Phenylketonuria Diet Promotes Shifts in Firmicutes Populations [PDF]
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2019 Low-phenylalanine diet, the mainstay of treatment for phenylketonuria (PKU), has been shown to increase glycemic index and glycemic load, affecting the availability of substrates for microbial fermentation.
Giulia Bassanini +9 more
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Under-detection of endospore-forming Firmicutes in metagenomic data [PDF]
Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2015 Microbial diversity studies based on metagenomic sequencing have greatly enhanced our knowledge of the microbial world. However, one caveat is the fact that not all microorganisms are equally well detected, questioning the universality of this approach ...
Sevasti Filippidou +6 more
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Veillonella, Firmicutes: Microbes disguised as Gram negatives [PDF]
Standards in Genomic Sciences, 2013 The Firmicutes represent a major component of the intestinal microflora. The intestinal Firmicutes are a large, diverse group of organisms, many of which are poorly characterized due to their anaerobic growth requirements. Although most Firmicutes are Gram positive, members of the class Negativicutes, including the genus Veillonella, stain Gram ...
Vesth, Tammi +8 more
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Cryptosporulation in
Environmental Microbiology, 2022 Abstract Endosporulation is a complex morphophysiological process resulting in a more resistant cellular structure that is produced within the mother cell and is called endospore. Endosporulation evolved in the common ancestor of Firmicutes, but it is lost in descendant lineages classified as ...
Fatton, Mathilda +17 more
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Reconstruction of xylose utilization pathway and regulons in Firmicutes [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2010 Abstract Background Many Firmicutes bacteria, including solvent-producing clostridia such as Clostridium acetobutylicum, are able to utilize xylose, an abundant carbon source in nature. Nevertheless, homology searches failed to recognize all the genes for the complete xylose and xyloside utilization pathway in most of
Zhang Weiwen +8 more
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Request for an Opinion on the standing and retention of Firmicutes as a phylum name [PDF]
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 2023 Oren and Garrity recently published 42 new prokaryotic phylum names, including Bacillota , which they describe as a synonym of the effectively published name Firmacutes and its ...
Pallen, Mark J.
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Plasmid-Mediated Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococci and Other Firmicutes [PDF]
Microbiology Spectrum, 2014 ABSTRACT In staphylococci and other Firmicutes , resistance to numerous classes of antimicrobial agents, which are commonly used in human and veterinary medicine, is mediated by genes that are associated with mobile genetic elements.
Stefan, Schwarz +6 more
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Discovery of a new family of relaxases in Firmicutes bacteria [PDF]
PLOS Genetics, 2017 Antibiotic resistance is a serious global problem. Antibiotic resistance genes (ARG), which are widespread in environmental bacteria, can be transferred to pathogenic bacteria via horizontal gene transfer (HGT). Gut microbiomes are especially apt for the emergence and dissemination of ARG.
Gayetri Ramachandran +11 more
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The association between body mass index and the oral Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes profiles of healthy individuals [PDF]
Malaysian Family Physician, 2021 Introduction: Microbiome status is considered an important factor that contributes to obesity. Investigations have shown that the oral microbiome comprises a vast array of bacterial species that can influence human health.
Roshna Mohamed Qadir, Mahde Saleh Assafi
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High-fat-diet-induced gut microbiome changes in mice
Stress and Brain, 2022 Obesity is one of the most severe public health problems and may result in many other related diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes, and stroke.
Wenqi Tang +7 more
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