Contribution of Acinetobacter-derived cephalosporinase-30 to sulbactam resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii.

abstract：:The current picture of human salmonellosis shows Salmonella Typhimurium and S. 4,[5],12:i:- as the most common serovars in Italy. The aims of this study were to investigate the genetic relationship between these serovars, as well as to test the possibility of inferring sources of human salmonellosis due to S. Typhimur...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Barco L,Barrucci F,Cortini E,Ramon E,Olsen JE,Luzzi I,Lettini AA,Ricci A

更新日期：2015-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:This review considers the available information on the potential impact of key environmental factors and their interactions on the molecular ecology, growth and aflatoxin production by Aspergillus flavus in vitro and in maize grain. The recent studies which have been carried out to examine the impact of water activity...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Medina A,Rodriguez A,Magan N

更新日期：2014-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The central nervous system (CNS) barriers are highly specialized cellular barriers that promote brain homeostasis while restricting pathogen and toxin entry. The primary cellular constituent regulating pathogen entry in most of these brain barriers is the brain endothelial cell (BEC) that exhibits properties that allo...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kim BJ,Shusta EV,Doran KS

更新日期：2019-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus (A/H5N1) of clade 2.2.1 is endemic in poultry in Egypt where the highest number of human infections worldwide was reported. During the last 12 years the Egyptian A/H5N1 evolved into several genotypes. In 2007-2014 vaccinated poultry suffered from antigenic drift variants of...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Salaheldin AH,Kasbohm E,El-Naggar H,Ulrich R,Scheibner D,Gischke M,Hassan MK,Arafa AA,Hassan WM,Abd El-Hamid HS,Hafez HM,Veits J,Mettenleiter TC,Abdelwhab EM

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:While multicellular magnetotactic prokaryotes (MMPs) are ubiquitous in marine environments, the diversity of MMPs in sediments of coral reef ecosystems has rarely been reported. In this study, we made an investigation on the diversity and characteristics of MMPs in sediments at 11 stations in coral reef habitats of th...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Teng Z,Zhang Y,Zhang W,Pan H,Xu J,Huang H,Xiao T,Wu LF

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A nitrate- and metal-contaminated site at the Oak Ridge Reservation (ORR) was previously shown to contain the metal molybdenum (Mo) at picomolar concentrations. This potentially limits microbial nitrate reduction, as Mo is required by the enzyme nitrate reductase, which catalyzes the first step of nitrate removal. Enr...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ge X,Thorgersen MP,Poole FL 2nd,Deutschbauer AM,Chandonia JM,Novichkov PS,Gushgari-Doyle S,Lui LM,Nielsen T,Chakraborty R,Adams PD,Arkin AP,Hazen TC,Adams MWW

更新日期：2020-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocular toxoplasmosis (OT) is one of the most common causes of posterior uveitis. The signaling of triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells (TREM)-1 amplifies inflammation, whereas TREM-2 signaling is anti-inflammatory. IL-1β is a major driver of inflammation during infection. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play impo...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang Y,He J,Zheng H,Huang S,Lu F

更新日期：2019-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Salicylic acid (SA) plays an important role in regulating plant defense responses against pathogens. However, pathogens have evolved ways to manipulate plant SA-mediated defense signaling. Fusarium graminearum causes Fusarium head blight (FHB) and reduces crop yields and quality by producing various mycotoxins. In thi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hao G,Naumann TA,Vaughan MM,McCormick S,Usgaard T,Kelly A,Ward TJ

更新日期：2019-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacteria are fascinating photosynthetic prokaryotes that are regarded as the ancestors of the plant chloroplast; the purveyors of oxygen and biomass for the food chain; and promising cell factories for an environmentally friendly production of chemicals. In colonizing most waters and soils of our planet, cyanobac...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Cassier-Chauvat C,Veaudor T,Chauvat F

更新日期：2016-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin C is a critical dietary nutrient in human which has a wide range of regulatory effects on gene expression and physiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that leads to a dormant drug-tolerant phenotype. In the presence of iron, vitamin C shows a high bactericidal activity even in the drug resistant phenotype of M...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mishra A,Sarkar D

更新日期：2015-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Verticillia cause a vascular wilt disease affecting a broad range of economically valuable crops. The fungus enters its host plants through the roots and colonizes the vascular system. It requires extracellular proteins for a successful plant colonization. The exoproteomes of the allodiploid Verticillium longisporum u...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Leonard M,Kühn A,Harting R,Maurus I,Nagel A,Starke J,Kusch H,Valerius O,Feussner K,Feussner I,Kaever A,Landesfeind M,Morgenstern B,Becher D,Hecker M,Braus-Stromeyer SA,Kronstad JW,Braus GH

更新日期：2020-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus cereus is a Gram-positive endospore forming bacterium known for its wide spectrum of phenotypic traits, enabling it to occupy diverse ecological niches. Although the population structure of B. cereus is highly dynamic and rather panmictic, production of the emetic B. cereus toxin cereulide is restricted to st...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ehling-Schulz M,Frenzel E,Gohar M

更新日期：2015-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Milk and dairy products are rich in nutrients and are therefore habitats for various microbiomes. However, the composition of nutrients can be quite diverse, in particular among the sulfur containing amino acids. In milk, methionine is present in a 25-fold higher abundance than cysteine. Interestingly, a fraction of s...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wüthrich D,Irmler S,Berthoud H,Guggenbühl B,Eugster E,Bruggmann R

更新日期：2018-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The xylanases with high specific activity and resistance to harsh conditions are of high practical value for biomass utilization. In the present study, two new GH11 xylanase genes, MYCTH_56237 and MYCTH_49824, have been cloned from thermophilic fungus Myceliophthora thermophila and expressed in Pichia pastoris. The sp...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Basit A,Liu J,Miao T,Zheng F,Rahim K,Lou H,Jiang W

更新日期：2018-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The Spirochaetes species cause many important diseases including syphilis and Lyme disease. Except for their containing a distinctive endoflagella, no other molecular or biochemical characteristics are presently known that are specific for either all Spirochaetes or its different families. We report detailed comparati...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gupta RS,Mahmood S,Adeolu M

更新日期：2013-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. carotovorum [Pcc (formerly Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora)] PC1 causes soft-rot disease in a wide variety of plant species by secreting multiple pathogenicity-related traits. In this study, regulatory mechanism of air-liquid (AL) biofilm formation was studied using a cytR homolo...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Haque MM,Oliver MMH,Nahar K,Alam MZ,Hirata H,Tsuyumu S

更新日期：2017-05-31 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：:Historically filamentous bacteriophage have been known to be the workhorse of phage display due to their ability to link genotype to phenotype. More recently, the filamentous phage scaffold has proven to be powerful outside the realm of phage display technology in fields such as molecular imaging, cancer research and ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Bernard JM,Francis MB

更新日期：2014-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The pressure-assisted ultra-high temperature (PAUHT) system was built by using soybean oil as pressure-transmitting medium, and the multiple regression equation of soybean oil temperature change (ΔTP ) during pressurization as a function of initial temperature (Ti ) and set pressure (P) was developed: ΔTP = -13.45 + 0...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Liang D,Zhang L,Wang X,Wang P,Liao X,Wu X,Chen F,Hu X

更新日期：2019-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Cathelicidins (CATHs) are host defense peptides (HDPs) that play an important role in the innate immune response against infections. Although multiple functions of cathelicidins have been described, including direct antimicrobial activity and several immunomodulatory effects on the host, relatively little is known abo...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Peng L,Du W,Balhuizen MD,Haagsman HP,de Haan CAM,Veldhuizen EJA

更新日期：2020-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Acidithiobacillus caldus is an extremely acidophilic sulfur-oxidizer with specialized characteristics, such as tolerance to low pH and heavy metal resistance. To gain novel insights into its genetic complexity, we chosen six A. caldus strains for comparative survey. All strains analyzed in this study differ in geograp...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang X,Liu X,He Q,Dong W,Zhang X,Fan F,Peng D,Huang W,Yin H

更新日期：2016-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrus leprosis virus C (CiLV-C) belongs to the genus Cilevirus, family Kitaviridae, and is considered the most devastating virus infecting citrus in Brazil, being the main viral pathogen responsible for citrus leprosis (CL), a severe disease that affects citrus orchards in Latin America. Here, proteins encoded by CiL...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Leastro MO,Castro DYO,Freitas-Astúa J,Kitajima EW,Pallás V,Sánchez-Navarro JÁ

更新日期：2020-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure and function of the plant microbiome is driven by plant species and prevailing environmental conditions. Effectuated by breeding efforts, modern crops diverge genetically and phenotypically from their wild relatives but little is known about consequences for the associated microbiota. Therefore, we studi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zachow C,Müller H,Tilcher R,Berg G

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Corynebacterium glutamicum, a soil-derived gram-positive actinobacterium, has been widely used for the production of biochemical molecules such as amino acids (i.e., L-glutamate and L-lysine), nucleic acids, alcohols, and organic acids. The metabolism of the bacterium has been engineered to increase the production of ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lee MJ,Kim P

更新日期：2018-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni is the major cause of human bacterial diarrhea worldwide. Its pathogenic mechanism remains poorly understood. cj0371 is a novel gene that was uncovered using immunoscreening. There have been no previous reports regarding its function. In this study, we constructed an insertion mutant and complemen...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Du X,Wang N,Ren F,Tang H,Jiao X,Huang J

更新日期：2016-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The marine obligate hydrocarbonoclastic bacterium Thalassolituus oleivorans MIL-1 metabolizes a broad range of aliphatic hydrocarbons almost exclusively as carbon and energy sources. We used LC-MS/MS shotgun proteomics to identify proteins involved in aerobic alkane degradation during growth on medium- (n-C14) or long...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gregson BH,Metodieva G,Metodiev MV,Golyshin PN,McKew BA

更新日期：2018-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania are transmitted by the bite of their sand fly vector and this has a significant influence on the virulence of the resulting infection. From our studies into the interaction between parasite, vector, and host we have uncovered an important missing ingredient during Leishmania transmission. Leishmania activel...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rogers ME

更新日期：2012-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocean iron fertilization is an approach to increase CO2 sequestration. The Indo-German iron fertilization experiment "LOHAFEX" was carried out in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica in 2009 to monitor changes in bacterial community structure following iron fertilization-induced phytoplankton bloom of the seawate...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Singh SK,Kotakonda A,Kapardar RK,Kankipati HK,Sreenivasa Rao P,Sankaranarayanan PM,Vetaikorumagan SR,Gundlapally SR,Nagappa R,Shivaji S

更新日期：2015-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Penicillium digitatum is the most damaging pathogen provoking green mold in citrus fruit during storage, and there is an urgent need for novel antifungal agents with high efficiency. The aim of this study was to investigate the antifungal effects of peptide thanatin against P. digitatum and the molecular mechanisms. R...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Feng G,Li X,Wang W,Deng L,Zeng K

更新日期：2020-12-14 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