Produce from Africa's Gardens: Potential for Leafy Vegetable and Fruit Fermentations.

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：:Horizontal gene transfer within diverse bacterial populations occurs through multiple mechanisms of exchange. The most established routes of gene transfer, transduction, transformation, and conjugation, have been characterized in detail, revealing the advantages and limitations of each mechanism. More recently, inters...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Nazarian P,Tran F,Boedicker JQ

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) thwarts the curative power of drugs and is a present-time global problem. We present data on antimicrobial susceptibility and resistance determinants of bacteria the WHO has highlighted as being key antimicrobial resistance concerns in Africa, to strengthen knowledge of AMR pat...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Moirongo RM,Lorenz E,Ntinginya NE,Dekker D,Fernandes J,Held J,Lamshöft M,Schaumburg F,Mangu C,Sudi L,Sie A,Souares A,Heinrich N,Wieser A,Mordmüller B,Owusu-Dabo E,Adegnika AA,Coulibaly B,May J,Eibach D

更新日期：2020-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Shewanella oneidensis is one of the best-understood model organisms for extracellular electron transfer. Endogenously produced and exported flavin molecules seem to play an important role in this process and mediate the connection between respiratory enzymes on the cell surface and the insoluble substrate by acting as...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Arinda T,Philipp LA,Rehnlund D,Edel M,Chodorski J,Stöckl M,Holtmann D,Ulber R,Gescher J,Sturm-Richter K

更新日期：2019-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) blowout resulted in oil transport, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) to the Gulf of Mexico shoreline. The microbial communities of these shorelines are thought to be responsible for the intrinsic degradation of PAHs. To investigate the Gulf Coast beach microbial community re...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kappell AD,Wei Y,Newton RJ,Van Nostrand JD,Zhou J,McLellan SL,Hristova KR

更新日期：2014-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The nitrogenase enzyme, which catalyzes the reduction of N2 gas to NH4+, occurs as three separate isozyme that use Mo, Fe-only, or V. The majority of global nitrogen fixation is attributed to the more efficient 'canonical' Mo-nitrogenase, whereas Fe-only and V-('alternative') nitrogenases are often considered 'backup'...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： McRose DL,Zhang X,Kraepiel AM,Morel FM

更新日期：2017-02-28 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：:Harmful cyanobacterial blooms have severely impaired freshwater quality and threatened human health worldwide. Here, a Gram-positive bacterium, Bacillus sp. strain S51107, which exhibits strong algicidal activity against Microcystis aeruginosa, was isolated from Lake Taihu. We found that the algicidal activity of stra...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wu L,Guo X,Liu X,Yang H

更新日期：2017-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is well-known to be involved in gastric carcinogenesis, associated with deregulation of cell proliferation and epigenetic changes in cancer-related genes. H. pylori infection is largely acquired during childhood, persisting long-term in about half of infected individuals, a subset of wh...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： George S,Lucero Y,Torres JP,Lagomarcino AJ,O'Ryan M

更新日期：2020-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurately identifying bacteriophage virion proteins from uncharacterized sequences is important to understand interactions between the phage and its host bacteria in order to develop new antibacterial drugs. However, identification of such proteins using experimental techniques is expensive and often time consuming; ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Manavalan B,Shin TH,Lee G

更新日期：2018-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of bread wasted daily worldwide, throughout its entire lifecycle, from production to distribution, is estimated to be hundreds of tons, therefore representing both economic and environmental issues. This work aimed at the valorization of wasted bread, setting-up a protocol for obtaining a growth medium to b...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Verni M,Minisci A,Convertino S,Nionelli L,Rizzello CG

更新日期：2020-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of subacute rumen acidosis (SARA) on the rumen bacterial community has been frequently studied in in vivo trials. Here we investigated whether these alterations can be mirrored by using the rumen simulation technique (RUSITEC) as an in vitro model for this disease. We hypothezised that the bacterial communi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Brede M,Orton T,Pinior B,Roch FF,Dzieciol M,Zwirzitz B,Wagner M,Breves G,Wetzels SU

更新日期：2020-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral infections by sexual and droplet transmission routes typically spread through a complex host-to-host contact network. Clarifying the transmission network and epidemiological parameters affecting the variations and dynamics of a specific pathogen is a major issue in the control of infectious diseases. However, co...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Shiino T

更新日期：2012-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a common cause of chronic and relapsing infection, especially when the ability of the immune system to sterilize a focus of infection is compromised (e.g., because of a foreign body or in the cystic fibrosis lung). Chronic infections are associated with slow-growing colony phenotypes of S. aur...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Stoneham SM,Cantillon DM,Waddell SJ,Llewelyn MJ

更新日期：2020-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to multiple stress factors is believed to contribute to honey bee colony decline. However, little is known about how co-exposure to stress factors can alter the survival and behavior of free-living honey bees in colony conditions. We therefore studied the potential interaction between a neonicotinoid pesticid...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Coulon M,Dalmon A,Di Prisco G,Prado A,Arban F,Dubois E,Ribière-Chabert M,Alaux C,Thiéry R,Le Conte Y

更新日期：2020-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Seeds play key roles in the acquisition of plant pioneer microbiota, including the transmission of microbes from parent plants to offspring. However, the issues about seed microbial communities are mostly unknown, especially for their potential origins and the factors influencing the structure and composition. In this...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhou X,Wang JT,Zhang ZF,Li W,Chen W,Cai L

更新日期：2020-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Crustose coralline algae (CCA) are major benthic calcifiers that play crucial roles in coral reef ecosystems. Two diseases affecting CCA have recently been investigated: coralline white band syndrome (CWBS) and coralline white patch disease (CWPD). These diseases can trigger major losses in CCA cover on tropical coral...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Meistertzheim AL,Nugues MM,Quéré G,Galand PE

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc has an abounding occurrence in the prokaryotes and plays paramount roles including catalytic, structural, and regulatory. Zinc uptake regulator (Zur), a Fur family transcriptional regulator, is connoted in maintaining zinc homeostasis in the pathogenic bacteria by binding to zinc and regulating the genes involved...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kandari D,Gopalani M,Gupta M,Joshi H,Bhatnagar S,Bhatnagar R

更新日期：2019-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological wastewater treatment plants (BWWTPs) based on the activated sludge (AS) process have dramatically improved worldwide water sanitation despite increased urbanization and industrialization. However, current AS-based operations are considered economically and environmentally unsustainable. In this Perspective,...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Sheik AR,Muller EE,Wilmes P

更新日期：2014-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The competition between sulfate reducing bacteria and methanogens over common substrates has been proposed as a critical control for methane production. In this study, we examined the co-existence of methanogenesis and sulfate reduction with shared substrates over a large range of sulfate concentrations and rates of s...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Sela-Adler M,Ronen Z,Herut B,Antler G,Vigderovich H,Eckert W,Sivan O

更新日期：2017-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Human settlement of Madagascar traces back to the beginning of the first millennium with the arrival of Austronesians from Southeast Asia, followed by migrations from Africa and the Middle East. Remains of these different cultural, genetic, and linguistic legacies are still present in Madagascar and other islands of t...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Avanzi C,Lécorché E,Rakotomalala FA,Benjak A,Rapelanoro Rabenja F,Ramarozatovo LS,Cauchoix B,Rakoto-Andrianarivelo M,Tió-Coma M,Leal-Calvo T,Busso P,Boy-Röttger S,Chauffour A,Rasamoelina T,Andrianarison A,Sendrasoa F,Spen

更新日期：2020-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In smallholder farms of Côte d'Ivoire, particularly in the northeast of the country, Cajanus cajan (pigeonpea) has become an important crop because of its multiple beneficial facets. Pigeonpea seeds provide food to make ends meet, are sold on local markets, and aerial parts serve as forage for animals. Since it fixes ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Fossou RK,Ziegler D,Zézé A,Barja F,Perret X

更新日期：2016-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to explore the genetic and biological features of the tet(M)-harboring plasmid pTS14 in Salmonella enterica strain S14 isolated from a chicken fecal sample. Plasmid pTS14 was identified by conjugation, S1-pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), Southern hybridization, and plasmid seque...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Liu YY,Liu XK,Cui XD,Chen M,Li SH,He DD,Liu JH,Yuan L,Hu GZ,Pan YS

更新日期：2020-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii often causes serious nosocomial infections. Because of its serious drug resistance problems, complex drug resistance mechanism, and rapid adaptation to antibiotics, it often shows pan-drug resistance and high fatality rates, which represent great challenges for clinical treatment. Therefore, id...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Huang W,Zhang Q,Li W,Chen Y,Shu C,Li Q,Zhou J,Ye C,Bai H,Sun W,Yang X,Ma Y

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro and in vivo research based on cell lines and animals are likely to be insufficient in elucidating authentic biological and physiological phenomena mimicking human systems, especially for generating pre-clinical data on targets and biomarkers. There is an obvious need for a model that can further bridge the ga...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Tan KS,Yan Y,Koh WLH,Li L,Choi H,Tran T,Sugrue R,Wang Y,Chow VT

更新日期：2018-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The methanogenic biodegradation of crude oil involves the conversion of hydrocarbons to methanogenic substrates by syntrophic bacteria and subsequent methane production by methanogens. Assessing the metabolic roles played by various microbial species in syntrophic communities remains a challenge, but such information ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Fowler SJ,Toth CR,Gieg LM

更新日期：2016-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies allow a more complete study of microbial plankton community composition and diversity, especially in the rare microbial biosphere. The DNA extraction of plankton is a key step for such studies; however, little is known about its influences on the abundant or rare mic...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Liu M,Xue Y,Yang J

更新日期：2019-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A library of 14 minimally cytotoxic diterpenoid-like compounds (CC50 > 70 μM on HepG2 human liver cells) was screened against Mycobacterium smegmatis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Escherichia coli to determine antimicrobial activity. Some compounds with a phenethyl alcohol (PE) core substituted with a β-cyclocitral deri...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Crusco A,Baptista R,Bhowmick S,Beckmann M,Mur LAJ,Westwell AD,Hoffmann KF

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Metagenomic approaches became increasingly popular in the past decades due to decreasing costs of DNA sequencing and bioinformatics development. So far, however, the recovery of long genes coding for secondary metabolites still represents a big challenge. Often, the quality of metagenome assemblies is poor, especially...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Cuadrat RRC,Ionescu D,Dávila AMR,Grossart HP

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Metacaspases are distant homologs of metazoan caspase proteases, implicated in stress response, and programmed cell death (PCD) in bacteria and phytoplankton. While the few previous studies on metacaspases have relied on cultured organisms and sequenced genomes, no studies have focused on metacaspases in a natural set...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Asplund-Samuelsson J,Sundh J,Dupont CL,Allen AE,McCrow JP,Celepli NA,Bergman B,Ininbergs K,Ekman M

更新日期：2016-07-06 00:00:00