With antimicrobial resistance becoming a major threat to healthcare settings around the world, there is a paramount need for rapid point-of-care antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) diagnostics. Unfortunately, most ...

Polysialinsäure (polySia) ist ein lineares Homopolymer aus α2,8- oder α2,9-verknüpften Monomeren der negativ geladenen N-Acetylneuraminsäure, das meist auf der äußeren Zellmembran bestimmter humanpathogener Bakterien wie ...

Cryoturbated peat circles (pH 4) in the Eastern European Tundra harbor up to 2 mM pore water nitrate and emit the greenhouse gas N2O like heavily fertilized agricultural soils in temperate regions. The main process yielding ...

In potato, cytochrome c reductase, a protein complex of the respiratory chain, exhibits processing activity toward mitochondrial precursor proteins. One of the two cooperating components of the processing peptidase was ...

Understanding the effect of manure particle fractionation on transport, retention, and release of bacteria plays a critical role in manure management and environmental policies that address soil and water bacterial pollution. ...

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Background: Biofilms have great significance in healthcare-associated infections owing to their inherent tolerance and resistance to antimicrobial therapies. New approaches to prevent and treat unwanted biofilms are urgently ...

To ensure productivity and product quality, the parameters of biotechnological processes need to be monitored. Along temperature or pH, one important parameter is the cell density in the culture medium. In this work, we ...

Background: The proteome reflects the available cellular machinery to deal with nutrients and environmental challenges. The most common E. coli strain BL21 growing in different, commonly employed media was evaluated using ...