Buildings, Beneficial Microbes, and Health.

abstract：:Invasive fungal infections are a major cause of mortality in immunocompromised patients. By using high-resolution sequencing, Zhai et al. provide insight into translocation of Candida strains from the gut mycobiota to the bloodstream of transplanted patients. Microbiota-driven diagnostic methods could rapidly emerge f...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Papon N,Bougnoux ME,d'Enfert C

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protozoans of the genus Plasmodium are the causative agents of malaria; they have a complex life cycle involving vertebrate and arthropod hosts and have three distinct invasive stages. Although the invasive stages probably invade cells using similar mechanisms, each stage has a different host cell specificity and util...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Sinnis P,Sim BK

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)-based immune systems are essentially modular with three primary functions: the excision and integration of new spacers, the processing of CRISPR transcripts to yield mature CRISPR RNAs (crRNAs), and the targeting and cleavage of foreign nucleic acid. T...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Garrett RA,Vestergaard G,Shah SA

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogens survive and propagate within host cells through a wide array of complex interactions. Tracking the molecular and cellular events by multidimensional fluorescence microscopy has been a widespread tool for research on intracellular pathogens. Through major advancements in 3D electron microscopy, intracellular ...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Weiner A,Enninga J

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diverse enveloped viruses enter host cells by fusing their envelopes with cell membranes. The mechanisms of merger of lipid bilayers of two membranes mediated by influenza hemagglutinin and other viral fusion proteins apparently involve local lipidic connections that evolve into a bilayer septum in which a pore forms ...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Melikyan GB,Chernomordik LV

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:H3N2-subtype influenza A viruses are major causes of seasonal influenza epidemics. Emerging H3N2 variants require the annual adjustment of the vaccine strain. Recently, studies addressing the reduced effectiveness of current H3N2 vaccines have identified production-related substitutions in the viral hemagglutinin anti...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Mostafa A,Pleschka S

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous observations have established a crucial role for phagocytic cells in host resistance to Salmonella. Activated macrophages rely on a complex array of oxygen-dependent antimicrobial molecules to inhibit or kill intracellular Salmonella. An initial oxidative bactericidal phase, which is dependent on the respirat...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Vazquez-Torres A,Fang FC

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophages are viruses of bacteria that are used for controlling bacterial food-borne pathogens and have been proposed for more extensive usage in infection control. Protists are now recognised to harbour viruses and virus-like particles. We propose that investigation of their prevalence in parasites be intensifie...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Hyman P,Atterbury R,Barrow P

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of pathogenic bacteria by mammalian hosts is largely mediated by membrane-bound Toll-like receptors (TLRs). Recently, a family of cytosolic proteins, termed NODs, with homology to plant disease-resistance gene products has been implicated in sensing microbes within the cytosol. The role of NOD family membe...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Chamaillard M,Inohara N,Nuñez G

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To enhance infection, enveloped viruses exploit adhesion molecules expressed on the surface of host cells. Specifically, phosphatidylserine (PS) receptors - including members of the human T cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain (TIM)-family - have gained attention for their ability to mediate the entry of many envelope...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Evans JP,Liu SL

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescent amino acid analogs have proven to be useful tools for studying the dynamics of peptidoglycan metabolism. García-Heredia and colleagues showed that their route of incorporation differs depending on the adjunct fluorophore and applied this property to investigate mycobacterial peptidoglycan synthesis and rem...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Botella H,Vaubourgeix J

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is usually assumed that most prokaryotes, when given appropriate nutrients, can grow and divide in the absence of other cells of the same species. However, recent studies have suggested that, for growth, prokaryotes need to communicate with each other using signalling molecules, and a variety of 'eukaryotic' hormon...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Kaprelyants AS,Kell DB

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fungi comprise a diverse kingdom of eukaryotes that are characterized by a typically filamentous but sometimes unicellular vegetative form, and heterotrophic, absorptive nutrition. Their simple morphologies and variable ecological strategies have confounded efforts to elucidate their limits, phylogenetic relations...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： McLaughlin DJ,Hibbett DS,Lutzoni F,Spatafora JW,Vilgalys R

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symbioses between eukaryotes and unicellular organisms are quite common, with examples copiously disseminated throughout the earth's biota. Arthropods, in particular, owe much of their ecological success to their microbial flora, which often provide supplements either lacking in the limited host diet or which the host...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Rio RV,Hu Y,Aksoy S

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The global emergence of multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii has reduced the number of clinically available antibiotics that retain activity against this pathogen. For this reason, the development of novel prevention and treatment strategies for infections caused by A. baumannii is necessary. Several studies ha...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： García-Quintanilla M,Pulido MR,López-Rojas R,Pachón J,McConnell MJ

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of quality control mechanisms to stall developmental pathways or completely remove defective cells from a population is a widespread strategy to ensure the integrity of morphogenetic programs. Endospore formation (sporulation) is a well conserved microbial developmental strategy in the Firmicutes phylum wherei...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Decker AR,Ramamurthi KS

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defensins and cathelicidins are prevalent and essential gastrointestinal cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAPs). However, these defensive peptides are not infallible because certain enteropathogens can overcome their protective function. Furthermore, impaired defensin synthesis has been linked to the occurrence of Cro...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Peyrin-Biroulet L,Vignal C,Dessein R,Simonet M,Desreumaux P,Chamaillard M

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several times in this century, new and sometimes devastating diseases of cereal crops, caused by fungi in the genus Cochliobolus, have suddenly appeared. In many fungal diseases of plants the factors required for pathogenicity are unknown; in contrast, the key elements in each of several Cochliobolus diseases are know...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Panaccione DG

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbial surface components recognizing adhesive matrix molecules (MSCRAMMs) are a family of proteins that are defined by the presence of two adjacent IgG-like folded subdomains. These promote binding to ligands by mechanisms that involve major conformational changes exemplified by the binding to fibrinogen by th...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Foster TJ

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One strategy for neutralizing retroviral infectivity is to induce the incorporation of lethal fusion proteins, such as capsid protein-nuclease fusions, into the virion during the normal viral assembly process. Genes encoding such antiviral fusion proteins must be nontoxic to the host, lethal to the virus, and must be ...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Boeke JD,Hahn B

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although APOBEC3 degradation is the canonical function of HIV-1 Vif, this viral protein also induces potent cell cycle arrest through a newly defined mechanism. Here, we review recent advances in this area and propose that the scope of this activity may go beyond subversion of the host cell cycle. ...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Salamango DJ,Harris RS

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:ISG15 is an interferon (IFN)-induced ubiquitin-like protein that is conjugated to target proteins via the sequential action of three enzymes that are also induced by IFN. Unlike ubiquitin, which is highly conserved, the sequence of ISG15 varies between species. ISG15 conjugation inhibits many viruses, and free (unconj...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Zhao C,Collins MN,Hsiang TY,Krug RM

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis is of huge importance as it underpins the success of coral reefs, yet we know very little about how the host cnidarian and its dinoflagellate endosymbionts communicate with each other to form a functionally integrated unit. Here, we review the current knowledge of interpartner mo...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Rosset SL,Oakley CA,Ferrier-Pagès C,Suggett DJ,Weis VM,Davy SK

更新日期：2020-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Horizontal gene transfer can provide bacteria with new functions that confer an important competitive advantage, and is therefore likely to affect the dynamics of bacterial ecosystems. Two studies by Wolfe et al. and Bonham et al. prepare the way to study this hypothesis in a model ecosystem with reproducible properti...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： van de Guchte M

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hospitals worldwide are facing an increasing incidence of hard-to-treat infections. Limiting infections and providing patients with optimal drug regimens require timely strain identification as well as virulence and drug-resistance profiling. Additionally, prophylactic interventions based on the identification of envi...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Balloux F,Brønstad Brynildsrud O,van Dorp L,Shaw LP,Chen H,Harris KA,Wang H,Eldholm V

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial motility relies chiefly on the rotation of a molecular propeller, the flagellar filament, which is constructed from the protein flagellin. Here, flagellin sequence conservation and diversity is examined in the light of the recently determined flagellar filament structure. As expected, the surface-exposed dom...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Beatson SA,Minamino T,Pallen MJ

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N2-fixing bacteria such as Azoarcus spp., Herbaspirillum spp, and Acetobacter diazotrophicus can infect the interior of gramineous plants without causing symptoms of plant disease but do not survive in soil. Like phytopathogens, they can penetrate into central tissues and spread systemically. There is no evidence for ...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Reinhold-Hurek B,Hurek T

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quorum sensing is a process of bacterial cell-cell communication that uses small diffusible molecules to coordinate diverse behaviors in response to population density. The only quorum-sensing system shared by Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria involves the production of autoinducer-2 (AI-2). The AI-2 synthase L...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： De Keersmaecker SC,Sonck K,Vanderleyden J

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic-associated diarrhoea (AAD) is a common and unintended consequence of antibiotic use. Clostridium difficile is the most common infectious aetiology of AAD; however, only approximately 25% of all AAD cases are associated with C. difficile infection, with the aetiology in the majority of cases remaining undete...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Larcombe S,Hutton ML,Lyras D

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:If we took all of the single copy genes in all sequenced genomes, made phylogenetic trees from them individually, and then made the supertree of those trees, what would we get? Recently, David Pisani and colleagues did that experiment and their results are likely to spark much discussion. Their prokaryote tree looks v...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Esser C,Martin W

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00