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  1. The aim of this study was to analyze the significance of leucine to proline substitution at position 138(Leu138Pro) on the hydrolysis of penicillin and ampicillin that we identified in the blaSHV gene of clinical...

    Authors: Nabin Rayamajhi, Jeong Chan Joo, Seung Bin Cha, Subarna Pokherl, Min Kyung Shin, Young Je Yoo and Han Sang Yoo
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:29
  2. Bacterial chromosomes are organised into a compact and dynamic structures termed nucleoids. Cytological studies in model rod-shaped bacteria show that the different regions of the chromosome display distinct a...

    Authors: Jean-Christophe Meile, Romain Mercier, Mathieu Stouf, Carine Pages, Jean-Yves Bouet and François Cornet
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:28
  3. We describe the diversity of two kinds of mycobacteria isolates, environmental mycobacteria and Mycobacterium bovis collected from wild boar, fallow deer, red deer and cattle in Doñana National Park (DNP, Spain),...

    Authors: Christian Gortazar, Maria J Torres, Pelayo Acevedo, Javier Aznar, Juan J Negro, Jose de la Fuente and Joaquín Vicente
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:27
  4. N-acylhomoserine lactone (AHL)-based quorum sensing (QS) systems have been described in many plant-associated Gram-negative bacteria to control certain beneficial phenotypic traits, such as production of biocon.....

    Authors: Xiaoguang Liu, Jinli Jia, Roman Popat, Catherine A Ortori, Jun Li, Stephen P Diggle, Kexiang Gao and Miguel Cámara
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:26
  5. Streptococcus pneumoniae is an important human pathogen representing a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. We sequenced the genome of a serotype 11A, ST62 S. pneumoniae invasive isolate (AP200), tha...

    Authors: Romina Camilli, Raoul JP Bonnal, Maria Del Grosso, Michele Iacono, Giorgio Corti, Ermanno Rizzi, Magda Marchetti, Laura Mulas, Francesco Iannelli, Fabiana Superti, Marco R Oggioni, Gianluca De Bellis and Annalisa Pantosti
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:25
  6. Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses (SIVs) are the precursors of Human Immunodeficiency Viruses (HIVs) which have lead to the worldwide HIV/AIDS pandemic. By studying SIVs in wild primates we can better understand...

    Authors: Siv Aina J Leendertz, Sabrina Locatelli, Christophe Boesch, Claudia Kücherer, Pierre Formenty, Florian Liegeois, Ahidjo Ayouba, Martine Peeters and Fabian H Leendertz
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:24
  7. Extensive use of antibiotics as growth promoters in the livestock industry constitutes strong selection pressure for evolution and selection of antibiotic resistant bacterial strains. Unfortunately, the microb...

    Authors: Aqeel Ahmad, Anuradha Ghosh, Coby Schal and Ludek Zurek
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:23
  8. Clostridium thermocellum is a Gram-positive thermophilic anaerobic bacterium with the unusual capacity to convert cellulosic biomass into ethanol and hydrogen. Identification and characterization of protein compl...

    Authors: Yanfeng Peng, Yuanming Luo, Tingting Yu, Xinping Xu, Keqiang Fan, Youbao Zhao and Keqian Yang
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:22
  9. Leptospira interrogans are bacterial pathogens of animal that cause zoonotic infections in human. Outer membrane proteins of leptospire are among the most effective antigens which can stimulate remarkable immune ...

    Authors: Xu'ai Lin, Aihua Sun, Ping Ruan, Zhe Zhang and Jie Yan
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:21
  10. Plasmids containing hyl Efm (pHylEfm) were previously shown to increase gastrointestinal colonization and lethality of Enterococcus faecium in experimental peritonitis. The h...

    Authors: Diana Panesso, Maria C Montealegre, Sandra Rincón, Maria F Mojica, Louis B Rice, Kavindra V Singh, Barbara E Murray and Cesar A Arias
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:20
  11. Environmental transmission of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria and resistance gene determinants originating from livestock is affected by their persistence in agricultural-related matrices. This study investig...

    Authors: Trevor W Alexander, Jay L Yanke, Tim Reuter, Ed Topp, Ronald R Read, Brent L Selinger and Tim A McAllister
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:19
  12. The potential causes for variation in virulence between distinct M. tuberculosis strains are still not fully known. However, differences in protein expression are probably an important factor. In this study we us...

    Authors: Hiwa Målen, Gustavo A De Souza, Sharad Pathak, Tina Søfteland and Harald G Wiker
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:18
  13. Staphylococcus aureus activates a protective cell wall stress stimulon (CWSS) in response to the inhibition of cell wall synthesis or cell envelope damage caused by several structurally and functionally different...

    Authors: Vanina Dengler, Patricia Stutzmann Meier, Ronald Heusser, Brigitte Berger-Bächi and Nadine McCallum
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:16
  14. Attine ants live in symbiosis with a basidiomycetous fungus that they rear on a substrate of plant material. This indirect herbivory implies that the symbiosis is likely to be nitrogen deprived, so that specif...

    Authors: Tatyana A Semenova, David P Hughes, Jacobus J Boomsma and Morten Schiøtt
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:15
  15. The purpose of this study was to design and evaluate fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) probes for the single-cell detection and enumeration of lactic acid bacteria, in particular organisms belonging to the...

    Authors: Beatrice Quevedo, Elin Giertsen, Vincent Zijnge, Helga Lüthi-Schaller, Bernhard Guggenheim, Thomas Thurnheer and Rudolf Gmür
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:14
  16. The ability of staphylococci to grow in a wide range of salt concentrations is well documented. In this study, we aimed to clarify the role of cardiolipin (CL) in the adaptation of Staphylococcus aureus to high s...

    Authors: Melody Tsai, Ryosuke L Ohniwa, Yusuke Kato, Sayaka L Takeshita, Toshiko Ohta, Shinji Saito, Hideo Hayashi and Kazuya Morikawa
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:13
  17. Bacterial exported proteins represent key components of the host-pathogen interplay. Hence, we sought to implement a combined approach for characterizing the entire exoproteome of the pathogenic bacterium Coryneb...

    Authors: Luis GC Pacheco, Susan E Slade, Núbia Seyffert, Anderson R Santos, Thiago LP Castro, Wanderson M Silva, Agenor V Santos, Simone G Santos, Luiz M Farias, Maria AR Carvalho, Adriano MC Pimenta, Roberto Meyer, Artur Silva, James H Scrivens, Sérgio C Oliveira, Anderson Miyoshi…
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:12
  18. Burkholderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of melioidosis, a tropical disease of humans with a variable and often fatal outcome. In murine models of infection, different strains exhibit varying degrees of v...

    Authors: Matthew E Wand, Claudia M Müller, Richard W Titball and Stephen L Michell
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:11
  19. Hydrophobins are small, cysteine rich, surface active proteins secreted by filamentous fungi, forming hydrophobic layers on the walls of aerial mycelia and spores. Hydrophobin mutants in a variety of fungi hav...

    Authors: Andreas Mosbach, Michaela Leroch, Kurt W Mendgen and Matthias Hahn
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:10
  20. Salmonella Typhimurium ST213 was first detected in the Mexican Typhimurium population in 2001. It is associated with a multi-drug resistance phenotype and a plasmid-borne blaCMY-2 gene conferring resistance to ex...

    Authors: Magdalena Wiesner, Edmundo Calva, Marcos Fernández-Mora, Miguel A Cevallos, Freddy Campos, Mussaret B Zaidi and Claudia Silva
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:9
  21. The PII protein family comprises homotrimeric proteins which act as transducers of the cellular nitrogen and carbon status in prokaryotes and plants. In Herbaspirillum seropedicae, two PII-like proteins (GlnB and...

    Authors: Lilian Noindorf, Ana C Bonatto, Rose A Monteiro, Emanuel M Souza, Liu U Rigo, Fabio O Pedrosa, Maria BR Steffens and Leda S Chubatsu
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:8
  22. The gut microbiota is thought to play a key role in the development of the inflammatory bowel diseases Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). Shifts in the composition of resident bacteria have been...

    Authors: Alan W Walker, Jeremy D Sanderson, Carol Churcher, Gareth C Parkes, Barry N Hudspith, Neil Rayment, Jonathan Brostoff, Julian Parkhill, Gordon Dougan and Liljana Petrovska
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:7
  23. Ticks are regarded as the most relevant vectors of disease-causing pathogens in domestic and wild animals. The cattle tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, hinders livestock production in tropical and subtro...

    Authors: Renato Andreotti, Adalberto A Pérez de León, Scot E Dowd, Felix D Guerrero, Kylie G Bendele and Glen A Scoles
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:6
  24. Staphylococcus aureus including methicillin resistant S. aureus, MRSA, are human colonizing bacteria that commonly cause opportunistic infections primarily involving the skin in otherwise healthy individuals. The...

    Authors: Lisa RW Plano, Anna C Garza, Tomoyuki Shibata, Samir M Elmir, Jonathan Kish, Christopher D Sinigalliano, Maribeth L Gidley, Gary Miller, Kelly Withum, Lora E Fleming and Helena M Solo-Gabriele
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:5
  25. Exopolyphosphatases and pyrophosphatases play important but still incompletely understood roles in energy metabolism, and also in other aspects of cell biology such as osmoregulation or signal transduction. Ea...

    Authors: Edith Luginbuehl, Stefan Kunz, Laurent Wentzinger, Florian Freimoser and Thomas Seebeck
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:4
  26. Enterococci rank among the leading causes of nosocomial infections. The failure to identify pathogen-specific genes in Enterococcus faecalis has led to a hypothesis where the virulence of different strains may be...

    Authors: Margrete Solheim, Mari C Brekke, Lars G Snipen, Rob JL Willems, Ingolf F Nes and Dag A Brede
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:3
  27. Chronic fatigue syndrome is an idiopathic syndrome widely suspected of having an infectious or immune etiology. We applied an unbiased metagenomic approach to try to identify known or novel infectious agents i...

    Authors: Patrick F Sullivan, Tobias Allander, Fredrik Lysholm, Shan Goh, Bengt Persson, Andreas Jacks, Birgitta Evengård, Nancy L Pedersen and Björn Andersson
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:2
  28. "Candidatus Phytoplasma aurantifolia", is the causative agent of witches' broom disease in Mexican lime trees (Citrus aurantifolia L.), and is responsible for major losses of Mexican lime trees in Southern Iran a...

    Authors: Maryam Ghayeb Zamharir, Mohsen Mardi, Seyed Mohammad Alavi, Nader Hasanzadeh, Mojtaba Khayyam Nekouei, Hamid Reza Zamanizadeh, Ali Alizadeh and Ghasem Hoseini Salekdeh
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:1
  29. Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1 is a metabolically versatile organism that belongs to α-3 subdivision of Proteobacteria. The present study was to identify the extent, history, and role of gene duplications in R. sp...

    Authors: Anish Bavishi, Lin Lin, Kristen Schroeder, Anne Peters, Hyuk Cho and Madhusudan Choudhary
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:331
  30. Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a food-borne pathogen causing inflammation of the gastrointestinal epithelium. Pathogenic strains of this bacterium possess two Type III Secretion Systems (TTSS) that deliver effector p...

    Authors: Ksenia Matlawska-Wasowska, Rebecca Finn, Ana Mustel, Conor P O'Byrne, Alan W Baird, Eleanor T Coffey and Aoife Boyd
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:329
  31. Sensing and responding to environmental changes is a central aspect of cell division regulation. Mycobacterium tuberculosis contains eleven Ser/Thr kinases, two of which, PknA and PknB, are key signaling molecule...

    Authors: Charul Jani, Hyungjin Eoh, Jae Jin Lee, Khozima Hamasha, Moodakare Bheema Sahana, Jeong-Sun Han, Seeta Nyayapathy, Jung-Yeon Lee, Joo-Won Suh, Sang Hee Lee, Steve J Rehse, Dean C Crick and Choong-Min Kang
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:327
  32. The Salmonella AvrA gene is present in 80% of Salmonella enterica serovar strains. AvrA protein mimics the activities of some eukaryotic proteins and uses these activities to the pathogen's advantage by debilitat...

    Authors: Xingyin Liu, Rong Lu, Yinglin Xia, Shaoping Wu and Jun Sun
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:326
  33. The global ppGpp-mediated stringent response in pathogenic bacteria plays an important role in the pathogenesis of bacterial infections. In Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium), several genes,...

    Authors: Takeshi Haneda, Mariko Sugimoto, Yukie Yoshida-Ohta, Yoshio Kodera, Masamichi Oh-Ishi, Tadakazu Maeda, Satomi Shimizu-Izumi, Tsuyoshi Miki, Yoshinori Kumagai, Hirofumi Danbara and Nobuhiko Okada
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:324
  34. Staphylococcus aureus, a major human pathogen causes a wide range of disease syndromes. The most dangerous are methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains, resistant not only to all β-lactam antibiotics but al...

    Authors: Joanna Nakonieczna, Ewelina Michta, Magda Rybicka, Mariusz Grinholc, Anna Gwizdek-Wiśniewska and Krzysztof P Bielawski
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:323
  35. A microcalorimetric study was carried out using a Staphylococcus epidermidis population to determine the reproducibility of bacterial growth and the variability of the results within certain experimental paramete...

    Authors: Dragos C Zaharia, Cezar Iancu, Alexandru T Steriade, Alexandru A Muntean, Octavian Balint, Vlad T Popa, Mircea I Popa and Miron A Bogdan
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:322
  36. Corynebacterium glutamicum is able to grow with lactate as sole or combined carbon and energy source. Quinone-dependent L-lactate dehydrogenase LldD is known to be essential for utilization of L-lactate by C. glu...

    Authors: Osamu Kato, Jung-Won Youn, K Corinna Stansen, Daisuke Matsui, Tadao Oikawa and Volker F Wendisch
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:321
  37. Collagen-like surface proteins Scl1 and Scl2 on Streptococcus pyogenes contain contiguous Gly-X-X triplet amino acid motifs, the characteristic structure of human collagen. Although the potential role of Scl1 in ...

    Authors: Shih-Ming Chen, Yau-Sheng Tsai, Chin-Ming Wu, Shuen-Kuei Liao, Ling-Chia Wu, Cherng-Shyang Chang, Ya-Hui Liu and Pei-Jane Tsai
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:320
  38. Deinococcus radiodurans accumulates high levels of manganese ions, and this is believed to be correlated with the radiation resistance ability of this microorganism. However, the maintenance of manganese ion home...

    Authors: Hongxing Sun, Guangzhi Xu, Hongdan Zhan, Huan Chen, Zongtao Sun, Bing Tian and Yuejin Hua
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:319
  39. Internalin A (InlA) is a critical virulence factor which mediates the initiation of Listeria monocytogenes infection by the oral route in permissive hosts. The interaction of InlA with the host cell ligand E-cadh...

    Authors: Ian R Monk, Pat G Casey, Colin Hill and Cormac GM Gahan
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:318
  40. Important biological processes require selective and orderly protein-protein interactions at every level of the signalling cascades. G proteins are a family of heterotrimeric GTPases that effect eukaryotic sig...

    Authors: Lizaida Pérez-Sánchez, Elizabeth González, Emilee E Colón-Lorenzo, Waleska González-Velázquez, Ricardo González-Méndez and Nuri Rodríguez-del Valle
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:317

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  41. Intestinal barrier function is important for preserving health, as a compromised barrier allows antigen entry and can induce inflammatory diseases. Probiotic bacteria can play a role in enhancing intestinal ba...

    Authors: Rachel C Anderson, Adrian L Cookson, Warren C McNabb, Zaneta Park, Mark J McCann, William J Kelly and Nicole C Roy
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:316
  42. Multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat (VNTR) analysis (MLVA) is a prominent subtyping method to resolve closely related microbial isolates to provide information for establishing genetic patterns among ...

    Authors: Simon Thierry, Dongying Wang, Pascal Arné, Manjula Deville, Barbara De Bruin, Adélaïde Nieguitsila, Christine Pourcel, Karine Laroucau, René Chermette, Weiyi Huang, Françoise Botterel and Jacques Guillot
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:315
  43. Several pathogens could seriously affect public health if not recognized timely. To reduce the impact of such highly pathogenic micro-organisms, rapid and accurate diagnostic tools are needed for their detecti...

    Authors: Ingmar Janse, Raditijo A Hamidjaja, Jasper M Bok and Bart J van Rotterdam
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:314
  44. Oomycetes attack a huge variety of economically and ecologically important plants. These pathogens release, detect and respond to signal molecules to coordinate their communal behaviors including the infection...

    Authors: Ping Kong, Brett M Tyler, Patricia A Richardson, Bobby WK Lee, Zhaohui S Zhou and Chuanxue Hong
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:313
  45. Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi and Typhimurium are closely related serovars as indicated by >96% DNA sequence identity between shared genes. Nevertheless, S. Typhi is a strictly human-specific pathogen causing...

    Authors: A Nicole Trombert, Liliana Berrocal, Juan A Fuentes and Guido C Mora
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:312
  46. Herpesvirus genes are classified into distinct kinetic groups on the basis of their expression dynamics during lytic growth of the virus in cultured cells at a high, typically 10 plaque-forming units/cell mult...

    Authors: Judit S Tóth, Dóra Tombácz, Irma F Takács and Zsolt Boldogkői
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:311

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