Dental caries is a chronic progressive disease, which destructs dental hard tissues under
the influence of multiple factors, mainly bacteria. Streptococcus mutans is the main …

With increasing number of novel bacteria being isolated from the human gut ecosystem,
there is a greater need to study their role in the gut ecosystem and their effect on the host …

To date, many metabolic engineering tools and strategies have been developed, including
tools for cofactor engineering, which is a common strategy for bioproduct synthesis. Cofactor …

Caproate, an important medium-chain fatty acid, can only be synthesized by limited bacterial
species by using ethanol, lactate, or certain saccharides. Caproicibacterium …

Survival of M. tuberculosis in host macrophages requires the eukaryotic-type protein kinase
G, PknG, but the underlying mechanism has remained unknown. Here, we show that PknG …

Antibiotic resistance is one of the world's greatest public health challenges and adjunct
probiotic therapies are strategies that could lessen this burden. Clostridioides difficile …

Rex, a transcriptional repressor that modulates its DNA-binding activity in response to
NADH/NAD+ ratio, has recently been found to play a role in the solventogenic shift of …

Yogurt is a well-known nutritious and probiotic food and is traditionally fermented from milk
using the symbiotic starter culture of Streptococcus thermophilus and Lactobacillus …

Abstract We investigated perchlorate (ClO4−) and chlorate (ClO3−)(collectively (per)
chlorate) in comparison with nitrate as potential inhibitors of sulfide (H2S) production by …

ABSTRACT NADH oxidase (Nox, encoded by nox) is a flavin-containing enzyme used by
the oral pathogen Streptococcus mutans to reduce diatomic oxygen to water while oxidizing …