Frontiers Article Alert

Monday, 16 June 2014

 

Frontiers is pleased to announce a number of exciting new articles in the field of Microbiology.

 

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Transposon mutagenesis as an approach to improved understanding of Borrelia pathogenesis and biology
Tao Lin, Erin B Troy, Linden T Hu, Lihui Gao, and Steven J Norris
Cell-wall deficient L. monocytogenes L-forms feature abrogated pathogenicity
Barbara Schnell, Titu Staubli, Nicola Laraine Harris, Gerhard Rogler, Manfred Kopf, Martin J Loessner, and Markus Schuppler
Phagosomal TLR signaling upon Borrelia burgdorferi infection
Jorge Luis Cervantes, Kelly Lynn Hawley, Sarah Jane Benjamin, Bennett Weinerman, Stephanie Luu, and Juan Carlos Salazar
Challenges in the culture-independent analysis of oral and respiratory samples from intubated patients
Vladimir Lazarevic, Nadia Gaïa, Stéphane Emonet, Myriam Girard, Gesuele Renzi, Lena Despres, Hannah Wozniak, Javier Yugueros Marcos, Jean-Baptiste Veyrieras, Sonia Chatellier, Alex Van Belkum, Jérôme Pugin, and Jacques Schrenzel
A scoring method to standardize lesion monitoring following intra-dermal infection of Leishmania parasites in the murine ear
Steffen Schuster, Mary-Anne Hartley, Fabienne Tacchini-Cottier, and Catherine Ronet
The role of eicosanoids in experimental Lyme arthritis
Charles Robert Brown and Carmela Louise Pratt
Influence of the tryptophan-indole-IFNγ axis on human genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection: role of vaginal co-infections
Ashok Aiyar, Alison J. Quayle, Lyndsey B. Buckner, Shardulendra P. Sherchand, Theresa L. Chang, Arnold H. Zea, David H. Martin, and Robert J. Belland
Extracellular enolase of Candida albicans is involved in colonization of mammalian intestinal epithelium
Richard Cardoso Silva, Ana Carolina Barbosa Padovan, Daniel C Pimenta, Renata Carmona Ferreira, Claudio Vieira Silva, and Marcelo R. S. Briones
Lyme and associated tick-borne diseases: global challenges in the context of a public health threat
Christian Perronne
The importance of proteins of the RNase II/RNB-family in pathogenic bacteria
Rute G. Matos, Catia Barria, Ricardo N. Moreira, Susana Barahona, Susana Domingues, and Cecilia M. Arraiano
Emergence of Ixodes scapularis and Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease vector and agent, in Ohio
Peng Wang, Meaghan Glowacki, Armando E. Hoet, Glen R. Needham, Kathleen A. Smith, Richard E. Gary, and Xin Li
Forward genetic approaches for elucidation of novel regulators of Lyme arthritis severity
Kenneth K.C. Bramwell, Cory Teuscher, and Janis J Weis

Frontiers in Microbiology

A snapshot of extracellular DNA influence on Aspergillus biofilm
Luciana Lopes Guimaraes and Helio Kiyoshi Takahashi
Advances in detection methods for Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC)
Nora Lía Padola

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Antimicrobials, Resistance and Chemotherapy”

Antibacterial activity of silver nanoparticles: sensitivity of different Salmonella serovars
Carmen Losasso, Simone Belluco, Veronica Cibin, Paola Zavagnin, Ivan Mičetić, Federica Gallocchio, Michela Zanella, Lisa Bregoli, Giancarlo Biancotto, and Antonia Ricci
Unexplored hypersaline habitats are sources of novel actinomycetes
Polpass Arul Jose and Solomon Robinsondavid Jebakumar

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Aquatic Microbiology”

Parasitic chytrids sustain zooplankton growth during inedible algal bloom
Serena Rasconi, Boutheina Grami, Nathalie Niquil, Marlène Jobard, and Télesphore Sime-Ngando
Trait-based approaches for understanding microbial biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
Sascha Krause, Xavier Le Roux, Pascal Alex Niklaus, Peter Van Bodegom, Jay T Lennon, Stefan Bertilsson, Hans-Peter Grossart, Laurent Philippot, and Paul Bodelier
Ecological functions of zoosporic hyperparasites
Frank H Gleason, Osu Lilje, Agostina V. Marano, Télesphore SIME - NGANDO, Brooke K Sullivan, Martin Kirchmair, and Sigrid Neuhauser
Vibrio ecology, pathogenesis, and evolution
Daniela Ceccarelli and Rita R Colwell
Fracture zones in the Mid Atlantic Ridge lead to alterations in prokaryotic and viral parameters in deep-water masses
Simone Muck, Thomas Griessler, Nicole Köstner, Adam Klimiuk, Christian Winter, and Gerhard J Herndl
Teleost microbiomes: the state of the art in their characterization, manipulation and importance in aquaculture and fisheries
Martin Llewellyn, Sebastien Boutin, Seyed Hossein Hoseinifar, and Nicolas Derome
Lignocellulose-responsive bacteria in a southern California salt marsh identified by stable isotope probing
Lindsay Darjany, Christine Whitcraft, and Jesse Dillon

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology”

Calcifying nanoparticles: one face of distinct entities?
Anton G. Kutikhin, Arseniy E. Yuzhalin, Vadim V Borisov, Elena A Velikanova, Alexey V Frolov, Vera M Sakharova, Elena B Brusina, and Alexey S Golovkin
DNA polymerase hybrids derived from the family-B enzymes of Pyrococcus furiosus and Thermococcus kodakarensis: improving performance in the polymerase chain reaction
Ashraf Elshawadfy, Brian Keith, H'ng Ooi, Thomas Kinsman, Pauline Heslop, and Bernard Connolly

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Extreme Microbiology”

Interactions of proteins with biogenic iron oxyhydroxides and a new culturing technique to increase biomass yields of neutrophilic, iron-oxidizing bacteria
Katrina Edwards and Roman Barco
Salty sisters: The women of halophiles
Bonnie K. Baxter, NIna Gunde-Cimerman, and Aharon Oren

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Food Microbiology”

Antibacterial activities of bacteriocins: application in foods and pharmaceuticals
Shih-Chun Yang, Chih-Hung Lin, Calvin T. Sung, and Jia-You Fang
Potential of essential oils for protection of grains contaminated by aflatoxin produced by Aspergillus flavus
Renata Hadad Esper, Edlayne Gonçalez, Marcia Ortiz Mayo Marques, Roberto Carlos Felicio, and Joana D'arc Felicio

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Infectious Diseases”

Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus directly attacks Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus Cystic fibrosis isolates
Valerio Iebba, Valentina Totino, Floriana Santangelo, Antonella Gagliardi, Luana Ciotoli, Alessandra Virga, Cecilia Ambrosi, Monica Pompili, Riccardo Valerio De Biase, Laura Selan, Marco Artini, Fabrizio Pantanella, Francesco Mura, Claudio Passariello, Mauro Nicoletti, Lucia Nencioni, Maria Trancassini, Serena Quattrucci, and Serena Schippa

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Microbial Immunology”

Malaria drives T cells to exhaustion
Michelle N Wykes, Joshua M Horne-Debets, Chiuan-Yee Leow, and Deshapriya Karunarathne

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Microbial Physiology and Metabolism”

Short-sighted evolution of bacterial opportunistic pathogens with an environmental origin
Jose L Martinez
Potential role of bacteria packaging by protozoa in the persistence and transmission of pathogenic bacteria
Alix M Denoncourt, Valérie E Paquet, and Steve J Charette
Elucidation of Zymomonas mobilis physiology and stress responses by quantitative proteomics and transcriptomics
Shihui YANG, Chongle Pan, Gregory B. Hurst, Lezlee Dice, Brian H. Davison, and Steven D. Brown
Identification of genes specifically required for the anaerobic metabolism of benzene in Geobacter metallireducens
Tian Zhang, Pier-Luc Tremblay, Akhilesh Kumar Chaurasia, Jessica A. Smith, Timothy S. Bain, and Derek R. Lovley
Connecting lignin-degradation pathway with pre-treatment inhibitor sensitivity of Cupriavidus necator
Wei Wang, Shihui YANG, Glendon B. Hunsinger, Philip T Pienkos, and David K Johnson
The importance of the viable but non-culturable state in human bacterial pathogens
Laam Li, Nilmini Mendis, Hana Trigui, James D Oliver, and Sebastien P Faucher
The role of acetogens in microbially influenced corrosion of steel
Jaspreet Mand, Hyung Soo Park, Thomas R Jack, and Gerrit Voordouw
ESCRT-III mediated cell division in Sulfolobus acidocaldarius – a reconstitution perspective
Tobias Härtel and Petra Schwille

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Microbial Symbioses”

Deciphering microbial interactions and detecting keystone species with co-occurrence networks
David Berry and Stefanie Widder
Identification of overexpressed genes in Sodalis glossinidius inhabiting trypanosome-infected self-cured tsetse flies
Illiassou Hamidou Soumana, Bernadette Tchicaya, Béatrice Loriod, Pascal Rihet, and Anne Geiger

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Microbiotechnology, Ecotoxicology and Bioremediation”

Quantification of fungal abundance on cultural heritage using real time PCR targeting the β-actin gene
Jörg Ettenauer, Guadalupe Pinar, Hakim Tafer, and Katja Sterflinger

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Plant-Microbe Interaction”

Effect of the strain Bacillus amyloliquefaciens FZB42 on the microbial community in the rhizosphere of lettuce under field conditions analyzed by whole metagenome sequencing
Magdalena Sonja Kröber, Daniel Wibberg, Rita Grosch, Felix Gregor Eikmeyer, Bart Verwaijen, Soumitra Paul Chowdhury, Anton Dr. Hartmann, Alfred Pühler, and Andreas Schlüter
Unraveling the plant microbiome: looking back and future perspectives
Gabriele Berg, Martin Grube, Michael Schloter, and Kornelia Smalla

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Systems Microbiology”

The feasibility of automated online flow cytometry for in-situ monitoring of microbial dynamics in aquatic ecosystems
Michael Domenic Besmer, David Gregory Weissbrodt, Bradley Eugene Kratochvil, Juerg Andreas Sigrist, Mathias Sebastian Weyland, and Frederik Hammes
Cytometric fingerprints: evaluation of new tools for analyzing microbial community dynamics
Christin Koch, Falk Harnisch, Uwe Schröder, and Susann Müller

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Terrestrial Microbiology”

Loss of diversity in wood-inhabiting fungal communities affects decomposition activity in Norway spruce wood
Lara Valentin, Tiina Rajala, Mikko Peltoniemi, Taina Pennanen, Jussi Heinonsalo, and Raisa Mäkipää
Microbial acetone oxidation in coastal seawater
Joanna Lee Dixon, Rachael Beale, Stephanie Sargeant, Glen Tarran, and Philip D Nightingale
Specificity of plant-microbe interactions in the tree mycorrhizosphere biome and consequences for soil C cycling
Carolyn Churchland and Sue Janet Grayston
Planctomycetes and macroalgae, a striking association
Olga Maria Lage and Joana Bondoso

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Virology”

Unfolded protein response in hepatitis C virus infection
Shiu-Wan Chan
Recent progress in research on cell-to-cell movement of rice viruses
Akihiro Hiraguri, Osamu Netsu, Nobumitsu Sasaki, Hiroshi Nyunoya, and Takahide Sasaya
Tsg101 regulates PI(4,5)P2/Ca2+ signaling for HIV-1 Gag assembly
Lorna S Ehrlich, Sara Photiadis, Gisselle N Medina, Paul B Whittredge, Justin W Taraska, Susan Watanabe, and Carol A Carter
The activity of Nef on HIV-1 infectivity
Stéphane Basmaciogullari and Massimo Pizzato
Interactions of the cell-wall glycopolymers of lactic acid bacteria with their bacteriophages
Marie-Pierre Chapot-Chartier
Epidemiology of virus-induced asthma exacerbations: with special reference to the role of human rhinovirus
Takeshi Saraya, Daisuke Kurai, Haruyuki Ishii, Anri Ito, Yoshiko Sasaki, Shoichi Niwa, Naoko Kiyota, Hiroyuki Tsukagoshi, Kunihisa Kozawa, Hajime Goto, and Hajime Takizawa
Cellular unfolded protein response against viruses used in gene therapy
Dwaipayan Sen, Balaji Balakrishnan, and Giridhara R. Jayandharan
The roles of lipids and nucleic acids in HIV-1 assembly
Ayna Alfadhli and Eric Barklis
Stress responses in flavivirus-infected cells: activation of unfolded protein response and autophagy
Ana-Belén Blázquez, Estela Escribano-Romero, Teresa Merino-Ramos, Juan-Carlos Saiz, and Miguel A. Martín-Acebes
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