Aspergillus niger Spores Are Highly Resistant to Space Radiation [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 The filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger is one of the main contaminants of the International Space Station (ISS). It forms highly pigmented, airborne spores that have thick cell walls and low metabolic activity, enabling them to withstand harsh ...
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Electrochemical potential enables dormant spores to integrate environmental signals
Science, 2022 The dormant state of bacterial spores is generally thought to be devoid of biological activity. We show that despite continued dormancy, spores can integrate environmental signals over time through a preexisting electrochemical potential.
Kaito Kikuchi +7 more
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Nature Communications, 2021 Clostridioides difficile spores produced during infection are important for the recurrence of the disease. Here, we show that C. difficile spores gain entry into the intestinal mucosa via pathways dependent on host fibronectin-α5β1 and vitronectin-αvβ1 ...
Pablo Castro-Córdova +10 more
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Bacillus spores: a review of their properties and inactivation processing technologies
Food Science and Biotechnology, 2020 Many factors determine the resistance properties of a Bacillus spore to heat, chemical and physical processing, including thick proteinaceous coats, peptidoglycan cortex and low water content, high levels of dipicolinic acid (DPA), and divalent cations ...
W. Cho, M. Chung
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Long-Distance Wind-Dispersal of Spores in a Fungal Plant Pathogen: Estimation of Anisotropic Dispersal Kernels from an Extensive Field Experiment [PDF]
, 2014 Given its biological significance, determining the dispersal kernel (i.e., the distribution of dispersal distances) of spore-producing pathogens is essential. Here, we report two field experiments designed to measure disease gradients caused by sexually-
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DNA Damage Kills Bacterial Spores and Cells Exposed to 222-Nanometer UV Radiation
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2020 Spores of a variety of bacteria are resistant to common decontamination agents, and many of them are major causes of food spoilage and some serious human diseases, including anthrax caused by spores of Bacillus anthracis.
Willie Taylor +11 more
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Characterization of the Adherence of Clostridium difficile Spores: The Integrity of the Outermost Layer Affects Adherence Properties of Spores of the Epidemic Strain R20291 to Components of the Intestinal Mucosa [PDF]
, 2016 Indexación: Web of Science.Clostridium difficile is the causative agent of the most frequently reported nosocomial diarrhea worldwide. The high incidence of recurrent infection is the main clinical challenge of C. difficile infections (CBI). Formation of
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Microbiology Spectrum, 2015 ABSTRACT Bacterial endospores possess multiple integument layers, one of which is the cortex peptidoglycan wall. The cortex is essential for the maintenance of spore core dehydration and dormancy and contains structural modifications that differentiate it from vegetative cell peptidoglycan and determine its fate during spore ...
David L, Popham, Casey B, Bernhards
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Food and water security issues in Russia II: Water security in general population of Russian Arctic, Siberia and Far East, 2000–2011 [PDF]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2013 Background . Poor state of water supply systems, shortage of water purification facilities and disinfection systems, low quality of drinking water generally in Russia and particularly in the regions of the Russian Arctic, Siberia and Far East have been ...
Alexey A. Dudarev +9 more
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Characterization of Lung Inflammatory Response to Aspergillus fumigatus Spores
Journal of Fungi, 2023 The airway exposure to Aspergillus fumigatus spores (AFsp) is associated with an inflammatory response, potentially leading to allergic and/or chronic pulmonary aspergillosis. The aim of our study is to better understand the host response, first in vitro,
Alexandra Bouyssi +11 more
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