Looking at Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus-Host Interactions from a microRNA Viewpoint.

abstract：:The claudin family protein Fig1 is a unique fungal protein that is involved in pheromone-induced calcium influx and membrane fusion during the mating of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida albicans. Whether and how Fig1 regulates Ca2+ homeostasis in response to extracellular stimuli is poorly understood. Previously, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Qian H,Chen Q,Zhang S,Lu L

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01824.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang Z,Li Y,Luo L,Hao J,Li J

更新日期：2020-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Wheezing is a lower respiratory tract symptom induced by various viral respiratory infections. Epidemiological studies have revealed the phenotypes of wheezing in early childhood which have different risk factors for the development of asthma among school age children. The major viral species causing wheezing in child...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Inoue Y,Shimojo N

更新日期：2013-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:EspF is a central effector protein of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC), enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC), and Citrobacter rodentium (CR) that is secreted through the type III secretion system to host cells. The interaction between EspF and host proteins plays an important role in bacterial pathogenesis. EspF p...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hua Y,Yan K,Wan C

更新日期：2018-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Globally, mosquitoes are known to be competent vectors to various arboviruses that cause serious and debilitating diseases to humans and animals. Conversely, mosquitoes harbor a wide array of insect specific viruses (ISVs) that are generally neglected. Extensive characterization of these ISVs is important in understan...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhao L,Mwaliko C,Atoni E,Wang Y,Zhang Y,Zhan J,Hu X,Xia H,Yuan Z

更新日期：2019-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that many organisms can perceive the magnetic field (MF), including the geomagnetic field, but how to feel MF is unclear. Recently, a study has claimed that a biological compass, namely a complex of the magnetic receptor (MagR) and blue light (BL) receptor (cryptochrome), has been found in Homo sapien...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhou H,Yang S,Chen F

更新日期：2020-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Low energy electron beam (LEEB) treatment is an emerging non-thermal technology that performs surface decontamination with a minimal influence on food quality. Bacterial spore resistance toward LEEB treatment and its influencing factors were investigated in this study. Spores from Geobacillus and Bacillus species were...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang Y,Moeller R,Tran S,Dubovcova B,Akepsimaidis G,Meneses N,Drissner D,Mathys A

更新日期：2018-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Africa, Asia, and Latin America are regions highly affected by endemic diseases, such as Leishmaniasis, Malaria, and Chagas' disease. They are responsible for the death of 1000s of patients every year, as there is not yet a cure for them and the drugs used are inefficient against the pathogenic parasites. During the l...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lacerda AF,Pelegrini PB,de Oliveira DM,Vasconcelos ÉA,Grossi-de-Sá MF

更新日期：2016-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A range of attributes determines the virulence of human pathogens. During interactions with their hosts, pathogenic microbes often undergo transitions between distinct stages, and the ability to switch between these can be directly related to the disease process. Understanding the mechanisms and dynamics of these tran...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Tyc KM,Kühn C,Wilson D,Klipp E

更新日期：2014-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:An estimated 17% of cancers worldwide are associated with infectious causes. The extent and biological significance of viral presence/infection in actual tumor samples is generally unknown but could be measured using human transcriptome (RNA-seq) data from tumor samples. We present an open source bioinformatics pipeli...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Bhuvaneshwar K,Song L,Madhavan S,Gusev Y

更新日期：2018-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:DsrAB-type dissimilatory sulfite reductase is a key enzyme of microbial sulfur-dependent energy metabolism. Sulfur oxidizers also contain DsrL, which is essential for sulfur oxidation in Allochromatium vinosum. This NAD(P)H oxidoreductase acts as physiological partner of oxidative-type rDsrAB. Recent analyses uncovere...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Löffler M,Wallerang KB,Venceslau SS,Pereira IAC,Dahl C

更新日期：2020-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:During cystic fibrosis (CF) chronic lung infections, bacteria of the Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) are exposed for several years to a stressful and changing environment. These environmental challenges results in genetic changes of the initial infecting strain with the consequent diversification of genotypes and p...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Moreira AS,Lourenço AB,Sá-Correia I

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary tract infection is primarily caused by Escherichia coli. Multidrug resistance and their rapid dissemination in this pathogenic microbe complicate therapeutic strategies and threaten public health. Conjugation systems responsible for interbacterial transmission of antibiotic resistance are plasmid-encoded and c...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mukherjee SK,Mukherjee M

更新日期：2019-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to polymyxins in most Gram-negative bacteria arises from chemical modifications to the lipid A portion of their lipopolysaccharide (LPS) mediated by chromosomally encoded mutations or the recently discovered plasmid-encoded mcr genes that have further complicated the landscape of colistin resistance. Curren...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Dortet L,Bonnin RA,Le Hello S,Fabre L,Bonnet R,Kostrzewa M,Filloux A,Larrouy-Maumus G

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Monacolin K (MK) is a secondary metabolite of the Monascus species that can inhibit cholesterol synthesis. Functional red mold rice (FRMR) is the fermentation product of Monascus spp., which is rich in MK. FRMR is usually employed to regulate serum cholesterol, especially for hypercholesterolemic patients who refuse s...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yanli F,Xiang Y

更新日期：2020-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In our previous study we demonstrated that proteinase PrtP is able to impair bacteriocin LcnB activity, despite being produced by the same organism and encoded by the same plasmid. However, precise mechanism of this action, i.e., the exact cleavage site within LcnB bacteriocin, as well as its effect on antimicrobial a...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Vukotic G,Polovic N,Mirkovic N,Jovcic B,Stanisavljevic N,Fira D,Kojic M

更新日期：2019-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The RstB histidine kinase of the two component system RstAB positively regulates the expression of damselysin (Dly), phobalysin P (PhlyP) and phobalysin C (PhlyC) cytotoxins in the fish and human pathogen Photobacterium damselae subsp. damselae, a marine bacterium of the family Vibrionaceae. However, the function of t...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Terceti MS,Vences A,Matanza XM,Barca AV,Noia M,Lisboa J,Dos Santos NMS,do Vale A,Osorio CR

更新日期：2019-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The threat of bioterrorism and pandemics has highlighted the urgency for rapid and reliable bioaerosol detection in different environments. Safeguarding against such threats requires continuous sampling of the ambient air for pathogen detection. In this study we investigated the efficacy of the Airborne Sample Analysi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Sharma A,Clark E,McGlothlin JD,Mittal SK

更新日期：2015-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:About half of seaweed biomass is composed of polysaccharides. Most of these complex polymers have a marked polyanionic character. For instance, the red algal cell wall is mainly composed of sulfated galactans, agars and carrageenans, while brown algae contain alginate and fucose-containing sulfated polysaccharides (FC...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gobet A,Barbeyron T,Matard-Mann M,Magdelenat G,Vallenet D,Duchaud E,Michel G

更新日期：2018-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrational spectroscopy is increasingly used for the rapid and non-destructive imaging of environmental and medical samples. Both Raman and Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) imaging have been applied to obtain detailed information on the chemical composition of biological materials, ranging from single microbial cel...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Harrison JP,Berry D

更新日期：2017-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we investigated how the source of organic carbon (Corg) and nitrogen (Norg) affects the interactions between fungi of the genus Morchella and bacteria dispersing along their hyphae (fungal highways; FH). We demonstrated that bacteria using FH increase the hydrolysis of an organic nitrogen source that onl...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lohberger A,Spangenberg JE,Ventura Y,Bindschedler S,Verrecchia EP,Bshary R,Junier P

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) technology has been applied in a wide range of fields such as detection of foodborne bacteria and clinical pathogens due to its simplicity and efficiency. However, existing LAMP primer designing systems require a conserved gene or a short genome region as input, and they c...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Jia B,Li X,Liu W,Lu C,Lu X,Ma L,Li YY,Wei C

更新日期：2019-12-13 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：:Ebolavirus (EBOV) is an enveloped, non-segmented, negative-stranded RNA virus, which consists of five species: Zaire ebolavirus, Sudan ebolavirus, Tai Forest ebolavirus, Bundibugyo ebolavirus, and Reston ebolavirus. EBOV causes a lethal hemorrhagic fever in both humans and non-human primates. The EBOV RNA genome encod...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yasuda J

更新日期：2012-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The proton pump rhodopsin is widely found in marine bacteria and archaea, where it functions to capture light energy and convert it to ATP. While found in several lineages of dinoflagellates, this gene has not been studied in Prorocentrales species and whether it functionally tunes to light spectra and intensities as ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Shi X,Li L,Guo C,Lin X,Li M,Lin S

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the subarctic climate of Clinton Creek, Yukon, Canada, lies an abandoned and flooded open-pit asbestos mine that harbors rapidly growing microbialites. To understand their formation we completed a metagenomic community profile of the microbialites and their surrounding sediments. Assembled metagenomic data reve...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： White RA 3rd,Power IM,Dipple GM,Southam G,Suttle CA

更新日期：2015-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) is a facultative intracellular pathogen that colonizes the chicken gut leading to contamination of carcasses during processing. A reduction in intestinal colonization by SE could result in reduced carcass contamination thereby reducing the risk of illnesses in humans. Short chain fatty acid...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gupta A,Bansal M,Wagle B,Sun X,Rath N,Donoghue A,Upadhyay A

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria in natural habitats are exposed to myriad redox-active compounds (RACs), which include producers of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive electrophile species (RES) that alkylate or oxidize thiols. RACs can induce oxidative stress in cells and activate response pathways by modulating the activity of sens...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lee KL,Yoo JS,Oh GS,Singh AK,Roe JH

更新日期：2017-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Measles virus (MV) is an enveloped negative strand RNA virus belonging to the family of Paramyxoviridae, genus Morbillivirus, and causes one of the most contagious diseases in humans. Experimentally infected non-human primates are used as animal models for studies of the pathogenesis of human measles. We established a...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kato SI,Nagata K,Takeuchi K

更新日期：2012-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial dissimilatory sulfate reduction to sulfide is a predominant terminal pathway of organic matter mineralization in the anoxic seabed. Chemical or microbial oxidation of the produced sulfide establishes a complex network of pathways in the sulfur cycle, leading to intermediate sulfur species and partly back to ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Jørgensen BB,Findlay AJ,Pellerin A

更新日期：2019-04-24 00:00:00