abstract：:The methanogenic biodegradation of crude oil involves the conversion of hydrocarbons to methanogenic substrates by syntrophic bacteria and subsequent methane production by methanogens. Assessing the metabolic roles played by various microbial species in syntrophic communities remains a challenge, but such information ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Fowler SJ,Toth CR,Gieg LM

更新日期：2016-04-22 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：:The advent of next generation sequencing (NGS) has enabled investigations of the gut microbiome with unprecedented resolution and throughput. This has stimulated the development of sophisticated bioinformatics tools to analyze the massive amounts of data generated. Researchers therefore need a clear understanding of t...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Jovel J,Patterson J,Wang W,Hotte N,O'Keefe S,Mitchel T,Perry T,Kao D,Mason AL,Madsen KL,Wong GK

更新日期：2016-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Microorganisms that utilize various D-amino acids (DAAs) were successfully isolated from deep-sea sediments. The isolates were phylogenetically assigned to Alphaproteobacteria, Gammmaproteobacteria, and Bacilli. Some of the isolates exhibited high enantioselective degradation activities to various DAAs. In particular,...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kubota T,Kobayashi T,Nunoura T,Maruyama F,Deguchi S

更新日期：2016-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Purification of the origin recognition complex (ORC) from wild-type budding yeast cells more than two decades ago opened up doors to analyze the initiation of eukaryotic chromosomal DNA replication biochemically. Although revised methods to purify ORC from overproducing cells were reported later, purification of mutan...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kawakami H,Ohashi E,Tsurimoto T,Katayama T

更新日期：2016-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingolipids form of a unique and complex group of bioactive lipids in fungi. Structurally, sphingolipids of fungi are quite diverse with unique differences in the sphingoid backbone, amide linked fatty acyl chain and the polar head group. Two of the most studied and conserved sphingolipid classes in fungi are the gl...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Singh A,Del Poeta M

更新日期：2016-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the diversity and composition of airborne fungi associated with particulate matters (PMs) in Beijing, China, a total of 81 PM samples were collected, which were derived from PM2.5, PM10 fractions, and total suspended particles during haze and non-haze days. The airborne fungal community in these samples was ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yan D,Zhang T,Su J,Zhao LL,Wang H,Fang XM,Zhang YQ,Liu HY,Yu LY

更新日期：2016-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Canopy-forming seaweed species of the genus Cystoseira form diverse and productive habitats along temperate rocky coasts of the Mediterranean Sea. Despite numerous studies on the rich macrofauna and flora associated with Cystoseira spp., there is little knowledge about the epiphytic bacteria. We analyzed bacterial pop...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mancuso FP,D'Hondt S,Willems A,Airoldi L,De Clerck O

更新日期：2016-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Lower-termites are one of the best studied symbiotic systems in insects. Their ability to feed on a nitrogen-poor, wood-based diet with help from symbiotic microbes has been under investigation for almost a century. A unique microbial consortium living in the guts of lower termites is essential for wood-feeding. Host ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Peterson BF,Scharf ME

更新日期：2016-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cold-water corals, similar to tropical corals, contain diverse and complex microbial assemblages. These bacteria provide essential biological functions within coral holobionts, facilitating increased nutrient utilization and production of antimicrobial compounds. To date, few cold-water octocoral species have been ana...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lawler SN,Kellogg CA,France SC,Clostio RW,Brooke SD,Ross SW

更新日期：2016-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the MEFV gene, which encodes the protein named pyrin (also called marenostrin or TRIM20), are associated with the autoinflammatory disease familial Mediterranean fever (FMF). Recent genetic and immunologic studies uncovered novel functions of pyrin and raised several new questions in relation to FMF patho...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Manukyan G,Aminov R

更新日期：2016-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to a global increase in the range and number of infections caused by multi-resistant bacteria, phage therapy is currently experiencing a resurgence of interest. However, there are a number of well-known concerns over the use of phages to treat bacterial infections. In order to address concerns over safety and the ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Khan Mirzaei M,Haileselassie Y,Navis M,Cooper C,Sverremark-Ekström E,Nilsson AS

更新日期：2016-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The High Arctic is dominated by polar desert habitats whose microbial communities are poorly understood. In this study, we used next generation sequencing to describe the α- and β-diversity of microbial communities in polar desert soils from the Kongsfjorden region of Svalbard. Ten phyla dominated the soils and accoun...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： McCann CM,Wade MJ,Gray ND,Roberts JA,Hubert CR,Graham DW

更新日期：2016-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Chagas disease is one of the prevalent neglected tropical diseases, affecting at least 6-7 million individuals in Latin America. It is caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which is transmitted to vertebrate hosts by blood-sucking insects. After infection, the parasite invades and multiplies in the myoca...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Watanabe Costa R,da Silveira JF,Bahia D

更新日期：2016-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycotoxins, as microbial secondary metabolites, frequently contaminate cereal grains and pose a serious threat to human and animal health around the globe. Deoxynivalenol (DON), a commonly detected Fusarium mycotoxin, has drawn utmost attention due to high exposure levels and contamination frequency in the food chain....

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Tian Y,Tan Y,Liu N,Liao Y,Sun C,Wang S,Wu A

更新日期：2016-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae can enter into a viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state in order to survive in unfavorable environments. In this study, we studied the roles of five physicochemical and microbiological factors or states, namely, different strains, growth phases, oxygen, temperature, and starvation, on the development o...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wu B,Liang W,Kan B

更新日期：2016-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Manipulation of cell cycle is a commonly employed strategy of viruses for achieving a favorable cellular environment during infection. Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), the primary etiological agent of several human malignancies including Kaposi's sarcoma, and primary effusion lymphoma, encodes several o...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wei F,Gan J,Wang C,Zhu C,Cai Q

更新日期：2016-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:This mini-review describes three biological systems. All three include competing molecules and a limiting molecule that binds the competing molecules. Such systems are extensively researched by economists. In fact, the issue of limited resources is the defining feature of economic systems. Therefore, we call these sys...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Polansky H,Javaherian A

更新日期：2016-03-23 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：:Viral infections of the upper respiratory tract are associated with a variety of invasive diseases caused by Streptococcus pyogenes, the group A streptococcus, including pneumonia, necrotizing fasciitis, toxic shock syndrome, and bacteremia. While these polymicrobial infections, or superinfections, are complex, progre...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Herrera AL,Huber VC,Chaussee MS

更新日期：2016-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce a manually constructed and curated regulatory network model that describes the current state of knowledge of transcriptional regulation of Bacillus subtilis. The model corresponds to an updated and enlarged version of the regulatory model of central metabolism originally proposed in 2008. We extended the ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Faria JP,Overbeek R,Taylor RC,Conrad N,Vonstein V,Goelzer A,Fromion V,Rocha M,Rocha I,Henry CS

更新日期：2016-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Radix pseudostellariae L. is a common and popular Chinese medication. However, continuous monoculture has increased its susceptibility to severe diseases. We identified two pathogenic microorganisms, Talaromyces helicus M. (KU355274) and Kosakonia sacchari W. (KU324465), and their antagonistic bacterium, Bacillus pumi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wu H,Wu L,Wang J,Zhu Q,Lin S,Xu J,Zheng C,Chen J,Qin X,Fang C,Zhang Z,Azeem S,Lin W

更新日期：2016-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxic cyanobacterial blooms are a growing threat to freshwater bodies worldwide. In order for a toxic bloom to occur, a population of cells with the genetic capacity to produce toxins must be present together with the appropriate environmental conditions. In this study, we investigated the distribution patterns and ph...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Marmen S,Aharonovich D,Grossowicz M,Blank L,Yacobi YZ,Sher DJ

更新日期：2016-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Dairy goat and sheep farms suffer severe economic losses due to intramammary infections, with Staphylococcus aureus representing the main cause of clinical mastitis in small ruminants. In addition, S. aureus contamination of goat and sheep milk may cause staphylococcal food poisoning, as many traditional caprine and o...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Merz A,Stephan R,Johler S

更新日期：2016-03-14 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：:The aim of this study was to determine the role of an exopolysaccharide produced by natural dairy isolate Lactobacillus paracasei subsp. paracasei BGSJ2-8, in the adhesion to intestinal epithelial cells and a decrease in Escherichia coli's association with Caco-2 cells. Annotation of the BGSJ2-8 genome showed the pres...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Živković M,Miljković MS,Ruas-Madiedo P,Markelić MB,Veljović K,Tolinački M,Soković S,Korać A,Golić N

更新日期：2016-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes is a serious foodborne pathogen that can contaminate food during processing and can grow during food shelf-life. New types of safe and effective food contact materials embedding antimicrobial agents, like silver, can play an important role in the food industry. The present work aimed at evaluati...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Belluco S,Losasso C,Patuzzi I,Rigo L,Conficoni D,Gallocchio F,Cibin V,Catellani P,Segato S,Ricci A

更新日期：2016-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycotic infections and their effect on the human condition have been widely overlooked and poorly surveilled by many health organizations even though mortality rates have increased in recent years. The increased usage of immunosuppressive and myeloablative therapies for the treatment of malignant as well as non-malign...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Espinosa V,Rivera A

更新日期：2016-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Giardia lamblia, Cryptosporidium sp., and Entamoeba histolytica are important pathogenic intestinal parasites and are amongst the leading causes worldwide of diarrheal illness in humans. Diseases caused by these organisms, giardiasis, cryptosporidiosis, and amoebiasis, respectively, are characterized by self-limited d...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Di Genova BM,Tonelli RR

更新日期：2016-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysine-porphyrin conjugate 4i has potent photosensitive antibacterial effect on clinical isolated bacterial strains such as Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Escherichia coli, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The mechanism of photodynamic antibacterial chemotherapy of 4i (4i-PACT) in vitro and the treatme...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Xu Z,Gao Y,Meng S,Yang B,Pang L,Wang C,Liu T

更新日期：2016-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes has become one of the principal foodborne pathogens worldwide. The capacity of this bacterium to grow at low temperatures has opened an interesting field of study in terms of the identification and classification of new strains of L. monocytogenes with different growth capacities at low temperat...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Cordero N,Maza F,Navea-Perez H,Aravena A,Marquez-Fontt B,Navarrete P,Figueroa G,González M,Latorre M,Reyes-Jara A

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two human-infecting avian influenza viruses (AIVs), H7N9 and H10N8, have emerged in China, which further indicate that the H9N2 subtype of AIVs, as an internal gene donor, may have an important role in the generation of new viruses with cross-species transmissibility and pathogenicity. H9N2 viruses that contain such i...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ye G,Liang CH,Hua DG,Song LY,Xiang YG,Guang C,Lan CH,Ping HY

更新日期：2016-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity to distinguish between living and dead cells is an important, but often unrealized, attribute of rapid detection methods for foodborne pathogens. In this study, the numbers of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 after inoculation onto Romaine lettuce plants and on plastic (abiotic) surfaces were me...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ju W,Moyne AL,Marco ML

更新日期：2016-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of biochar to soil is considered to have the potential for long-term soil carbon sequestration, as well as for improving plant growth and suppressing soil pathogens. In our study we evaluated the effect of biochar on the plant growth of soybeans, as well as on the community composition of root-associat...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Egamberdieva D,Wirth S,Behrendt U,Abd Allah EF,Berg G

更新日期：2016-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Root-associated fungi are key contributors to ecosystem functioning, however, the factors which determine community assembly are still relatively poorly understood. This study simultaneously quantified the roles of geographical distance, environmental heterogeneity and time in determining root-associated fungal commun...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Barnes CJ,van der Gast CJ,Burns CA,McNamara NP,Bending GD

更新日期：2016-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni is the most frequent cause of human food-borne gastroenteritis and chicken meat is the main source of infection. Recent studies showed that broiler chicken immunization against Campylobacter should be the most efficient way to lower the number of human infections by this pathogen. Induction of the...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kobierecka PA,Olech B,Książek M,Derlatka K,Adamska I,Majewski PM,Jagusztyn-Krynicka EK,Wyszyńska AK

更新日期：2016-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The colon is inhabited by a dense population of microorganisms, the so-called "gut microbiota," able to ferment carbohydrates and proteins that escape absorption in the small intestine during digestion. This microbiota produces a wide range of metabolites, including short chain fatty acids (SCFA). These compounds are ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ríos-Covián D,Ruas-Madiedo P,Margolles A,Gueimonde M,de Los Reyes-Gavilán CG,Salazar N

更新日期：2016-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida species can cause severe infections associated with high morbidity and mortality. Therefore, it is essential to gain more insight into the anti-fungal host defense response. The advent of omics technology and development of advanced systems biology tools has permitted to approach this in an unbiased and quanti...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Smeekens SP,van de Veerdonk FL,Netea MG

更新日期：2016-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomineralized ferric oxide microbial mats are ubiquitous features on Earth, are common in hot springs of Yellowstone National Park (YNP, WY, USA), and form due to direct interaction between microbial and physicochemical processes. The overall goal of this study was to determine the contribution of different community...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Beam JP,Bernstein HC,Jay ZJ,Kozubal MA,Jennings Rd,Tringe SG,Inskeep WP

更新日期：2016-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cactaceae represents one of the most species-rich families of succulent plants native to arid and semi-arid ecosystems, yet the associations Cacti establish with microorganisms and the rules governing microbial community assembly remain poorly understood. We analyzed the composition, diversity, and factors influencing...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Fonseca-García C,Coleman-Derr D,Garrido E,Visel A,Tringe SG,Partida-Martínez LP

更新日期：2016-02-12 00:00:00