Liver damage due to chronic alcohol use is among the most prevalent liver diseases.
Alcohol consumption frequency is a strong factor of microbiota variance. Here we use …

Microorganisms play a critical role in the biogeochemical cycling of selenium, often reducing
selenite/selenate to elemental selenium nanoparticles (SeNPs). These SeNPs typically exist …

Synthetic methylotrophy aims to develop non-native methylotrophic microorganisms to
utilize methane or methanol to produce chemicals and biofuels. We report two …

The present study was undertaken to assess the antimicrobial activity of Lactobacillus
spp.(L. salivarius, L. johnsonii, L. reuteri, L. crispatus, and L. gasseri) against Campylobacter …

Campylobacter jejuni is the major cause of human gastroenteritis worldwide. Under stress
conditions, C. jejuni can enter a viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state. We found that the C …

The role of the Type VI secretion system (T6SS) in Campylobacter jejuni is poorly
understood despite an increasing prevalence of the T6SS in recent C. jejuni isolates in …

Biofilms reduce the bacterial growth rate, inhibit antibiotic penetration, lead to the
development of persister cells and facilitate genetic exchange. The biofilm-associated …

Iron is essential for all bacteria. In most bacteria, intracellular iron homeostasis is tightly
regulated by the ferric uptake regulator Fur. However, how Fur activates the iron-uptake …

The proteins encoded by the hgcA and hgcB genes are currently the only ones known to be
involved in the mercury methylation by anaerobic microorganisms. However, no studies …

The diarrheal pathogen Campylobacter jejuni and other gastrointestinal bacteria encounter
changes in osmolarity in the environment, through exposure to food processing, and upon …