Transformation of a type 4 encapsulated strain of Streptococcus pneumoniae.

abstract：:The 16S rDNA of 17 strains of Azospirillum, 14 assigned to one of the known species A. amazonense, A. brasilense, A. halopraeferens, A. irakense and A. lipoferum, and the other three of uncertain taxonomic position, was sequenced after polymerase chain reaction amplification and analysed in order to investigate the ph...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fani R,Bandi C,Bazzicalupo M,Ceccherini MT,Fancelli S,Gallori E,Gerace L,Grifoni A,Miclaus N,Damiani G

更新日期：1995-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A recombinant lipase, CWB-LipB, localized on the Bacillus subtilis cell surface and retaining lipase activity was unstable and not accumulated in a high yield. To improve the accumulation, we examined cell wall binding protease (wprA)- and/or sigma D (sigD)-deficient mutants, and also a NprE and AprA protease-deficien...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kobayashi G,Toida J,Akamatsu T,Yamamoto H,Shida T,Sekiguchi J

更新日期：2000-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A Gram-negative sporulating thermophilic anaerobe, designated AB11Ad, was isolated from the heated waters of the Great Artesian Basin of Australia. It grew on a variety of carbohydrates including glucose, starch, and dextran and produced a thermostable and thermoactive extracellular endo-dextranase. The enzyme was pro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wynter C,Patel BK,Bain P,de Jersey J,Hamilton S,Inkerman PA

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acquisition of tolerance to high hydrostatic pressure of 220 MPa (HHP) in response to a 0.4 mM hydrogen peroxide, 6% ethanol and cold-shock (10 degrees C) pretreatment for different lengths of times was studied in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The protection conferred by these different treatments was simila...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Palhano FL,Orlando MT,Fernandes PM

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to characterize the metabolites produced in vivo by biphenyl-2,3-dioxygenase and biphenyl-2,3-dihydrodiol-2,3-dehydrogenase, the first two enzymes of the (polychloro)biphenyl catabolic pathway encoded by the bph locus of Pseudomonas sp. LB400, recombinant E. coli strains expressing the respective genes were c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Seeger M,Timmis KN,Hofer B

更新日期：1995-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of natural antibodies to Lactococcus lactis in three inbred strains of mice and the effect of inoculating L. lactis into these mice has been investigated. All animals developed detectable levels of natural (systemic and secretory) anti-lactococcal antibodies. Systemic anti-lactococcal antibodies were p...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Norton PM,Brown HW,Le Page RW

更新日期：1994-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:5-Carboxymethyl-2-hydroxymuconic semialdehyde (CHMS) dehydrogenase from Escherichia coli C and Klebsiella pneumoniae M5a1 have been purified and some of their properties studied. The apparent Km values for NAD and CHMS were 11.7 +/- 1.5 microM and 5.2 +/- 1.9 microM, respectively, for the K. pneumoniae enzyme, and 19....

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fawcett T,Garrido-Pertierra A,Cooper RA

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The agp gene encoding the ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase is involved in cyanobacterial glycogen synthesis and glucosylglycerol formation. By in vitro DNA recombination technology, a mutant with partial deletion of agp gene in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 was constructed. This mutant could not synthesiz...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Miao X,Wu Q,Wu G,Zhao N

更新日期：2003-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein, we report a high-quality draft genome sequence of an uncultivated aromatic compound-degrading bacterium, obtained by the stable isotope probing method from a sulfate-reducing microcosm from an oil-contaminated tidal flat. The obtained genome was closely related with that of Desulfobacula toluolica Tol2. Abunda...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kim SJ,Park SJ,Jung MY,Kim JG,Min UG,Hong HJ,Rhee SK

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resveratrol (3,5,4'-trihydroxy-trans-stilbene), an antifungal phytoalexin produced by grapes, peanuts, and Japanese knotweeds, is thought to be a beneficial dietary phytochemical in red wine and grape juice. Information on its antibacterial properties and biotransformation, however, is limited. We surveyed the interac...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jung CM,Heinze TM,Schnackenberg LK,Mullis LB,Elkins SA,Elkins CA,Steele RS,Sutherland JB

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Chaetomium globosum strain F0142, which was isolated from barnyard grass, showed potent disease control efficacy against rice blast (Magnaporthe grisea) and wheat leaf rust (Puccinia recondita). Two antifungal substances were purified from broth from this organism and identified as chaetoviridins A and B. Chaetovi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Park JH,Choi GJ,Jang KS,Lim HK,Kim HT,Cho KY,Kim JC

更新日期：2005-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Autotrophic fixation of carbon dioxide into cellular carbon occurs via several pathways but quantitatively, the Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle is the most important. CbbR regulates the expression of the cbb genes involved in CO2 fixation via the Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle in a number of autotrophic bacteria. A gene pote...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Esparza M,Jedlicki E,Dopson M,Holmes DS

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae exponentially growing in basic or 0.7 M NaCl medium were isotopically labelled with 35S-methionine, followed by protein separation and quantification by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2D-PAGE) combined with computerised image analysis. The electrophoretic separation resolv...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Norbeck J,Blomberg A

更新日期：1996-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Different genes encoding pyridine nucleotide transhydrogenases (pntAB, udhA) and acetoacetyl-CoA reductases (phaB) were heterologously overexpressed in Rhodospirillum rubrum S1. A recombinant strain, which harbored the gene encoding the membrane-bound transhydrogenase PntAB from Escherichia coli MG1655 and the phaB1 g...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Heinrich D,Raberg M,Steinbüchel A

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ammonia-induced injury was investigated in pure cultures of Escherichia coli and Enterobacter aerogenes, and in natural coliform populations obtained from the oligotrophic Luxapallila and the eutrophic Sunflower Rivers in northern Mississippi. Pure cultures were affected by ammonia exposure as indicated by changes in ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Naundorf G,Aumen NG

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of Entamoeba histolytica trophozoites with collagen type I and calcium induces a membrane to nuclei signaling. The transduction pathways involved in such phenomena are still poorly understood. Using a combination of immunoprecipitation assays, Western immunoblot analysis, electrophoretic mobility shift...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cruz-Vera J,Clara L,Hernández-Kelly R,Alfredo Méndez J,Pérez-Salazar E,Ortega A

更新日期：2003-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical and molecular mechanism of toxicity of nitrite towards food-spoilage bacteria such as Clostridium botulinum or Clostridium sporogenes is not well understood. In order to discover the active species and explore its chemistry, a number of compounds related to nitrite were synthesized. Their bacteriocidal ef...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cui X,Joannou CL,Hughes MN,Cammack R

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D-(-)-3-Hydroxybutyrate (3HB) oligomer hydrolase was purified from Paracoccus denitrificans. The enzyme was a monomeric protein with an approximate molecular mass of 31 kDa. The isoelectric point of the enzyme was 5.2. Optimum temperature and pH were 35-40 degrees C and 8.0, respectively. The enzyme activity was not a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ueda S,Sano K,Gao D,Tomihari N,Yamane T,Endo I

更新日期：2002-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemerythrins are oxygen-binding proteins found in the body fluids and tissues of certain invertebrates. Oxygen is bound at a nonheme iron centre consisting of two oxo-bridged iron atoms bound to a characteristic set of conserved histidine: aspartate and glutamate residues with the motifs H-HxxxE-HxxxH-HxxxxD. It has r...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： French CE,Bell JM,Ward FB

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus parasiticus (255), a non-toxigenic isolate showed the presence of secondary metabolites-aflatoxins (B1, B2, G1, G2) when grown in yeast extract sucrose media but not in basal media, thus demonstrating its toxigenic potential. Native PAGE of the crude protein isolated at different growth periods of A. paras...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Shashidhar J,Sashidhar RB,Deshpande V

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A unique genomic DNA fragment was isolated from Nitrosomonas europaea ATCC 19718. Based on the sequence of this fragment, oligonucleotide primers for polymerase chain reaction amplification were prepared which amplify sequences of 775 and 658 bp. The predicted DNA fragments were both amplified from the genome of N. eu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nejidat A,Abeliovich A

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have performed amplified-fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) fingerprinting on a collection of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar typhimurium strains with a restriction endonuclease combination (BglII and MfeI) that has previously been used successfully for typing Campylobacter jejuni isolates with high re...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lindstedt BA,Heir E,Vardund T,Kapperud G

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The flagellins of Methanospirillum hungatei strains JF1 and GP1, Methanococcus deltae, and Methanothermus fervidus are glycosylated. Isolated flagellar filaments from these organisms are dissociated by low concentrations (0.5% (v/v)) of Triton X-100. Flagellar filaments from other methanogens (Methanococcus voltae, Me...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Faguy DM,Koval SF,Jarrell KF

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Competition assays measure differences between populations of bacteria after stress adaptation, populations of different bacteria and mutations in antibiotic resistance genes. We have developed a competition-based assay to evaluate if genes upregulated under starvation are important for bacterial survival. Stress resp...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Havis S,Rangel J,Mali S,Bodunrin A,Housammy Z,Zimmerer R,Murphy J,Widger WR,Bark SJ

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two L-methionine-enriched mutants, SN-78 and SE-57, were isolated in a sulphur-deficient medium from the methylotrophic yeast Candida boidinii ICCF26. No significant differences were detected between the L-cysteine pools of the mutants and the wild-type. In mutant strain SE-57, S-adenosylmethionine and ergosterol leve...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Avram D,Stan R

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An investigation of mortality of piglets through clinical signs, post-mortem, histopathology and bacteriological analyses revealed the causal organism to be Escherichia coli, mainly O149:K91:K88 which belongs to the enterotoxigenic biotypes. Molecular characterization and epidemiologic analysis elucidated it as shiga-...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kanengoni AT,Thomas R,Gelaw AK,Madoroba E

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug efflux pumps contribute to multiple antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Pump expression usually has been quantified by Western blotting. Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction has been developed to measure mRNA expression for genes of interest. Whether this method correlates with pump ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yoneda K,Chikumi H,Murata T,Gotoh N,Yamamoto H,Fujiwara H,Nishino T,Shimizu E

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The twin-arginine translocation (Tat) system serves to translocate folded and often cofactor-containing proteins across biological membranes. The mechanistic limits of the Tat system can be explored by addressing the transport of specifically designed Tat substrates. It thus could be recently shown that unstructured p...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lindenstrauss U,Brüser T

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermophilic bacteria have recently attracted great attention because of their potential application in improving different biochemical processes such as anaerobic digestion of various substrates, wastewater treatment or hydrogen production. In this study we report on the design of a specific 16S rRNA-targeted oligonu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gagliano MC,Braguglia CM,Rossetti S

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori ATCC43504 responds chemotactically to aspartic acid and serine, but not to arginine, nor to sodium bicarbonate. In contrast, H. pylori ATCC700392 (strain 26695) shows chemotaxis to all four attractants. Open reading frame HP0099 from H. pylori 26695 is predicted to encode one of three methyl-accept...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cerda O,Rivas A,Toledo H

更新日期：2003-07-29 00:00:00