Chloroplast symbiosis in a marine ciliate: ecophysiology and the risks and rewards of hosting foreign organelles.

abstract：:Despite being one of the most important human fungal pathogens, Candida albicans has not been studied extensively at the level of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) and data on PPIs are not readily available in online databases. In January 2018, the database called "Biological General Repository for Interaction Datas...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Schoeters F,Van Dijck P

更新日期：2019-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium vivax is increasingly the dominant species of malaria in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), which is pursuing regional malaria elimination. P. vivax lineages in the GMS are poorly characterized. Currently, P. vivax reference genomes are scarce due to difficulties in culturing the parasite and lack of high-...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Brashear AM,Huckaby AC,Fan Q,Dillard LJ,Hu Y,Li Y,Zhao Y,Wang Z,Cao Y,Miao J,Guler JL,Cui L

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Phage therapy requires libraries of well-characterized phages. Here we describe the generation of phage libraries for three target species: Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter cloacae. The basic phage characteristics on the isolation host, sequence analysis, growth properties, and host range and...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gibson SB,Green SI,Liu CG,Salazar KC,Clark JR,Terwilliger AL,Kaplan HB,Maresso AW,Trautner BW,Ramig RF

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Arid regions show relatively fewer species in comparison to better-watered biomes, but the competition for the few nutrients is very distinct. Here, in total 373 bacterial strains were isolated from rhizospheric soils obtained from three different sampling sites in Tunisia. Their potential for the production of antimi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Nasfi Z,Busch H,Kehraus S,Linares-Otoya L,König GM,Schäberle TF,Bachoual R

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The gastrointestinal tract is an ideal habitat for diverse bacterial species that reside in a homeostatic balance with local tissue and significantly contribute to host health. Negative shifts in gut microbiota profiles, also known as dysbiosis, may be implicated in the development of chronic disorders such as inflamm...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Babbar A,Hitch TCA,Pabst O,Clavel T,Hübel J,Eswaran S,Wagner N,Schippers A

更新日期：2019-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term dietary fatty acid intake is believed to induce changes in the human gut microbiome which might be associated with human health or obesity status; however, considerable debate remains regarding the most favorable ratios of fatty acids to optimize these processes. The objective of this sub-study of a double-b...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Pu S,Khazanehei H,Jones PJ,Khafipour E

更新日期：2016-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella and Salmonella are frequently isolated from various food samples and can cause human gastroenteritis. Here, a novel multiple endonuclease restriction real-time loop-mediated isothermal amplification technology (MERT-LAMP) were successfully established and validated for simultaneous detection of Shigella strai...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang Y,Wang Y,Luo L,Liu D,Luo X,Xu Y,Hu S,Niu L,Xu J,Ye C

更新日期：2015-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Reversible protein phosphorylation, regulated by protein kinases and phosphatases, mediates a switch between protein activity and cellular pathways that contribute to a large number of cellular processes. The Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome encodes 11 Serine/Threonine kinases (STPKs) which show close homology to euk...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Fortuin S,Tomazella GG,Nagaraj N,Sampson SL,Gey van Pittius NC,Soares NC,Wiker HG,de Souza GA,Warren RM

更新日期：2015-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial species differ greatly in the number and location of the rRNA operons which may be present in the bacterial chromosomes and plasmids. Most bacterial species contain more than one ribosomal RNA operon copy in their genomes, with some species containing up to 15 such copies. We review the number and location o...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Espejo RT,Plaza N

更新日期：2018-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bacteria belonging to the phylum of Actinobacteria are known as antagonists against phytpathogenic microbes. This study aimed to analyze the effect of ozone on the actinobacterial community of the rhizosphere of four years old European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) trees during different time points of the vegetatio...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Haesler F,Hagn A,Engel M,Schloter M

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Since nitrogenase is extremely vulnerable to oxygen, aerobic or micro-aerobic nitrogen-fixing organisms need to create anaerobic microenvironments in the cells for diazotrophic growth, which would be one of the major barriers to express active nitrogenase in plants in efforts to create nitrogen-fixing plants. Numerous...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Nonaka A,Yamamoto H,Kamiya N,Kotani H,Yamakawa H,Tsujimoto R,Fujita Y

更新日期：2019-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Flor strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae are principal microbial agents responsible for biological wine aging used for production of sherry-like wines. The flor yeast velum formed on the surface of fortified fermented must is a major adaptive and technological characteristic of flor yeasts that helps them to withstand...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mardanov AV,Eldarov MA,Beletsky AV,Tanashchuk TN,Kishkovskaya SA,Ravin NV

更新日期：2020-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic dechlorination of chlorophenols often subjects to their toxicity and recalcitrance, presenting low loading rate and poor degradation efficiency. In this study, in order to accelerate p-chlorophenol (p-CP) reduction and extracellular electron transfer in an anaerobic system, three iron-oxide nanoparticles, na...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Jiang X,Chen Y,Hou C,Liu X,Ou C,Han W,Sun X,Li J,Wang L,Shen J

更新日期：2018-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we report the effects of fungal metabolites isolated from cultures of the fungus Trichoderma citrinoviride ITEM 4484 on the feeding preference of the aphid Rhopalosiphum padi, a major pest of cereal crops. Different phagodeterrent metabolites were purified by a combination of direct and reverse phase col...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ganassi S,Grazioso P,De Cristofaro A,Fiorentini F,Sabatini MA,Evidente A,Altomare C

更新日期：2016-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfate-reducing prokaryotes (SRP) are ubiquitous and quantitatively important members in many ecosystems, especially in marine sediments. However their abundance and diversity in subsurface marine sediments is poorly understood. In this study, the abundance and diversity of the functional genes for the enzymes adenos...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Blazejak A,Schippers A

更新日期：2011-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) is a key regulatory pathway of gene expression in almost all eukaryotes. This mechanism relies on short non-coding RNA molecules (sRNAs) to recognize in a sequence-specific manner DNA or RNA targets leading to transcriptional or post-transcriptional gene silencing. To date, the fundamental role...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Silvestri A,Turina M,Fiorilli V,Miozzi L,Venice F,Bonfante P,Lanfranco L

更新日期：2020-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of studies have shown that elevated atmospheric CO2 ([CO2]) affects rice yields and grain quality. However, the responses of root-associated bacteria to [CO2] elevation have not been characterized in a large-scale field study. We conducted a free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiment (ambient + 200 μmol.mol(-1...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Okubo T,Liu D,Tsurumaru H,Ikeda S,Asakawa S,Tokida T,Tago K,Hayatsu M,Aoki N,Ishimaru K,Ujiie K,Usui Y,Nakamura H,Sakai H,Hayashi K,Hasegawa T,Minamisawa K

更新日期：2015-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Approximately 5% of women suffer from recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis (RVVC). It has been hypothesized that genetic factors play an important role in the susceptibility to RVVC. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of genetic variants of genes encoding for pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) on ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rosentul DC,Delsing CE,Jaeger M,Plantinga TS,Oosting M,Costantini I,Venselaar H,Joosten LA,van der Meer JW,Dupont B,Kullberg BJ,Sobel JD,Netea MG

更新日期：2014-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The study evaluated the in vitro antimicrobial and antibiofilm efficacy of an antimicrobial peptide (AMP), lactoferricin (17-30) [Lfcin (17-30)], against biofilm-forming multi-drug-resistant (MDR) strains of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC), and subsequently, the in vivo antimicrobial efficacy was assessed in...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Vergis J,Malik SS,Pathak R,Kumar M,Ramanjaneya S,Kurkure NV,Barbuddhe SB,Rawool DB

更新日期：2020-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Agricultural soils are becoming contaminated with synthetic chemicals like polyaromatic compounds, petroleum hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), phenols, herbicides, insecticides and fungicides due to excessive dependency of crop production systems on the chemical inputs. Microbial degradation of organic p...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Singh DP,Prabha R,Gupta VK,Verma MK

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging strains of Bacillus cereus, traditionally considered a self-limiting foodborne pathogen, have been associated with anthrax-like disease in mammals, including humans. The strains have emerged by divergent evolution and, as exchange of genetic material in the Bacillus genus occurs naturally, it is possible that...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Baldwin VM

更新日期：2020-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions of mitochondria with the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) are crucial for maintaining proper mitochondrial morphology, function and dynamics. This enables cells to utilize their mitochondria optimally for energy production and anabolism, and it further provides for metabolic control over developmental decis...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Koch B,Tucey TM,Lo TL,Novakovic S,Boag P,Traven A

更新日期：2017-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the bacterial microbiomes lodged in the bronchial tree, oropharynx and nose of patients with early stage cystic fibrosis (CF) not using chronic antibiotics, determining their relationships with lung function and exacerbation frequency. CF patients were enrolled in a cohort study during stability and were c...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Garcia-Nuñez M,Garcia-Gonzalez M,Pomares X,Montón C,Millares L,Quero S,Prina E,Asensio O,Bosque M,Capilla S,Cuevas O,Monsó E

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) recurrence can result from either relapse of an original infection or exogenous reinfection with a new strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). The aim of this study was to assess the roles of relapse and reinfection among recurrent TB cases characterized by a high prevalence rate of drug-resistan...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zong Z,Huo F,Shi J,Jing W,Ma Y,Liang Q,Jiang G,Dai G,Huang H,Pang Y

更新日期：2018-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term monoculture cropping is usually accompanied by soil acidification and microbial community shifts. Soil aluminum ions are dissolved under acidic condition (pH < 5.0), and the resulting aluminum bioavailability can cause toxic effects in plants. In this study, we investigated the bacterial community compositio...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang S,Jiang Q,Liu X,Liu L,Ding W

更新日期：2020-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal microbiota is a complex microbial community, with diverse and stable populations hosted by the gastrointestinal tract since birth. This ecosystem holds multiple anti-infectious, anti-inflammatory, and immune modulating roles decisive for intestinal homeostasis. Among these, colonization resistance refer...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Iacob S,Iacob DG,Luminos LM

更新日期：2019-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Incorporation of self-derived CRISPR DNA protospacers in Campylobacter jejuni PT14 occurs in the presence of bacteriophages encoding a CRISPR-like Cas4 protein. This phenomenon was evident in carrier state infections where both bacteriophages and host are maintained for seemingly indefinite periods as stable populatio...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hooton SP,Brathwaite KJ,Connerton IF

更新日期：2016-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:IncI-complex plasmids can be divided into seven subgroups IncI1, IncI2, IncIγ, IncB/O, IncK1, IncK2, and IncZ. In this study, a replicon-based scheme was proposed for typing IncI-complex plasmids into four separately clustering subgroups IncI2, IncI1/B/O, IncIγ/K1 and IncK2/Z, the last three of which were combined fro...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang D,Zhao Y,Feng J,Hu L,Jiang X,Zhan Z,Yang H,Yang W,Gao B,Wang J,Li J,Yin Z,Zhou D

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms provide cells favorable growth conditions, which have been exploited in industrial biotechnological processes. However, industrial application of the biofilm has not yet been reported in Escherichia coli, one of the most important platform strains, though the biofilm has been extensively studied for pathogeni...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chen T,Liu N,Ren P,Xi X,Yang L,Sun W,Yu B,Ying H,Ouyang P,Liu D,Chen Y

更新日期：2019-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonostachys rosea is a biological control agent against Fusarium graminearum in small grain cereals and maize. Infections with F. graminearum do not only reduce the yield but, due to the production of mycotoxins, also affect the entire value chain of food and feed. In addition, production of other secondary metabolit...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gimeno A,Sohlberg E,Pakula T,Limnell J,Keller B,Laitila A,Vogelgsang S

更新日期：2019-07-16 00:00:00