CRH promotes S. pneumoniae growth in vitro and increases lung carriage in mice.

abstract：:In this article, we present our three-class course sequence to educate students about microbiome analysis and metagenomics through experiential learning by taking them from inquiry to analysis of the microbiome: Molecular Ecology Lab, Bioinformatics, and Computational Microbiome Analysis. Students developed hypotheses...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rosen GL,Hammrich P

更新日期：2020-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The LhrC family of small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) is known to be induced when the foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes is exposed to infection-relevant conditions, such as human blood. Here we demonstrate that excess heme, the core component of hemoglobin in blood, leads to a strong induction of the LhrC family me...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Dos Santos PT,Menendez-Gil P,Sabharwal D,Christensen JH,Brunhede MZ,Lillebæk EMS,Kallipolitis BH

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The fungus Colletotrichum gloeosporiodes infects plant hosts with a specialized cell called an appressorium, which is melanized and required for plant cell wall penetration. Here, we show that the mitogen-activated protein kinase CgMK1 governs appressorium formation and virulence in the poplar anthracnose fungus C. gl...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： He P,Wang Y,Wang X,Zhang X,Tian C

更新日期：2017-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental adaptation of Listeria monocytogenes is a complex process involving various mechanisms that can contribute to their survival in the environment, further spreading throughout the food chain and the development of listeriosis. The aim of this study was to analyze whole-genome sequencing data in a set of 27...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gelbicova T,Florianova M,Hluchanova L,Kalova A,Korena K,Strakova N,Karpiskova R

更新日期：2021-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The success of Ericaceae in stressful habitats enriched in heavy metals has been ascribed to the distinctive abilities of their mycorrhizal fungal partners to withstand heavy metal stress and to enhance metal tolerance in the host plant. Whereas heavy metal tolerance has been extensively investigated in some ericoid m...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Casarrubia S,Martino E,Daghino S,Kohler A,Morin E,Khouja HR,Murat C,Barry KW,Lindquist EA,Martin FM,Perotto S

更新日期：2020-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon monoxide (CO) is commonly known as a toxic gas, yet both cultivation studies and emerging genome sequences of bacteria and archaea establish that CO is a widely utilized microbial growth substrate. In this study, we determined the prevalence of anaerobic carbon monoxide dehydrogenases ([Ni,Fe]-CODHs) in current...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Techtmann SM,Lebedinsky AV,Colman AS,Sokolova TG,Woyke T,Goodwin L,Robb FT

更新日期：2012-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylglycerol (PG) is an indispensable phospholipid class with photosynthetic function in plants and cyanobacteria. However, its biosynthesis in eukaryotic green microalgae is poorly studied. Here, we report the isolation and characterization of two homologs (CrPGP1 and CrPGP2) of phosphatidylglycerophosphate s...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hung CH,Endo K,Kobayashi K,Nakamura Y,Wada H

更新日期：2015-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite with a remarkable neurotropism. We recently showed that T. gondii infection can alter the global metabolism of the cerebral cortex of mice. However, the impact of T. gondii infection on the metabolism of the cerebellum remains unknown. Here we apply metabolomic profiling to di...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ma J,He JJ,Hou JL,Zhou CX,Elsheikha HM,Zhu XQ

更新日期：2020-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophages are the most common entities on earth and represent a constant challenge to bacterial populations. To fend off bacteriophage infection, bacteria evolved immune systems to avert phage adsorption and block invader DNA entry. They developed restriction-modification systems and mechanisms to abort infection...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Shabbir MA,Hao H,Shabbir MZ,Wu Q,Sattar A,Yuan Z

更新日期：2016-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is characterized by a dynamic process and highly variable progression. Although extensive comparisons have been reported between the minority of non-progressors (NPGs) and the majority of progressors (PGs), the underlying mechanism is still unclear. One reason for this is t...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Cong Z,Tong L,Wang Y,Su A,Chen T,Wei Q,Xue J,Qin C

更新日期：2020-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial eukaryotes can play prominent roles in the Arctic marine ecosystem, but their diversity and variability is not well known in the ice-covered ecosystems. We determined the community composition of microbial eukaryotes in an Arctic under-ice spring bloom north of Svalbard using metabarcoding of DNA and RNA fro...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Meshram AR,Vader A,Kristiansen S,Gabrielsen TM

更新日期：2017-06-28 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：:F-specific filamentous phage of Escherichia coli (Ff: f1, M13, or fd) are long thin filaments (860 nm × 6 nm). They have been a major workhorse in display technologies and bionanotechnology; however, some applications are limited by the high length-to-diameter ratio of Ff. Furthermore, use of functionalized Ff outside...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Sattar S,Bennett NJ,Wen WX,Guthrie JM,Blackwell LF,Conway JF,Rakonjac J

更新日期：2015-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Alphaviruses and flaviviruses are important human pathogens that include Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), Dengue virus (DENV), and Zika virus (ZIKV), which can cause diseases in humans ranging from arthralgia to hemorrhagic fevers and microcephaly. It was previously shown that treatment with surface layer (S-layer) protein,...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Prado Acosta M,Geoghegan EM,Lepenies B,Ruzal S,Kielian M,Martinez MG

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic species are reproductively isolated by sterility barriers that prevent interspecies fertilization (prezygotic sterility barrier) or the fertilization results in infertile offspring (postzygotic sterility barrier). The Saccharomyces species are isolated by postzygotic sterility barriers. Their allodiploid hy...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Szabó A,Antunovics Z,Karanyicz E,Sipiczki M

更新日期：2020-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The continental deep biosphere is suggested to contain a substantial fraction of the earth's total biomass and microorganisms inhabiting this environment likely have a substantial impact on biogeochemical cycles. However, the deep microbial community is still largely unknown and can be influenced by parameters such as...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lopez-Fernandez M,Åström M,Bertilsson S,Dopson M

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic farming system and sustainable management of soil pathogens aim at reducing the use of agricultural chemicals in order to improve ecosystem health. Despite the essential role of microbial communities in agro-ecosystems, we still have limited understanding of the complex response of microbial diversity and comp...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lupatini M,Korthals GW,de Hollander M,Janssens TK,Kuramae EE

更新日期：2017-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria in nature are usually found in complex multicellular structures, called biofilms. One common form of a biofilm is pellicle-a floating mat of bacteria formed in the water-air interphase. So far, our knowledge on the basic mechanisms underlying the formation of biofilms at air-liquid interfaces is not complete....

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Steinberg N,Rosenberg G,Keren-Paz A,Kolodkin-Gal I

更新日期：2018-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 1733 in vol. 7, PMID: 27877157.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Canovas J,Baldry M,Bojer MS,Andersen PS,Grzeskowiak PK,Stegger M,Damborg P,Olsen CA,Ingmer H

更新日期：2017-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus amyloliquefaciens MEP218 is an autochthonous bacterial isolate with antibacterial and antifungal activities against a wide range of phytopathogenic microorganisms. Cyclic lipopeptides (CLP), particularly fengycins, produced by this bacterium; are the main antimicrobial compounds responsible for the growth inh...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Medeot DB,Fernandez M,Morales GM,Jofré E

更新日期：2020-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Corynebacterium glutamicum is a commonly applied host for the industrial production of amino acids. While valued for its robustness, it is somewhat inferior to competing strains such as Escherichia coli because of the relatively low growth rate of 0.40 h-1 in synthetic, industrial media. Accordingly, adaptive laborato...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Graf M,Haas T,Müller F,Buchmann A,Harm-Bekbenbetova J,Freund A,Nieß A,Persicke M,Kalinowski J,Blombach B,Takors R

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae belonging to serogroups other than O1 and O139 are opportunistic pathogens which cause infections with a variety of clinical symptoms. Due to the increasing number of V. cholerae non-O1/non-O139 infections in association with recreational waters in the past two decades, they have received increasing at...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lepuschitz S,Baron S,Larvor E,Granier SA,Pretzer C,Mach RL,Farnleitner AH,Ruppitsch W,Pleininger S,Indra A,Kirschner AKT

更新日期：2019-11-08 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：:Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis (S. Enteritidis) is one of the ubiquitous Salmonella serovars worldwide and a major cause of food-born outbreaks, which are often associated with poultry and poultry derivatives. Here we report a nation-wide S. Enteritidis clonal outbreak that occurred in Israel during the last ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Shomer I,Avisar A,Desai P,Azriel S,Smollan G,Belausov N,Keller N,Glikman D,Maor Y,Peretz A,McClelland M,Rahav G,Gal-Mor O

更新日期：2016-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavobacterium psychrophilum is a devastating bacterial pathogen of salmonids reared in freshwater worldwide. So far, serological diversity between isolates has been described but the underlying molecular factors remain unknown. By combining complete genome sequence analysis and the serotyping method proposed by Loren...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rochat T,Fujiwara-Nagata E,Calvez S,Dalsgaard I,Madsen L,Calteau A,Lunazzi A,Nicolas P,Wiklund T,Bernardet JF,Duchaud E

更新日期：2017-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Red palm weevil (RPW), Rhynchophorus ferrugineus Olivier, is a destructive pest for palm trees worldwide. Recent studies have shown that RPW gut is colonized by microbes and alterations in gut microbiota can significantly modify its hemolymph nutrition content. However, the exact effects of gut microbiota on RPW pheno...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Habineza P,Muhammad A,Ji T,Xiao R,Yin X,Hou Y,Shi Z

更新日期：2019-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Omeprazole was shown to improve the anti-cancer effects of the nucleoside analogue 5-fluorouracil. Here, we combined omeprazole with the antiviral nucleoside analogues ribavirin and acyclovir. Omeprazole did not affect the antiviral effects of ribavirin in non-toxic concentrations up to 80 μg/mL but increased the acyc...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Michaelis M,Kleinschmidt MC,Bojkova D,Rabenau HF,Wass MN,Cinatl J Jr

更新日期：2019-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study used a combination of 16S rRNA MiSeq sequencing strategy and gas chromatograph time of flight mass spectrometer (GC-TOF/MS) technique to investigate the effects of starch sources on the colonic microbiota and their metabolites in finishing pigs. A total of 72 crossbred barrows were allocated to three...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yu M,Li Z,Chen W,Rong T,Wang G,Ma X

更新日期：2019-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) target the stratified epidermis, and can causes diseases ranging from benign condylomas to malignant tumors. Infections of HPVs in the genital tract are among the most common sexually transmitted diseases, and a major risk factor for cervical cancer. The virus targets epithelial cells in ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kajitani N,Satsuka A,Kawate A,Sakai H

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae, the etiological agent of cholera, employs quorum sensing (QS) pathways to control the expression of virulence factors, including the production of cholera toxin and biofilm formation. Acquired antibiotic resistance in V. cholerae draws attention to the development of novel therapeutics that counteract...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Sarveswari HB,Kalimuthu S,Shanmugam K,Neelakantan P,Solomon AP

更新日期：2020-07-10 00:00:00