Detection of autotrophic verrucomicrobial methanotrophs in a geothermal environment using stable isotope probing.

abstract：:Shiga toxin (Stx) producing E. coli (STEC) such as Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) are the major cause of foodborne illness in humans. In vitro studies showed the probiotic Escherichia coli strain Nissle 1917 (EcN) to efficiently inhibit the production of Stx. Life threatening EHEC strains as for example the serotype...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Bury S,Soundararajan M,Bharti R,von Bünau R,Förstner KU,Oelschlaeger TA

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylglycerol (PG) is an indispensable phospholipid class with photosynthetic function in plants and cyanobacteria. However, its biosynthesis in eukaryotic green microalgae is poorly studied. Here, we report the isolation and characterization of two homologs (CrPGP1 and CrPGP2) of phosphatidylglycerophosphate s...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hung CH,Endo K,Kobayashi K,Nakamura Y,Wada H

更新日期：2015-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Symbiotic bacterial communities resident on amphibian skin can benefit their hosts. For example, antibiotic production by community members can control the pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) and it is possible for these community members to be used as probiotics to reduce infection levels. In the early 1990s...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Bell SC,Garland S,Alford RA

更新日期：2018-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) is a viable and financially feasible tool for timely and comprehensive diagnosis of drug resistance in developed countries. With the increase in the incidence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), second-line anti-TB drugs are gaining importance. However, genetic resis...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chen X,He G,Wang S,Lin S,Chen J,Zhang W

更新日期：2019-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Reducing phenanthrene (PHE) in the environment is critical to ecosystem and human health. Biodegradation, biosorption, and the trans-membrane transport mechanism of PHE by a novel strain, Massilia sp. WF1, and an extensively researched model fungus, Phanerochaete chrysosporium were investigated in aqueous solutions. R...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gu H,Lou J,Wang H,Yang Y,Wu L,Wu J,Xu J

更新日期：2016-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is the causative agent for toxoplasmosis. The rhoptry protein 1 (ROP1) is secreted by rhoptry, an apical secretory organelle of the parasite. ROP1 plays an important role in host cell invasion. In this study, the efficacy of ROP1 as a vaccine candidate against toxoplasmosis was evaluated through intr...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Sonaimuthu P,Ching XT,Fong MY,Kalyanasundaram R,Lau YL

更新日期：2016-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii is emerging as a challenging nosocomial pathogen due to its rapid evolution of antibiotic resistance. We report characterization of two novel bacteriophages, PBAB08 and PBAB25, infecting clinically isolated, multidrug-resistant (MDR) A. baumannii strains. Both phages belonged to Myoviridae of C...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Cha K,Oh HK,Jang JY,Jo Y,Kim WK,Ha GU,Ko KS,Myung H

更新日期：2018-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus (S.aureus) resistance, considered a dilemma for the clinical treatment of this bacterial infection, is becoming increasingly intractable. Novel anti-virulence strategies will undoubtedly provide a path forward in combating these resistant bacterial infections. Sortase A (SrtA), an enzyme responsi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang B,Teng Z,Li X,Lu G,Deng X,Niu X,Wang J

更新日期：2017-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella spp., the etiological agent of shigellosis or "bacillary dysentery," are responsible for considerable morbidity and mortality in excess of a million deaths globally per year. Although PCR-based techniques (such as PCR-based dipstick biosensors) have been used for the molecular diagnosis of infectious disease,...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang Y,Wang Y,Xu J,Ye C

更新日期：2016-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxins are a superfamily of secreted virulence factors that share structural and functional similarities and possess potent superantigenic activity causing disruptions in adaptive immunity. The enterotoxins can be separated into two groups; the classical (SEA-SEE) and the newer (SEG-SEl...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Fisher EL,Otto M,Cheung GYC

更新日期：2018-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was aimed to determine the prevalence and characteristics of Salmonella isolated from meat samples of commercial broilers (CB) and spent hens (SH). Between March and June 2016, 200 retail raw chicken carcasses (100 from CB and 100 from SH) were obtained from local supermarkets in Tai'an city of China...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Li S,Zhou Y,Miao Z

更新日期：2017-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Photobacteria are common psychrophilic bacteria found in marine environments. Recently, several studies revealed high numbers of Photobacterium (P.) spp. on packaged fresh meat. Their occurrence appears relevant for the spoilage of meat, since species of the genus are already known as potent fish spoilage organisms. H...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Fuertes-Perez S,Hauschild P,Hilgarth M,Vogel RF

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a disease of cereal crops caused by trichothecene producing Fusarium species. Trichothecenes, macrocylicic fungal metabolites composed of three fused rings (A-C) with one epoxide functionality, are a class of mycotoxins known to inhibit protein synthesis in eukaryotic ribosomes. These tox...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Foroud NA,Shank RA,Kiss D,Eudes F,Hazendonk P

更新日期：2016-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasmosis, which is one of the most widespread zoonoses worldwide, has a high incidence and infection can result in severe disease in humans and livestock. Citrate synthase (CS) is a component of nearly all living cells that plays a vital role in the citric acid cycle, which is the central metabolic pathway of aer...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Liu X,Ma Q,Sun X,Lu M,Ehsan M,Hasan MW,Xu L,Yan R,Song X,Li X

更新日期：2017-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions with microbes affect many aspects of animal biology, including immune system development, nutrition and health. In vertebrates, the gut microbiota is dominated by a small subset of phyla, but the species composition within these phyla is typically not conserved. Moreover, several recent studies have shown...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ellegaard KM,Engel P

更新日期：2016-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We firstly report a patient who presented with severe complications after infection with influenza A(H1N1) pdm2009, more than 1 year after recovery from severe H7N9 virus infections. The population of patients who recovered from severe H7N9 infections might be at a higher risk to suffer severe complications after seas...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chen SH,Wu MN,Qian YH,Ma GY,Wang GL,Yang Y,Zhao T,Lu B,Ma MJ,Cao WC

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The term microbiome describes the genetic material encoding the various microbial populations that inhabit our body. Whilst colonization of various body niches (e.g., the gut) by dynamic communities of microorganisms is now universally accepted, the existence of microbial populations in other "classically sterile" loc...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Whittle E,Leonard MO,Harrison R,Gant TW,Tonge DP

更新日期：2019-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammals, the microbiota can be transmitted from the placenta, uterus, and vagina of the mother to the infant. Unlike mammals, development of the avian embryo is a process isolated from the mother and thus in the avian embryo the gut microbial developmental process remains elusive. To explore the establishment and i...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ding J,Dai R,Yang L,He C,Xu K,Liu S,Zhao W,Xiao L,Luo L,Zhang Y,Meng H

更新日期：2017-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:For the past 25 years, phage display technology has been an invaluable tool for studies of protein-protein interactions. However, the inherent biological, biochemical, and biophysical properties of filamentous bacteriophage, as well as the ease of its genetic manipulation, also make it an attractive platform outside t...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Henry KA,Arbabi-Ghahroudi M,Scott JK

更新日期：2015-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The viruses play an important role in limiting bacterial abundance in oceans and, hence, in regulating bacterial biogeochemical functions. A cruise was conducted in September 2005 along a transect in the deep South China Sea (SCS). The results showed the double maxima in the ratio of viral to bacterial abundance (VBR)...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： He L,Yin K,Yuan X

更新日期：2019-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Many publications highlight the importance of nitric oxide (NO) in plant-bacteria interactions, either in the promotion of health and plant growth or in pathogenesis. However, the role of NO in the signaling between bacteria and plants and in the fate of their interaction, as well as the reconstruction of their intera...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Santana MM,Gonzalez JM,Cruz C

更新日期：2017-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A library of 14 minimally cytotoxic diterpenoid-like compounds (CC50 > 70 μM on HepG2 human liver cells) was screened against Mycobacterium smegmatis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Escherichia coli to determine antimicrobial activity. Some compounds with a phenethyl alcohol (PE) core substituted with a β-cyclocitral deri...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Crusco A,Baptista R,Bhowmick S,Beckmann M,Mur LAJ,Westwell AD,Hoffmann KF

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Chagasic chronic cardiomyopathy is one of the most frequent and severe manifestations of Chagas disease, caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. The pathogenic and biochemical mechanisms responsible for cardiac lesions remain not completely understood, although it is clear that hypertrophy and subsequent heart dilat...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Libisch MG,Faral-Tello P,Garg NJ,Radi R,Piacenza L,Robello C

更新日期：2018-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Macaque monkeys serve as important animal models for understanding the pathogenesis of lentiviral infections. Since human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) hardly replicates in macaque cells, simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) or chimeric viruses between HIV-1 and SIV (SHIV) have been used as challenge viruses in...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Saito A,Akari H

更新日期：2013-07-09 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：:The Arctic seasonal snowpack can extend at times over a third of the Earth's land surface. This chemically dynamic environment interacts constantly with different environmental compartments such as atmosphere, soil and meltwater, and thus, strongly influences the entire biosphere. However, the microbial community asso...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Maccario L,Vogel TM,Larose C

更新日期：2014-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The new era of multidrug resistance of pathogens against frontline antibiotics has compromised the immense therapeutic gains of the 'golden age,' stimulating a resurgence in antimicrobial research focused on antimicrobial and immunomodulatory components of botanical, fungal or microbial origin. While much valuable inf...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Sadgrove NJ,Jones GL

更新日期：2019-10-31 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：: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：:The amendment of crop residues produced under elevated CO2 (eCO2) may alter soil microbial community structure and their functions on residue decomposition and carbon (C) cycling in soil. The key to understanding this process is to elucidate the structure of prokaryotic communities that metabolize crop residues derive...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang Y,Yu Z,Li Y,Wang G,Tang C,Liu X,Liu J,Xie Z,Jin J

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00