Glass-forming property of hydroxyectoine is the cause of its superior function as a desiccation protectant.

abstract：:Extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) producing Klebsiella pneumoniae pose an important threat of infection with increased morbidity and mortality, especially for immunocompromised patients. Here, we use the rise of multidrug-resistant K. pneumoniae in a German neurorehabilitation center from April 2015 to April 2016 t...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Becker L,Fuchs S,Pfeifer Y,Semmler T,Eckmanns T,Korr G,Sissolak D,Friedrichs M,Zill E,Tung ML,Dohle C,Kaase M,Gatermann S,Rüssmann H,Steglich M,Haller S,Werner G

更新日期：2018-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio parahaemolyticus, the leading cause of seafood-associated gastroenteritis, harbors two separate T6SSs on chromosomes 1 and 2, i.e., T6SS1 (VP1386-1420) and T6SS2 (VPA1025-1046). T6SS1 contains at least 7 putative operons: VP1386-1387, VP1388-1390, VP1392-1391, VP1393-1406, VP1400-1406, VP1409-1407, and VP1410-1...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang Y,Gao H,Osei-Adjei G,Zhang Y,Yang W,Yang H,Yin Z,Huang X,Zhou D

更新日期：2017-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies showed differences in the regulatory response to C/N balance in Prochlorococcus with respect to other cyanobacteria, but no information was available about its causes, or the ecological advantages conferred to thrive in oligotrophic environments. We addressed the changes in key enzymes (glutamine synt...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Domínguez-Martín MA,López-Lozano A,Clavería-Gimeno R,Velázquez-Campoy A,Seidel G,Burkovski A,Díez J,García-Fernández JM

更新日期：2018-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the taxonomic composition of the bacterioplankton of the epipelagic zone of the Atlantic Ocean along a latitudinal transect (51°S-47°N) using Illumina sequencing of the V5-V6 region of the 16S rRNA gene and inferred co-occurrence networks. Bacterioplankon community composition was distinct for Longhursti...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Milici M,Deng ZL,Tomasch J,Decelle J,Wos-Oxley ML,Wang H,Jáuregui R,Plumeier I,Giebel HA,Badewien TH,Wurst M,Pieper DH,Simon M,Wagner-Döbler I

更新日期：2016-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS), Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) are physical techniques widely employed to characterize the morphology and the structure of vesicles such as liposomes or human extracellular vesicles (exosomes). Bacterial extracellular vesicles are similar ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Sarra A,Celluzzi A,Bruno SP,Ricci C,Sennato S,Ortore MG,Casciardi S,Del Chierico F,Postorino P,Bordi F,Masotti A

更新日期：2020-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcal species are Gram-positive bacteria involved in severe and invasive diseases in humans and animals. Although, this group includes different pathogenic species involved in life-threatening infections for humans, it also includes beneficial species, such as Streptococcus thermophilus, which is used in yogur...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zorgani MA,Quentin R,Lartigue MF

更新日期：2016-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The ubiquitous Gram-negative bacterium Legionella pneumophila parasitizes environ mental amoebae and, upon inhalation, replicates in alveolar macrophages, thus causing a life-threatening pneumonia called "Legionnaires' disease." The opportunistic pathogen employs a bi-phasic life cycle, alternating between a replicati...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hochstrasser R,Hilbi H

更新日期：2017-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Although signal exchange between legumes and their rhizobia is among the best-known examples of this biological process, most of the more characterized data comes from just a few legume species and environmental stresses. Although a relative wealth of information is available for some model legumes and some of the maj...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lira MA Jr,Nascimento LR,Fracetto GG

更新日期：2015-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple, sensitive and selective colorimetric biosensor for the detection of Staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) was developed using SEB-binding aptamer (SEB2) as recognition element and unmodified gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) as colorimetric probes. The assay is based on color change from red to purple due to conformat...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mondal B,Ramlal S,Lavu PS,N B,Kingston J

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas sp. BGI-2 is a psychrotrophic bacterium isolated from the ice sample collected from Batura glacier, Pakistan. This strain produces highly viscous colonies on agar media supplemented with glucose. In this study, we have optimized growth and production of exopolysaccharide (EPS) by the cold-adapted Pseudomon...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ali P,Shah AA,Hasan F,Hertkorn N,Gonsior M,Sajjad W,Chen F

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In fast-flowing, river-dominated estuaries, "hotspots" of microbial biogeochemical cycling can be found within areas of extended water retention. Lateral bays located off of the North and South channels of the Columbia River estuary are proposed to be such hotspots. Previous metagenomic studies on water samples indica...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Smith MW,Herfort L,Rivers AR,Simon HM

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The transition to terrestrial environments by formerly aquatic species has occurred repeatedly in many animal phyla and lead to the vast diversity of extant terrestrial species. The differences between aquatic and terrestrial habitats are enormous and involved remarkable morphological and physiological changes. Conver...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Cannicci S,Fratini S,Meriggi N,Bacci G,Iannucci A,Mengoni A,Cavalieri D

更新日期：2020-10-07 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：:We have characterized the single subunit RNA polymerase from Klebsiella phage KP34. The enzyme is unique among known bacteriophage RNA polymerases in that it recognizes two unrelated promoter sequences, which provided clues for the evolution of phage single-subunit RNA polymerases. As the first representative enzyme f...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lu X,Wu H,Xia H,Huang F,Yan Y,Yu B,Cheng R,Drulis-Kawa Z,Zhu B

更新日期：2019-10-31 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：:Many organisms harbor circadian clocks that promote their adaptation to the rhythmic environment. While a broad knowledge of the molecular mechanism of circadian clocks has been gained through the fungal model Neurospora crassa, little is known about circadian clocks in other fungi. N. crassa belongs to the same class...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Cascant-Lopez E,Crosthwaite SK,Johnson LJ,Harrison RJ

更新日期：2020-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past several decades, sulfate concentration and salinity have been considered to be the two essential hydrochemical factors in the formation of dolomite, yet arguments against this hypothesis have existed simultaneously. To clarify the effects of sulfate concentration and salinity in the mineralization of dolom...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Qiu X,Yao Y,Wang H,Shen A,Zhang J

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The gastrointestinal microbiome is crucial in human health. With greater than 10 times the cell count of an individual, the gastrointestinal microbiome provides many benefits to the host. It plays an important role in chronic illnesses and immune diseases and also following burns and trauma. This study aimed to determ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Huang G,Sun K,Yin S,Jiang B,Chen Y,Gong Y,Chen Y,Yang Z,Chen J,Yuan Z,Peng Y

更新日期：2017-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has become a global public health burden costing billions of dollars in health care annually. Even with rapidly advancing scientific technologies this disease still poses a significant threat due to a lack of vaccines and affordable treatment options. The immune correlates of protecti...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Manickam C,Reeves RK

更新日期：2014-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The rice bacterial blight pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) injects transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs) that bind and activate host "susceptibility" (S) genes important for disease. Clade III SWEET genes are major S genes for bacterial blight. The resistance genes xa5, which reduces TALE activity...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Carpenter SCD,Mishra P,Ghoshal C,Dash PK,Wang L,Midha S,Laha GS,Lore JS,Kositratana W,Singh NK,Singh K,Patil PB,Oliva R,Patarapuwadol S,Bogdanove AJ,Rai R

更新日期：2018-11-13 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：:Beta-lactam antibiotics are an important class of antibiotics for treating bacterial infections. Despite prevalent β-lactam resistance in Campylobacter jejuni, the leading bacterial cause of human diarrhea in developed countries, molecular mechanism of β-lactam resistance in C. jejuni is still largely unknown. In this...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zeng X,Gillespie B,Lin J

更新日期：2015-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies indicate that variation of marine bacterial beta diversity in the horizontal dimension is mainly attributable to environmental and spatial effects. However, whether and how these two effects drive bacterial beta diversity in the vertical dimension remains unclear, especially when considering seasonal vari...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Cheng WH,Lu HP,Chen CC,Jan S,Hsieh CH

更新日期：2020-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural products have traditionally been discovered through the screening of culturable microbial isolates from diverse environments. The sequencing revolution allowed the identification of dozens of biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) within single bacterial genomes, either from cultured or uncultured strains. However,...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Iglesias A,Latorre-Pérez A,Stach JEM,Porcar M,Pascual J

更新日期：2020-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-read nanopore sequencing by a MinION device offers the unique possibility to directly sequence native RNA. We combined an enzymatic poly-A tailing reaction with the native RNA sequencing to (i) sequence complex population of single-stranded (ss)RNA viruses in parallel, (ii) detect genome, subgenomic mRNA/mRNA sim...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wongsurawat T,Jenjaroenpun P,Taylor MK,Lee J,Tolardo AL,Parvathareddy J,Kandel S,Wadley TD,Kaewnapan B,Athipanyasilp N,Skidmore A,Chung D,Chaimayo C,Whitt M,Kantakamalakul W,Sutthent R,Horthongkham N,Ussery DW,Jonsson

更新日期：2019-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Engineered nanoparticles have provided a basis for innovative agricultural applications, specifically in plant disease management. In this interdisciplinary study, by conducting comparison studies using macroscale magnesium oxide (mMgO), we evaluated the fungicidal activity of MgO nanoparticles (nMgO) against soilborn...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chen J,Wu L,Lu M,Lu S,Li Z,Ding W

更新日期：2020-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Pestiviruses are highly variable RNA viruses. A growing number of novel pestiviruses has been discovered in domestic and wild species in the last two decades. Recently, a novel atypical porcine pestivirus (APPV) linked with the development of congenital tremor (CT) in neonatal pigs was described in Europe and the Amer...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yuan J,Han Z,Li J,Huang Y,Yang J,Ding H,Zhang J,Zhu M,Zhang Y,Liao J,Zhao M,Chen J

更新日期：2017-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: To reveal the prevalence and epidemiology of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)- and/or plasmid AmpC (pAmpC)- and carbapenemase (CP) producing Enterobacteriaceae and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) across the Northern Dutch-German border region. Methods: A point-prevalence study on ESBL/pAmpC/CP p...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhou X,García-Cobos S,Ruijs GJHM,Kampinga GA,Arends JP,Borst DM,Möller LV,Holman ND,Schuurs TA,Bruijnesteijn van Coppenraet LE,Weel JF,van Zeijl JH,Köck R,Rossen JWA,Friedrich AW

更新日期：2017-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we explore the virulence of vesicular stomatitis New Jersey virus (VSNJV) in pigs and its potential relationship with the virus's ability to modulate innate responses. For this purpose, we developed a mutant of the highly virulent strain NJ0612NME6, containing a single amino acid substitution in the mat...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Velazquez-Salinas L,Pauszek SJ,Holinka LG,Gladue DP,Rekant SI,Bishop EA,Stenfeldt C,Verdugo-Rodriguez A,Borca MV,Arzt J,Rodriguez LL

更新日期：2020-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea (AOB and AOA, respectively) to the net oxidation of ammonia varies greatly between terrestrial environments. To better understand, predict and possibly manage terrestrial nitrogen turnover, we need to develop a conceptual understanding of ammonia oxidation as ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Daebeler A,Abell GC,Bodelier PL,Bodrossy L,Frampton DM,Hefting MM,Laanbroek HJ

更新日期：2012-10-04 00:00:00