Species-specificity of the secondary biosynthetic potential in Bacillus [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 IntroductionAlthough Bacillus species have produced a wide variety of structurally diverse and biologically active natural products, the secondary biosynthetic potential of Bacillus species is widely underestimated due to the limited number of ...
Qun-Jian Yin +7 more
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Mating pair stabilization mediates bacterial conjugation species specificity. [PDF]
Nat Microbiol, 2022 Bacterial conjugation mediates contact-dependent transfer of DNA from donor to recipient bacteria, thus facilitating the spread of virulence and resistance plasmids.
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Exploiting species specificity to understand the tropism of a human-specific toxin. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2020 Overcoming the species specificity of the MRSA toxin LukAB with a novel mouse model establishes a role for LukAB in vivo. Many pathogens produce virulence factors that are specific toward their natural host.
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Host Range, Biology, and Species Specificity of Seven-Segmented Influenza Viruses—A Comparative Review on Influenza C and D [PDF]
Pathogens, 2021 Other than genome structure, influenza C (ICV), and D (IDV) viruses with seven-segmented genomes are biologically different from the eight-segmented influenza A (IAV), and B (IBV) viruses concerning the presence of hemagglutinin–esterase fusion protein ...
Chithra C. Sreenivasan +3 more
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Whole-Genome Sequencing of Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens 113-2 and Comparative Genomic Analysis Provide Molecular Insights Into Species Specificity and Host Specificity [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 In the present study, we sequenced the complete genome of Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens 113-2. The genomic characteristics of six selected rhizobial strains (two fast-growing rhizobia, two medium-slow-growing rhizobia and two slow-growing rhizobia) with ...
Rong Li +9 more
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STAT2 Limits Host Species Specificity of Human Metapneumovirus [PDF]
Viruses, 2020 The host tropism of viral infection is determined by a variety of factors, from cell surface receptors to innate immune signaling. Many viruses encode proteins that interfere with host innate immune recognition in order to promote infection.
Meredith C. Rogers +6 more
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Quantifying the human vaginal community state types (CSTs) with the species specificity index. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 The five community state types (CSTs) first identified by Ravel et al. (2011) offered a powerful scheme to classify the states of human vaginal microbial communities (HVMC).
Ma ZS, Li L.
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Species specificity and specificity diversity (SSD) framework: a novel method for detecting the unique and enriched species associated with disease by leveraging the microbiome heterogeneity [PDF]
BMC BiologyBackground Differentiating the microbiome changes associated with diseases is challenging but critically important. Majority of existing efforts have been focused on a community level, but the discerning power of community or holistic metrics such as ...
Zhanshan Sam Ma
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Species specificity in major urinary proteins by parallel evolution. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2008 Species-specific chemosignals, pheromones, regulate social behaviors such as aggression, mating, pup-suckling, territory establishment, and dominance.
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Oviductin sets the species-specificity of the mammalian zona pellucida [PDF]
eLifeThe zona pellucida (ZP) is vital for species-specific fertilization as this barrier mediates sperm-oocyte binding. Here, we determined whether sperm from distant mammalian orders (Carnivora, Primates, and Rodentia) could penetrate bovine oocytes by ...
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