Blowing hot and cold: body temperature and the microbiome

KE Huus, RE Ley - Msystems, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
The intestinal microbiome influences host health, and its responsiveness to diet and disease
is increasingly well studied. However, our understanding of the factors driving microbiome …

Biofilm regulation in Clostridioides difficile: Novel systems linked to hypervirulence

MG Taggart, WJ Snelling, PJ Naughton… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Clostridiodes difficile (C. difficile) was ranked an “urgent threat” by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2019. C. difficile infection (CDI) is the most common …

Adaptive Strategies and Pathogenesis of Clostridium difficile from In Vivo Transcriptomics

C Janoir, C Denève, S Bouttier, F Barbut… - Infection and …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Clostridium difficile is currently the major cause of nosocomial intestinal diseases associated
with antibiotic therapy in adults. In order to improve our knowledge of C. difficile-host …

DNA Methylation Changes and Its Associated Genes in Mulberry (Morus alba L.) Yu-711 Response to Drought Stress Using MethylRAD Sequencing

M Ackah, L Guo, S Li, X **, C Asakiya, ET Aboagye… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Drought stress remains one of the most detrimental environmental cues affecting plant
growth and survival. In this work, the DNA methylome changes in mulberry leaves under …

Metabolic Reprogramming of Clostridioides difficile During the Stationary Phase With the Induction of Toxin Production

JD Hofmann, A Otto, M Berges, R Biedendieck… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The obligate anaerobe, spore forming bacterium Clostridioides difficile (formerly Clostridium
difficile) causes nosocomial and community acquired diarrhea often associated with …

Peptidoglycan plasticity in bacteria: emerging variability of the murein sacculus and their associated biological functions

F Cava, MA de Pedro - Current opinion in microbiology, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•PG plasticity is an adaptive response of the sacculus to cope with changing
conditions.•PG-peptidases are molecular determinants of proper shape in helical …

Bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass into value added products under anaerobic conditions: Insight into proteomic studies

MI Vélez-Mercado, AG Talavera-Caro… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Production of biofuels and other value-added products from lignocellulose breakdown
requires the coordinated metabolic activity of varied microorganisms. The increasing global …

What's a Biofilm?—How the Choice of the Biofilm Model Impacts the Protein Inventory of Clostridioides difficile

M Brauer, C Lassek, C Hinze, J Hoyer… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The anaerobic pathogen Clostridioides difficile is perfectly equipped to survive and persist
inside the mammalian intestine. When facing unfavorable conditions C. difficile is able to …

Fungi contribute critical but spatially varying roles in nitrogen and carbon cycling in acid mine drainage

AC Mosier, CS Miller, KR Frischkorn, RA Ohm… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The ecosystem roles of fungi have been extensively studied by targeting one organism
and/or biological process at a time, but the full metabolic potential of fungi has rarely been …

Elevated temperature alters proteomic responses of individual organisms within a biofilm community

AC Mosier, Z Li, BC Thomas, RL Hettich, C Pan… - The ISME …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Microbial communities that underpin global biogeochemical cycles will likely be influenced
by elevated temperature associated with environmental change. Here, we test an approach …