Frontiers Article Alert

Monday, 4 May 2015

 

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

 

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Lactobacillus protects the integrity of intestinal epithelial barrier damaged by pathogenic bacteria
Qinghua Yu, Lixia Yuan, Jun Deng, and Qian Yang
Transcriptomic analysis of three Veillonella spp. present in carious dentine and in the saliva of caries-free individuals
Thuy Do, Evelyn C Sheehy, Tonnie Mulli, Francis Hughes, and David Beighton
Host-adapted metabolism and its regulation in bacterial pathogens
Thomas Dandekar and Wolfgang Eisenreich
Characterization of enteropathogenic and Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in cattle and deer in a shared agroecosystem
Pallavi Singh, Qiong Sha, David W. Lacher, Jacquelyn Del Valle, Rebekah E. Mosci, Jennifer A. Moore, Kim T. Scribner, and Shannon D. Manning
Lyme disease: recent advances and perspectives
Tanja Petnicki-Ocwieja and Catherine Ayn Brissette
Comparative proteomic analyses demonstrate enhanced interferon and STAT-1 activation in reovirus T3D-infected HeLa cells
Peyman Ezzati, Krysten Komher, Giulia Severini, and Kevin Coombs
Whole genome sequencing of extended-spectrum β-lactamase producing Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated from a patient in Lebanon
Sima Tokajian, Jonathan Eisen, Guillaume Jospin, Anna Farra, and David Coil
New insight into the molecular control of bacterial functional amyloids
Stephen Matthews and Jonathan Taylor
Biofilm formation by staphylococci and streptococci: structural, functional, and regulatory aspects and implications for pathogenesis
Pietro Speziale and Joan A Geoghegan
A Book Review on: Sherris Medical Microbiology – International Edition, 6th Edition
Erlangga Yusuf

Frontiers in Microbiology

The geomicrobiology of CO2 geosequestration: a focused review on prokaryotic community responses to field-scale CO2 injection
Andre Mu and John W Moreau

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

Contribution of Acinetobacter-derived cephalosporinase-30 to sulbactam resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii
Shu-Chen Kuo, Yi-Tzu Lee, Tsai-Ling Yang Lauderdale, Wei-Cheng Huang, Ming-Fen Chuang, Chien-Pei Chen, Shey-Chiang Su, Kuan-Rong Lee, and Te-Li Chen
High prevalence and risk factors of fecal carriage of CTX-M type extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae from healthy rural residents of Taian, China
Hongna Zhang, Yufa Zhou, Shuyuan Guo, and Weishan Chang
Probiotic potential of Enterococcus faecalis strains isolated from meconium
Ahmed Khassaf Al Atyaa, Karima Drider-Hadiouche, Rozenn Ravallec, Amandine Sylvain, Anne Vachee, and Djamel Drider
Antigiardial activity of novel triazolyl-quinolone-based chalcone derivatives: when oxygen makes the difference
Vijay Bahadur, Daniela Mastronicola, Amit Kumar Singh, Hemandra Kumar Tiwari, Leopoldo Paolo Pucillo, Paolo Sarti, Brajendra Kumar Singh, and Alessandro Giuffre
Drug repurposing as an alternative for the treatment of recalcitrant bacterial infections
Adrian Rangel-Vega, Lawrence R. Bernstein, Edna-Ayerim Mandujano Tinoco, Silvia-Julieta García-Contreras, and Rodolfo García-Contreras
Curcumin rescues Caenorhabditis elegans from a Burkholderia pseudomallei infection
Su-Anne Eng and Sheila Nathan

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Aquatic Microbiology”

Oxidative stress and starvation in Dinoroseobacter shibae: the role of extrachromosomal elements
Maya Soora, Jürgen Tomasch, Hui Wang, Victoria Michael, Jörn Petersen, Bert Engelen, Irene Wagner-Doebler, and Heribert Cypionka
Spatial variability of microbial assemblages associated with a dominant habitat-forming seaweed
Alexandra Helene Campbell, Ezequiel Miguel Marzinelli, Jon Gelber, and Peter David Steinberg
Multidrug resistance found in extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae from rural water reservoirs in Guantao, China
Hongna Zhang, Yufa Zhou, Shuyuan Guo, and Weishan Chang
Isolating the effects of storm events on arctic aquatic bacteria: temperature, nutrients, and community composition as controls on bacterial productivity
Heather E. Adams, Byron C. Crump, and George W Kling
Transplant experiments uncover Baltic Sea basin-specific responses in bacterioplankton community composition and metabolic activities
Markus V Lindh, Daniela Figueroa, Johanna Sjöstedt, Federico Baltar, Daniel Lundin, Agneta Andersson, Catherine Legrand, and Jarone Pinhassi
A taxonomic framework for emerging groups of ecologically important marine gammaproteobacteria based on the reconstruction of evolutionary relationships using genome-scale data
Stefan Spring, Carmen Scheuner, Markus Göker, and Hans-Peter Klenk

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology”

Genomics of microbial plasmids: classification and identification based on replication and transfer systems and host taxonomy
Masaki Shintani, Zoe Kuizon Sanchez, and Kazuhide Kimbara

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Extreme Microbiology”

Structure, mineralogy, and microbial diversity of geothermal spring microbialites associated with a deep oil drilling in Romania
Cristian Coman, Cecilia Maria Chiriac, Michael S. Robeson, Corina Ionescu, Nicolae Dragos, Lucian Barbu-Tudoran, Adrian-Stefan Andrei, Horia L. Banciu, Cosmin Sicora, and Mircea Podar
Genome-wide DNA methylation analysis of Haloferax volcanii H26 and identification of DNA methyltransferase related PD-(D/E)XK nuclease family protein HVO_A0006
Matthew Ouellette, Laura Jackson, Scott Chimileski, and R. Thane Papke
Effect of nitrogen starvation on desiccation tolerance of Arctic Microcoleus strains (cyanobacteria)
Daria Tashyreva and Josef Elster

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Food Microbiology”

Insights into the environmental reservoir of pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus using comparative genomics
Tracy H Hazen, Patricia C Lafon, Nancy Garrett, Tiffany Lowe, Daniel J Silberger, Lori Rowe, Michael Frace, Michele Parsons, Cheryl A Bopp, David A Rasko, and Patricia Sobecky
A pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6 clone causing most associated diarrhea cases in the Pacific Northwest coast of Mexico
Lucio De Jesus Hernández-Díaz, Nidia León-Sicairos, Jorge Velazquez-Roman, Hector Flores-Villaseñor, Marlene Guadron-Llanos, Jesus J. Martinez-Garcia, Jorge E. Vidal, and Adrian Canizalez-Roman
Genetic characterization of clinical and environmental Vibrio parahaemolyticus from the Northeast USA reveals emerging resident and non-indigenous pathogen lineages
Feng Xu, Saba Ilyas, Jeffrey A. Hall, Stephen H. Jones, Vaughn S. Cooper, and Cheryl A. Whistler
Improvement of the quantitation method for the tdh+ Vibrio parahaemolyticus in molluscan shellfish based on most-probable- number, immunomagnetic separation, and loop-mediated isothermal amplification
Oscar Escalante-Maldonado, Ahmad Yaman Kayali, Wataru Yamazaki, Varaporn Vuddhakul, Yoshitsugu Nakaguchi, and Mitsuaki Nishibuchi
Impact of oxidative stress defense on bacterial survival and morphological change in Campylobacter jejuni under aerobic conditions
Euna Oh, Lynn McMullen, and Byeonghwa Jeon

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Fungi and Their Interactions”

Gene expression patterns and dynamics of the colonization of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) by highly virulent and weakly virulent strains of Fusarium oxysporum
Jonathan Niño-Sánchez, Vega Tello, Virginia Casado-del Castillo, Michael R. Thon, Ernesto P Benito, and José María Díaz-Mínguez
AmcA—a putative mitochondrial ornithine transporter supporting fungal siderophore biosynthesis
Lukas Schafferer, Nicola Beckmann, Ulrike Binder, Gerald Brosch, and Hubertus Haas
Importance of adhesins in virulence of Paracoccidioides spp.
Haroldo Cesar de Oliveira, Julhiany de Fátima Silva, Liliana Scorzoni, Caroline Maria Marcos, Suelen Andréia Rossi, Ana Carolina Alves De Paula e Silva, Patrícia Akemi Assato, Rosângela Aparecida Moraes Silva, Ana Marisa Fusco-Almeida, and Maria José Soares Mendes-Giannini

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Infectious Diseases”

Friends or foes: can we make a distinction between beneficial and harmful strains of the Stenotrophomonas maltophilia complex?
Gabriele Berg and Jose L Martinez
Natural killer T (NKT) cells accelerate Shiga toxin type 2 (Stx2) pathology in mice
Fumiko Obata, Priyanka B Subrahmanyam, Aimee E Vozenilek, Lauren M Hippler, Tynae Jeffers, Methinee Tongsuk, Irina Tiper, Progyaparamita Saha, Dakshina M Jandhyala, Glynis L Kolling, Olga Latinovic, and Tonya J Webb
CRH promotes S. pneumoniae growth in vitro and increases lung carriage in mice
Colette Georgette Ngo Ndjom and Harlan Pierre Jones
Ebola virus infection modeling and identifiability problems
Van-Kinh Nguyen, Sebastian C. Binder, Alessandro Boianelli, Michael Meyer-Hermann, and Esteban Abelardo Hernandez-Vargas
A review on computational systems biology of pathogen–host interactions
Saliha Durmus, Tunahan Cakir, Arzucan Ozgur, and Reinhard Guthke
Type 1 fimbriae are important factors limiting the dissemination and colonization of mice by Salmonella Enteritidis and contribute to the induction of intestinal inflammation during Salmonella invasion
Marta Kuźmińska-Bajor, Krzysztof Grzymajło, and Maciej Ugorski

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Infectious Diseases” (Continued)

Prevalence and genetic diversity of clinical Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolates from China, revealed by multilocus sequence typing scheme
Dongsheng Han, Hui Tang, Chuanli Ren, Guangzhou Wang, Lin Zhou, and Chongxu Han

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Microbial Immunology”

No more monkeying around: primate malaria model systems are key to understanding Plasmodium vivax liver-stage biology, hypnozoites, and relapses
Chester J Joyner, John W Barnwell, and Mary R Galinski
TLR-4 cooperates with Dectin-1 and mannose receptor to expand Th17 and Tc17 cells induced by Paracoccidioides brasiliensis stimulated dendritic cells
Vera Lucia Garcia Calich, Flavio Vieira Loures, Eliseu F. Araujo, Claudia Feriotti, and Silvia B. Bazan
Chloroquine neither eliminates liver stage parasites nor delays their development in a murine Chemoprophylaxis Vaccination model
Tejram Sahu, Lynn Lambert, Jessica Herrod, Solomon Conteh, Sachy Orr-Gonzalez, Dariyen Carter, and Patrick E Duffy

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Microbial Physiology and Metabolism”

Archaeal type IV pili and their involvement in biofilm formation
Rianne Esquivel and Mechthild Pohlschroder
A ten-year search for synchronous cells: obstacles, solutions, and practical applications
Charles Edward Helmstetter
Nutrient requirements and growth physiology of the photoheterotrophic Acidobacterium, Chloracidobacterium thermophilum
Donald A Bryant and Marcus Tank
Fluorescence microscopy visualization of halomucin, a secreted 927 kDa protein surrounding Haloquadratum walsbyi cells
Ralf Zenke, Susanne von Gronau, Henk Bolhuis, Manuela Gruska, Friedhelm Pfeiffer, and Dieter Oesterhelt
Phosphoproteome of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 and its dynamics during nitrogen starvation
Philipp Spät, Boris Macek, and Karl Forchhammer
Fluorescence in situ hybridization and sequential catalyzed reporter deposition (2C-FISH) for the flow cytometric sorting of freshwater ultramicrobacteria
Stefan M Neuenschwander, Michaela M Salcher, and Jakob Pernthaler
Comparative Ser/Thr/Tyr phosphoproteomics between two mycobacterial species: the fast growing Mycobacterium smegmatis and the slow growing Mycobacterium bovis BCG
Kehilwe Confidence Nakedi, Andrew JM Nel, Shaun Garnett, Jonathan M Blackburn, and Nelson Da Cruz Soares
Wiretapping into microbial interactions by single cell genomics
Ramunas Stepanauskas
Engineering mediator-based electroactivity in the obligate aerobic bacterium Pseudomonas putida KT2440
Simone Schmitz, Salome Nies, Nick Wierckx, Lars M Blank, and Miriam A. Rosenbaum

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Microbial Symbioses”

Enrichment experiment changes microbial interactions in an ultra-oligotrophic environment
Gabriel Yaxal Ponce-Soto, Eneas Aguirre-von-Wobeser, Luis E. Eguiarte, James J. Elser, Zarraz M.P. Lee, and Valeria Souza

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

Analysis of microbial communities in the oil reservoir subjected to CO2-flooding by using functional genes as molecular biomarkers for microbial CO2 sequestration
Jin-Feng Liu, Xiao-Bo Sun, Guang-Chao Yang, Serge Maurice Mbadinga, Ji-Dong Gu, and Bozhong Mu
Bioemulsifiers are not biosurfactants and require different screening approaches
Chibuzo Uzoigwe, J Grant Burgess, Christopher Joseph Ennis, and Pattanathu K S M Rahman
Biosurfactant production from marine hydrocarbon-degrading consortia and pure bacterial strains using crude oil as carbon source
Eleftheria Antoniou, Stilianos Fodelianakis, Emmanouela Korkakaki, and Nicolas Kalogerakis
Marine-derived fungi: diversity of enzymes and biotechnological applications
Rafaella Costa Bonugli-Santos, Raphaella dos Santos Vasconcelos, Michel Rodrigo Zambrano Passarini, Gabriela Alves Licursi Vieira, Viviane Cristina Padilha Lopes, Pedro Henrique Mainardi, Juliana Aparecida dos Santos, Lidia Azevedo Duarte, Igor Vinicius Ramos Otero, Aline Mayumi da Silva Yoshida, Valker Araujo Feitosa, Adalberto Pessoa Jr, and Lara Durães Sette
Exopolysaccharides enriched in rare sugars: bacterial sources, production, and applications
Christophe Roca, Vitor D Alves, Filomena Freitas, and Maria A Reis

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Plant-Microbe Interaction”

rpoN1, but not rpoN2, is required for twitching motility, natural competence, growth on nitrate, and virulence of Ralstonia solanacearum
Suvendra Kumar Ray, Rahul Kumar, Nemo Peeters, Christian Boucher, and Stephane Genin
Tomato transgenic plants expressing hairpin construct of a nematode protease gene conferred enhanced resistance to root-knot nematodes
Tushar Kanti Dutta
Isolation, abundance and phylogenetic affiliation of endophytic actinomycetes associated with medicinal plants and screening for their in vitro antimicrobial biosynthetic potential
Ajit Kumar Passari, Vineet Kumar Mishra, Ratul Saikia, Vijai Kumar Gupta, and Bhim Pratap Singh
Arabidopsis thaliana as a tool to identify traits involved in Verticillium dahliae biocontrol by the olive root endophyte Pseudomonas fluorescens PICF7
M. Mercedes Maldonado-González, Peter A.H.M. Bakker, Pilar Prieto, and Jesús Mercado-Blanco

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Systems Microbiology”

Microbial resource utilization traits and trade-offs: implications for community structure, functioning, and biogeochemical impacts at present and in the future
Elena Litchman, Kyle F. Edwards, and Christopher A. Klausmeier
Identification of novel esterase-active enzymes from hot environments by use of the host bacterium Thermus thermophilus
Benedikt Leis, Angel Angelov, Markus Mientus, Haijuan Li, Vu Thuy Trang Pham, Benjamin Lauinger, Patrick Bongen, Jörg Pietruszka, Luís G. Gonçalves, Helena Santos, and Wolfgang Liebl
Essential oils affect populations of some rumen bacteria in vitro as revealed by microarray (RumenBactArray) analysis
Amlan Kumar Patra and Zhongtang Yu
Redundancy, resilience, and host specificity of the ruminal microbiota: implications for engineering improved ruminal fermentations
Paul James Weimer

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Terrestrial Microbiology”

Microbial abundance in surface ice on the Greenland Ice Sheet
Marek Stibal, Erkin Gözdereliler, Karen A. Cameron, Jason E. Box, Ian T. Stevens, Jarishma K. Gokul, Morten Schostag, Jakub D. Zarsky, Arwyn Edwards, Tristram D.L. Irvine-Fynn, and Carsten Suhr Jacobsen
Profiling bacterial diversity in a limestone cave of the western Loess Plateau of China
Yucheng Wu, Liangcheng Tan, Wuxing Liu, Baozhan Wang, Jianjun Wang, Yanjun Cai, and Xiangui Lin
Rhizosphere bacterial carbon turnover is higher in nucleic acids than membrane lipids: implications for understanding soil carbon cycling
Ashish A. Malik, Helena Dannert, Robert Iwan Griffiths, Bruce Craig Thomson, and Gerd Gleixner

Frontiers in Microbiology, section “Virology”

Identification of staphylococcal phage with reduced transcription in human blood through transcriptome sequencing
Tasha Marie Santiago-Rodriguez, Mayuri Naidu, Marcus B Jones, Melissa Ly, and David T Pride
RNA shotgun metagenomic sequencing of northern California (USA) mosquitoes uncovers viruses, bacteria, and fungi
James Angus Chandler, Rachel M Liu, and Shannon N Bennett
Effect of Puumala hantavirus infection on human umbilical vein endothelial cell hemostatic function: platelet interactions, increased tissue factor expression and fibrinolysis regulator release
Marco Goeijenbier, Joost CM Meijers, Fatih Anfasa, Jeroen Roose, Cornelia AM Van de Weg, Kamran Bakhtiari, Heikki Henttonen, Antti Vaheri, Albert Osterhaus, Eric C.M. Van Gorp, and Byron Emanuel Eusebio Martina
Drugs of Abuse in HIV infection and neurotoxicity
Melisa Hidalgo, Venkata Subba Rao Atluri, and Madhavan Nair
Beyond research: a primer for considerations on using viral metagenomics in the field and clinic
Richard J Hall, Jenny Draper, Fiona Nielsen, and Bas E. Dutilh
Hantavirus-induced disruption of the endothelial barrier: neutrophils are on the payroll
Günther Schönrich, Detlev H. Krüger, and Martin John Raftery
Global and quantitative proteomic analysis of dogs infected by avian-like H3N2 canine influenza virus
Shuo Su, Jin Tian, Malin Hong, Pei Zhou, Gang Lu, Huchen Zhu, Guihong Zhang, Alexander Lai, and Shoujun Li
The heat shock protein 90 inhibitor BIIB021 suppresses the growth of T and natural killer cell lymphomas
Michio Suzuki, Tadashi Takeda, Hikaru Nakagawa, Seiko Iwata, Takahiro Watanabe, Mohammed Nure Alam Siddiquey, Fumi Goshima, Takayuki Murata, Jun-ichi Kawada, Yoshinori Ito, Seiji Kojima, and Hiroshi Kimura
Combining genomic sequencing methods to explore viral diversity and reveal potential virus-host interactions
Cheryl-Emiliane Tien Chow, Danielle M Winget, Richard Allen White III, Steven J Hallam, and Curtis A Suttle
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