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Protein Aggregation is Associated with Acinetobacter baumannii Desiccation Tolerance

Microorganisms, 2020
Desiccation tolerance has been implicated as an important characteristic that potentiates the spread of the bacterial pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii on dry surfaces. Here we explore several factors influencing desiccation survival of A. baumannii.
Xun Wang, Cody G. Cole, Cory D. DuPai, Bryan W. Davies   +3 more
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Identification of a master transcription factor and a regulatory mechanism for desiccation tolerance in the anhydrobiotic cell line Pv11.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Water is essential for living organisms. Terrestrial organisms are incessantly exposed to the stress of losing water, desiccation stress. Avoiding the mortality caused by desiccation stress, many organisms acquired molecular mechanisms to tolerate ...
Takahiro G Yamada, Yusuke Hiki, Noriko F Hiroi, Elena Shagimardanova, Oleg Gusev, Richard Cornette, Takahiro Kikawada, Akira Funahashi   +7 more
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Characterization of the Desiccation Tolerance of Cronobacter sakazakii Strains

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018
Strong desiccation tolerance is an outstanding feature of Cronobacter sakazakii and can enable the bacterium to survive in a dry food matrix (such as milk powder) for a long time.
Xin-jun Du, Xiao-yi Wang, Xuan Dong, Ping Li, Shuo Wang, Shuo Wang   +5 more
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Effects of Rate of Drying, Life History Phase, and Ecotype on the Ability of the Moss Bryum Argenteum to Survive Desiccation Events and the Influence on Conservation and Selection of Material for Restoration

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Desiccation stress is frequently experienced by the moss Bryum argenteum and can influence survival, propagation and niche selection. We attempted to disentangle the interacting factors of life history phase (five categories) and rate of desiccation ...
Joshua Lee Greenwood, Lloyd R. Stark, Lindsay P. Chiquoine   +2 more
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Chemotaxis and Shorter O-Antigen Chain Length Contribute to the Strong Desiccation Tolerance of a Food-Isolated Cronobacter sakazakii Strain

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
Cronobacter sakazakii is an opportunistic pathogen causing a lethality rate as high as 80% in infants. Desiccation tolerance ensures its survival in powdered infant formula (PIF) and contributes to the increased exposure to neonates, resulting in ...
Chengqian Qian, Min Huang, Yuhui Du, Jingjie Song, Huiqian Mu, Yi Wei, Si Zhang, Zhiqiu Yin, Chao Yuan, Bin Liu, Bin Liu, Bin Liu, Bin Liu   +12 more
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Effect of Nitrogen Starvation on Desiccation Tolerance of Arctic Microcoleus Strains (Cyanobacteria)

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015
Although desiccation tolerance of Microcoleus species is a well-known phenomenon, there is very little information about their limits of desiccation tolerance in terms of cellular water content, the survival rate of their cells, and the environmental ...
Daria eTashyreva, Josef eElster, Josef eElster   +2 more
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Desiccation tolerance in resurrection plants: new insights from transcriptome, proteome and metabolome analysis

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2013
Most higher plants are unable to survive desiccation to an air-dried state. An exception is a small group of vascular angiosperm plants, termed resurrection plants. They have evolved unique mechanisms of desiccation tolerance and thus can tolerate severe
Dinakar eChallabathula, Dorothea eBartels   +1 more
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Variability in Functional Traits along an Environmental Gradient in the South African Resurrection Plant Myrothamnus flabellifolia

Plants, 2022
Many desiccation-tolerant plants are widely distributed and exposed to substantial environmental variation across their native range. These environmental differences generate site-specific selective pressures that could drive natural variation in ...
Rose A. Marks, Mpho Mbobe, Marilize Greyling, Jennie Pretorius, David Nicholas McLetchie, Robert VanBuren, Jill M. Farrant   +6 more
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LOSS OF DESICCATION TOLERANCE IN SEEDS OF TREE SPECIES DURING GERMINATION: THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS

Revista Árvore, 2018
Understanding the loss of desiccation tolerance is of great importance in seed technology for its implications in the development of strategies for seed conservation and seedling production.
Wilson Vicente Souza Pereira, José Marcio Rocha Faria, Olivia Alvina Oliveira Tonetti, Anderson Cleiton José, Lucas Amaral de Melo   +4 more
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An Experimental Evolution Test of the Relationship between Melanism and Desiccation Survival in Insects. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
We used experimental evolution to test the 'melanism-desiccation' hypothesis, which proposes that dark cuticle in several Drosophila species is an adaptation for increased desiccation tolerance.
Subhash Rajpurohit, Lisa Marie Peterson, Andrew J Orr, Anthony J Marlon, Allen G Gibbs   +4 more
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