A PAS domain-containing regulator controls flagella-flagella interactions in Campylobacter jejuni.

abstract：:The alarming spread of bacterial resistance to traditional antibiotics has warranted the study of alternative antimicrobial agents. Quorum sensing (QS) is a chemical cell-to-cell communication mechanism utilized by bacteria to coordinate group behaviors and establish infections. QS is integral to bacterial survival, a...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Miller KP,Wang L,Chen YP,Pellechia PJ,Benicewicz BC,Decho AW

更新日期：2015-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The seasonal melting of ice entombed cryoconite holes on McMurdo Dry Valley glaciers provides oases for life in the harsh environmental conditions of the polar desert where surface air temperatures only occasionally exceed 0°C during the Austral summer. Here we follow temporal changes in cryoconite hole biogeochemistr...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Telling J,Anesio AM,Tranter M,Fountain AG,Nylen T,Hawkings J,Singh VB,Kaur P,Musilova M,Wadham JL

更新日期：2014-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial genome of the Paracoccidioides brasiliensis reference isolate Pb18 was first sequenced and described by Cardoso et al. (2007), as a circular genome with a size of 71.3 kb and containing 14 protein coding genes, 25 tRNAs, and the large and small subunits of ribosomal RNA. Later in 2011, Desjardins et ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Misas E,Gómez OM,Botero V,Muñoz JF,Teixeira MM,Gallo JE,Clay OK,McEwen JG

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural products have traditionally been discovered through the screening of culturable microbial isolates from diverse environments. The sequencing revolution allowed the identification of dozens of biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) within single bacterial genomes, either from cultured or uncultured strains. However,...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Iglesias A,Latorre-Pérez A,Stach JEM,Porcar M,Pascual J

更新日期：2020-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the isolation, characterization, and development of a robust genetic system for a halophilic, Fe(II)-oxidizing bacterium isolated from a vertical borehole originating 714 m below the surface located in the Soudan Iron Mine in northern Minnesota, USA. Sequence analysis of the 16S rRNA gene places the isolate ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Bonis BM,Gralnick JA

更新日期：2015-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The term microbiome describes the genetic material encoding the various microbial populations that inhabit our body. Whilst colonization of various body niches (e.g., the gut) by dynamic communities of microorganisms is now universally accepted, the existence of microbial populations in other "classically sterile" loc...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Whittle E,Leonard MO,Harrison R,Gant TW,Tonge DP

更新日期：2019-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Syntrophic methanogenesis is an essential link in the global carbon cycle and a key bioprocess for the disposal of organic waste and production of biogas. Recent studies suggest direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) is involved in electron exchange in methanogenesis occurring in paddy soils, anaerobic digesters...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang J,Lu Y

更新日期：2016-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Aflatoxins (AF) are highly detrimental to human and animal health. We recently demonstrated that the Aspergillus flavus caleosin, AfPXG, had peroxygenase activity and mediated fungal development and AF accumulation. We now report the characterization of an AfPXG-deficient line using reference strain NRRL3357. The resu...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hanano A,Alkara M,Almousally I,Shaban M,Rahman F,Hassan M,Murphy DJ

更新日期：2018-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Application of probiotics in the food industry has been hampered by their sensitivity to challenging conditions that reduce their vitality in food matrices. A lot of attempts have been made to promote the growth of these probiotics in the aspect of nutrition demands. Among the other adverse conditions, oxygen stress c...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yan M,Wang BH,Fu X,Gui M,Wang G,Zhao L,Li R,You C,Liu Z

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrile hydratases have received significant interest both in the large-scale industrial production of acrylamide and nicotinamide, and the remediation of environmental contamination with nitrile-containing pollutants. Almost all known nitrile hydratases include an α-subunit (AnhA) and β-subunit (AnhB), and a specific...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Guo L,Cheng X,Jiang HY,Dai YJ

更新日期：2020-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the role of an exopolysaccharide produced by natural dairy isolate Lactobacillus paracasei subsp. paracasei BGSJ2-8, in the adhesion to intestinal epithelial cells and a decrease in Escherichia coli's association with Caco-2 cells. Annotation of the BGSJ2-8 genome showed the pres...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Živković M,Miljković MS,Ruas-Madiedo P,Markelić MB,Veljović K,Tolinački M,Soković S,Korać A,Golić N

更新日期：2016-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel strain, Streptomyces antioxidans MUSC 164(T) was recovered from mangrove forest soil located at Tanjung Lumpur, Malaysia. The Gram-positive bacterium forms yellowish-white aerial and brilliant greenish yellow substrate mycelium on ISP 2 agar. A polyphasic approach was used to determine the taxonomy status of s...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ser HL,Tan LT,Palanisamy UD,Abd Malek SN,Yin WF,Chan KG,Goh BH,Lee LH

更新日期：2016-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) spp. are important nosocomial and community-acquired opportunistic pathogens, which cause various infections. We observed that K. pneumoniae strain K7 abruptly mutates to rough-type phage-resistant phenotype upon treatment with phage GH-K3. In the present study, the rough-type pha...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Cai R,Wang G,Le S,Wu M,Cheng M,Guo Z,Ji Y,Xi H,Zhao C,Wang X,Xue Y,Wang Z,Zhang H,Fu Y,Sun C,Feng X,Lei L,Yang Y,Ur Rahman S,Liu X,Han W,Gu J

更新日期：2019-05-28 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：:Biofilms provide cells favorable growth conditions, which have been exploited in industrial biotechnological processes. However, industrial application of the biofilm has not yet been reported in Escherichia coli, one of the most important platform strains, though the biofilm has been extensively studied for pathogeni...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chen T,Liu N,Ren P,Xi X,Yang L,Sun W,Yu B,Ying H,Ouyang P,Liu D,Chen Y

更新日期：2019-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Anopheles mosquito midgut harbors a diverse group of endogenous bacteria that grow extensively after the blood feeding and help in food digestion and nutrition in many ways. Although, the growth of endogenous bacteria is regulated by various factors, however, the robust antibacterial immune reactions are generally sup...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kajla M,Choudhury TP,Kakani P,Gupta K,Dhawan R,Gupta L,Kumar S

更新日期：2016-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Microorganisms are capable of synthesizing a plethora of secondary metabolites including the long-overlooked volatile organic compounds. Little knowledge has been accumulated regarding the regulation of the biosynthesis of such mVOCs. The emission of the unique compound sodorifen of Serratia plymuthica isolates was si...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Magnus N,Weise T,Piechulla B

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA and RNA-based sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene and transcripts were used to assess the phylogenetic diversity of microbial communities at assets experiencing corrosion in an oil production facility. The complementary methodological approach, coupled with extensive bioinformatics analysis, allowed to visualize diffe...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Salgar-Chaparro SJ,Machuca LL

更新日期：2019-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein export in bacteria is facilitated by the canonical SecB chaperone, which binds to unfolded precursor proteins, maintains them in a translocation competent state and specifically cooperates with the translocase motor SecA to ensure their proper targeting to the Sec translocon at the cytoplasmic membrane. Beside...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Sala A,Bordes P,Genevaux P

更新日期：2014-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans can form biofilms composed of yeast, hyphal, and pseudohyphal elements, and C. albicans cells in the hyphal stage could be a virulence factor. The present study describes the chemical composition, antibiofilm, and antihyphal activities of cedar leaf essential oil (CLEO), which was found to possess rem...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Manoharan RK,Lee JH,Lee J

更新日期：2017-08-03 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：:Microbial interactions play a key role in ecosystem functioning, with nutrient availability as an important determinant. Although phylogenetically distant bacteria and fungi commonly co-occur in nature, information on their cross-kingdom interactions under unstable, extreme environments remains poor. Hence, the aims o...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Velez P,Espinosa-Asuar L,Figueroa M,Gasca-Pineda J,Aguirre-von-Wobeser E,Eguiarte LE,Hernandez-Monroy A,Souza V

更新日期：2018-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that many organisms can perceive the magnetic field (MF), including the geomagnetic field, but how to feel MF is unclear. Recently, a study has claimed that a biological compass, namely a complex of the magnetic receptor (MagR) and blue light (BL) receptor (cryptochrome), has been found in Homo sapien...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhou H,Yang S,Chen F

更新日期：2020-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacteriosis is one of the most common causes of bacterial gastroenteritis. However, the clinical course of the illness varies in symptoms and severity. The aim of this study was to characterize Campylobacter jejuni (34 isolates) and C. coli (9 isolates) from persons with diarrheal and non-diarrheal stools at th...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wysok B,Wojtacka J,Hänninen ML,Kivistö R

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is the underlying cause of some devastating diseases, including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. These diseases have been associated with over-activation of the mechanistic Target of Rapamycin (mTOR) pathway. This study utilizes a high fat diet (HFD) to induce MetS and to dissect t...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kling DN,DeBose-Scarlett EM,Teixeira LD,Gezan SA,Lorca GL,Gonzalez CF

更新日期：2018-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori does not encode the classical DsbA/DsbB oxidoreductases that are crucial for oxidative folding of extracytoplasmic proteins. Instead, this microorganism encodes an untypical two proteins playing a role in disulfide bond formation - periplasmic HP0231, which structure resembles that of EcDsbC/DsbG, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Bocian-Ostrzycka KM,Łasica AM,Dunin-Horkawicz S,Grzeszczuk MJ,Drabik K,Dobosz AM,Godlewska R,Nowak E,Collet JF,Jagusztyn-Krynicka EK

更新日期：2015-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine Synechococcus has successfully adapted to environments with different light colors, which likely contributes to this genus being the second most abundant group of microorganisms worldwide. Populations of Synechococcus that grow in deep, blue ocean waters contain large amounts of the blue-light absorbing chromop...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mahmoud RM,Sanfilippo JE,Nguyen AA,Strnat JA,Partensky F,Garczarek L,Abo El Kassem N,Kehoe DM,Schluchter WM

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) is threatened by the introduced ascomycete Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, the causal agent of ash dieback. Endophytic fungi are known to modulate their host's resistance against pathogens. To understand possible consequences of ash dieback on the endophytic mycobiome, F. excelsior leave...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Schlegel M,Queloz V,Sieber TN

更新日期：2018-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:While combinations of probiotics with antibiotics have exhibited beneficial and adverse effects in the treatment of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), no substantive explanation has been provided for these effects. In this study, C. difficile ATCC 9689 (CD) was treated with Bifidobacterium breve (YH68) in combinat...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yang J,Yang H

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between plants and microbes can affect ecosystem functions, and many studies have demonstrated that plant properties influence mutualistic microorganisms. Here, high-throughput sequencing was used to investigate rhizosphere and phyllosphere fungal communities during different plant development stages. Res...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Jia T,Yao Y,Guo T,Wang R,Chai B

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00