Distribution and diversity of bacterial secretion systems across metagenomic datasets [PDF]
, 2012 Bacteria can manipulate their surrounding environment through the secretion of proteins into other living organisms and into the extracellular milieu. In Gram stain negative bacteria this process is mediated by different types of secretion systems from ...
Egan, Frank +3 more
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Translocation of DNA across bacterial membranes [PDF]
, 1994 Dreiseikelmann B. Translocation of DNA across bacterial membranes. Microbiological Reviews.
Dreiseikelmann, Brigitte
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Diversity of Bacterial Biosynthetic Genes in Maritime Antarctica
Microorganisms, 2020 Bacterial natural products (NPs) are still a major source of new drug leads. Polyketides (PKs) and non-ribosomal peptides (NRP) are two pharmaceutically important families of NPs and recent studies have revealed Antarctica to harbor endemic polyketide ...
Adriana Rego +6 more
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Phage Resistance Reduced the Pathogenicity of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae on Rice
Viruses, 2022 Plants grow together with microbes that have both negative and positive impacts on the host, while prokaryotes are in turn also hosts for viruses, co-evolving together in a complex interrelationship.
Mengju Liu +11 more
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Structural insights into an engineered feruloyl esterase with improved MHET degrading properties
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.A feruloyl esterase was engineered to mimic key features of MHETase, enhancing the degradation of PET oligomers. Structural and computational analysis reveal how a point mutation stabilizes the active site and reshapes the binding cleft, expading substrate scope.
Panagiota Karampa +5 more
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What traits are carried on mobile genetic elements, and why? [PDF]
, 2010 Although similar to any other organism, prokaryotes can transfer genes vertically from mother cell to daughter cell, they can also exchange certain genes horizontally.
Rankin, D J +8 more
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
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Sequence Variability of P2-Like Prophage Genomes Carrying the Cytolethal Distending Toxin V Operon in Escherichia coli O157 [PDF]
, 2013 Cytolethal distending toxins (CDT) are potent cytotoxins of several Gram-negative pathogenic bacteria, including Escherichia coli, in which five types (CDT-I to CDT-V) have been identified so far.
Dobrindt, Ulrich +4 more
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Scientific Reports, 2017 Lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) commonly causes hospitalization in adults. Because bacterial diagnostic tests are not accurate, antibiotics are frequently prescribed. Peripheral blood gene expression to identify subjects with bacterial infection
Soumyaroop Bhattacharya +12 more
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Bacterial community and arsenic functional genes diversity in arsenic contaminated soils from different geographic locations. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 To understand how soil microbial communities and arsenic (As) functional genes respond to soil arsenic (As) contamination, five soils contaminated with As at different levels were collected from diverse geographic locations, incubated for 54 days under ...
Yunfu Gu +6 more
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