A ten-year search for synchronous cells: obstacles, solutions, and practical applications.

abstract：:Phylogenetically deeply rooted methanogens belonging to the genus of Methanocaldococcus living in deep-sea hydrothermal vents derive energy exclusively from hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis, one of the oldest respiratory metabolisms on Earth. These hyperthermophilic, autotrophic archaea synthesize their biomolecules fr...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Susanti D,Frazier MC,Mukhopadhyay B

更新日期：2019-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, genes identified and transcriptionally regulated by the AirSR TCS have been involved in energy production and cellular homeostasis of the staphylococcal cell. It is well accepted that the state of cellular metabolism impacts the expression of virulence factors in Staphylococcus aureus. For this reason, we con...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hall JW,Yang J,Guo H,Ji Y

更新日期：2015-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocytes mediate the first line of defense against infectious diseases in humans as well as animals and they are well known as multitasking cells. They can mediate antimicrobial activity by different strategies depending on the pathogen they encounter. Besides phagocytosis, a key strategy against extracellular pat...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： de Buhr N,Bonilla MC,Jimenez-Soto M,von Köckritz-Blickwede M,Dolz G

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Chrysene is a high molecular weight (HMW), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) known for its recalcitrance and carcinogenic properties and sparsely soluble (0.003 mg/L) in aqueous medium. Due to these refractory properties, bioavailability of chrysene is very low and therefore is persistence in the environment escap...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Vaidya S,Devpura N,Jain K,Madamwar D

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii is a gram-negative, non-motile bacterium that, due to its multidrug resistance, has become a major nosocomial pathogen. The increasing number of multidrug resistant (MDR) strains has renewed interest in phage therapy. The aim of our study was to assess the effectiveness of phage administration ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kusradze I,Karumidze N,Rigvava S,Dvalidze T,Katsitadze M,Amiranashvili I,Goderdzishvili M

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: BCG protection is suboptimal and there is significant interest to develop new tuberculosis (TB) vaccines. However, there are significant limitations of the current vaccine evaluation systems in the mouse model. Here, we developed a BCG-challenge rabbit skin model as a new way to evaluate the protective eff...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chen H,Liu X,Ma X,Wang Q,Yang G,Niu H,Li S,He B,He S,Dannenberg AM Jr,Zhu B,Zhang Y

更新日期：2017-05-17 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：:Benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P) is a ubiquitous, persistent, and carcinogenic pollutant that belongs to the large family of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Population exposure primarily occurs via contaminated food products, which introduces the pollutant to the digestive tract. Although the metabolism of B[a]P by host cells...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Defois C,Ratel J,Denis S,Batut B,Beugnot R,Peyretaillade E,Engel E,Peyret P

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a group of small non-coding endogenous RNAs. In plants, miRNAs play vital functions in regulating growth, development, and stress response. However, the role of miRNAs in Arabidopsis-Phytophthora capsici (P. capsici) model pathosystem is poorly understood. Here, we used a high-throughput sequenc...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhu X,He S,Fang D,Guo L,Zhou X,Guo Y,Gao L,Qiao Y

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bacteria produce cytolytic toxins that target host cells or other competing microbes. It is well known that environmental factors control toxin expression, however, recent work suggests that some bacteria manipulate the fold of these protein toxins to control their function. The β-sheet rich amyloid fold is a hig...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Syed AK,Boles BR

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decades, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been recognized as one of the most serious threats to public health. Although originally considered a problem to human health, the emerging crisis of AMR requires a "One Health" approach, considering human, animal, and environmental reservoirs. In this regard, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rubiola S,Chiesa F,Dalmasso A,Di Ciccio P,Civera T

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Ralstonia solanacearum is a soil and water-borne pathogen that can infect a wide range of plants and cause the devastating bacterial wilt disease. To successfully colonize a host, R. solanacearum requires the type III secretion system (T3SS), which delivers bacterial effector proteins inside the plant cells. HrpG is a...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zuluaga AP,Puigvert M,Valls M

更新日期：2013-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) that causes extraintestinal infections often harbor plasmids encoding fitness traits such as resistance and virulence determinants that are of clinical importance. We determined the complete nucleotide sequence of plasmid pEC302/04 from a multidrug-resistant E. coli ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ho WS,Yap KP,Yeo CC,Rajasekaram G,Thong KL

更新日期：2016-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined fungal diversity and composition in conventional (CM) and desert farming (DE) systems in Oman. Fungal diversity in the rhizosphere of tomato was assessed using 454-pyrosequencing and culture-based techniques. Both techniques produced variable results in terms of fungal diversity, with 25% of the fu...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kazerooni EA,Maharachchikumbura SSN,Rethinasamy V,Al-Mahrouqi H,Al-Sadi AM

更新日期：2017-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally, chemical agents such as formalin (FA) and β-propiolactone (BPL) have long been used for the preparation of inactivated vaccines or toxoids. It has been shown that FA extensively modifies vaccine antigens and thus affects immunogenicity profiles, sometimes compromising the protective efficacy of the vacc...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lee YH,Jang YH,Byun YH,Cheong Y,Kim P,Lee YJ,Lee YJ,Sung JM,Son A,Lee HM,Lee J,Yang SW,Song JM,Seong BL

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A common feature of microbial colonization in deserts is biological soil crusts (BSCs), and these comprise a complex community dominated by Cyanobacteria. Rock substrates, particularly sandstone, are also colonized by microbial communities. These are separated by bare sandy soil that also supports microbial colonizati...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lee KC,Archer SD,Boyle RH,Lacap-Bugler DC,Belnap J,Pointing SB

更新日期：2016-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Particle-associated bacteria (PAB) and free-living bacteria (FLB) from aquatic environments during phytoplankton blooms differ in their physical distance from algae. Both the interactions within PAB and FLB community fractions and their relationship with the surrounding environmental properties are largely unknown. He...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yang C,Wang Q,Simon PN,Liu J,Liu L,Dai X,Zhang X,Kuang J,Igarashi Y,Pan X,Luo F

更新日期：2017-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) is a facultative intracellular pathogen that colonizes the chicken gut leading to contamination of carcasses during processing. A reduction in intestinal colonization by SE could result in reduced carcass contamination thereby reducing the risk of illnesses in humans. Short chain fatty acid...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gupta A,Bansal M,Wagle B,Sun X,Rath N,Donoghue A,Upadhyay A

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the discovery 2-3 decades ago that viruses of microbes are abundant in marine ecosystems, viral ecology has grown increasingly to reach the status of a full scientific discipline in environmental sciences. A dedicated ISVM society, the International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms, (http://www.isvm.org/) w...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Sime-Ngando T

更新日期：2014-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Besides intrinsic and extrinsic factors such as antagonism for organic substrates or temperature, the storage atmosphere of meat has a high influence on the development of its initial microbiota. Specific modified atmospheres (MAs) selectively suppress growth of aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, thus reshaping the initi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kolbeck S,Ludwig C,Meng C,Hilgarth M,Vogel RF

更新日期：2020-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequencing and annotation was performed for two large double stranded DNA bacteriophages, φGrn1 and φSt2 of the Myoviridae family, considered to be of great interest for phage therapy against Vibrios in aquaculture live feeds. In addition, phage-host metabolic interactions and exploitation was studied by transcript pr...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Skliros D,Kalatzis PG,Katharios P,Flemetakis E

更新日期：2016-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocyanophages, a group of viruses infecting cyanobacteria, are abundant and play important roles in elemental cycling. Here we investigated the particle-associated viral communities retained on 0.2 μm filters and in sediment samples (representing ancient cyanophage communities) from four ocean and three lake location...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hou W,Wang S,Briggs BR,Li G,Xie W,Dong H

更新日期：2018-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Snow algae blooms contain bacteria, fungi, and other microscopic organisms. We surveyed 55 alpine snow algae blooms, collecting a total of 68 samples, from 12 mountains in the Coast Range of British Columbia, Canada. We used microscopy and rDNA metabarcoding to document biodiversity and query species and taxonomic ass...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yakimovich KM,Engstrom CB,Quarmby LM

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) affects humans and other animals and is caused by bacteria from the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC). Previous studies have shown that there are at least nine members of the MTBC infecting animals other than humans; these have also been referred to as ecotypes. However, the ecology and the e...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Brites D,Loiseau C,Menardo F,Borrell S,Boniotti MB,Warren R,Dippenaar A,Parsons SDC,Beisel C,Behr MA,Fyfe JA,Coscolla M,Gagneux S

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Arthrobacter spp. are coryneform Gram-positive aerobic bacteria, belonging to the class Actinobacteria. Representatives of this genus have mainly been isolated from soil, mud, sludge or sewage, and are usually mesophiles. In recent years, the presence of Arthrobacter spp. was also confirmed in various extreme, includi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Romaniuk K,Golec P,Dziewit L

更新日期：2018-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbiome research has increased dramatically in recent years, driven by advances in technology and significant reductions in the cost of analysis. Such research has unlocked a wealth of data, which has yielded tremendous insight into the nature of the microbial communities, including their interactions and effects, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Cullen CM,Aneja KK,Beyhan S,Cho CE,Woloszynek S,Convertino M,McCoy SJ,Zhang Y,Anderson MZ,Alvarez-Ponce D,Smirnova E,Karstens L,Dorrestein PC,Li H,Sen Gupta A,Cheung K,Powers JG,Zhao Z,Rosen GL

更新日期：2020-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial colonization and biofilm development on medical devices can lead to infection. Antimicrobial peptide-coated surfaces may prevent such infections. Melimine and Mel4 are chimeric cationic peptides showing broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity once attached to biomaterials and are highly biocompatible in animal...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yasir M,Dutta D,Hossain KR,Chen R,Ho KKK,Kuppusamy R,Clarke RJ,Kumar N,Willcox MDP

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii is one of the most important nosocomial pathogens, and thus it is required to investigate how it disseminate in hospitals and infect patients. We performed whole genome sequencing for 24 A. baumannii strains isolated successively from the blood of a single patient to evaluate whether repeated i...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kim SJ,Kim YJ,Ko KS

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Photo-receptors are widely present in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, which serves as the foundation of tuning cell behaviors with light. While practices in eukaryotic cells have been relatively established, trials in bacterial cells have only been emerging in the past few years. A number of light sensors have ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Liu Z,Zhang J,Jin J,Geng Z,Qi Q,Liang Q

更新日期：2018-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosynthetic organisms oxidize P700 to suppress the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in photosystem I (PSI) in response to the lower efficiency of photosynthesis under high light and low CO2 conditions. Previously, we found a positive relationship between reduction of plastoquinone (PQ) pool and oxidation...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Shimakawa G,Shaku K,Miyake C

更新日期：2018-05-07 00:00:00