Hammerl, Jens A Volkmar, Sven Jacob, Daniela Klein, Iris Jäckel, Claudia Hertwig, Stefan
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Burkholderia mallei and B. pseudomallei are highly pathogenic species which are closely related, but diverse regarding their prophage content. While temperate phages have not yet been isolated from B. mallei, several phages of B. pseudomallei, and its non-pathogenic relative B. thailandensis have been described. In this study we isolated two phages...
Wu, Hongmiao Xia, Jinshen Qin, Xianjin Wu, Huiming Zhang, Shengkai Zhao, Yanlin Rensing, Christopher Lin, Wenxiong
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Replanting disease caused by negative plant-soil feedback in continuous monoculture of Radix pseudostellariae is a critical factor restricting the development of this common and popular Chinese medicine, although wild R. pseudostellariae plants were shown to grow well without occurrence of disease in the same site for multiple years. Therefore, we ...
Santos, Catarina A Almeida, Felipe A Quecán, Beatriz X V Pereira, Patricia A P Gandra, Kelly M B Cunha, Luciana R Pinto, Uelinton M
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The emergence of bacterial strains resistant to different antibiotics has prompted the search for new sources of antimicrobial compounds. Studies have shown that jambolan [Syzygium cumini (L.) Skeels], a tropical fruit from the Mirtaceae family, contains a great variety of phytochemical compounds with high antioxidant and antimicrobial activity. Th...
Citterio, Barbara Andreoni, Francesca Simoni, Serena Carloni, Elisa Magnani, Mauro Mangiaterra, Gianmarco Cedraro, Nicholas Biavasco, Francesca Vignaroli, Carla
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Unlike human isolates, environmental Escherichia coli isolates have not been thoroughly investigated for the diversity and transferability of antibiotic-resistant plasmids. In this study, antibiotic-resistant strains from marine sediment (n = 50) and clams (n = 53) were analyzed (i) for their plasmid content using a PCR-based plasmid replicon typin...
Hao, Sijia Fan, Qingjie Bai, Yaqiang Fang, Hui Zhou, Jiaorui Fukuda, Tomohiko Gu, Jianguo Li, Ming Li, Wenzhe
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The fucosylated carbohydrate moieties on intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) are involved in the creation of an environmental niche for commensal and pathogenic bacteria. Core fucosylation catalyzed by fucosyltransferase 8 (Fut8) is the major fucosylation pattern on the N-glycans of the surface glycoproteins on IECs, however, the role of IECs core f...
Poli, Anna Bovio, Elena Ranieri, Lucrezia Varese, Giovanna Cristina Prigione, Valeria
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Fungi are widely distributed in the Oceans, interact with other organisms and play roles that range from pathogenic to mutualistic. The present work focuses on the characterization of the cultivable mycobiota associated with the seagrass Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile collected off the Elba Island (Italy). We identified 102 taxa (mainly Ascomycota)...
Sonnleitner, Elisabeth Pusic, Petra Wolfinger, Michael T Bläsi, Udo
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Carbapenems are often the antibiotics of choice to combat life threatening infections caused by the opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The outer membrane porins OprD and OpdP serve as entry ports for carbapenems. Here, we report that the RNA chaperone Hfq governs post-transcriptional regulation of the oprD and opdP genes in a dist...
Balistreri, Anthony Kahana, Ethan Janakiraman, Soorya Chapman, Matthew R
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Many organisms produce "functional" amyloid fibers, which are stable protein polymers that serve many roles in cellular biology. Certain Enterobacteriaceae assemble functional amyloid fibers called curli that are the main protein component of the biofilm extracellular matrix. CsgA is the major protein subunit of curli and will rapidly adopt the pol...
Liu, Chanjuan Zhang, Wenjing Qu, Mingren Pan, Ke Zhao, Xianghui
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Rape straw cannot be efficiently degraded and utilized by ruminants due to its severe lignification and complex cross-linked structure between fiber and lignin. The laccases can catalyze the inter-unit bond cleavage in lignin substrates. Therefore, this study investigated the recombinant laccase from Lentinula edodes (LeLac) and its application in ...
Wang, Gang Liu, Qian Pei, Zhangming Wang, Linlin Tian, Peijun Liu, Zhenmin Zhao, Jianxin Zhang, Hao Chen, Wei
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Diverse CRISPR-Cas systems constitute an indispensable part of the bacterial adaptive immune system against viral infections. However, to escape from this immune system, bacteriophages have also evolved corresponding anti-defense measures. We investigated the diversity of CRISPR-Cas systems and the presence of prophages in the genomes of 66 Bifidob...
