Frontiers Article Alert

Monday, 23 February 2015

 

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

 

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Leishmania lipophosphoglycan: how to establish structure-activity relationships for this highly complex and multifunctional glycoconjugate?
Claire-Lise Forestier, Qi Gao, and Geert-Jan Boons
Controlling Johne's disease: vaccination is the way forward
John Bannantine and Adel M Talaat
Methicillin resistance and the biofilm phenotype in Staphylococcus aureus
Hannah McCarthy, Justine K. Rudkin, Nikki S. Black, Laura Gallagher, Eoghan O'Neill, and James P. O'Gara
Salmonella—how a metabolic generalist adopts an intracellular lifestyle during infection
Thomas Dandekar, Astrid Fieselmann, Eva Fischer, Jasmin Popp, Michael Hensel, and Janina Noster
Hemocytes from Pediculus humanus humanus are hosts for human bacterial pathogens
Eric Ghigo
Orientia tsutsugamushi ankyrin repeat-containing protein family members are Type 1 secretion system substrates that traffic to the host cell endoplasmic reticulum
Lauren VieBrock, Sean M Evans, Andrea R Beyer, Charles L Larson, Paul A Beare, Hong Ge, Smita Singh, Kyle Rodino, Robert A Heinzen, Allen L Richards, and Jason A Carlyon
Commensal E. coli Stx2 lysogens produce high levels of phages after spontaneous prophage induction
Hildegunn Iversen, Trine Marie L'Abée-Lund, Marina Aspholm, Lotte Stenfors Arnesen, and Toril Lindbäck
Biofilm formation by Streptococcus agalactiae: influence of environmental conditions and implicated virulence factors
Imma Margarit and Roberto Rosini

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

Characterization of saltern based Streptomyces sp. and statistical media optimization for its improved antibacterial activity
Pandiyan Rajeswari, Polpass Arul Jose, RICHA AMIYA, and Solomon Robinson David Jebakumar
Efflux-mediated fluoroquinolone resistance in the multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolate PA7: identification of a novel MexS variant involved in upregulation of the mexEF-oprN multidrug efflux operon
Yuji Morita, Junko Tomida, and Yoshiaki Kawamura
Repressive mutations restore function-loss caused by the disruption of trimerization in Escherichia coli multidrug transporter AcrB
Zhaoshuai Wang, Meng Zhong, Wei Lu, Qian Chai, and Yinan Wei
Antibiotic-specific differences in the response of Staphylococcus aureus to treatment with antimicrobials combined with manuka honey
Michael Liu, Jing Lu, Patrick Mueller, Lynne Turnbull, Catherine Burke, Ralf Schlothauer, Dee Carter, Cynthia B Whitchurch, and Elizabeth Jane Harry
Chloramphenicol and tetracycline decrease motility and increase invasion and attachment gene expression in specific isolates of multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium
Brian William Brunelle, Bradley L. Bearson, and Shawn M.D. Bearson
Organic extracts from Indigofera suffruticosa leaves have antimicrobial and synergic actions with erythromycin against Staphylococcus aureus
Ana Thereza Bezerra dos Santos, Tiago Ferreira da Silva Araújo, Luis Cláudio Nascimento Da Silva, Cleideana Bezerra da Silva, Antonio Fernando Morais de Oliveira, Janete Magali Araújo, Maria Tereza dos Santos Correia, and Vera Lúcia Menezes Lima
Urinary tract infections attributed to diverse ExPEC strains in food animals: evidence and data gaps
Randall S Singer

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Aquatic Microbiology”

Polar front associated variation in prokaryotic community structure in Arctic shelf seafloor
Tan Thi Nguyen and Bjarne Landfald
Use of lanthanides to alleviate the effects of metal ion-deficiency in Desmodesmus quadricauda (Sphaeropleales, Chlorophyta)
Franz Goecke, Celia Gil Jerez, Vilém Zachleder, Félix L. Figueroa, Tomáš Řezanka, Kateřina Bišová, and Milada Vitová
Long-term impacts of disturbance on nitrogen-cycling bacteria in a New England salt marsh
Anne Bernhard, Courtney Dwyer, Adrian Idrizi, Geoffrey Bender, and Rachel Zwick

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology”

Genome-wide gene order distances support clustering the gram-positive bacteria
Christopher H House, Matteo Pellegrini, and Sorel T. Fitz-Gibbon
Development and validation of an rDNA operon based primer walking strategy applicable to de novo bacterial genome finishing
Alexander William Eastman and Ze-Chun Yuan
Transferable antibiotic resistance plasmids from biogas plant digestates often belong to the IncP-1ε subgroup
Birgit Wolters, Martina Kyselková, Ellen Krögerrecklenfort, Robert Kreuzig, and Kornelia Smalla
Current strategies for mobilome research
Tue Sparholt Jørgensen, Anne Sofie Kiil, Martin Asser Hansen, Søren J Sørensen, and Lars Hestbjerg Hansen

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Extreme Microbiology”

Iron reduction by the deep-sea bacterium Shewanella profunda LT13a under subsurface pressure and temperature conditions
Aude Picard, Denis Testemale, Laura Wagenknecht, Rachael Hazael, and Isabelle Daniel
Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus modulates its membrane lipids in response to hydrogen and nutrient availability
Marcos Yukio Yoshinaga, Emma J. Gagen, Lars Wörmer, Nadine K. Broda, Travis Blake Meador, Jenny Wendt, Michael Thomm, and Kai-Uwe Hinrichs

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Food Microbiology”

Roles of thermostable direct hemolysin (TDH) and TDH-related hemolysin (TRH) in Vibrio parahaemolyticus
Pendru Raghunath
Comparative phenotypic and genotypic virulence of Salmonella strains isolated from Australian layer farms
Andrea McWhorter and Kapil Chousalkar
Listeria monocytogenes varies among strains to maintain intracellular pH homeostasis under stresses by different acids as analyzed by a high-throughput microplate-based fluorometry
Changyong Cheng, Yongchun Yang, Zhimei Dong, Xiaowen Wang, Chun Fang, Menghua Yang, Jing Sun, Liya Xiao, Weihuan Fang, and Houhui Song
Prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility of Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolated from retail shrimps in Malaysia
Vengadesh Letchumanan, Wai-Fong Yin, Learn-Han Lee, and Kok-Gan Chan

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Food Microbiology” (Continued)

Characterization of a minimal pKW2124 replicon from Weissella cibaria KLC140 and its application for the construction of the Weissella expression vector pKUCm1
Hye-Jin Ku, Myeong Soo Park, and Ju-Hoon Lee
Heat shock proteins IbpA and IbpB are required for NlpI-participated cell division in Escherichia coli
Jing Tao, Yu Sang, Qihui Teng, Jinjing Ni, Yi Yang, Stephen Tsui, and Yufeng Yao

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Infectious Diseases”

Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from dental unit waterlines can be divided in two distinct groups, including one displaying phenotypes similar to isolates from cystic fibrosis patients
Myriam Ouellet, Annie Leduc, Christine Nadeau, Jean Barbeau, and Steve J Charette
Microbiota disbiosis is associated with colorectal cancer
Zhiguang Gao, Bomin Guo, Renyuan Gao, Qingchao Zhu, and Huanlong Qin
Animals devoid of pulmonary system as infection models in the study of lung bacterial pathogens
Yamilé López Hernández, Daniel Yero, Juan Manuel Pinos-Rodríguez, and Isidre Gibert

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Microbial Immunology”

The case for a rational genome-based vaccine against malaria
Carla Proietti and Denise Doolan
Bacterial and fungal pattern recognition receptors in homologous innate signaling pathways of insects and mammals
Bethany A Stokes, Shruti Yadav, Upasana Shokal, L Courtney Smith, and Ioannis Eleftherianos
Antigen-driven focal inflammatory death of malaria liver stages
Ganchimeg Bayarsaikhan, Masoud Akbari, Katsuyuki Yui, and Rogerio Amino

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Microbial Physiology and Metabolism”

One Juliet and four Romeos: VeA and its methyltransferases
Ozlem Sarikaya Bayram, Jonathan Mark Palmer, Nancy Keller, Gerhard H Braus, and Ozgur Bayram
Protein-tyrosine phosphorylation in Bacillus subtilis: a 10-year retrospective
Josef Deutscher and Ivan Mijakovic
The archaellum: how Archaea swim
Sonja-Verena Albers and Ken F. Jarrell
The length of a lantibiotic hinge region has profound influence on antimicrobial activity and host specificity
Liang Zhou, Auke L. van Heel, and Oscar P. Kuipers

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Microbiological Chemistry and Geomicrobiology”

Rapid and gradual modes of aerosol trace metal dissolution in seawater
Katherine Rose Marie Mackey, Chia-Te Chein, Anton F Post, Mak A Saito, and Adina Paytan

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

Comprehensive insights into the response of Alexandrium tamarense to algicidal component secreted by a marine bacterium
Xueqian Lei, Dong Li, Yi Li, Zhangran Chen, Yao Chen, Guanjing Cai, Xujun Yang, Wei Zheng, and Tianling Zheng

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Plant-Microbe Interaction”

Interactions of Salmonella with animals and plants
Agnès Wiedemann, Isabelle Virlogeux-Payant, Anne-Marie Chaussé, Adam Schikora, and Philippe Velge
Comparing human–Salmonella with plant–Salmonella protein–protein interaction predictions
Sylvia Schleker, Meghana Kshirsagar, and Judith Klein-Seetharaman
Techniques for transferring host-pathogen protein interactions knowledge to new tasks
Meghana Kshirsagar, Sylvia Schleker, Jaime Carbonell, and Judith Klein-Seetharaman

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Systems Microbiology”

Chemotactic preferences govern competition and pattern formation in simulated two-strain microbial communities
Florian Centler and Martin Thullner
Shifts in metabolic hydrogen sinks in the methanogenesis-inhibited ruminal fermentation: a meta-analysis
Emilio M. Ungerfeld

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Terrestrial Microbiology”

Microbial community composition of transiently wetted Antarctic Dry Valley soils
Thomas D. Neiderberger, Jill A. Sohm, Troy E. Gunderson, Alexander E. Parker, Joelle Tirindelli, Douglas G Capone, Edward J. Carpenter, and Stephen Craig Cary
Evident bacterial community changes but only slight degradation when polluted with pyrene in a red soil
Gaidi Ren, Wenjie Ren, Ying Teng, and Zhengao Li
Resuscitation of the rare biosphere contributes to pulses of ecosystem activity
Zach Aanderud, Stuart Jones, Noah Fierer, and Jay T Lennon
Field-based evidence for consistent responses of bacterial communities to copper contamination in two contrasting agricultural soils
Jing Li, Yibing Ma, Hang-Wei Hu, Jun-Tao Wang, Yu-Rong Liu, and Ji-Zheng He

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Virology”

Improved detection of artifactual viral minority variants in high-throughput sequencing data
Matthijs Rudolf Albert Welkers, Marcel Jonges, Rienk Jeeninga, Marion P.G. Koopmans, and Menno de Jong
The human urine virome in association with urinary tract infections
Tasha M Santiago-Rodriguez, Melissa Ly, Natasha Bonilla, and David T Pride
Bioinformatics approaches for viral metagenomics in plants using short RNAs: model case of study and application to a Cicer arietinum population
Walter Pirovano, Marten boetzer, Laura Miozzi, and Vitantonio Pantaleo
The immunoproteasome and viral infection: a complex regulator of inflammation
Mary Katherine McCarthy and Jason Brice Weinberg
Replicating phages in the epidermal mucosa of the eel (Anguilla anguilla)
Miguel Carda Diéguez, Carolina Megumi Mizuno, Rohit Ghai, Francisco Rodriguez-Valera, and Carmen Amaro
Induction of the pro-inflammatory NF-kB-sensitive miRNA-146a by human neurotrophic viruses
James M. Hill, Christian Clement, Yuhai Zhao, and Walter Lukiw
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