abstract：:The eastern China marginal seas (ECMS) are prominent examples of river-dominated ocean margins, whose most characteristic feature is the existence of isolated mud patches on sandy sediments. Ammonia-oxidizing prokaryotes play a crucial role in the nitrogen cycles of many marine environments, including marginal seas. H...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yu S,Yao P,Liu J,Zhao B,Zhang G,Zhao M,Yu Z,Zhang XH

更新日期：2016-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep subsurface aquifers despite difficult access, represent important water resources and, at the same time, are key locations for subsurface engineering activities for the oil and gas industries, geothermal energy, and CO2 or energy storage. Formation water originating from a 760 m-deep geological gas storage aquife...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Aüllo T,Berlendis S,Lascourrèges JF,Dessort D,Duclerc D,Saint-Laurent S,Schraauwers B,Mas J,Patriarche D,Boesinger C,Magot M,Ranchou-Peyruse A

更新日期：2016-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulator of citrate metabolism, CitO, from Enterococcus faecalis belongs to the FCD family within the GntR superfamily. In the presence of citrate, CitO binds to cis-acting sequences located upstream of the cit promoters inducing the expression of genes involved in citrate utilization. The quantification of the m...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Blancato VS,Pagliai FA,Magni C,Gonzalez CF,Lorca GL

更新日期：2016-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Ionic liquids discovery has celebrated 100 years. They consist solely of ions, one of which is typically organic and asymmetrical. Remarkable physical and chemical properties stirred their use as alternative solvents in many chemical processes. The recent demonstration of their occurrence in nature might boost their i...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hartmann DO,Petkovic M,Silva Pereira C

更新日期：2016-02-08 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：:Streptococcus pneumoniae (S.pneumoniae) is a major human pathogen causing morbidity and mortality worldwide. Efficiently acquiring iron from the environment is critical for S. pneumoniae to sustain growth and cause infection. There are only three known iron-uptake systems in Streptococcal species responsible for iron ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yang XY,He K,Du G,Wu X,Yu G,Pan Y,Zhang G,Sun X,He QY

更新日期：2016-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:With knowledge on microbial composition and diversity, investigation of within-community interactions is a further step to elucidate microbial ecological functions, such as the biodegradation of hazardous contaminants. In this work, microbial functional molecular ecological networks were studied in both contaminated a...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Liang Y,Zhao H,Deng Y,Zhou J,Li G,Sun B

更新日期：2016-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157: H7 (EHEC) is a major foodborne pathogen largely transmitted to humans through the consumption of undercooked ground beef. This study investigated the efficacy of two food-grade, plant-derived antimicrobials, namely rutin (RT), and resveratrol (RV) with or without chitosan (CH) in enhancing EHEC ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Surendran Nair M,Lau P,Belskie K,Fancher S,Chen CH,Karumathil DP,Yin HB,Liu Y,Ma F,Upadhyaya I,Upadhyay A,Mancini R,Venkitanarayanan K

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological stability of drinking water refers to the concept of providing consumers with drinking water of same microbial quality at the tap as produced at the water treatment facility. However, uncontrolled growth of bacteria can occur during distribution in water mains and premise plumbing, and can lead to hygienic ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Prest EI,Hammes F,van Loosdrecht MC,Vrouwenvelder JS

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：:Anthrax is a zoonotic disease caused by Bacillus anthracis spore-forming bacterium. Since it is primarily a disease of animals, the control in animals, and humans depend on the prevention in livestock, principally cattle, sheep, and goats. Most veterinary vaccines utilize the toxigenic, uncapsulated (pXO1+/pXO2-) B. a...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Adone R,Sali M,Francia M,Iatarola M,Donatiello A,Fasanella A

更新日期：2016-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The abundant and diverse microorganisms that inhabit aquatic systems are both determinants and indicators of aquatic health, providing essential ecosystem services such as nutrient cycling but also causing harmful blooms and disease in impacted habitats. Estuaries are among the most urbanized coastal ecosystems and as...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Jeffries TC,Schmitz Fontes ML,Harrison DP,Van-Dongen-Vogels V,Eyre BD,Ralph PJ,Seymour JR

更新日期：2016-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-Saccharomyces yeasts are a heterogeneous microbial group involved in the early stages of wine fermentation. The high enzymatic potential of these yeasts makes them a useful tool for increasing the final organoleptic characteristics of wines in spite of their low fermentative power. Their physiology and contributio...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Belda I,Ruiz J,Alastruey-Izquierdo A,Navascués E,Marquina D,Santos A

更新日期：2016-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucellosis is one of the most common zoonotic epidemics worldwide. Brucella, the etiological pathogen of brucellosis, has unique virulence characteristics, including the ability to survive within the host cell. Hfq is a bacterial chaperone protein that is involved in the survival of the pathogen under stress conditio...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lei S,Zhong Z,Ke Y,Yang M,Xu X,Ren H,An C,Yuan J,Yu J,Xu J,Qiu Y,Shi Y,Wang Y,Peng G,Chen Z

更新日期：2016-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies of bacterial speciation have claimed to support the biological species concept-that reduced recombination is required for bacterial populations to diverge into species. This conclusion has been reached from the discovery that ecologically distinct clades show lower rates of recombination than that which...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Melendrez MC,Becraft ED,Wood JM,Olsen MT,Bryant DA,Heidelberg JF,Rusch DB,Cohan FM,Ward DM

更新日期：2016-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) that causes extraintestinal infections often harbor plasmids encoding fitness traits such as resistance and virulence determinants that are of clinical importance. We determined the complete nucleotide sequence of plasmid pEC302/04 from a multidrug-resistant E. coli ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ho WS,Yap KP,Yeo CC,Rajasekaram G,Thong KL

更新日期：2016-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Dissimilatory metal-reducing bacteria are widespread in terrestrial ecosystems, especially in anaerobic soils and sediments. Thermodynamically, dissimilatory metal reduction is more favorable than sulfate reduction and methanogenesis but less favorable than denitrification and aerobic respiration. It is critical to un...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Friedman ES,McPhillips LE,Werner JJ,Poole AC,Ley RE,Walter MT,Angenent LT

更新日期：2016-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Prion-like proteins can switch between a soluble intrinsically disordered conformation and a highly ordered amyloid assembly. This conformational promiscuity is encoded in specific sequence regions, known as prion domains (PrDs). Prions are best known as the causative factors of neurological diseases in mammals. Howev...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Pallarès I,Iglesias V,Ventura S

更新日期：2016-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing evidence that volatile organic compounds (VOCs) play an important role in the interactions between fungi and bacteria, two major groups of soil inhabiting microorganisms. Yet, most of the research has been focused on effects of bacterial volatiles on suppression of plant pathogenic fungi whereas li...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Schmidt R,Etalo DW,de Jager V,Gerards S,Zweers H,de Boer W,Garbeva P

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-dose tolerance using heat-killed mycobacteria has been tested as a means of stopping progression toward active tuberculosis (TB) lesions in a human-like murine model using C3HeB/FeJ mice. In the present study, we studied the effect of different treatment schedules with heat-killed non-tuberculous-mycobacteria (NTM...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Cardona P,Marzo-Escartín E,Tapia G,Díaz J,García V,Varela I,Vilaplana C,Cardona PJ

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Two pools of individual single gene deletion (SGD) mutants of S. Typhimurium 14028s encompassing deletions of 3,923 annotated non-essential ORFs and sRNAs were screened by intraperitoneal (IP) injection in BALB/c mice followed by recovery from spleen and liver 2 days post infection. The relative abundance of each muta...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Silva-Valenzuela CA,Molina-Quiroz RC,Desai P,Valenzuela C,Porwollik S,Zhao M,Hoffman RM,Andrews-Polymenis H,Contreras I,Santiviago CA,McClelland M

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria degrading algal polysaccharides are key players in the global carbon cycle and in algal biomass recycling. Yet the water column, which has been studied largely by metagenomic approaches, is poor in such bacteria and their algal-polysaccharide-degrading enzymes. Even more surprisingly, the few published studie...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Martin M,Barbeyron T,Martin R,Portetelle D,Michel G,Vandenbol M

更新日期：2015-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic bacterial persisters are responsible for the recalcitrance of chronic and persistent infections to antimicrobial therapy. Although the mechanisms of persister formation and survival have been widely studied in Escherichia coli, persistence mechanisms in Staphylococcus aureus remain largely unknown. Here, we...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang W,Chen J,Chen G,Du X,Cui P,Wu J,Zhao J,Wu N,Zhang W,Li M,Zhang Y

更新日期：2015-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:This study deals with the effects of hydrodynamic functioning of hard-rock aquifers on microbial communities. In hard-rock aquifers, the heterogeneous hydrologic circulation strongly constrains groundwater residence time, hydrochemistry, and nutrient supply. Here, residence time and a wide range of environmental facto...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ben Maamar S,Aquilina L,Quaiser A,Pauwels H,Michon-Coudouel S,Vergnaud-Ayraud V,Labasque T,Roques C,Abbott BW,Dufresne A

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Random transposon mutagenesis is a powerful technique used to generate libraries of genetic insertions in many different bacterial strains. Here we develop a system facilitating random transposon mutagenesis in a range of different Gram-negative bacterial strains, including Pectobacterium atrosepticum, Citrobacter rod...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Monson R,Smith DS,Matilla MA,Roberts K,Richardson E,Drew A,Williamson N,Ramsay J,Welch M,Salmond GP

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In streptococci, entry in competence is dictated by ComX abundance. In Streptococcus thermophilus, production of ComX is transient and tightly regulated during growth: it is positively regulated by the cell-cell communication system ComRS during the activation phase and negatively regulated during the shut-off phase b...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Haustenne L,Bastin G,Hols P,Fontaine L

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Several antimicrobial and immunosuppressive effects have been attributed to the statins class of antihyperlipidemia drugs. Several studies have also indicated clinical benefits for the use of statins during the management of infections and sepsis. To assess whether the immunosuppressive effects of statins outweigh the...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rahal EA,Constantin WN,Zeidan N,Abdelnoor AM

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria gonorrhoeae is the etiological factor of the sexually transmitted gonorrhea disease that may lead, under specific conditions, to systemic infections. The gonococcal genome encodes many restriction modification (RM) systems, which main biological role is to defend the pathogen from potentially harmful foreign...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kwiatek A,Mrozek A,Bacal P,Piekarowicz A,Adamczyk-Popławska M

更新日期：2015-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome sequences of several giant marine sulfur-oxidizing bacteria present evidence of a possible post-transcriptional regulatory network that may have been transmitted to or from two distantly related bacteria lineages. The draft genome of a Cand. "Maribeggiatoa" filament from the Guaymas Basin (Gulf of Californi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： MacGregor BJ

更新日期：2015-12-16 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：:Based on the complete genome of Cyanothece ATCC 51142, the oriCs of both the circular and linear chromosomes in Cyanothece ATCC 51142 have been predicted by utilizing a web-based system Ori-Finder. Here, we provide experimental support for the results of Ori-Finder to identify the replication origins of Cyanothece ATC...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Huang H,Song CC,Yang ZL,Dong Y,Hu YZ,Gao F

更新日期：2015-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a fluorometric method for determining ABC transporter activity in the pathogenic fungus C. albicans during different growth phases and in response to glucose. The carbocyanine dye diS-C3(3) was previously used to monitor plasma membrane potentials and test the influence of surface-active compounds in membra...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Szczepaniak J,Łukaszewicz M,Krasowska A

更新日期：2015-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2011, a Shiga toxin-producing Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC Stx2a+) O104:H4 strain caused a serious outbreak of acute gastroenteritis and hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) in Germany. In 2013, E. coli O104:H4 isolates were obtained from a patient with HUS and her friend showing only gastrointestinal compla...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ferdous M,Zhou K,de Boer RF,Friedrich AW,Kooistra-Smid AM,Rossen JW

更新日期：2015-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the 2006 European ban on the use of antibiotics as growth promoters in animal feed, numerous studies have been published describing alternative strategies to prevent diseases in animals. A particular focus has been on prevention of necrotic enteritis in poultry caused by Clostridium perfringens by the use of mic...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Caly DL,D'Inca R,Auclair E,Drider D

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria, either indigenous or added, are immobilized in solid foods where they grow as colonies. Since the 80's, relatively few research groups have explored the implications of bacteria growing as colonies and mostly focused on pathogens in large colonies on agar/gelatine media. It is only recently that high resolut...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Jeanson S,Floury J,Gagnaire V,Lortal S,Thierry A

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent microbiomic research of agricultural habitats has highlighted tremendous microbial biodiversity associated with such ecosystems. Data generated in vineyards have furthermore highlighted significant regional differences in vineyard biodiversity, hinting at the possibility that such differences might be responsib...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Setati ME,Jacobson D,Bauer FF

更新日期：2015-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Late blight, caused by the oomycete Phytophthora infestans, is the most devastating disease of potato. In organic farming, late blight is controlled by repeated applications of copper-based products, which negatively impact the environment. To find alternative solutions for late blight management, we have previously i...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Guyer A,De Vrieze M,Bönisch D,Gloor R,Musa T,Bodenhausen N,Bailly A,Weisskopf L

更新日期：2015-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A major global concern is the emergence and spread of systemic life-threatening fungal infections in critically ill patients. The increase in invasive fungal infections, caused most commonly by Candida and Aspergillus species, occurs in patients with impaired defenses due to a number of reasons such as underlying dise...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ravikumar S,Win MS,Chai LY

更新日期：2015-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Considering that the current immunoassays are not able to distinguish the infective forms that cause Toxoplasma gondii infection, the present study was carried out to evaluate the reactivity of two recombinant proteins (CCp5A and OWP1) from oocyst/sporozoite, in order to differentiate infections occurring by ingestion...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Santana SS,Gebrim LC,Carvalho FR,Barros HS,Barros PC,Pajuaba AC,Messina V,Possenti A,Cherchi S,Reiche EM,Navarro IT,Garcia JL,Pozio E,Mineo TW,Spano F,Mineo JR

更新日期：2015-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Given that the degradation of aromatic pollutants in anaerobic environments such as sediment is generally very slow, aeration could be an efficient bioremediation option. Using stable isotope probing (SIP) coupled with pyrosequencing analysis of 16S rRNA genes, we identified naphthalene-utilizing populations in aerate...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wald J,Hroudova M,Jansa J,Vrchotova B,Macek T,Uhlik O

更新日期：2015-11-19 00:00:00