Regulation of antibiotic production in Actinobacteria: new perspectives from the post-genomic era

HU Van Der Heul, BL Bilyk, KJ McDowall… - Natural product …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2000 to 2018 The antimicrobial activity of many of their natural products has
brought prominence to the Streptomycetaceae, a family of Gram-positive bacteria that …

Fabrication of self-healing hydrogels with on-demand antimicrobial activity and sustained biomolecule release for infected skin regeneration

R Tian, X Qiu, P Yuan, K Lei, L Wang… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Microbial infection has been considered as one of the most critical challenges in
bioengineering applications especially in tissue regeneration, which engenders severe …

An overview of heavy metal removal from wastewater using magnetotactic bacteria

I Ali, C Peng, ZM Khan, I Naz… - Journal of Chemical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Considering the increase in water contamination by heavy metal discharge, water quality
experts are focusing on innovative future technologies for wastewater treatment. There are a …

Aerosols in atmospheric chemistry and biogeochemical cycles of nutrients

M Kanakidou, S Myriokefalitakis… - Environmental Research …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Atmospheric aerosols have complex and variable compositions and properties. While
scientific interest is centered on the health and climatic effects of atmospheric aerosols …

Ecological selection of siderophore‐producing microbial taxa in response to heavy metal contamination

E Hesse, S O'Brien, N Tromas, F Bayer… - Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Some microbial public goods can provide both individual and community‐wide benefits, and
are open to exploitation by non‐producing species. One such example is the production of …

[HTML][HTML] New perspectives on iron uptake in eukaryotes

HG Sherman, C Jovanovic, S Stolnik… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
All eukaryotic organisms require iron to function. Malfunctions within iron homeostasis have
a range of physiological consequences, and can lead to the development of pathological …

Characteristics of the iron uptake-related process of a pathogenic Vibrio splendidus strain associated with massive mortalities of the sea cucumber Apostichopus …

T Song, H Liu, T Lv, X Zhao, Y Shao, Q Han, C Li… - Journal of invertebrate …, 2018 - Elsevier
Under low iron bioavailability environment, many bacteria acquire iron for growth and
survival through siderophore-mediated iron acquisition systems. However, until now, little …

Beneficial soil microbiome for sustainable agriculture production

C Crecchio, T Mimmo, D Bulgarelli, I Pertot… - … Agriculture Reviews 31 …, 2018 - Springer
The projected increase in world population and the need to reduce the reliance on non-
renewable inputs, such as synthetic agrochemicals, are challenging the current vision of …

Robust single machine scheduling with uncertain release times for minimising the maximum waiting time

F Yue, S Song, Y Zhang, JND Gupta… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
We study a single machine scheduling problem (SMSP) with uncertain job release times
(JRTs) under the maximum waiting time (MWT) criterion. To deal with the uncertainty, a …

Proteomic Response to Thaxtomin Phytotoxin Elicitor Cellobiose and to Deletion of Cellulose Utilization Regulator CebR in Streptomyces scabies

S Planckaert, S Jourdan, IM Francis… - Journal of proteome …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Streptomyces scabies is responsible for common scab disease on root and tuber
vegetables. Production of its main phytotoxin thaxtomin A is triggered upon transport of …