strains of livestock-associated methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) have been recognized in many countries and have been shown to be able to cause human infection. Resistance to non-beta lactam antibiotics has been reported but non-susceptibility to vancomycin, which is known to occur in huma...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kwok GM,O'Donoghue MM,Doddangoudar VC,Ho J,Boost MV

更新日期：2013-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic farming system and sustainable management of soil pathogens aim at reducing the use of agricultural chemicals in order to improve ecosystem health. Despite the essential role of microbial communities in agro-ecosystems, we still have limited understanding of the complex response of microbial diversity and comp...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lupatini M,Korthals GW,de Hollander M,Janssens TK,Kuramae EE

更新日期：2017-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:High-throughput sequencing (HTS) techniques are of great value for the investigation of microbial communities, and have been extensively used to study the gut microbiome. While most studies focus on the human gut, many others have investigated insects. However, because of the rapid spread of HTS techniques, a lot of v...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： De Cock M,Virgilio M,Vandamme P,Augustinos A,Bourtzis K,Willems A,De Meyer M

更新日期：2019-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulase negative staphylococci (CoNS) are important opportunistic pathogens. Staphylococcus epidermidis, a coagulase negative staphylococcus, is the third leading cause of nosocomial infections in the US. Surface proteins like Microbial Surface Components Recognizing Adhesive Matrix Molecules (MSCRAMMs) are major vi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Arora S,Uhlemann AC,Lowy FD,Hook M

更新日期：2016-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial community ecology studies have traditionally utilized culture-based methodologies, though the advent of next-generation amplicon sequencing has facilitated superior resolution analyses of complex microbial communities. Here, we used culture-dependent and -independent approaches to explore the influence of la...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kavamura VN,Robinson RJ,Hayat R,Clark IM,Hughes D,Rossmann M,Hirsch PR,Mendes R,Mauchline TH

更新日期：2019-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic and non-pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus strains were simultaneously detected and quantified using a novel viable multiplex real-time PCR (novel qPCR). We used a new PCR primer and probe, ureR, as a surrogate for detection of the toxin trh gene as the primer was better at identifying variant V. parahaemol...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Niu B,Hong B,Zhang Z,Mu L,Malakar PK,Liu H,Pan Y,Zhao Y

更新日期：2018-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:An estimated 17% of cancers worldwide are associated with infectious causes. The extent and biological significance of viral presence/infection in actual tumor samples is generally unknown but could be measured using human transcriptome (RNA-seq) data from tumor samples. We present an open source bioinformatics pipeli...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Bhuvaneshwar K,Song L,Madhavan S,Gusev Y

更新日期：2018-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The host range of a phage is determined primarily by phage-receptor interaction. Here, we profiled the host range of an RNA leviphage, PP7 that requires functional type IV pilus (TFP) in order to enter into its host bacterium, Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Out of 25 twitching-proficient P. aeruginosa strains, 4 with group I...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kim ES,Bae HW,Cho YH

更新日期：2018-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus pumilus 64-1, a bacterial strain isolated from the marine sponge Plakina cyanorosea, which exhibits antimicrobial activity against both pathogenic and drug-resistant Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. This study aimed to conduct an in-depth genomic analysis of this bioactive sponge-derived strain. The ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Freitas-Silva J,de Oliveira BFR,Vigoder FM,Muricy G,Dobson ADW,Laport MS

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological significance of trees growing in urban and peri-urban settings is likely to increase in future land-use regimes, calling for better understanding of their role as potential reservoirs or stepping stones for associated biodiversity. We studied the diversity of fungal endophytes in woody tissues of asymptomat...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Agostinelli M,Cleary M,Martín JA,Albrectsen BR,Witzell J

更新日期：2018-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) biomineralization has been investigated due to its wide range of scientific and technological implications, however, the molecular mechanisms of this important geomicrobiological process are largely unknown. Here, a urease-positive marine actinobacterium Brevibacterium linens BS258 was demons...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhu Y,Ma N,Jin W,Wu S,Sun C

更新日期：2017-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants shape distinct, species-specific microbiomes in their rhizospheres. A main premise for evaluating microbial communities associated with root-soil compartments is their successful separation into the rhizosphere (soil-root interface), the rhizoplane (root surface), and the endosphere (inside roots). We evaluated...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Richter-Heitmann T,Eickhorst T,Knauth S,Friedrich MW,Schmidt H

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) spp. are important nosocomial and community-acquired opportunistic pathogens, which cause various infections. We observed that K. pneumoniae strain K7 abruptly mutates to rough-type phage-resistant phenotype upon treatment with phage GH-K3. In the present study, the rough-type pha...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Cai R,Wang G,Le S,Wu M,Cheng M,Guo Z,Ji Y,Xi H,Zhao C,Wang X,Xue Y,Wang Z,Zhang H,Fu Y,Sun C,Feng X,Lei L,Yang Y,Ur Rahman S,Liu X,Han W,Gu J

更新日期：2019-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia muridarum, an obligate intracellular pathogen, was used to establish a murine model of female upper genital tract infection by Chlamydia trachomatis. TC0668 in C. muridarum is a hypothetical chromosomal virulence protein that is involved in upper genital tract pathogenesis. The infection of mice with the C. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang Y,Arthur EW,Liu N,Li X,Xiang W,Maxwell A,Li Z,Zhou Z

更新日期：2019-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic syntrophic acetate oxidation (SAO) is a thermodynamically unfavorable process involving a syntrophic acetate oxidizing bacterium (SAOB) that forms interspecies electron carriers (IECs). These IECs are consumed by syntrophic partners, typically hydrogenotrophic methanogenic archaea or sulfate reducing bacteri...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Timmers PHA,Vavourakis CD,Kleerebezem R,Damsté JSS,Muyzer G,Stams AJM,Sorokin DY,Plugge CM

更新日期：2018-12-10 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：:Morganella morganii is a commensal bacterium and opportunistic pathogen often present in the gut of humans and animals. We report the 4.3 Mbp draft genome sequence of a M. morganii isolated in association with an Escherichia coli from broilers in Portugal that showed macroscopic lesions consistent with colisepticemia....

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Jones-Dias D,Clemente L,Moura IB,Sampaio DA,Albuquerque T,Vieira L,Manageiro V,Caniça M

更新日期：2016-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue virus (DENV) infection causes several diseases ranging from dengue fever to life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome characterized by endothelial dysfunction, vascular leakage, and shock. Here, we identify a potential mechanism by which DENV induces tissue injury and vascular leakage ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Pan P,Zhang Q,Liu W,Wang W,Yu Z,Lao Z,Zhang W,Shen M,Wan P,Xiao F,Shereen MA,Zhang W,Tan Q,Liu Y,Liu X,Wu K,Liu Y,Li G,Wu J

更新日期：2019-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Root-associated fungi are key contributors to ecosystem functioning, however, the factors which determine community assembly are still relatively poorly understood. This study simultaneously quantified the roles of geographical distance, environmental heterogeneity and time in determining root-associated fungal commun...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Barnes CJ,van der Gast CJ,Burns CA,McNamara NP,Bending GD

更新日期：2016-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: The gut microbiota is increasingly recognized as playing an important role in the development of obesity, but the influence of gender remains elusive. Using a large cohort of Chinese adults, our study aimed to identify differences in gut microbiota as a function of body mass index (BMI) and investigate gen...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gao X,Zhang M,Xue J,Huang J,Zhuang R,Zhou X,Zhang H,Fu Q,Hao Y

更新日期：2018-06-22 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：:Altered gut microbiota are assumed to be involved in the pathogenesis of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). However, gut microbiota alterations reported in different studies are divergent and sometimes even contradictory. To better elucidate the relationship between altered gut microbiota and IBS, we characterized fecal ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhuang X,Tian Z,Li L,Zeng Z,Chen M,Xiong L

更新日期：2018-07-25 00:00:00