The Major Immediate-Early Protein IE2 of Human Cytomegalovirus Is Sufficient to Induce Proteasomal Degradation of CD83 on Mature Dendritic Cells.

abstract：:Aflatoxins are secondary metabolites produced by soilborne saprophytic fungus Aspergillus flavus and closely related species that infect several agricultural commodities including groundnut and maize. The consumption of contaminated commodities adversely affects the health of humans and livestock. Aflatoxin contaminat...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Soni P,Gangurde SS,Ortega-Beltran A,Kumar R,Parmar S,Sudini HK,Lei Y,Ni X,Huai D,Fountain JC,Njoroge S,Mahuku G,Radhakrishnan T,Zhuang W,Guo B,Liao B,Singam P,Pandey MK,Bandyopadhyay R,Varshney RK

更新日期：2020-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has become an important cause of hospital-acquired infections worldwide. It is one of the most threatening pathogens due to its multi-drug resistance and strong biofilm-forming capacity. Thus, there is an urgent need for novel alternative strategies to combat bacteria...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Vaishampayan A,de Jong A,Wight DJ,Kok J,Grohmann E

更新日期：2018-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The first documented nosocomial outbreak caused by Serratia marcescens in Spain occurred in 1969 at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of the tertiary La Paz Children's Hospital in Madrid, Spain, and based on the available phenotyping techniques at this time, it was considered as a monoclonal outbreak. Only 47 ye...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Saralegui C,Ponce-Alonso M,Pérez-Viso B,Moles Alegre L,Escribano E,Lázaro-Perona F,Lanza VF,de Pipaón MS,Rodríguez JM,Baquero F,Del Campo R

更新日期：2020-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus epidermidis is a commensal bacterium which widely colonizes in human skin and mucous membrane and rarely causes clinically manifested infections. S. epidermidis surface protein I (SesI) is considered to be the major virulence factor of S. epidermidis infection, but its pathogenesis is not clear. Here, w...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Qi X,Jin Y,Duan J,Hao Z,Wang S,Guo Y,Lv J,Hu L,Wang L,Yu F

更新日期：2018-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary inclusions of baicalin and chlorogenic acid were beneficial for intestinal health in pigs. Nevertheless, it is unknown whether these plant-derived products had protection for intestine against bacterial challenge in chickens. This study was aimed at evaluating the potential mitigating effects of plant extracts...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang WW,Jia HJ,Zhang HJ,Wang J,Lv HY,Wu SG,Qi GH

更新日期：2019-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Cereals-derived foods represent a key constituent in the diet of many populations. In particular, pasta is consumed in large quantities throughout the world in reason of its nutritive importance, containing significant amounts of complex carbohydrates, proteins, B-vitamins, and iron. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are a h...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Capozzi V,Russo P,Fragasso M,De Vita P,Fiocco D,Spano G

更新日期：2012-03-15 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：:The heterocyclic indole-alkaloid scytonemin is a sunscreen found exclusively among cyanobacteria. An 18-gene cluster is responsible for scytonemin production in Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133. The upstream genes scyABCDEF in the cluster are proposed to be responsible for scytonemin biosynthesis from aromatic amino acid...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ferreira D,Garcia-Pichel F

更新日期：2016-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenic yeast Candida albicans is both a powerful commensal and a pathogen of humans that can infect wide range of organs and body sites. Metabolic flexibility promotes infection and commensal colonization by this opportunistic pathogen. Yeast cell survival depends upon assimilation of fermentable and non-ferme...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Laurian R,Dementhon K,Doumèche B,Soulard A,Noel T,Lemaire M,Cotton P

更新日期：2019-02-25 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：:Elongation factor thermal unstable Tu (EF-Tu) is a G protein that catalyzes the binding of aminoacyl-tRNA to the A-site of the ribosome inside living cells. Structural and biochemical studies have described the complex interactions needed to effect canonical function. However, EF-Tu has evolved the capacity to execute...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Harvey KL,Jarocki VM,Charles IG,Djordjevic SP

更新日期：2019-10-24 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

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

abstract：:Human breast milk is widely recognized as the best source of nutrients for healthy growth and development of infants; it contains a diverse microbiota. Here, we characterized the diversity of the microbiota in the breast milk of East Asian women and assessed whether delivery mode influenced the microbiota in the milk ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Li SW,Watanabe K,Hsu CC,Chao SH,Yang ZH,Lin YJ,Chen CC,Cao YM,Huang HC,Chang CH,Tsai YC

更新日期：2017-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The growing human population is currently facing an unprecedented challenge regarding global food sustainability. Thus, it is of paramount to maintain food production and quality while avoiding a negative impact on climate change and the environment at large. Along the food chain, several practices could compromise fu...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gutiérrez D,Fernández L,Rodríguez A,García P

更新日期：2019-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Flammeovirga pacifica strain WPAGA1 is a Gram-negative, polysaccharide-degrading bacterium isolated from the marine sediment of the West Pacific Ocean. This strain is a cosmopolitan marine bacterium that uses complex polysaccharides as exclusive source of carbon and energy and plays a key role in the marine carbon cyc...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gao B,Jin M,Li L,Qu W,Zeng R

更新日期：2017-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:With the increasing amount of evidence linking certain disorders of the human body to a disturbed gut microbiota, there is a growing interest for compounds that positively influence its composition and activity through diet. Besides the consumption of probiotics to stimulate favorable bacterial communities in the huma...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rivière A,Selak M,Lantin D,Leroy F,De Vuyst L

更新日期：2016-06-28 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：:Antimicrobial resistance represents one of the greatest challenges of the twenty-first century, and it is globally recognized that addressing this problem requires a concerted One Health approach involving humans, animals, and the environment. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) currently represents a g...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Correia S,Silva V,García-Díez J,Teixeira P,Pimenta K,Pereira JE,Oliveira S,Rocha J,Manaia CM,Igrejas G,Poeta P

更新日期：2019-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Powdery mildew infects a wide range of crops and economic plants, causing substantial losses. Rubber trees (Hevea brasiliensis) are the primary source of natural rubber, and powdery mildew infection causes significant losses to natural rubber yields. How the causal agent, Erysiphe quercicola, establishes successful in...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Li X,Liu Y,He Q,Li S,Liu W,Lin C,Miao W

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Since ancient times, even in today's modern world, infectious diseases cause lots of people to die. Infectious organisms, pathogens, cause diseases by physical interactions with human proteins. A thorough analysis of these interspecies interactions is required to provide insights about infection strategies of pathogen...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Durmuş Tekir S,Cakir T,Ulgen KÖ

更新日期：2012-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Cold-adapted fungi isolated from Antarctica, in particular those belonging to the genus Pseudogymnoascus, are producers of secondary metabolites with interesting bioactive properties as well as enzymes with potential biotechnological applications. However, at genetic level, the study of these fungi has been hindered b...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Díaz A,Villanueva P,Oliva V,Gil-Durán C,Fierro F,Chávez R,Vaca I

更新日期：2019-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, compound microbial inoculants, including three Bacillus strains and one Yeast strain, were inoculated into swine manure composting to explore the effects on antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and mobile genetic elements (MGEs), microbial community structure, and pathogenic bacteria. The results indicate...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Li K,Cao R,Mo S,Yao R,Ren Z,Wu J

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:As the highest place of the world, the Tibetan plateau is a fragile ecosystem. Given the importance of microbial communities in driving soil nutrient cycling, it is of interest to document the microbial biogeographic pattern here. We adopted a microarray-based tool named GeoChip 4.0 to investigate grassland microbial ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Qi Q,Zhao M,Wang S,Ma X,Wang Y,Gao Y,Lin Q,Li X,Gu B,Li G,Zhou J,Yang Y

更新日期：2017-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficiency of horizontal gene transfer, which contributes to acquisition and spread of antibiotic resistance and pathogenicity traits, depends on nucleotide sequence and different mismatch-repair (MMR) proteins participate in this process. To study how MutL and MutS MMR proteins regulate recombination across speci...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Carrasco B,Serrano E,Martín-González A,Moreno-Herrero F,Alonso JC

更新日期：2019-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Woodchip bioreactor technology removes nitrate from agricultural subsurface drainage by using denitrifying microorganisms. Although woodchip bioreactors have demonstrated success in many field locations, low water temperature can significantly limit bioreactor efficiency and performance. To improve bioreactor performa...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Jang J,Anderson EL,Venterea RT,Sadowsky MJ,Rosen CJ,Feyereisen GW,Ishii S

更新日期：2019-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella and Salmonella are frequently isolated from various food samples and can cause human gastroenteritis. Here, a novel multiple endonuclease restriction real-time loop-mediated isothermal amplification technology (MERT-LAMP) were successfully established and validated for simultaneous detection of Shigella strai...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang Y,Wang Y,Luo L,Liu D,Luo X,Xu Y,Hu S,Niu L,Xu J,Ye C

更新日期：2015-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to compare the microbiome and metabolome differences in the colon lumen from two pig breeds with different genetic backgrounds. Fourteen weaned piglets at 30 days of age, including seven Landrace piglets (a lean-type pig breed with a fast growth rate) and seven Meihua piglets (a fatty-type Chi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yan S,Zhu C,Yu T,Huang W,Huang J,Kong Q,Shi J,Chen Z,Liu Q,Wang S,Jiang Z,Chen Z

更新日期：2017-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of wilting and Lactobacillus plantarum (LP) addition on the silage fermentation quality and microbial community of Moringa oleifera Lam. leaf silage. Unwilted (direct-cut) or wilted M. oleifera leaves were prepared either with or without LP (1.0 × 106 cfu/g) foll...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang Y,Wang C,Zhou W,Yang FY,Chen XY,Zhang Q

更新日期：2018-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the details of a numerical model, BIOB that is capable of simulating the biodegradation of oil entrapped in the sediment. The model uses Monod kinetics to simulate the growth of bacteria in the presence of nutrients and the subsequent consumption of hydrocarbons. The model was used to simulate experimental ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Torlapati J,Boufadel MC

更新日期：2014-05-14 00:00:00