Pika Population Density Is Associated with the Composition and Diversity of Gut Microbiota.

abstract：:The present study explored the possible prebiotic application of potato peel and bamboo shoot extracts for the proliferation of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) from diverse niches and their tolerance ability to simulated gastrointestinal tract (GIT) conditions was also examined. Initially, the complete 16S rDNA sequencing ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Thakur K,Xu GY,Zhang JG,Zhang F,Hu F,Wei ZJ

更新日期：2018-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Brown macroalgae are an essential component of temperate coastal ecosystems and a growing economic sector. They harbor diverse microbial communities that regulate algal development and health. This algal holobiont is dynamic and achieves equilibrium via a complex network of microbial and host interactions. We now repo...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Tourneroche A,Lami R,Hubas C,Blanchet E,Vallet M,Escoubeyrou K,Paris A,Prado S

更新日期：2019-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are obligate root symbionts that can protect their host plant against biotic stress factors such as plant-parasitic nematode (PPN) infection. PPN consist of a wide range of species with different life styles that can cause major damage in many important crops worldwide. Various mecha...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Schouteden N,De Waele D,Panis B,Vos CM

更新日期：2015-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The predatory bacterium B. bacteriovorus grows and divides inside the periplasm of Gram-negative bacteria, forming a structure known as a bdelloplast. Cell division of predators inside the dead prey cell is not by binary fission but instead by synchronous division of a single elongated filamentous cell into odd or eve...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Milner DS,Ray LJ,Saxon EB,Lambert C,Till R,Fenton AK,Sockett RE

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii is emerging as a challenging nosocomial pathogen due to its rapid evolution of antibiotic resistance. We report characterization of two novel bacteriophages, PBAB08 and PBAB25, infecting clinically isolated, multidrug-resistant (MDR) A. baumannii strains. Both phages belonged to Myoviridae of C...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Cha K,Oh HK,Jang JY,Jo Y,Kim WK,Ha GU,Ko KS,Myung H

更新日期：2018-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The Nanhai No. 1 shipwreck is a Chinese merchant ship in the Southern Song Dynasty, and now it is stored in a huge enclosed glass warehouse in Maritime Silk Road Museum in Guangdong Province. At present, the hull of the Nanhai No. 1 shipwreck is still being excavated, and a small part of the hull wood is soaked in a s...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Han Y,Huang X,Wang Y,Du J,Ma K,Chen Y,Li N,Zhang Z,Pan J

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio parahaemolyticus, the leading cause of seafood-associated gastroenteritis, harbors two separate T6SSs on chromosomes 1 and 2, i.e., T6SS1 (VP1386-1420) and T6SS2 (VPA1025-1046). T6SS1 contains at least 7 putative operons: VP1386-1387, VP1388-1390, VP1392-1391, VP1393-1406, VP1400-1406, VP1409-1407, and VP1410-1...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang Y,Gao H,Osei-Adjei G,Zhang Y,Yang W,Yang H,Yin Z,Huang X,Zhou D

更新日期：2017-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a potent pro-inflammatory cytokine, which mediates the regulation of diverse cellular functions. It is produced by extravillous trophoblastic cells and has been found to be involved in the pathogenesis of diseases caused by some protozoa, including Toxoplasma gondii. Pre...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Milian ICB,Silva RJ,Manzan-Martins C,Barbosa BF,Guirelli PM,Ribeiro M,de Oliveira Gomes A,Ietta F,Mineo JR,Silva Franco P,Ferro EAV

更新日期：2019-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The human gastric lumen is one of the most hostile environments of the human body suspected to be sterile until the discovery of Helicobacter pylori (H.p.). State of the art next generation sequencing technologies multiply the knowledge on H.p. functional genomics as well as on the colonization of supposed sterile hum...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Klymiuk I,Bilgilier C,Stadlmann A,Thannesberger J,Kastner MT,Högenauer C,Püspök A,Biowski-Frotz S,Schrutka-Kölbl C,Thallinger GG,Steininger C

更新日期：2017-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Both intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms regulating bacterial expression have been elucidated and described, however, such studies have mainly focused on local effects on the two-dimensional structure of the prokaryote genome while long-range as well as spatial interactions influencing gene expression are still only po...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Krogh TJ,Franke A,Møller-Jensen J,Kaleta C

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symbiotic bacterial communities resident on amphibian skin can benefit their hosts. For example, antibiotic production by community members can control the pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) and it is possible for these community members to be used as probiotics to reduce infection levels. In the early 1990s...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Bell SC,Garland S,Alford RA

更新日期：2018-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antibiotic treatment of chronic Q fever is cumbersome and of long duration. To monitor treatment, there is a need for alternative biomarkers. Coxiella burnetii-specific interferon (IFN)-γ and interleukin (IL)-2 production reflect the type of effector and memory T-cell response. In chronic Q fever, C. burneti...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Schoffelen T,Wegdam-Blans MC,Ammerdorffer A,Pronk MJ,Soethoudt YE,Netea MG,van der Meer JW,Bleeker-Rovers CP,van Deuren M

更新日期：2015-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil microbial diversity is huge and a few grams of soil contain more bacterial taxa than there are bird species on Earth. This high diversity often makes predicting the responses of soil bacteria to environmental change intractable and restricts our capacity to predict the responses of soil functions to global change...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Le Roux X,Bouskill NJ,Niboyet A,Barthes L,Dijkstra P,Field CB,Hungate BA,Lerondelle C,Pommier T,Tang J,Terada A,Tourna M,Poly F

更新日期：2016-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Food contamination by staphylococcal enterotoxins (SEs) is responsible for many food poisoning outbreaks (FPOs) each year, and they represent the third leading cause of FPOs in Europe. SEs constitute a protein family with 27 proteins. However, enzyme immunoassays can only detect directly in food the five classical SEs...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Merda D,Felten A,Vingadassalon N,Denayer S,Titouche Y,Decastelli L,Hickey B,Kourtis C,Daskalov H,Mistou MY,Hennekinne JA

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The tropical pathogen Burkholderia pseudomallei requires long-term parenteral antimicrobial treatment to eradicate the pathogen from an infected patient. However, the development of antibiotic resistance is emerging as a threat to this form of treatment. To meet the need for alternative therapeutics, we proposed a scr...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Eng SA,Nathan S

更新日期：2015-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Innovations in next-generation sequencing technology have introduced new avenues in microbial studies through "omics" approaches. This technology has considerably augmented the knowledge of the microbial world without isolation prior to their identification. With an enormous volume of bacterial "omics" data, considera...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Parmar KM,Gaikwad SL,Dhakephalkar PK,Kothari R,Singh RP

更新日期：2017-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The heparin-binding hemagglutinin adhesin (HBHA) is an important virulence factor of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It is a surface-displayed protein that serves as an adhesin for non-phagocytic cells and is involved in extra-pulmonary dissemination of the tubercle bacillus. It is also an important latency antigen useful...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Raze D,Verwaerde C,Deloison G,Werkmeister E,Coupin B,Loyens M,Brodin P,Rouanet C,Locht C

更新日期：2018-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:During chronic respiratory infections of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, bacteria adaptively evolve in response to the nutritional and immune environment as well as influence other infecting microbes. The present study was designed to gain insights into the genetic mechanisms underlying adaptation and diversification b...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hassan AA,Dos Santos SC,Cooper VS,Sá-Correia I

更新日期：2020-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The marine picocyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. WH7803 possesses two glutamine synthetases (GSs; EC 6.3.1.2), GSI encoded by glnA and GSIII encoded by glnN. This is the first work addressing the physiological regulation of both enzymes in a marine cyanobacterial strain. The increase of GS activity upon nitrogen starva...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Domínguez-Martín MA,Díez J,García-Fernández JM

更新日期：2016-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state, as well as sublethal injury of microorganisms pose a distinct threat to food safety, as the use of traditional, culture-based microbiological analyses might lead to an underestimation or a misinterpretation of the product's microbial status and recovery phenomena of microorg...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Schottroff F,Fröhling A,Zunabovic-Pichler M,Krottenthaler A,Schlüter O,Jäger H

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this work was to study the overall genomic diversity of microorganisms of the Dagang high-temperature oilfield (PRC) and to characterize the metabolically active fraction of these populations. At this water-flooded oilfield, the microbial community of formation water from the near-bottom zone of an injecti...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Nazina TN,Shestakova NM,Semenova EM,Korshunova AV,Kostrukova NK,Tourova TP,Min L,Feng Q,Poltaraus AB

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is an endemic mycosis in Latin American caused by the thermodimorphic fungi of the genus Paracoccidioides spp. Notably, a Th1 immune response is required to control PCM. In this context, dendritic cells (DCs) seem to be essential players in capture, processing and presentation of Paracocci...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Silva LBR,Taira CL,Dias LS,Souza ACO,Nosanchuk JD,Travassos LR,Taborda CP

更新日期：2019-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Pichia pastoris (Komagataella sp.) is broadly used for the production of secreted recombinant proteins. Due to the high rate of protein production, incorrectly folded proteins may accumulate in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). To restore their proper folding, the cell triggers the unfolded protein response (UPR); howev...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Raschmanová H,Zamora I,Borčinová M,Meier P,Weninger A,Mächler D,Glieder A,Melzoch K,Knejzlík Z,Kovar K

更新日期：2019-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus plantarum species is a good source of esterases since both lipolytic and esterase activities have been described for strains of this species. No fundamental biochemical difference exists among esterases and lipases since both share a common catalytic mechanism. L. plantarum WCFS1 possesses a protein, Lp_...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Esteban-Torres M,Reverón I,Santamaría L,Mancheño JM,de Las Rivas B,Muñoz R

更新日期：2016-07-19 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：: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：:H5N1 is a highly pathogenic influenza A virus (IAV) and poses a major threat to the public health. The nucleoprotein (NP) has a multiple functions during the viral life cycle, however, the precise role of NP mutants in viral replication and pathogenicity is not completely understood. Here, we attempted to identify fiv...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chen L,Wang C,Luo J,Li M,Liu H,Zhao N,Huang J,Zhu X,Ma G,Yuan G,He H

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Approximately 5% of women suffer from recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis (RVVC). It has been hypothesized that genetic factors play an important role in the susceptibility to RVVC. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of genetic variants of genes encoding for pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) on ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rosentul DC,Delsing CE,Jaeger M,Plantinga TS,Oosting M,Costantini I,Venselaar H,Joosten LA,van der Meer JW,Dupont B,Kullberg BJ,Sobel JD,Netea MG

更新日期：2014-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The human vaginal microbiome (VMB) is a complex bacterial community that interacts closely with vaginal epithelial cells (VECs) impacting the mucosal phenotype and its responses to pathogenic insults. The VMB and VEC relationship includes nutrient exchange and regulation of signaling molecules that controls numerous h...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Amerson-Brown MH,Miller AL,Maxwell CA,White MM,Vincent KL,Bourne N,Pyles RB

更新日期：2019-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy metal accumulation in mesquite trees (Prosopis laevigata) growing in aluminum, titanium, chromium and zirconium-polluted soils of a semi-arid region in Mexico was investigated using wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence analysis. The results showed that P. laevigata trees can hyper accumulate up to 4100 mg/kg...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ramírez V,Baez A,López P,Bustillos R,Villalobos MÁ,Carreño R,Contreras JL,Muñoz-Rojas J,Fuentes LE,Martínez J,Munive JA

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00