Disruption of the mycobacterial cell entry gene of Mycobacterium bovis BCG results in a mutant that exhibits a reduced invasiveness for epithelial cells.

abstract：:To investigate the regulatory mechanism governing antifungal metabolite biosynthesis, two kinds of global regulator genes in Pseudomonas sp. M18, an rpoS and an rsmA gene, were cloned and mutated by inserting with an aacC1 cassette, respectively. Two mutants showed the same regulatory mode with repression of phenazine...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ge Y,Yang S,Fang Y,Yang R,Mou D,Cui J,Wen L

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine ammonia oxidising bacteria were enriched by incubation of sea water, amended with ammonium sulphate, and subsequent subculture in liquid inorganic medium. PCR primers were designed to be specific for rDNA sequences from ammonia oxidisers belonging to the beta-sub-group of the proteobacteria. These primers were ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： McCaig AE,Embley TM,Prosser JI

更新日期：1994-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin B subunit (EtxB) has been proposed as a potential protein carrier for the delivery of heterologous peptides to target cells, particularly for the oral delivery of epitopes to the mucosal immune system. In this study, two extensions to the C-terminus of EtxB were genetically eng...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Marcello A,Loregian A,Palù G,Hirst TR

更新日期：1994-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Giardia genome project database provides an online resource for Giardia lamblia (WB strain, clone C6) genome sequence information. The database includes edited single-pass reads, the results of BLASTX searches, and details of progress towards sequencing the entire 12 million-bp Giardia genome. Pre-sorted BLASTX re...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： McArthur AG,Morrison HG,Nixon JE,Passamaneck NQ,Kim U,Hinkle G,Crocker MK,Holder ME,Farr R,Reich CI,Olsen GE,Aley SB,Adam RD,Gillin FD,Sogin ML

更新日期：2000-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A semi-automated method has been developed for the quantification and measurement of conidia discharged by the aphid pathogen Erynia neoaphidis. This was used to compare conidiation by E. neoaphidis-mycosed pea aphid cadavers, mycelial plugs cut from agar plates, mycelial pellets from shake flasks and by mycelial pell...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bonner TJ,Pell JK,Gray SN

更新日期：2003-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA hybridization using the Synechocystis PCC6803 glucose transporter gene, glcP, revealed a single homologous region in two facultative photoautotrophic strains out of three tested, and none in three obligate autotrophs. In one of the latter, Synechococcus PCC7942, integration of glcP into the chromosome resulted in ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhang CC,Jeanjean R,Joset F

更新日期：1998-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the gram-negative microorganisms with probiotic properties, Escherichia coli strain Nissle 1917 (briefly EcN) is probably the most intensively investigated bacterial strain today. Since nearly 100 years, the EcN strain is used as the active pharmaceutical ingredient in a licensed medicinal product that is distri...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sonnenborn U

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An exo-polygalacturonase (EC 3.2.1.15) was purified to apparent homogeneity from cultures of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lycopersici on synthetic medium supplemented with citrus pectin, using preparative isoelectric focusing. The enzyme, denominated PG2, had an apparent M(r) of 74000 Da upon SDS-PAGE. The pI of the main ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Di Pietro A,Roncero MI

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biogenic amines have undesirable physiological effects when absorbed at too high a concentration. Several kinds of food and beverages contain biogenic amines. Lactic acid bacteria can decarboxylate amino acids. Since winemaking involves the growth of lactic acid bacteria for malolactic fermentation, biogenic amines ma...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lonvaud-Funel A

更新日期：2001-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on cultured cells and in infection models have shown that cell density-dependent quorum-sensing (QS) controls many of the known virulence factors of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. However, it is less clear what role QS plays in chronic human lung infections associated with cystic fibrosis (CF). The involvement of QS ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Winstanley C,Fothergill JL

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the industrialized world, functional foods have become a part of an everyday diet and are demonstrated to offer potential health benefits beyond the widely accepted nutritional effects. Currently, the most important and frequently used functional food compounds are probiotics and prebiotics, or they are collectivel...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nagpal R,Kumar A,Kumar M,Behare PV,Jain S,Yadav H

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the iron-dependent regulation of the psbA gene, encoding the enzyme L-ornithine N(5)-oxygenase in the rhizobacterium Pseudomonas B10. We have cloned and characterized a Pseudomonas B10 gene, designated psbS, required for psbA expression. PsbS is endowed with structural and functional features of e...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Leoni L,Ambrosi C,Petrucca A,Visca P

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) synthase (PhaC(Da)) from Delftia acidovorans DS-17 (formerly Comamonas acidovorans) has a unique large insertion consisting of 40 amino acid residues in the alpha/beta hydrolase fold region. In order to examine whether this insertion is necessary for enzyme function, we generated a mutan...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tsuge T,Imazu S,Takase K,Taguchi S,Doi Y

更新日期：2004-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Xylose reductase catalyzes the NAD(P)H-dependent reduction of xylose to xylitol and is essential for growth on xylose by yeasts. To understand the nature of coenzyme binding to the Pichia stipitis xylose reductase, we investigated the role of the strictly conserved Lys270 in the putative IPKS coenzyme binding motif by...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kostrzynska M,Sopher CR,Lee H

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the influence of the size and surface termination of diamond nanoparticles (DNPs) on their antibacterial activity against Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis was assessed. The average size and distribution of DNPs were determined by dynamic light scattering and X-ray diffraction techniques. The chemi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Beranová J,Seydlová G,Kozak H,Benada O,Fišer R,Artemenko A,Konopásek I,Kromka A

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The filamentous fungus Fusarium lateritium is cyanide tolerant, due partly to the induction of the enzyme cyanide hydratase in the presence of cyanide. This enzyme catalyses the hydration of cyanide to formamide. The expression in Escherichia coli of a cDNA clone encoding cyanide hydratase is described. The cDNA clone...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Brown DT,Turner PD,O'Reilly C

更新日期：1995-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial production of acetone and butanol was one of the first large-scale industrial fermentation processes of global importance. During the first part of the 20th century, it was indeed the second largest fermentation process, superseded in importance only by the ethanol fermentation. After a rapid decline after t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sauer M

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paracoccus pantotrophus grown anaerobically under denitrifying conditions expressed similar levels of the periplasmic nitrate reductase (NAP) when cultured in molybdate- or tungstate-containing media. A native PAGE gel stained for nitrate reductase activity revealed that only NapA from molybdate-grown cells displayed ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gates AJ,Hughes RO,Sharp SR,Millington PD,Nilavongse A,Cole JA,Leach ER,Jepson B,Richardson DJ,Butler CS

更新日期：2003-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The stimulatory effect of heme on growth of Bacteroides fragilis, an anaerobic human pathogen, was strongly inhibited by hemopexin, an avid (Kd<1 pM) heme-binding plasma protein. Both rabbit and human hemopexins were bacteriostatic for a limited period of time, suggesting an adaptation by B. fragilis to heme-limited g...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Rocha ER,Smith A,Smith CJ,Brock JH

更新日期：2001-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure and distribution of a Mycobacterium bovis BCG insertion element of the IS21 family were investigated. Several IS21-like elements found in mycobacterial genomes were separated in four types, following their nucleic acid similarities. The M. bovis BCG IS21 element is highly similar to IS1533 (class I), 70%...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lefèvre P,Braibant M,Content J,Gilot P

更新日期：1999-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to core Cas proteins, CRISPR-Cas loci often encode ancillary proteins that modulate the activity of the respective effectors in interference. Subtype VI-B1 CRISPR-Cas systems encode the Csx27 protein that down-regulates the activity of Cas13b when the type VI-B locus is expressed in Escherichia coli. We sh...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Makarova KS,Gao L,Zhang F,Koonin EV

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular information suggests that there is a broad diversity of acetogens in the rumen, distinct from any currently isolated acetogens. We combined molecular analysis with enrichment culture techniques to investigate this diversity further. Methane-inhibited, hydrogenotrophic enrichment cultures produced acetate as ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gagen EJ,Padmanabha J,Denman SE,McSweeney CS

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) belong to phylum Glomeromycota, an early divergent fungal lineage forming symbiosis with plant roots. Many reports have documented that bacteria are intimately associated with AMF mycelia in the soil. However, the role of these bacteria remains unclear and their diversity within intr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Iffis B,St-Arnaud M,Hijri M

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a putative N-acetylmuramyl-l-alanine amidase gene (bb0666) was identified in the genome of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. This protein shares c. 30% identity with its counterparts from other bacteria. Reverse transcriptase-PCR analysis showed that bb0666 along with two other genes (bb...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yang Y,Li C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain Lactobacillus brevis strains are resistant to hop-derived compounds such as isohumulone and are able to grow in beer. In this study, we raised an antiserum against our beer spoilage laboratory strain L. brevis 578 which reacted with 23 of 24 beer spoilers and two of 13 non-spoilers in precipitation reactions u...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yasui T,Yoda K

更新日期：1997-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Halobacillus trueperi accumulates glycine betaine under condition of high osmolarity. A fragment of the glycine betaine transporter betH gene was obtained from the genome of H. trueperi with degenerate primers. Through Southern blot hybridization and inverse PCR, a 5.1 kb EcoRI fragment containing the complete betH ge...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lu W,Zhao B,Feng D,Yang S

更新日期：2004-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The enteric microogranisms Salmonella, Escherichia coli and Shigella flexneri prefer to grow in neutral pH environments. They nevertheless experience dramatic pH fluctuations in nature and during pathogenesis. In response to environmental encounters with acid, these organisms have evolved complex, inducible acid survi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bearson S,Bearson B,Foster JW

更新日期：1997-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Saccharomyces sensu stricto genus contains many species that are industrially important for fermentation of wines, beers and ales. The molecular characterization of the genomes of yeasts involved in these processes reveals that the majority arose from interspecific hybridization between two and sometimes three yea...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Querol A,Bond U

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mosquitocidal crystal protein, Cry19Aa, from Bacillus thuringiensis ssp. jegathesan, has high toxicity to Anopheles stephensi and Culex pipiens but is less toxic to Aedes aegypti. To study the functional role of putative domain II and surface residues in mosquito toxicity, 16 alanine substitution mutations were in...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Roh JY,Nair MS,Liu XS,Dean DH

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Candida albicans to adhere to subendothelial extracellular matrix (ECM) may be important in the pathogenesis of disseminated candidiasis. ECM proteins, such as fibronectin, laminin, and types I and IV collagen bind C. albicans avidly. These proteins all possess heparin-binding domains. The influence of ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Klotz SA,Smith RL

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00