Novel Outlook in Microbial Ecology: Nonmutualistic Interspecies Electron Transfer [0.03%]
微生物生态学的新视角：非互惠的种间电子传递
Roman Moscoviz,Elie Desmond-Le Quéméner,Eric Trably et al.
Roman Moscoviz et al.
Recent advances in microbial electrochemical technologies have revealed the existence of numerous and highly diverse microorganisms able to exchange electrons with electrodes. This diversity could reflect the capacity of microorganisms to r...
Yifei Xu
Yifei Xu
A novel coronavirus has caused thousands of human infections in China since December 2019, raising a global public health concern. Recent studies (Huang et al., Chan et al., and Zhou et al.) have provided timely insights into its origin and...
Nicolas Papon,Marie-Elisabeth Bougnoux,Christophe d&#x;Enfert
Nicolas Papon
Invasive fungal infections are a major cause of mortality in immunocompromised patients. By using high-resolution sequencing, Zhai et al. provide insight into translocation of Candida strains from the gut mycobiota to the bloodstream of tra...
Rebecca D Prescott,Alan W Decho
Rebecca D Prescott
Quorum sensing (QS), a type of chemical communication, allows bacteria to sense and coordinate activities in natural biofilm communities using N-acyl homoserine lactones (AHLs) as one type of signaling molecule. For AHL-based communication ...
Makeda Robinson,Shirit Einav
Makeda Robinson
There is an urgent need for prognostic assays to predict progression to severe dengue infection, which is a major global threat. While the majority of symptomatic dengue patients experience an acute febrile illness, 5-20% progress to severe...
Improving Risk-Benefit in Faecal Transplantation through Microbiome Screening [0.03%]
通过微生物组筛查改善粪便移植的风险效益关系
Lito E Papanicolas,David L Gordon,Steve L Wesselingh et al.
Lito E Papanicolas et al.
Faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has been shown to be effective in the treatment of a growing number of conditions, and its clinical use continues to rise. However, recent cases of antibiotic-resistant pathogen transmission through F...
Jonatan M Benarroch,Munehiro Asally
Jonatan M Benarroch
All cellular membranes have the functionality of generating and maintaining the gradients of electrical and electrochemical potentials. Such potentials were generally thought to be an essential but homeostatic contributor to complex bacteri...
Timothy M Ghaly,Jemma L Geoghegan,Sasha G Tetu et al.
Timothy M Ghaly et al.
Integrons are bacterial genetic elements that can capture, rearrange, and express mobile gene cassettes. They are best known for their role in disseminating antibiotic-resistance genes among pathogens. Their ability to rapidly spread resist...
Silke Olschewski,Stephen Cusack,Maria Rosenthal
Silke Olschewski
In common with all segmented negative-sense RNA viruses, bunyavirus transcripts contain heterologous sequences at their 5' termini originating from capped host cell RNAs. These heterologous sequences are acquired by a so-called cap-snatchin...
Marta Matuszewska,Gemma G R Murray,Ewan M Harrison et al.
Marta Matuszewska et al.
Staphylococcus aureus is an important human bacterial pathogen that has a cosmopolitan host range, including livestock, companion and wild animal species. Genomic and epidemiological studies show that S. aureus has jumped between host speci...