resistance by gene expression profiles Shingo Suzuki1, Takaaki Horinouchi1 & Chikara Furusawa1 Although many mutations contributing to antibiotic resistance have been identified, the relationship between the mutations and the related phenotypic changes responsible for the resistance has yet to be fully ...
Microbial community composition has increasingly emerged as a key determinant of antibiotic resistance gene (ARG) content. However, in activated sludge wastewater treatment plants (AS-WWTPs), a comprehensive understanding of the microbial community assembly process and its impact o...
Antibiotic resistance genesare often located on plasmids or transposons and can be transferred from cell to cell by conjugation, transformation, or transduction. This gene exchange allows the resistance to rapidly spread throughout a population of bacteria and among different species of bacteria. This ...
but a few bacteria that are genetically lessvulnerableto the effects of thedrugmay survive. These go on to reproduce or to transfer their resistance to others of their species through processes ofgeneexchange. With their more vulnerable competitors wiped out or reduced in numbers by antibiotics, ...
Antibiotic resistance, loss of susceptibility of bacteria to the killing (bacteriocidal) or growth-inhibiting (bacteriostatic) properties of an antibiotic agent. When a resistant strain of bacteria is the dominant strain in an infection, the infection ma
Discharge of treated sewage leads to release of antibiotic resistant bacteria, resistance genes and antibiotic residues to the environment. However, it is unclear whether increased abundance of antibiotic resistance genes in sewage and sewage-impacted en
Antibiotic resistance gene (ARG) should be eliminated during wastewater treatment to prohibit the rapid growth and colonization of antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) in different waterbodies. With an aim to do so, we have synthesized ternary nanocomposites of graphitic carbon nitride, reduced graphene...
We established human SK-OV-3 cells that stably express the Zeocin resistance gene (Sh ble) using an ecdysone-inducible mammalian expression system. Surprisingly, our results demonstrated that Zeocin, added in the culture medium to maintain the expression of the ecdysone receptor, was responsible for...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been a worldwide public health concern. Current widespread AMR pollution has posed a big challenge in accurately disentangling source-sink relationship, which has been further confounded by point and non-point sources,
For example, conjugation involving a plasmid carrying the gene for resistance to methicillin (an antibiotic derived from penicillin) is suspected to have resulted in the generation of MRSA. Penicillin and methicillin work by weakening the wall of the bacterial cell; when the wall is compromised, ...