Characterization of the Gut Microbiome Using 16S or Shotgun Metagenomics.

abstract：:In the present study, oosporein, a fungal toxic secondary metabolite known to be a toxic agent causing chronic disorders in animals, was isolated from fungus Cochliobolus kusanoi of Nerium oleander L. Toxic effects of oosporein and the possible mechanisms of cytotoxicity as well as the role of oxidative stress in cyto...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ramesha A,Venkataramana M,Nirmaladevi D,Gupta VK,Chandranayaka S,Srinivas C

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusarium sacchari and Fusarium andiyazi are two devastating sugarcane pathogens that cause pokkah boeng disease (PBD) in China. RNA_Seq was conducted to identify mycoviruses in F. sacchari and F. andiyazi isolates collected from PBD symptom-showing sugarcane plants across China. Fifteen isolates with a normal, debilit...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yao Z,Zou C,Peng N,Zhu Y,Bao Y,Zhou Q,Wu Q,Chen B,Zhang M

更新日期：2020-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial associations are integral to all eukaryotes. Mutualism, the interaction of two species for the benefit of both, is an important aspect of microbial associations, with evidence that multicellular organisms in particular benefit from microbes. However, the microbe's perspective has largely been ignored, and it...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Garcia JR,Gerardo NM

更新日期：2014-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A popular pre-harvest strategy to mitigate aflatoxin contamination of corn involves field application of non-aflatoxigenic strains of Aspergillus flavus. The basis of this biological control may involve multiple factors, but competitive displacement of aflatoxigenic strains by the biocontrol strains is a likely mechan...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Weaver MA,Abbas HK

更新日期：2019-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:IncI-complex plasmids can be divided into seven subgroups IncI1, IncI2, IncIγ, IncB/O, IncK1, IncK2, and IncZ. In this study, a replicon-based scheme was proposed for typing IncI-complex plasmids into four separately clustering subgroups IncI2, IncI1/B/O, IncIγ/K1 and IncK2/Z, the last three of which were combined fro...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang D,Zhao Y,Feng J,Hu L,Jiang X,Zhan Z,Yang H,Yang W,Gao B,Wang J,Li J,Yin Z,Zhou D

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Ramoplanin is a glycolipodepsipeptide antibiotic obtained from fermentation of Actinoplanes sp. ATCC 33076 that exhibits activity against clinically important multi-drug-resistant, Gram-positive pathogens including vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE), methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and vancomy...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： de la Cruz M,González I,Parish CA,Onishi R,Tormo JR,Martín J,Peláez F,Zink D,El Aouad N,Reyes F,Genilloud O,Vicente F

更新日期：2017-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug resistant (MDR) bacteria are an increasing health problem with the shortage of new active antibiotic agents. Among effective mechanisms that contribute to the spread of MDR Gram-negative bacteria are drug efflux pumps that expel clinically important antibiotic classes out of the cell. Drug pumps are attracti...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Otręebska-Machaj E,Chevalier J,Handzlik J,Szymańska E,Schabikowski J,Boyer G,Bolla JM,Kieć-Kononowicz K,Pagès JM,Alibert S

更新日期：2016-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the diversity and composition of airborne fungi associated with particulate matters (PMs) in Beijing, China, a total of 81 PM samples were collected, which were derived from PM2.5, PM10 fractions, and total suspended particles during haze and non-haze days. The airborne fungal community in these samples was ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yan D,Zhang T,Su J,Zhao LL,Wang H,Fang XM,Zhang YQ,Liu HY,Yu LY

更新日期：2016-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrative conjugative elements (ICEs) are a class of bacterial mobile elements that have the ability to mediate their own integration, excision, and transfer from one host genome to another by a mechanism of site-specific recombination, self-circularisation, and conjugative transfer. Members of the SXT/R391 ICE fami...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ryan MP,Armshaw P,Pembroke JT

更新日期：2016-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterotrophic bacterioplankton communities play an important role in organic matter processing in the oceans worldwide. In order to investigate the significance of distinct phylogenetic bacterial groups it is not only important to assess their quantitative abundance but also their growth dynamics in relation to the en...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Bakenhus I,Dlugosch L,Billerbeck S,Giebel HA,Milke F,Simon M

更新日期：2017-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Hot desert surface soils are characterized by extremely low water activities for large parts of any annual cycle. It is widely assumed that microbial processes in such soils are very limited. Here we present the first metatranscriptomic survey of microbial community function in a low water activity hyperarid desert so...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： León-Sobrino C,Ramond JB,Maggs-Kölling G,Cowan DA

更新日期：2019-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of methanogens to thawing permafrost is an important factor for the global greenhouse gas budget. We tracked methanogenic community structure, activity, and abundance along the degradation of sub-Arctic palsa peatland permafrost. We observed the development of pronounced methane production, release, and a...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Liebner S,Ganzert L,Kiss A,Yang S,Wagner D,Svenning MM

更新日期：2015-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Foodborne diseases (FBDs) are infections of the gastrointestinal tract caused by foodborne pathogens (FBPs) such as bacteria [Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC)] and several viruses, but also parasites and some fungi. Artificial intelligence (AI) and its sub-discipline machine ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Vilne B,Meistere I,Grantiņa-Ieviņa L,Ķibilds J

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: Sequence type 1193 is emerging as a new, virulent and resistant lineage among fluoroquinolone resistant Escherichia coli (FQrE. coli). In this study, we investigated the prevalence and molecular characteristics of this clone isolated from a Chinese university hospital. Methods: 73 phylogenetic group B2-FQr...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wu J,Lan F,Lu Y,He Q,Li B

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacteria are major contributors to global biogeochemical cycles. The genetic diversity among Cyanobacteria enables them to thrive across many habitats, although only a few studies have analyzed the association of phylogenomic clades to specific environmental niches. In this study, we adopted an ecogenomics strate...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Walter JM,Coutinho FH,Dutilh BE,Swings J,Thompson FL,Thompson CC

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Here Tn5 random transposon mutagenesis was used to identify the essential elements for culturing Liberibacter crescens BT-1 that can serve as antimicrobial targets for the closely related pathogens of citrus, Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (Las) and tomato and potato, Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum (Lso). In ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lai KK,Davis-Richardson AG,Dias R,Triplett EW

更新日期：2016-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Human life expectancy is rapidly increasing with an associated increasing burden of chronic diseases, such as neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. However, there is limited progress in finding effective treatment for these conditions. For this reason, members of the genus Streptomyces have been explored extensively ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ser HL,Tan LT,Law JW,Chan KG,Duangjai A,Saokaew S,Pusparajah P,Ab Mutalib NS,Khan TM,Goh BH,Lee LH

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aeolian prokaryotic communities (APC) are important components of bioaerosols that are transported freely or attached to dust particles suspended in the atmosphere. Terrestrial and marine ecosystems are known to release and receive significant prokaryote loads into and from the surrounded atmospheric air. However, com...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Aalismail NA,Díaz-Rúa R,Ngugi DK,Cusack M,Duarte CM

更新日期：2020-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the mitogenome variation observed in fungal lineages seems driven by mobile genetic elements (MGEs), which have invaded their genomes throughout evolution. The variation in the distribution and nucleotide diversity of these elements appears to be the main distinction between different fungal taxa, making them ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kulik T,Brankovics B,van Diepeningen AD,Bilska K,Żelechowski M,Myszczyński K,Molcan T,Stakheev A,Stenglein S,Beyer M,Pasquali M,Sawicki J,Wyrȩbek J,Baturo-Cieśniewska A

更新日期：2020-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Over thousands of years, modernization could be predicted for the use of microorganisms in the production of foods and beverages. However, the current accelerated pace of new food production is due to the rapid incorporation of biotechnological techniques that allow the rapid identification of new molecules and microo...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Vitorino LC,Bessa LA

更新日期：2017-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The knowledge on the host specificity of a pathogen underlying an interaction is becoming an urgent necessity for global warming. In this study, the gene expression profiles and the roles of effectors in host specificity were integrally characterized with two formae speciales, multigermtubi and monogermtubi, of a hemi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ren F,Yan DH,Wu G,Sun X,Song X,Li R

更新日期：2020-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The archaeon Thermococcus barophilus, one of the most extreme members of hyperthermophilic piezophiles known thus far, is able to grow at temperatures up to 103°C and pressures up to 80 MPa. We analyzed the membrane lipids of T. barophilus by high performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry as a function of pr...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Cario A,Grossi V,Schaeffer P,Oger PM

更新日期：2015-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer potato periderm layer consists of dead suberized cells. Suberin, a protective biopolymer, is made of a polyaliphatic portion covalently linked to polyaromatic moieties. Evidence accumulates that Streptomyces scabies, the main causal agent of potato common scab, can degrade the suberin aliphatic part but its ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Khalil M,Lerat S,Beaudoin N,Beaulieu C

更新日期：2019-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas microorganisms are used for bioremediation of soils contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons. The overall remediation efficiency is largely dependent on the presence of macro- and micronutrients. Widely varying concentrations of available nitrogen and iron (Fe) in soils were shown to affect residual hydroc...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Pozdnyakova-Filatova I,Petrikov K,Vetrova A,Frolova A,Streletskii R,Zakharova M

更新日期：2020-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:This study addresses a major issue in microbial food safety, the elucidation of correlations between acid stress and changes in membrane fluidity of the pathogen Listeria monocytogenes. In order to assess the possible role that membrane fluidity changes play in L. monocytogenes tolerance to antimicrobial acids (acetic...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Diakogiannis I,Berberi A,Siapi E,Arkoudi-Vafea A,Giannopoulou L,Mastronicolis SK

更新日期：2013-06-14 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 colon is inhabited by a dense population of microorganisms, the so-called "gut microbiota," able to ferment carbohydrates and proteins that escape absorption in the small intestine during digestion. This microbiota produces a wide range of metabolites, including short chain fatty acids (SCFA). These compounds are ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ríos-Covián D,Ruas-Madiedo P,Margolles A,Gueimonde M,de Los Reyes-Gavilán CG,Salazar N

更新日期：2016-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Babesia species are tick-borne intraerythrocytic protozoa that cause babesiosis in humans worldwide. No vaccine has yet proven effective against Babesia infection. Surface antigens of merozoites are involved in the invasion of erythrocytes by Babesia. Surface antigens may be presented by both babesial sporozoites and ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Man S,Fu Y,Guan Y,Feng M,Qiao K,Li X,Gao H,Cheng X

更新日期：2017-12-19 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：:Sulfate-reducing bacteria such as Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough are often found in environments with limiting growth nutrients. Using lactate as the electron donor and carbon source, and sulfate as the electron acceptor, wild type D. vulgaris shows motility on soft agar plates. We evaluated this phenotype with ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ray J,Keller KL,Catena M,Juba TR,Zemla M,Rajeev L,Knierim B,Zane GM,Robertson JJ,Auer M,Wall JD,Mukhopadhyay A

更新日期：2014-03-06 00:00:00