López-Sámano, Mariana Beltrán, Luis Fernando Lozano-Aguirre Sánchez-Thomas, Rosina Dávalos, Araceli Villaseñor, Tomás García-García, Jorge Donato García-de Los Santos, Alejandro
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Pantothenate is an indispensable vitamin precursor of the synthesis of coenzyme A (CoA), a key metabolite required in over 100 metabolic reactions. β-Alanine (β-ala) is an indispensable component of pantothenate. Due to the metabolic relevance of this pathway, we assumed that orthologous genes for ß-alanine synthesis would be present in the genomes...
Liu, Jia Zhang, Jie Li, Daming Xu, Changxu Xiang, Xingjia
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Agricultural fertilization is used extensively to increase soil fertility and maximize crop yield. Despite numerous studies on how fertilization influences plant and bacterial communities, little is known about the roles of long-term application of different fertilizers in shaping arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal (AMF) community structures in a compar...
Zhang, Qianying Geng, Zongze Li, Dongliang Ding, Zhongyang
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Fermentation, also known as aging, is vital for enhancing the quality of flue-cured tobacco leaves (FTLs). Aged FTLs demonstrate high-quality sensory characteristics, while unaged FTLs do not. Microbes play important roles in the FTL fermentation process. However, the eukaryotic microbial community diversity is poorly understood, as are microbial a...
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm Losensky, Gerald Marchfelder, Anita Habermann, Bianca Dyall-Smith, Mike
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Halobacterium salinarum is an extremely halophilic archaeon that is widely distributed in hypersaline environments and was originally isolated as a spoilage organism of salted fish and hides. The type strain 91-R6 (DSM 3754T ) has seldom been studied and its genome sequence has only recently been determined by our group. The exact relationship betw...
Tyc, Olaf Putra, Rocky Gols, Rieta Harvey, Jeffrey A Garbeva, Paolina
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Endophytic bacteria are known for their ability in promoting plant growth and defense against biotic and abiotic stress. However, very little is known about the microbial endophytes living in the spermosphere. Here, we isolated bacteria from the seeds of five different populations of wild cabbage (Brassica oleracea L) that grow within 15 km of each...
Serafim, Mateus S M Lavorato, Stefânia N Kronenberger, Thales Sousa, Yamara V Oliveira, Graziele P Dos Santos, Simone G Kroon, Erna G Maltarollo, Vinícius G Alves, Ricardo J Mota, Bruno E F
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Synthetic 1,3-bis(aryloxy)propan-2-amines have been shown in previous studies to possess several biological activities, such as antifungal and antiprotozoal. In the present study, we describe the antibacterial activity of new synthetic 1,3-bis(aryloxy)propan-2-amines against Gram-positive pathogens (Streptococcus pyogenes, Enterococcus faecalis and...
Nakaew, Nareeluk Lumyong, Saisamorn Sloan, William T Sungthong, Rungroch
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A way to defeat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) crisis is to supply novel drugs to the pharmaceutical industry. This effort leads to a global call for seeking the beneficial microbes from underexplored habitats. To support this call, we isolated Streptomyces sp. TM32 from the rhizosphere soil of a medicinal plant, turmeric (Curcuma longa L.). TM32 e...
Procópio, Thamara F Moura, Maiara C Bento, Elinaldo F L Soares, Tatiana Coelho, Luana C B B Bezerra, Raquel P Mota, Rinaldo A Porto, Ana Lúcia F Paiva, Patrícia M G Napoleão, Thiago H
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This work aimed to evaluate the effects of CasuL on growth and viability of 15 mastitis isolates from cows and goats, to determine the synergistic potential between CasuL and antibiotics, and to investigate the effects on bacterial ultrastructure and antibiofilm activity. The lectin inhibited the growth of Staphylococcus isolates from either bovine...
Horta, André Alves, Celso Pinteus, Susete Lopes, Cláudia Fino, Nádia Silva, Joana Ribeiro, Joana Rodrigues, Daniel Francisco, João Rodrigues, Américo
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Macroalgae-associated bacteria have already proved to be an interesting source of compounds with therapeutic potential. Accordingly, the main aim of this study was to characterize Asparagopsis armata-associated bacteria community and evaluate their capacity to produce substances with antitumor and antimicrobial potential. Bacteria were selected acc...
Khademi, Mitra Nazarian-Firouzabadi, Farhad Ismaili, Ahmad Shirzadian Khorramabad, Reza
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Dermaseptin B1 (DrsB1), an antimicrobial cationic 31 amino acid peptide, is produced by Phyllomedusa bicolor. In an attempt to enhance the antimicrobial efficacy of DrsB1, the DrsB1 encoding 93 bp sequence was either fused to the N or C terminus of sequence encoding chitin-binding domain (CBD) of Avr4 gene from Cladosporium fulvum. Tobacco leaf dis...
