Use of a lux reporter system for monitoring rapid changes in alpha-toxin gene expression in Clostridium perfringens during growth.

abstract：:The study of exopolysaccharide production by heterofermentative sourdough lactic acid bacteria has shown that Weissella strains isolated from sourdoughs produce linear dextrans containing α-(1→6) glucose residues with few α-(1→3) linkages from sucrose. In this study, several dextran-producing strains, Weissella cibari...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bounaix MS,Robert H,Gabriel V,Morel S,Remaud-Siméon M,Gabriel B,Fontagné-Faucher C

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：:Specific non-typhoid Salmonella serovars carry large virulence plasmids that promote sustained extra-intestinal infections. These plasmids all share a highly conserved 8-kb region containing the spv operon, consisting of the regulatory spvR locus and the four structural spvABCD genes. The SpvR protein belongs to the L...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Guiney DG,Fang FC,Krause M,Libby S

更新日期：1994-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The marine dinoflagellate genus Alexandrium includes a number of species that produce potent neurotoxins responsible for paralytic shellfish poisoning, which in humans may cause muscular paralysis, neurological symptoms and, in extreme cases, death. Because of the genetic diversity of different genera and species, mol...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wang L,Li L,Alam MJ,Geng Y,Li Z,Yamasaki S,Shi L

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a novel type of a positive screen for the discovery of antibacterial compounds that target the Escherichia coli replication initiator protein DnaA. DnaA is an essential replication protein, conserved in (almost) all bacteria--including all human pathogens--and no existing antibiotics target the main ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fossum S,De Pascale G,Weigel C,Messer W,Donadio S,Skarstad K

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first method for enucleation of yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is reported. Various strains, including some killer strain and respiratory-deficient mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were enucleated after treatment with cytochalasin B. Removal of nuclei from protruding sphaeroplasts was induced by centrifugation ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Salek AT

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A relatively simple, rapid sample preparation method has been developed for analysis of low-molecular mass compounds present in soluble coal products generated by microbial coal solubilizing agents. Acidification of the sample followed by direct extraction into hexanes is coupled with gas chromatography/mass spectrome...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Toth-Allen J,Torzilli AP,Isbister JD

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A physical and functional map of Aspergillus tubingensis mtDNA type 2b was constructed and compared to Aspergillus niger typeI a mtDNA. The gene content and order, as well as the patterns of restriction sites, were similar. Two unidentified ORFs and several repeat elements were found in the region between the ndhl and...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Juhász A,Láday M,Gácser A,Kucsera J,Pfeiffer I,Kevei F,Hamari Z

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA microarray technology was used to survey changes in gene expression in Pseudomonas fluorescens after mitomycin C treatment. As expected, genes associated with the SOS response were upregulated, such as those encoding the recombination protein RecA, DNA repair protein RecN, excinuclease ABC subunit A UvrA, and the ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jin H,Retallack DM,Stelman SJ,Hershberger CD,Ramseier T

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using labelled, gamma-32P rRNA of mycobacteria as a probe restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) of rRNA genes of strains belonging to the Mycobacterium fortuitum-chelonei complex was analysed. Each DNA sample was cleaved with EcoRI restriction endonuclease, the fragments were separated by agarose gel electro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kanaujia GV,Katoch VM,Shivannavar CT,Sharma VD,Patil MA

更新日期：1991-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of ancient microbial DNA offers a new approach for the study of infectious diseases, their occurrence, frequency and host-pathogen interaction in historic times and populations. Moreover, data obtained from skeletal and mummified tissue may represent an important completion of contemporary phylogenetic a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zink AR,Reischl U,Wolf H,Nerlich AG

更新日期：2002-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The CotSA protein, encoded by cotSA (ytxN) of Bacillus subtilis, was detected from the cells at 5 h after the onset of sporulation (T5) and in the spore coat of wild-type cells, but not in cotE, cotS, gerE, or cotSA mutant spores. CotSA was also detected in the sporangium at T5 to T7 but not in the sporangium at T18 o...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Takamatsu H,Kodama T,Watabe K

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the biodiversity of 154 strains of lactic acid bacteria, including 112 dairy product isolates presumptively identified as obligately heterofermentative lactobacilli (OHL) by classical microbiological tests, as well as 23 OHL-type strains, was investigated by PCR-based methods and gene sequencing. Using ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Coton M,Berthier F,Coton E

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of an association of human neuroborreliosis with the development of an antibody response against an antigen in neural tissue that cross-reacts with an epitope on the flagellin protein of Borrelia burgdorferi, C3H transgenic mice were created that expressed the flagellin epitope (amino acids 213-224) as a fusio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fikrig E,Barthold SW

更新日期：1997-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA microarray was used to analyze the distribution of plasmid and chromosomal genes among strains of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) isolated from a prospective diarrhoea surveillance study in the United Kingdom. Target genes were extracted from existing databases and from the genome sequence of prototype...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jenkins C,van Ijperen C,Dudley EG,Chart H,Willshaw GA,Cheasty T,Smith HR,Nataro JP

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequences of the epidermolytic toxins and V8 serine proteinase share about 25% identity, including the catalytic triad at the proteinase active centre. Here we have altered the putative ETA active-site serine-195 to glycine by site-directed mutagenesis. No epidermolytic activity was detected when up to 100-fold gr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Redpath MB,Foster TJ,Bailey CJ

更新日期：1991-06-15 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：:This study investigated 247 Escherichia coli isolates collected from four cattle farms to characterize aminoglycoside-modifying enzyme (AME) genes, their plasmid replicons and transferability. Out of 247 isolates a high number of isolates (total 202; 81.78%) were found to be resistant to various antibiotics by disc di...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Belaynehe KM,Shin SW,Hong-Tae P,Yoo HS

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response regulator DegU and its cognate histidine kinase DegS constitute a two-component system in the Gram-positive soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis. The phosphorylated form of DegU is known to activate transcription of more than 120 genes in B. subtilis, including the bpr gene encoding bacillopeptidase F. To cha...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tsukahara K,Ogura M

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli is the most common organism associated with asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU) in humans. In contrast to uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) that cause symptomatic urinary tract infection, very little is known about the mechanisms by which these strains colonize the urinary tract. Here, we have investigated the ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hancock V,Ferrières L,Klemm P

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New Delhi Metallo beta-lactamase (NDM) is of significant public health concern due to its enormous potential to hydrolyse all major beta-lactams including carbapenems. Amino acid substitutions outside the active site reportedly affect NDM beta-lactamase activities. Here, the effect of amino acid substitutions in the p...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kumar G,Issa B,Kar D,Biswal S,Ghosh AS

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis NCTC10234 possesses five srtA homologs: srtA encodes sortase, which anchors surface proteins with an LPXTG motif to the cell wall, while the functions of the other four homologs (the srtBCD cluster and srtE) remain unknown. The genetic organization of the srtA region was found to be conserved in the...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Osaki M,Takamatsu D,Shimoji Y,Sekizaki T

更新日期：2003-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Most Moraxella catarrhalis isolates express a highly-conserved outer membrane protein of 453 residues designated OMPCD, which has been previously shown to mediate binding to A549 human lung cells. Here, it is reported that two distinct domains of the M. catarrhalis strain O35E OMPCD protein specify adherence. Truncate...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Akimana C,Lafontaine ER

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the nisZ gene sequence, a non-radioactive digoxigenin-labeled DNA probe, was tested for detection of nisin-producing strains using polymerase chain reaction amplification. The digoxigenin-labeled DNA probe clearly discriminated between nisin-producing and non-producing strains with a high degree of sensitivity an...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Meghrous J,Fliss I,Bouksaim M,Lacroix C

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occurrence of tetracycline resistance genes encoding ribosomal protection proteins was examined in 151 tetracycline-resistant bacterial isolates from fish and seawater at coastal aquaculture sites in Japan and Korea. The tet(M) gene was detected in 34 Japanese and Korean isolates, which included Vibrio sp., Lactococcu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kim SR,Nonaka L,Suzuki S

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stability of the membrane-bound and purified H+-translocating NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase, Complex I, was studied. The loss of the enzyme activity is strongly increased by alkaline pH and dilution of the sample. Complex I inactivation is prevented specifically by a low concentration of Ca2+ and/or an intracellular ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Belevich G,Belevich N,Knuuti J,Verkhovskaya M

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-component systems are widespread in nature and constitute the most common mechanism of transmembrane signal transduction in bacteria. Recently, a functionally active two-component system consisting of malS and malR genes possibly involved in the expression of a C4-dicarboxylate transporter system (dctAB operon) wa...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Papa R,Rippa V,Duilio A

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When Escherichia coli STII was applied to the serosa of the ileum at a concentration of 40 micrograms/ml, an acceleration of the spontaneous motility and a weak contraction were induced 2-3 min later. The induction was not affected by the addition of atropine (10(-6) M), but was abolished by the addition of papaverine...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hitotsubashi S,Akagi M,Saitou A,Yamanaka H,Fujii Y,Okamoto K

更新日期：1992-01-15 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：: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