Long-term impact of farm management and crops on soil microorganisms assessed by combined DGGE and PLFA analyses.

abstract：:Variation among animals in their host-associated microbial communities is increasingly recognized as a key determinant of important life history traits including growth, metabolism, and resistance to disease. Quantitative estimates of the factors shaping the stability of host microbiomes over time at the individual le...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Harrison XA,Price SJ,Hopkins K,Leung WTM,Sergeant C,Garner TWJ

更新日期：2019-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic fungi have diverse growth lifestyles that support fungal colonization on plants. Successful colonization and infection for all lifestyles depends upon the ability to modify living host plants to sequester the necessary nutrients required for growth and reproduction. Secretion of virulence determinants refer...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Selin C,de Kievit TR,Belmonte MF,Fernando WG

更新日期：2016-04-27 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：:KPC-3-producing bacteria are endemic in many countries but only recently became apparent their wide distribution in different Portuguese hospitals. The aim of this study is to characterize genetic backgrounds associated with bla KPC-3 among Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates recently identified on non-hospitalized patient...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rodrigues C,Bavlovič J,Machado E,Amorim J,Peixe L,Novais Â

更新日期：2016-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Sterile attenuation of Plasmodium parasites at the liver-stage either by irradiation or genetic modification, or at the blood-stage by chemoprophylaxis, has been shown to induce immune responses that can protect against subsequent wild-type infection. However, following certain interventions, parasite attenuation can ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Fernandes P,Frank R,Lewis MD,Mueller AK

更新日期：2014-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Many DNA virus replication-related proteins are associated with promyelocytic leukemia protein (PML), a component of nuclear domain 10 (ND10), which has been investigated for its potential involvement in viral replication. In the case of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) lytic gene products, K8 (K-bZIP), ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hossain MG,Ohsaki E,Honda T,Ueda K

更新日期：2018-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The free-living legume symbiont Rhizobium leguminosarum is of significant economic value because of its ability to provide fixed nitrogen to globally important leguminous food crops, such as peas and lentils. Discovery based research into the genetics and physiology of R. leguminosarum provides the foundational knowle...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Perry BJ,Akter MS,Yost CK

更新日期：2016-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change is affecting the amount and complexity of plant inputs to tropical forest soils. This is likely to influence the carbon (C) balance of these ecosystems by altering decomposition processes e.g., "positive priming effects" that accelerate soil organic matter mineralization. However, the mechanisms determi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Whitaker J,Ostle N,McNamara NP,Nottingham AT,Stott AW,Bardgett RD,Salinas N,Ccahuana AJ,Meir P

更新日期：2014-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-three Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains isolated from different fermented foods of Western Himalayas have been studied for strain level and functional diversity in our department. Among these 23 strains, 10 S. cerevisiae strains on the basis of variation in their brewing traits were selected to study their organ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kanwar SS,Keshani

更新日期：2016-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Swine grown under commercial conditions are vulnerable to environmental exposure to several viruses, which may cause infectious diseases and spread easily and rapidly, resulting in significant economic losses in animal husbandry. Previous studies have suggested that probiotics seem to be a new and promising alternativ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chang-Liao WP,Lee A,Chiu YH,Chang HW,Liu JR

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) infection has resulted in the death of upward of 39 million people since being discovered in the early 1980s. A cure strategy for HIV-1 has eluded scientists, but gene editing technologies such as clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-asso...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Sullivan NT,Allen AG,Atkins AJ,Chung CH,Dampier W,Nonnemacher MR,Wigdahl B

更新日期：2020-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gram negative bacterium Yersinia pestis can infect humans by multiple routes to cause plague. Three plague pandemics have occurred and Y. pestis has been linked to biowarfare in the past. The continued risk of plague as a bioweapon has prompted increased research to understand Y. pestis pathogenesis and develop ne...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lawrenz MB

更新日期：2010-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Here Tn5 random transposon mutagenesis was used to identify the essential elements for culturing Liberibacter crescens BT-1 that can serve as antimicrobial targets for the closely related pathogens of citrus, Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (Las) and tomato and potato, Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum (Lso). In ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lai KK,Davis-Richardson AG,Dias R,Triplett EW

更新日期：2016-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an urgent need for new antibiotics and alternative strategies to combat multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens, which are a growing clinical issue. Repurposing existing approved drugs with known pharmacology and toxicology is an alternative strategy to accelerate antimicrobial research and development. In th...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Thangamani S,Younis W,Seleem MN

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus lugdunensis is increasingly recognized as a potent pathogen, responsible for severe infections with an outcome resembling that of Staphylococcus aureus. Here, we developed and evaluated a tool for S. lugdunensis typing, using DNA sequence analysis of the repeat-encoding region (R-domain) in the gene enc...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Dahyot S,Lebeurre J,Laumay F,Argemi X,Dubos C,Lemée L,Prévost G,François P,Pestel-Caron M

更新日期：2019-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The mosquito-borne West Nile virus (WNV) is a highly neurovirulent Flavivirus currently representing an emergent zoonotic concern. WNV cycles in nature between mosquito vectors and birds that act as amplifier hosts and play an essential role in virus ecology, being, thus, WNV a threat to many species. Availability of ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Jiménez de Oya N,Escribano-Romero E,Camacho MC,Blazquez AB,Martín-Acebes MA,Höfle U,Saiz JC

更新日期：2019-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is an endemic mycosis in Latin American caused by the thermodimorphic fungi of the genus Paracoccidioides spp. Notably, a Th1 immune response is required to control PCM. In this context, dendritic cells (DCs) seem to be essential players in capture, processing and presentation of Paracocci...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Silva LBR,Taira CL,Dias LS,Souza ACO,Nosanchuk JD,Travassos LR,Taborda CP

更新日期：2019-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to determine the antifungal activity of the metabolites from Streptomyces sp. 3-10, and to purify and identify the metabolites. Meanwhile, the taxonomic status of strain 3-10 was re-evaluated. The cultural filtrates of strain 3-10 in potato dextrose broth were extracted with ethyl acetate. The...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lyu A,Liu H,Che H,Yang L,Zhang J,Wu M,Chen W,Li G

更新日期：2017-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterobacter cloacae has emerged as an opportunistic pathogen in healthcare-associated infections. Analysis of the genomic sequences of several E. cloacae strains revealed the presence of genes that code for expression of at least one type VI secretion system (T6SS). Here, we report that E. cloacae strain ATCC 13047 c...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Soria-Bustos J,Ares MA,Gómez-Aldapa CA,González-Y-Merchand JA,Girón JA,De la Cruz MA

更新日期：2020-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Insects share an intimate relationship with their gut microflora and this symbiotic association has developed into an essential evolutionary outcome intended for their survival through extreme environmental conditions. While it has been clearly established that insects, with very few exceptions, associate with several...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gupta A,Nair S

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The deep sea is one of the largest but least understood ecosystems on earth. Knowledge about the diversity and distribution patterns as well as drivers of microbial eukaryote (including ciliates) along the water column, particularly below the photic zone, is scarce. In this study, we investigated the diversity of pela...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhao F,Filker S,Xu K,Huang P,Zheng S

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Tea tree oil (TTO) is a volatile essential oil obtained from the leaves of the Australian tree Melaleuca alternifolia by vapor distillation. Previously, we demonstrated that TTO has a strong inhibitory effect on Botrytis cinerea. This study investigates the underlying antifungal mechanisms at the molecular level. A pr...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Xu J,Shao X,Wei Y,Xu F,Wang H

更新日期：2017-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The heterocyclic indole-alkaloid scytonemin is a sunscreen found exclusively among cyanobacteria. An 18-gene cluster is responsible for scytonemin production in Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133. The upstream genes scyABCDEF in the cluster are proposed to be responsible for scytonemin biosynthesis from aromatic amino acid...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ferreira D,Garcia-Pichel F

更新日期：2016-05-18 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：:Biogenic transformation of Fe minerals, associated with extracellular electron transfer (EET), allows microorganisms to exploit high-potential refractory electron acceptors for energy generation. EET-capable thermophiles are dominated by hyperthermophilic archaea and Gram-positive bacteria. Information on their EET pa...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gavrilov SN,Zavarzina DG,Elizarov IM,Tikhonova TV,Dergousova NI,Popov VO,Lloyd JR,Knight D,El-Naggar MY,Pirbadian S,Leung KM,Robb FT,Zakhartsev MV,Bretschger O,Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiobacillus denitrificans is a chemolithoautotrophic bacterium capable of anaerobic, nitrate-dependent U(IV) and Fe(II) oxidation, both of which can strongly influence the long-term efficacy of in situ reductive immobilization of uranium in contaminated aquifers. We previously identified two c-type cytochromes involv...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Beller HR,Zhou P,Legler TC,Chakicherla A,Kane S,Letain TE,A O'Day P

更新日期：2013-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last decades, pollution of the environment by large scale use of antibiotics in agriculture and human medicine have led to increased antimicrobial resistance in both the environment and the host animal microbiome. Disturbances in the host microbiome can result in impaired immunity and reduced resilience of aqua...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： López Nadal A,Peggs D,Wiegertjes GF,Brugman S

更新日期：2018-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports in the literature suggest that bacteria exposed to lethal doses of ionizing radiation, i.e., electron beams, are unable to replicate yet they remain metabolically active. To investigate this phenomenon further, we electron beam irradiated Escherichia coli cells to a lethal dose and measured their membrane inte...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hieke AC,Pillai SD

更新日期：2018-09-10 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：:The recent worldwide rise in idiopathic immune and inflammatory diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS) and inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) has been linked to Western society-based changes in lifestyle and environment. These include decreased exposure to sunlight/UVB light and subsequent impairment in the productio...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Bosman ES,Albert AY,Lui H,Dutz JP,Vallance BA

更新日期：2019-10-24 00:00:00