群体感应(quorum sensing, QS) 是一种细菌细胞与细胞间的通讯系统, 细菌通过分泌扩散性小
分子信号感知细菌群体的密度, 从而引起一组特定基因在转录水平协调表达 …

The GacS histidine kinase is the membrane sensor of the major upstream two-component
system of the regulatory Gac/Rsm signal transduction pathway. This pathway governs the …

Fulvic acid (FA) can serve as electron shuttles between bacteria and electron acceptors. It
explored the short-term effect of FA dose on nitrogen removal performance and N-acylated-L …

Chromobacterium violaceum, one free-living Gram-negative bacterium, is abundantly
presented in tropics and sub-tropics soil and aquatic environment; it is also an opportunistic …

Although the gut microbiome is generally symbiotic or commensal, some microbiome
members become pathogenic under certain circumstances. However, the factors driving this …

Objective Composite restorations are increasingly popular, but recurrent caries is a main
reason for composite restoration failures. The objectives of this study were to investigate a …

The nonpathogenic soil saprophyte Burkholderia thailandensis is a member of the
Burkholderia pseudomallei/B. thailandensis/B. mallei group, which also comprises the …

Marine structures often suffer from biofouling, which may lead to macrofouling by marine
animals like marine worms and barnacles, weighing down the structures and increasing the …

Chitin deacetylase (CDA) can hydrolyze the acetamido group of chitin polymers and its
deacetylated derivatives to produce chitosan, an industrially important biopolymer …

Xanthomonas phaseoli pv. manihotis (Xpm) is the causal agent of cassava bacterial blight,
the most important bacterial disease in this crop. There is a paucity of knowledge about the …