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unusual facts about bacterial



AMPHORA

AMPHORA2 uses 31 bacterial and 104 archaeal phylogenetic marker genes for inferring phylogenetic information from metagenomic datasets.

Anatoxin

Toxoid, a bacterial toxin (usually an exotoxin) whose toxicity has been weakened or suppressed

Anthrax Detection Device

The BSM-2000 is a Bacterial spore detection system developed by Universal Detection Technology in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, that can detect Anthrax Spores in the air.

Bacterial Filtration Efficiency

Kimberly-Clark uses a test procedure was where samples were challenged with a biological aerosol of Staphylococcus aureus and the results employ a ratio of the bacterial challenge counts to sample effluent counts, to determine percent bacterial filtration efficiency (%BFE).

Carnobacterium pleistocenium

These bacterial cells were discovered in a tunnel dug by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1960s in order to allow scientists to study the permafrost in preparation for the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System.

Chelerythrine

It is also the major active natural product found in the plant Zanthoxylum clava-herculis, exhibiting anti-bacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus.

Chimpanzee genome project

Cobalamin synthetase is a bacterial enzyme that makes Chromatin immunoprecipitation

In 1984 John T. Lis and David Gilmour, at the time a graduate student in the Lis lab, used UV irradiation to covalently cross-link proteins in contact with neighboring DNA in intact living bacterial cells.

Clostridium cadaveris

Microbiota (gut flora) contain between 400 and 800 bacterial species and are usually classified in two divisions: Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes; Clostridium cadaveris are Firmicutes.

Collaborative intelligence

In the late 1980s, Eshel Ben-Jacob began to study bacterial self-organization, believing that bacteria hold the key to understanding larger biological systems.

Effector

Bacterial effector protein, proteins secreted by bacterial pathogens into the cells of their host

Emil Alexander de Schweinitz

He specialized in bacteria and immunity, and studied the bacterial products of tuberculosis, hog cholera and glanders.

Evolution of sexual reproduction

For example, recA recombinase, that catalyses the key functions of DNA homology search and strand exchange in the bacterial sexual process of transformation, has orthologs in eukaryotes that perform similar functions in meiotic recombination (see Wikipedia articles RecA, RAD51 and DMC1).

Fritz de Quervain

De Quervain's thyroiditis: Subacute, non-bacterial inflammation of the thyroid gland, often after viral infection of respiratory tract.

Granulomatous prostatitis

It is a form of prostatitis, i.e. inflammation of the prostate, resulting from infection (bacterial, viral, or fungal), the BCG therapy, malacoplakia or systemic granulomatous diseases which involve the prostate.

Heterorhabditis

Heterorhabditis nematodes are hosts for the Photorhabdus bacterial symbiont.

Horseshoe crab

Amebocytes from the blood of L. polyphemus are used to make Limulus amebocyte lysate, which is used for the detection of bacterial endotoxins in medical applications.

Human Microbiome Project

The project also is financing deep sequencing of bacterial 16S rRNA sequences amplified by polymerase chain reaction from human subjects.

The microbial genome data were extracted by identifying the bacterial specific ribosomal RNA, 16S rRNA.

J-Wear

The clothing is anti-bacterial, water-absorbent, odor-eliminating, antistatic, and flame retardant.

James Baddiley

He was awarded the Davy Medal in 1974 with the citation: In recognition of his distinguished researches on coenzyme A and studies of the constituents of bacterial cell walls.

Joachim Jose

Joachim Jose is professor for pharmaceutical and medical chemistry at the University of Münster, and focuses primarily on the research of bacterial development of drugs and biocatalysts by surface display.

Jörg Vogel

Among other achievements he pioneered the application of RNA-Seq for the analysis of the bacterial transcription.

Lamprologus ocellatus

Namely: Tubifex worms should never be offered, as they can cause fatal systemic bacterial diseases.

Lawrence Eron

While at Harvard Medical School, he worked on a research team with the American geneticist Jonathan Beckwith, and in 1969, the team successfully isolated a single group of genes from a bacterial chromosome.

Leachate

It also quickly develops a bacterial flora often comprising substantial growths of Sphaerotilus.

Magnesium chloride

It has been found that higher concentrations of magnesium in tomato and some pepper plants can make them more susceptible to disease caused by infection of the bacteria Xanthomonas campestris, since Mg is essential for bacterial growth.

Mercury transporter

Mercury transporter (MerF) is a transmembrane bacterial transporter of mercury ions.

Monera

Haeckel's Monera included not only bacterial groups of early discovery but also several small eukaryotic organisms; in fact the genus Vibrio is the only bacterial genus explicitly assigned to the phylum, while others are mentioned indirectly, which led Copeland to speculate that Haeckel considered all bacteria to belong to the genus Vibrio, ignoring other bacterial genera.

Naomi Datta

For example, Dr. Datta co-authored (with Royston C. Clowes, Stanley Cohen, Roy Curtiss III, Stanley Falkow and Richard Novick) a proposal for uniform nomenclature for bacterial plasmids.

Nitro blue tetrazolium chloride

When there is an NADPH oxidase defect, the phagocyte is unable to make reactive oxygen species or radicals required for bacterial killing.

PARM

ParM, a component of the segregation mechanism for the bacterial R1 plasmid

PGN

Peptidoglycan, a polymer consisting of sugars and amino acids that forms a bacterial cell wall

Polony sequencing

Also, it is a very flexible technique that enables variable application including BAC (bacterial artificial chromosome) and bacterial genome resequencing, as well as SAGE (serial analysis of gene expression) tag and barcode sequencing.

Pseudomonas tolaasii

Pseudomonas tolaasii is a species of Gram-negative soil bacteria that is the causal agent of bacterial blotch on cultivated mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus).

Pseudovirion

Pseudovirions are synthetic viruses used to inject genetic material, including DNA and RNA, with specific and desired traits into bacterial and eukaryotic cells.

Ralstonia solanacearum

Bacterial wilts of tomato, pepper, eggplant and Irish potato caused by Ralstonia solanacearum were among the first diseases that Erwin Frink Smith proved to be caused by a bacterial pathogen.

Reductive dechlorination

Sometimes the bacterial species are highly specialized for organochlorine respiration and even a particular electron donor, as in the case of Dehalococcoides and Dehalobacter.

Reduviidae

The saliva of the reduviid species Rhynocoris marginatus (Fab.) and Catamirus brevipennis (Servile) have anti-bacterial activity towards the human pathogens Gram-negative bacteria (Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Proteus vulgaris, Salmonella typhimurium) and one Gram-positive (Streptococcus pyogenes).

Riboprobe

Some bacterial viruses code for their own RNA polymerases, which are highly specific for the viral promoters.

RK2 plasmid

RK 2 was first isolated in connection with an outbreak of antibotic-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella aerogenes in Birmingham in 1969, as one of a family of plasmids implicated in transfer of Ampicillin resistance between bacterial strains.

Svedberg

For bacterial ribosomes, ultracentrifugation yields intact ribosomes (70S) as well as separated ribosomal subunits, the large subunit (50S) and the small subunit (30S).

Taksta

Jan 2010: Taksta has completed enrollment in a Phase 2 trial (due to run until March 2010) and is preparing for Phase 3 studies in the U.S. for acute bacterial skin structure infections (being compared with Linezolid).

Transpeptidase

DD-transpeptidase, a bacterial enzyme that cross-links the peptidoglycan chains to form rigid cell walls

Viral phylodynamics

Because computing likelihoods for genealogical data under complex simulation models has proven difficult, an alternative statistical approach called Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) is becoming popular in fitting these simulation models to patterns of genetic variation, following successful application of this approach to bacterial diseases.


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