Kamilari, E. O'Connor, P. M. Farias, F. Miceli de Johnson, C. N. Buttimer, C. Deliephan, A. Hill, D. Fursenko, O. Wiese, J. Stanton, C.
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Applied and Environmental Microbiology
The present article highlights the importance of the strain Bacillus safensis APC 4099 as a potential biocontrol agent. The strain possesses biosynthetic gene clusters coding for various antimicrobial peptides and secondary metabolites, including a novel circular bacteriocin, safencin E, and the bacteriocins pumilarin and plantazolicin. This divers...
Jones, Joshua A. Newton, Irene Garcia Moczek, Armin P.
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Applied and Environmental Microbiology
As the influence of symbionts on host ecology, evolution, and development has become more apparent so has the importance of understanding how hosts facilitate the reliable maintenance of their interactions with these symbionts. A growing body of work has thus begun to identify diverse behaviors and physiological mechanisms underpinning the selectiv...
Zhong, Yuening Zhang, Yibo Meng, Qiyue Zhang, Haoyu Wu, Zhenbing Dang, Chenyuan Fu, Jie
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Applied and Environmental Microbiology
This study revealed that chlorine disinfectant significantly changed microfauna habitat, community structure, and colonization mode in wastewater treatment plants during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Chlorine disinfectant could destroy the structure and stability of sludge flocs, reduce the abundance of beneficial microfauna in activated s...
Duan, Yadan Liu, Zhangliang Huang, Xiaofang Xu, Lu Wang, Xianxue Liu, Hao Xie, Zhoujie
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Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Large serine recombinases (LSRs), including the bacteriophage phiC31 integrase, were previously thought to allow only unidirectional site-specific integration (attP × attB to attL and attR). Our study is the first to show that the phiC31 integrase can also catalyze a low-efficiency reverse excision reaction in Streptomyces and E. coli without the i...
Sabree, Zakee L. Cross, Kayla Gentry, James McAfee, Katie
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Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Postdocs are essential to microbial science and STEM academic workforces but are underpaid and receive little-to-no relocation benefits. PhDs foregoing postdoctoral training for lucrative industry and government jobs exit the academic pipeline, which imperils current scholarship and the future professoriate. Relocation to postdoc jobs is expensive,...
Taylor, Zachary A. Pham, Danniel N. Zeng, Lin
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Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Management of carbohydrate metabolism and environmental stress is key to the survival of oral commensal species such as S. sanguinis. Antagonism of oral pathobionts and modulation of the environmental pH and oxidative potential by commensals are crucial to the maintenance of microbial homeostasis and prevention of oral diseases including dental car...
Qian, Yingying Lai, Lin Cheng, Minggen Fang, Hua Fan, Dandan Zylstra, Gerben J. Huang, Xing
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Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Amphenicol antibiotics are pervasive emerging contaminants that present a substantial threat to ecological systems. Few studies have elucidated resistance genes or mechanisms that can act on CHL, TAP, and Ff simultaneously. The results of this study fill this knowledge gap and identify a novel amidase AphA from the bacterium Sphingobium yanoikuyae ...
Backus, Elaine A. Shugart, Holly J.
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Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Xylella fastidiosa (Xf) is one of the most destructive invasive plant pathogens in the world, able to hijack new vectors when it invades a region; yet the temporal interplay of bacterial colonization and insect behavior is unknown. This paper describes important findings about the process of Xf biofilm formation and maturation in a vector, contrast...
Fitz Axen, Ada J. Kim, Mee-Sook Klopfenstein, Ned B. Ashiglar, Sara Hanna, John W. Bennett, Patrick Stewart, Jane E.
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Applied and Environmental Microbiology
With its influence on ecosystem processes and functions, the soil microbiome can interact with soilborne pathogens to facilitate or suppress plant disease development. These forest ecosystems are experiencing increased wildfire frequency and burn severity that could influence the fungal root pathogen, Armillaria solidipes, and interactions with the...
Hu, Yun-Fei Luo, Shu Wang, Sheng-Qi Chen, Ke-Xin Zhong, Wei-Xuan Li, Bai-Yuan Cao, Lin-Yan Chen, Hua-Hai Yin, Ye-Shi
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Applied and Environmental Microbiology