William Calero-Cáceres,Mao Ye,José Luis Balcázar
William Calero-Cáceres
Although antibiotic resistance represents a significant and growing public health concern, the contribution of bacteriophages (phages) to the mobilization of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in the environment has not been extensively stu...
Keer Sun,Dennis W Metzger
Keer Sun
Bacterial lung infections are frequent causes of mortality following influenza infection, but the fundamental mechanisms remain largely unknown. A new study by Martínez-Colón et al. (PLoS Pathog. 2019;15:e1007560) now suggests that influe...
Samuel S Minot
Samuel S Minot
The study of the human microbiome relies heavily on the genomes of bacterial isolates that can be grown in culture. A recent study (Pasolli et al. Cell 2019;176:649-662) of stool microbiome samples generated over 150 000 microbial genomes w...
Host, Symbionts, and the Microbiome: The Missing Tripartite Interaction [0.03%]
宿主、共生生物和微生物组：缺失的三方互动关系
Pina Brinker,Michael C Fontaine,Leo W Beukeboom et al.
Pina Brinker et al.
Symbiosis between microbial associates and a host is a ubiquitous feature of life on earth, modulating host phenotypes. In addition to endosymbionts, organisms harbour a collection of host-associated microbes, the microbiome that can impact...
Fremyella diplosiphon [0.03%]
费美氏双囊蓝藻
Allissa M Haney,David M Kehoe
Allissa M Haney
Commensal Staphylococci Influence Staphylococcus aureus Skin Colonization and Disease [0.03%]
共生葡萄球菌影响金黄色葡萄球菌的皮肤定植和致病性
Corey P Parlet,Morgan M Brown,Alexander R Horswill
Corey P Parlet
Commensal organisms that constitute the skin microbiota play a pivotal role in the orchestration of cutaneous homeostasis and immune competence. This balance can be promptly offset by the expansion of the opportunistic pathogen Staphylococc...
Jerry Eichler
Jerry Eichler
Sara Porfírio,Russell W Carlson,Parastoo Azadi
Sara Porfírio
Peptidoglycan (PG) is a ubiquitous structural polysaccharide of the bacterial cell wall, essential in preserving cell integrity by withstanding turgor pressure. Any change that affects its biosynthesis or degradation will disturb cell viabi...
RTX Adhesins are Key Bacterial Surface Megaproteins in the Formation of Biofilms [0.03%]
RTX粘附分子是生物被膜形成的关键细菌表面巨蛋白
Shuaiqi Guo,Tyler D R Vance,Corey A Stevens et al.
Shuaiqi Guo et al.
Published Erratum
Trends in microbiology. 2019 May;27(5):470. DOI:10.1016/j.tim.2019.02.001 2019
Nathan D Grubaugh,Farah Ishtiaq,Yin Xiang Setoh et al.
Nathan D Grubaugh et al.
After the discovery that Zika virus (ZIKV) could cause microcephaly and other birth defects, we have scrambled to understand how. Now, spreading along with the virus is misinformation that a ZIKV mutation is responsible for microcephaly. Pu...