Functional conservation between the argininosuccinate lyase of the archaeon Methanococcus maripaludis and the corresponding bacterial and eukaryal genes.

abstract：:Acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation is a metabolic process of clostridia that produces bio-based solvents including butanol. It is enabled by an underlying metabolic reaction network and modulated by cellular gene regulation and environmental cues. Mathematical modeling has served as a valuable strategy to faci...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Liao C,Seo SO,Lu T

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to screen two cheese starter cultures and cheese-borne microbial communities with the potential to produce biogenic amines in cheese during ripening. Bacteria of the genera Enterococcus and Lactobacillus and coliform bacteria were isolated from Dutch-type semi-hard cheese at the beginning of ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Burdychova R,Komprda T

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera epidemics caused by Vibrio cholerae 01 continue to represent a major public health concern in many developing countries. A rapid and simple test kit for the detection of V. cholerae 01 has been developed. The kit, CholeraScreen is a monoclonal antibody-based, co-agglutination test and is used directly with sto...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Colwell RR,Hasan JA,Huq A,Loomis L,Siebeling RJ,Torres M,Galvez S,Islam S,Tamplin MT,Bernstein D

更新日期：1992-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:As shown by both bioassay and high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) analysis, penicillin G production by Aspergillus nidulans is subject to regulation by the pH of the growth medium. Penicillin titres were highest at alkaline pH and in strains carrying mutations in the regulatory gene pacC which mimics the ef...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Shah AJ,Tilburn J,Adlard MW,Arst HN Jr

更新日期：1991-01-15 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 Na(+)/H(+) antiporter gene was isolated from alkaliphilic Bacillus sp. G1. The full-length sequence of the Na(+)/H(+) antiporter gene was obtained using a genome walking method, and designated as g1-nhaC. An ORF preceded by a promoter-like sequence and a Shine-Dalgarno sequence, and followed by a terminator-like seq...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Liew CW,Illias RM,Mahadi NM,Najimudin N

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The SbmA protein is involved in the transport of MccB17-, MccJ25-, bleomycin- and proline-rich peptides into the Escherichia coli cytoplasm. sbmA gene homologues were found in a variety of bacteria. However, the physiological role of this protein still remains unknown. Previously, we found that a combination of sbmA a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Corbalán NS,Adler C,de Cristóbal RE,Pomares MF,Delgado MA,Vincent PA

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mol% G + C of DNA extracted from seven different isolates of Renibacterium salmoninarum was determined. Organisms studied were from selected geographical areas (U.S.A., Canada, England and France) and were isolated from five different species of salmonid fish. The mol% G + C was determined to be 55.5, higher than ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Banner CR,Rohovec JS,Fryer JL

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus faecium has emerged as an important cause of nosocomial infections over the last two decades. We recently demonstrated collagen type I (CI) as a common adherence target for some E. faecium isolates and a significant correlation was found to exist between acm-mediated CI adherence and clinical origin. Here...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhao M,Sillanpää J,Nallapareddy SR,Murray BE

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spores of Bacillus species have novel properties, which allow them to lie dormant for years and then germinate under favourable conditions. In the current work, the role of a key metabolic integrator, coenzyme A (CoA), in redox regulation of growing cells and during spore formation in Bacillus megaterium and Bacillus ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhyvoloup A,Yu BYK,Baković J,Davis-Lunn M,Tossounian MA,Thomas N,Tsuchiya Y,Peak-Chew SY,Wigneshweraraj S,Filonenko V,Skehel M,Setlow P,Gout I

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequences from the ribosomal DNA ITS regions have shown that there is limited variation among the species in the Trichoderma viride/atroviride/koningii species complex also known as Hypocrea rufa complex, and that infraspecies variation sometimes is larger than interspecies variation. Strains belonging to T. viride, T...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lübeck M,Bulat S,Alekhina I,Lieckfeldt E

更新日期：2004-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cry4Ba is a delta-endotoxin produced by Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis and Cyt2Aa2 is a cytolytic delta-endotoxin produced by B. thuringiensis subsp. darmstadiensis. Cry4Ba produced in Escherichia coli was toxic to Aedes aegypti larvae (LC(50)=140 ng ml(-1)) but virtually inactive to Culex quinquefasciatus ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Promdonkoy B,Promdonkoy P,Panyim S

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A collection of 45 epidemiologically unrelated Streptococcus agalactiae strains (group B Streptococcus, GBS), belonging to different serotypes, isolated from pregnant women in China and Russia was studied. Strains were characterized by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) employing hybridization with nine genes pot...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dmitriev A,Hu YY,Shen AD,Suvorov A,Yang YH

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli yehZYXW operon encodes a putative osmoprotectant uptake system of the ABC transporter family. yehZ is identical to osmF, an osmotically inducible gene identified previously. Construction and analysis of a yehZ-lacZ transcriptional fusion demonstrated that yehZ is inducible not only by osmolarity, ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Checroun C,Gutierrez C

更新日期：2004-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Carboxy (C)-terminal processing proteases (CTP) are a relatively new group of serine proteases. Found in a broad range of organisms - bacteria, archaea, algae, plants and animals - these proteases are involved in the C-terminal processing of proteins. In comparison with amino-terminal processing of bacterial proteins,...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hoge R,Laschinski M,Jaeger KE,Wilhelm S,Rosenau F

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used error-prone PCR to generate mutations in a subtilisin protease-encoding gene, and screened for recombinants that expressed temperature-sensitive (TS) variants. From the dozens of mutations that we detected in the recombinant genes we found that those mutations that affected aspartate-75 had the most profound e...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Thompson VC,McGuire BE,Frier MS,Legg MSG,Dyer TW,Gudavicius G,Potter S,Nano FE

更新日期：2020-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae non-O1 strain N037 produced a hemolysin (NO37-Hly) which was antigenically similar to E1 Tor hemolysin (E1 Tor-Hly) but different in molecular size, hemolytic activity, and glucose binding capacity. In the gene encoding NO37-Hly, a 4-bp insertion into the structural gene for E1 Tor-Hly (hlyA) was found...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Honma Y,Yamamoto K,Iwanaga M

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell wall LPS of Escherichia coli are organized as particles which are visible in the electron microscope, after treatment of the wall with alkali. We now describe alkali treated walls of three E. coli strains with differences in susceptibility to the T4 phage infection. Strain CR63, a usual host for the T4 phage, sho...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zorzopulos J,de Long S,Chapman V,Kozloff LM

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gacA gene of the biocontrol strain Pseudomonas fluorescens CHA0 codes for a response regulator which, together with the sensor kinase GacS (=LemA), is required for the production of exoenzymes and secondary metabolites involved in biocontrol, including hydrogen cyanide (HCN). A gacA multicopy suppressor was isolat...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Blumer C,Haas D

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine snow aggregates are microbial hotspots that support high bacterial abundance and activities. We conducted laboratory experiments to compare cell-specific bacterial protein production (BPP) and protease activity between free-living and attached bacteria. Natural bacterial assemblages attached to model aggregates...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Grossart HP,Tang KW,Kiørboe T,Ploug H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herbaspirillum seropedicae strains mutated in the nifX or orf1 genes showed 90% or 50% reduction in nitrogenase activity under low levels of iron or molybdenum respectively. Mutations in nifX or orf1 genes did not affect nif gene expression since a nifH::lacZ fusion was fully active in both mutants. nifX and the conti...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Klassen G,de Oliveira Pedrosa F,de Souza EM,Yates MG,Rigo LU

更新日期：2003-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study, we isolated the spaA gene encoding the surface protective antigen A, SpaA, of Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, and found that the N-terminal region of SpaA was responsible for protective immunity against erysipelas and that the C-terminal region contained eight repeat units consisting of 20 amino aci...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Makino SI,Yamamoto K,Asakura H,Shirahata T

更新日期：2000-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa are known to have a wide physiological potential allowing them to constantly populate diverse environments leading to severe infections of humans such as septicemia, leg ulcers, and burn wounds. We set out to probe physiological characteristics of P. aeruginosa isolates from diabetic leg ulcers ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Buivydas A,Pasanen T,Senčilo A,Daugelavičius R,Vaara M,Bamford DH

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have devised a reliable procedure for the separation of three beta-lactamases of isoelectric focusing points (pI), 5.4, 6.5, and 7.9 by Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography (FPLC System). All of these enzymes were transferable and originated from a ceftazidime and cefotaxime resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated i...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Payne DJ,Hood J,Marriott MS,Amyes SG

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta-toxin gene from Clostridium perfringens type C was cloned and expressed as a glutathione S-transferase fusion protein in Escherichia coli. The DNA sequence was determined and compared to the type B sequence. Two nucleotide differences were found in the protein coding sequence, resulting in one amino acid diff...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Steinthorsdottir V,Fridriksdottir V,Gunnarsson E,Andrésson OS

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multiple antibiotic resistance operon (marRAB) is a member of the multidrug resistance (mdr) systems. Similar to other mdr systems, this operon when induced encodes resistance to structurally and functionally unrelated antibiotics. marRAB has been shown to be conserved in the family Enterobacteriaceae, but within ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kunonga NI,Sobieski RJ,Crupper SS

更新日期：2000-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a new procedure allowing the generation and detection of immunogenic antigens from Helicobacter pylori via the hemolysin secretion apparatus of Escherichia coli. The gene (or gene fragment) encoding the H. pylori protein (or protein domain) is inserted in-frame into a residual portion of the hemolysin gene...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Spreng S,Gentschev I,Goebel W,Mollenkopf H,Eck M,Müller-Hermelink HK,Schmausser B

更新日期：2000-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on amino acid sequence similarities between the methylated elongation factor EF-Tu from Escherichia coli and the EF-Tu from Euglena gracilis chloroplast, we predicted that the latter could also be methylated in the presence of an appropriate methyltransferase. We found that, as reported for the eubacterial homol...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Toledo H,Jerez CA

更新日期：1990-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription start point of the dnaK operon of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) has been determined by S1 mapping, using the EMBL automated fluorescent DNA sequencer. The -35 and -10 hexamers correspond to a sigma 70-type promoter. This promoter responds to heat shock and involves an inverted repeat different from t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Brans A,Loriaux A,Thamm I,Joris B,Dusart J

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A serum-susceptible, guinea-pig chamber-passaged, laboratory strain (BS4 (agar)) of Neisseria gonorrhoeae was converted to serum resistance by incubation with cytidine 5-monophospho-N-acetyl neuraminic acid (CMP-NANA) and examined by electron microscopy after staining with ruthenium-red. In contrast to serum susceptib...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fox AJ,Curry A,Rowland PL,Lancaster S,Jones DM,Parsons NJ,Cole JA,Smith H

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00