Biocatalytic desulfurization of thiophenic compounds and crude oil by newly isolated bacteria.

abstract：:Random transposon mutagenesis is a powerful technique used to generate libraries of genetic insertions in many different bacterial strains. Here we develop a system facilitating random transposon mutagenesis in a range of different Gram-negative bacterial strains, including Pectobacterium atrosepticum, Citrobacter rod...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Monson R,Smith DS,Matilla MA,Roberts K,Richardson E,Drew A,Williamson N,Ramsay J,Welch M,Salmond GP

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A vital function of the cell membrane in all living organism is to maintain the membrane permeability barrier and fluidity. The composition of the phospholipid bilayer is distinct in archaea when compared to bacteria and eukarya. In archaea, isoprenoid hydrocarbon side chains are linked via an ether bond to the sn-gly...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Jain S,Caforio A,Driessen AJ

更新日期：2014-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:While vitamin B(12) has recently been shown to co-limit the growth of coastal phytoplankton assemblages, the cycling of B-vitamins in coastal ecosystems is poorly understood as planktonic uptake rates of vitamins B(1) and B(12) have never been quantified in tandem in any aquatic ecosystem. The goal of this study was t...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Koch F,Hattenrath-Lehmann TK,Goleski JA,Sañudo-Wilhelmy S,Fisher NS,Gobler CJ

更新日期：2012-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The interferon (IFN) system is one of the most important defensive responses of mammals against viruses, and is rapidly evoked when the pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) of viruses are sensed. Non-self, virus-derived RNA species have been identified as the PAMPs of RNA viruses. In the present study, we co...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yoshida A,Kawabata R,Honda T,Tomonaga K,Sakaguchi T,Irie T

更新日期：2015-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The utilisation of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste as feedstock for bioethanol production could reduce the need for disposal of the ever-increasing amounts of municipal solid waste, especially in developing countries, and fits with the integrated goals of climate change mitigation and transport energy se...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Carrillo-Barragan P,Bowler B,Dolfing J,Sallis P,Gray ND

更新日期：2019-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility of the rapid and global spread of Zika, chikungunya, yellow fever, and dengue fever by Aedes albopictus is well documented and may be facilitated by changes in climate. To avert and manage health risks, climatic and topographic information can be used to model and forecast which areas may be most prone...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Nejati J,Bueno-Marí R,Collantes F,Hanafi-Bojd AA,Vatandoost H,Charrahy Z,Tabatabaei SM,Yaghoobi-Ershadi MR,Hasanzehi A,Shirzadi MR,Moosa-Kazemi SH,Sedaghat MM

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In streptococci, entry in competence is dictated by ComX abundance. In Streptococcus thermophilus, production of ComX is transient and tightly regulated during growth: it is positively regulated by the cell-cell communication system ComRS during the activation phase and negatively regulated during the shut-off phase b...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Haustenne L,Bastin G,Hols P,Fontaine L

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Orf virus (ORFV), a member of Parapoxvirus, has evolved various strategies to modulate the immune responses of host cells. The ORFV-encoded protein ORFV002, a regulator factor, has been found to inhibit the acetylation of NF-κB-p65 by blocking phosphorylation of NF-κB-p65 at Ser(276) and also to disrupt the binding of...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chen D,Zheng Z,Xiao B,Li W,Long M,Chen H,Li M,Rock DL,Hao W,Luo S

更新日期：2016-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Macrococcus is a close relative of the genus Staphylococcus. Whilst staphylococci are widespread as human pathogens, macrococci have not yet been reported from human clinical specimens. Here we investigated Gram-positive and catalase-positive cocci recovered from human clinical material and identified as Mac...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mašlaňová I,Wertheimer Z,Sedláček I,Švec P,Indráková A,Kovařovic V,Schumann P,Spröer C,Králová S,Šedo O,Krištofová L,Vrbovská V,Füzik T,Petráš P,Zdráhal Z,Ružičková V,Doškař J,Pantuček R

更新日期：2018-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological understandings of soil bacterial community succession and assembly mechanism along elevational gradients in mountains remain not well understood. Here, by employing the high-throughput sequencing technique, we systematically examined soil bacterial diversity patterns, the driving factors, and community asse...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Li J,Shen Z,Li C,Kou Y,Wang Y,Tu B,Zhang S,Li X

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how proteins evolve is important, and the order of amino acids being recruited into the genetic codons was found to be an important factor shaping the amino acid composition of proteins. The latest work about the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) makes it possible to determine the potential factors s...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Du MZ,Zhang C,Wang H,Liu S,Wei W,Guo FB

更新日期：2018-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Removal of carbon through the precipitation and burial of calcium carbonate in marine sediments constitutes over 70% of the total carbon on Earth and is partitioned between coastal and pelagic zones. The precipitation of authigenic calcium carbonate in seawater, however, has been hotly debated because despite being in...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lisle JT,Robbins LL

更新日期：2016-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Drought directly affects sugarcane production. Plant growth-promoting bacteria have gained attention as growth promoters of plants under abiotic stresses. The present study focused on genome assessment of the plant-beneficial endophyte Streptomyces chartreusis WZS021 and its vital role in sugarcane plants under drough...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang Z,Solanki MK,Yu ZX,Yang LT,An QL,Dong DF,Li YR

更新日期：2019-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The human gastric lumen is one of the most hostile environments of the human body suspected to be sterile until the discovery of Helicobacter pylori (H.p.). State of the art next generation sequencing technologies multiply the knowledge on H.p. functional genomics as well as on the colonization of supposed sterile hum...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Klymiuk I,Bilgilier C,Stadlmann A,Thannesberger J,Kastner MT,Högenauer C,Püspök A,Biowski-Frotz S,Schrutka-Kölbl C,Thallinger GG,Steininger C

更新日期：2017-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-component systems (TCS) are modular signal transduction pathways that allow cells to adapt to prevailing environmental conditions by modifying cellular physiology. Staphylococcus aureus has 16 TCSs to adapt to the diverse microenvironments encountered during its life cycle, including host tissues and implanted med...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Burgui S,Gil C,Solano C,Lasa I,Valle J

更新日期：2018-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative bacterium, which causes opportunistic infections in immuno-compromised individuals. Due to its multiple resistances toward antibiotics, the development of new drugs is required. Interfering with Quorum Sensing (QS), a cell-to-cell communication system, has shown to be highly e...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Allegretta G,Maurer CK,Eberhard J,Maura D,Hartmann RW,Rahme L,Empting M

更新日期：2017-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Microalgae and probiotics such as Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus genera are associated with human beneficial effects. The aim of this study was to evaluate the activity of Chlorella sorokiniana on Bifidobacterium longum and Lactobacillus plantarum viability in a dairy product (flan) and its microbial effect against...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Cantú-Bernal S,Domínguez-Gámez M,Medina-Peraza I,Aros-Uzarraga E,Ontiveros N,Flores-Mendoza L,Gomez-Flores R,Tamez-Guerra P,González-Ochoa G

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The current standard of care therapy for pulmonary Mycobacterium kansasii infection is isoniazid (300 mg/day), rifampin (600 mg/day), and ethambutol (15 mg/kg/day) for 12 months after achieving sputum culture negativity. Rifampin is the key drug in this regimen. The contribution of isoniazid is unclear since its in vi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： DeStefano MS,Shoen CM,Cynamon MH

更新日期：2018-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Our laboratory has previously developed a qRT-PCR assay to assess drug efficacy on the growth of Cryptosporidium parvum in vitro by detecting the levels of parasite 18S rRNA. This approach displayed up to four orders of magnitude of linear dynamic range and was much less labor-intensive than the traditional microscopi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang H,Zhu G

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Desulfotomaculum reducens strain MI-1 is a Gram-positive, sulfate-reducing bacterium also capable of reducing Fe(III). Metal reduction in Gram-positive bacteria is poorly understood. Here, we investigated Fe(III) reduction with lactate, a non-fermentable substrate, as the electron donor. Lactate consumption is concomi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Dalla Vecchia E,Shao PP,Suvorova E,Chiappe D,Hamelin R,Bernier-Latmani R

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptidoglycan (PG) is an essential molecule for the survival of bacteria, and thus, its biosynthesis and remodeling have always been in the spotlight when it comes to the development of antibiotics. The peptidoglycan polymer provides a protective function in bacteria, but at the same time is continuously subjected to ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Irazoki O,Hernandez SB,Cava F

更新日期：2019-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing evidence that volatile organic compounds (VOCs) play an important role in the interactions between fungi and bacteria, two major groups of soil inhabiting microorganisms. Yet, most of the research has been focused on effects of bacterial volatiles on suppression of plant pathogenic fungi whereas li...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Schmidt R,Etalo DW,de Jager V,Gerards S,Zweers H,de Boer W,Garbeva P

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157:H7 is regarded as one of the most harmful pathogenic microorganisms related to foodborne diseases. This paper proposes a rapid-detection biosensor for the sensitive and quantitative analysis of E. coli O157:H7 in biological samples by surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)-based lateral flow im...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Shi L,Xu L,Xiao R,Zhou Z,Wang C,Wang S,Gu B

更新日期：2020-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Probiotics are functional foods that can effectively regulate lipid reduction and maintain body health. In this study, a strain of Lactobacillus fermentum CQPC04 (LF-CQPC04) isolated from traditional naturally fermented vegetables (Sichuan pickles) was studied, and its effects on lipid reduction in mice, as well as it...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yi R,Tan F,Zhou X,Mu J,Li L,Du X,Yang Z,Zhao X

更新日期：2020-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:While modern developments in agriculture have allowed for increases in crop yields and rapid human population growth, they have also drastically altered biogeochemical cycles, including the biotransformation of nitrogen. Denitrification is a critical process performed by bacteria and fungi that removes nitrate in surf...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Tomasek A,Staley C,Wang P,Kaiser T,Lurndahl N,Kozarek JL,Hondzo M,Sadowsky MJ

更新日期：2017-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) are innate immune cells characterized by their ability to suppress T-cell responses. Recently, we demonstrated that the human-pathogenic fungi Candida albicans and Aspergillus fumigatus induced a distinct subset of neutrophilic MDSCs. To dissect Candida-mediated MDSC induction ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Singh A,Lelis F,Braig S,Schäfer I,Hartl D,Rieber N

更新日期：2016-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The shallow-sea hydrothermal vents at White Point (WP) in Palos Verdes on the southern California coast support microbial mats and provide easily accessed settings in which to study chemolithoautotrophic sulfur cycling. Previous studies have cultured sulfur-oxidizing bacteria from the WP mats; however, almost nothing ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Miranda PJ,McLain NK,Hatzenpichler R,Orphan VJ,Dillon JG

更新日期：2016-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies are becoming routinely employed in different fields of virus research. Different sequencing platforms and sample preparation approaches, in the laboratories worldwide, contributed to a revolution in detection and discovery of plant viruses and viroids. In this work, we are...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Pecman A,Kutnjak D,Gutiérrez-Aguirre I,Adams I,Fox A,Boonham N,Ravnikar M

更新日期：2017-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Current notion presumes that only one protein is encoded at a given bacterial genetic locus. However, transcription and translation of an overlapping open reading frame (ORF) of 186 bp length were discovered by RNAseq and RIBOseq experiments. This ORF is almost completely embedded in the annotated L,D-transpeptidase g...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hücker SM,Vanderhaeghen S,Abellan-Schneyder I,Scherer S,Neuhaus K

更新日期：2018-05-14 00:00:00

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