Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Bacteria"
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The Encyclopedia of Life v2: Providing Global Access to Knowledge About Life on Earth
(Pensoft Publishers, 2014)Abstract The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL, http://eol.org) aims to provide unprecedented global access to a broad range of information about life on Earth. It currently contains 3.5 million distinct pages for taxa and provides ... -
Genetics of Antibiotic Synergy in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
(2022-09-09)Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), which has been around for millennia and continues to affect millions of people every year. Successful TB treatment requires ... -
Identifying and Quantifying Novel Bacteria
(2021-06-23)The tree of life lies at the heart of biology, but major gaps persist among bacteria. Attempts to identify these missing microbes face challenges in determining which organisms are poorly characterized and where to find ... -
Missense Mutations Allow a Sequence-Blind Mutant of SpoIIIE to Successfully Translocate Chromosomes during Sporulation
(Public Library of Science, 2016)SpoIIIE directionally pumps DNA across membranes during Bacillus subtilis sporulation and vegetative growth. The sequence-reading domain (γ domain) is required for directional DNA transport, and its deletion severely impairs ... -
Morphogenic Protein RodZ Interacts with Sporulation Specific SpoIIE in Bacillus subtilis
(Public Library of Science, 2016)The first landmark in sporulation of Bacillus subtilis is the formation of an asymmetric septum followed by selective activation of the transcription factor σF in the resulting smaller cell. How the morphological transformations ... -
Nanoparticle Facilitated Extracellular Electron Transfer in Microbial Fuel Cells
(American Chemical Society (ACS), 2014)Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) have been the focus of substantial research interest due to their potential for long-term, renewable electrical power generation via the metabolism of a broad spectrum of organic substrates, ... -
Parallel Mutations Result in a Wide Range of Cooperation and Community Consequences in a Two-Species Bacterial Consortium
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Multi-species microbial communities play a critical role in human health, industry, and waste remediation. Recently, the evolution of synthetic consortia in the laboratory has enabled adaptation to be addressed in the ... -
SinR is a mutational target for fine-tuning biofilm formation in laboratory-evolved strains of Bacillus subtilis
(BioMed Central, 2014)Background: Bacteria often form multicellular, organized communities known as biofilms, which protect cells from a variety of environmental stresses. During biofilm formation, bacteria secrete a species-specific matrix; ... -
Specialization and Geographic Isolation among Wolbachia Symbionts from Ants and Lycaenid Butterflies
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)Wolbachia are the most prevalent and influential bacteria described among the insects to date. But despite their significance, we lack an understanding of their evolutionary histories. To describe the evolution of symbioses ... -
TIM3 Mediates T Cell Exhaustion during Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection
(Public Library of Science, 2016)While T cell immunity initially limits Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, why T cell immunity fails to sterilize the infection and allows recrudescence is not clear. One hypothesis is that T cell exhaustion impairs ... -
Using E. coli as an experimental system to study the behavior of prion-like proteins.
(2013-10-15)Prions are infectious, self-propagating protein aggregates that have been uncovered in evolutionary divergent members of the eukaryotic domain of life. It is not known whether prokaryotic organisms contain proteins that ... -
Widespread Shortening of 3’ Untranslated Regions and Increased Exon Inclusion Are Evolutionarily Conserved Features of Innate Immune Responses to Infection
(Public Library of Science, 2016)The contribution of pre-mRNA processing mechanisms to the regulation of immune responses remains poorly studied despite emerging examples of their role as regulators of immune defenses. We sought to investigate the role ...