The Giardia genome project database.

abstract：:The presence of insertion sequence IS1 in 70 multiple-antibiotic resistant clinical strains was determined. This 70-strain collection comprised 46 Escherichia coli, 18 Salmonella and 6 Shigella strains. The presence of IS1 was detected in the chromosome and plasmids of 73% and 63% of the strains, respectively, and 51%...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ramirez-Santos J,Alvarez G,Cisneros E,Gomez-Eichelmann MC

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of overexpression of the apurinic/apyrimidinic DNA endonuclease Nfo on wet and dry heat and UV-C (254 nm) resistance of Bacillus subtilis spores with or without alpha/beta-type small, acid-soluble spore proteins (SASP) were determined. Results revealed that overexpression of Nfo > or =50-fold in spores inc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Barraza-Salas M,Ibarra-Rodríguez JR,Mellado SJ,Salas-Pacheco JM,Setlow P,Pedraza-Reyes M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella pertussis is the causative agent of whooping cough. Traditional vaccines against this disease are inherently reactogenic, thus research is currently focussed on the production of less reactive, acellular vaccines. Expression of candidate antigens for these vaccines in Escherichia coli would be preferable, h...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Smith AM,Yan H,Groves N,Dalla Pozza T,Walker MJ

更新日期：2000-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The polysaccharides formed on hot alkaline extraction of the ascomycetous lichen Teloschistes flavicans were fractionated to give two glucans, which were characterised by methylation analysis and 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopy. One was a branched beta-glucan containing (1-->3) and (1-->6) linkages, a structure which is mo...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Reis RA,Tischer CA,Gorin PA,Iacomini M

更新日期：2002-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen strains representing 11 Caragana-nodulating Mesorhizobium genomic species were identified as representing Mesorhizobium amorphae, Mesorhizobium huakuii, Mesorhizobium septentrionale and groups related to Mesorhizobium plurifarium, Mesorhizobium temperatum, Mesorhizobium tianshanense and Mesorhizobium mediterr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chen WF,Guan SH,Zhao CT,Yan XR,Man CX,Wang ET,Chen WX

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Azotobacter chroococcum the hydrogenase structural genes (hupSL) cover about 2.8 kb of a 15-kb region associated with hydrogen-uptake (Hup) activity. Two other genes in this region, hupD and hupE, were located 8.9 kb downstream of hupL and were shown to be essential for hydrogenase activity by insertion mutagenesis...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Du L,Stejskal F,Tibelius KH

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of Listeria monocytogenes infection on the cellular level of transcription factor NF-kappa B in the human epithelia-like cell line Caco-2 was investigated. Infection with L. monocytogenes or treatment with lipoteichoic acid induced the formation of three NF-kappa B-like DNA-protein complexes C1, C2, and C3,...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hauf N,Goebel W,Fiedler F,Kuhn M

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The argH gene encoding argininosuccinate lyase (ASL) of Methanococcus maripaludis was cloned on a 4.7-kb HindIII genomic fragment. The gene is preceded by a short open reading frame (ORF149), which encodes a polypeptide with an unknown function. The two genes are co-transcribed. The ASL of M. maripaludis shares a high...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cohen-Kupiec R,Kupiec M,Sandbeck K,Leigh JA

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using electron microscopy, pili with at least two distinct morphologies were observed on strains of Pasteurella multocida isolated from pigs with atrophic rhinitis. Rigid pili were found on 60-80% of all cells observed. These pili had a strong tendency to lie flat along the side of the outer cell membrane of P. multoc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Isaacson RE,Trigo E

更新日期：1995-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that the presence of plasmids expressing tetracycline resistance or chloramphenicol resistance genes, but not those expressing ampicillin resistance or kanamycin resistance genes, in Escherichia coli led to the retardation of the process of removal of the heat-aggregated proteins (i.e. the S fraction) from th...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kedzierska S,Staniszewska M,Potrykus J,Wegrzyn G

更新日期：1999-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In sausage, Staphylococcus carnosus increases the levels of methyl ketones which could arise from incomplete beta-oxidation of fatty acids followed by a decarboxylation. The objective of this work was to characterize the beta-decarboxylase activities in cell-free extract. By using different substrates, at least two ki...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fadda S,Leroy-Sétrin S,Talon R

更新日期：2003-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of synthetic sex pheromone on pheromone-inducible conjugation between the isogenic Enterococcus faecalis strains OG1RF and OG1SS was investigated in (i) Todd-Hewitt broth medium and (ii) intestinal mucus isolated from germ-free rats. In broth, the presence of synthetic pheromone cCF10 had no detectable effe...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Licht TR,Hammerum AM,Jensen LB,Jacobsen BL

更新日期：2001-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:To tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is of outmost importance for the general population to understand the severity and the relevance of different routes of transmission. Respondents of different age groups, educational and occupational backgrounds, area of living, diet and household composition participated in an...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Alexa Oniciuc EA,Likotrafiti E,Garre A,Ruiz L,Prieto M,Alvarez-Ordóñez A

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

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 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：:The purpose of this study was to generate highly specific serological reagents for the quantitative identification of Actinomyces naeslundii in clinical samples, in particular dental plaque. Balb/c mice were immunized with pasteurized human A. naeslundii strains representing different genospecies and serotypes. Ten hy...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Thurnheer T,Guggenheim B,Gmür R

更新日期：1997-05-15 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：: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：:Lyme disease is a multisystemic disorder caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, an invasive spirochete. B. burgdorferi has a predilection for collagenous tissue and one major clinical manifestation of the disease is arthritis. We have identified a collagenolytic activity in B. burgdorferi detergent lysates using iodinated ge...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Grab DJ,Kennedy R,Philipp MT

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two actinomycete strains, CHR3 and CHR28, were isolated from metal-contaminated sediments from Baltimore Inner Harbor. The isolates were classified as Streptomyces spp. Agar diffusion assays showed both isolates to be resistant to mercuric chloride and phenylmercuric acetate. Hybridization experiments indicated that g...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ravel J,Amoroso MJ,Colwell RR,Hill RT

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella uses type III secretion systems (TTSS) to deliver pathogenic proteins into the host cells. These translocated effectors induce bacterial internalization and intracellular proliferation by targeting important cellular processes that are conserved among eukaryotes. Here, we assessed the feasibility of perform...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Alemán A,Fernández-Piñar P,Pérez-Núñez D,Rotger R,Martín H,Molina M

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fingerprinting technique similar to repetitive extragenic palindromic PCR was developed to identify strains of Lactococcus lactis. The method distinguishes closely related strains and discriminates among some with identical ldh sequences. The fingerprinting primer LL-Rep1 complements a moderately repeated sequence f...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Urbach E,Schindler C,Giovannoni SJ

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of cultivating the biotechnologically important bacterium Streptomyces griseus in single-species and mixed-species biofilms using a tubular biofilm reactor (TBR). Streptomyces griseus biofilm development was found to be cyclical, starting with the initial ad...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Winn M,Casey E,Habimana O,Murphy CD

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally occurring antimicrobial cationic polypeptides play a major role in innate and adaptive immunity. These polypeptides are found to be either linear and unstructured or structured through disulfide bonds. Among the structured antimicrobial polypeptides, defensins comprise a family of cysteine-rich cationic poly...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Raj PA,Dentino AR

更新日期：2002-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Two thermostable phytases were identified from Thai isolates of Aspergillus japonicus BCC18313 (TR86) and Aspergillus niger BCC18081 (TR170). Both genes of 1404 bp length, coding for putative phytases of 468 amino acid residues, were cloned and transferred into Pichia pastoris. The recombinant phytases, r-PhyA86 and r...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Promdonkoy P,Tang K,Sornlake W,Harnpicharnchai P,Kobayashi RS,Ruanglek V,Upathanpreecha T,Vesaratchavest M,Eurwilaichitr L,Tanapongpipat S

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:In Bacillus subtilis, utilisation of xylose, arabinose and ribose is controlled by the transcriptional factors XylR, AraR and RbsR, respectively. Here we apply the comparative approach to the analysis of these regulons in the Bacillus/Clostridium group. Evolutionary variability of operon structures is demonstrated and...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Rodionov DA,Mironov AA,Gelfand MS

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Probiotics are known for their health-promoting abilities through the production of various metabolites, and also benefits are membrane associated. Probiotic Enterococcus faecalis AG5 has been previously assessed for its probiotic properties and this study further strengthens that claim. Strain AG5 was inoculated with...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mishra AK,Kumar SS,Ghosh AR

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The galE gene of Pasteurella multocida has been isolated by complementing galE-defective mutants of Salmonella typhimurium with a plasmid library of this organism. The complete nucleotide sequence of the P. multocida galE gene consists of 1017 nucleotides, encoding a predicted polypeptide of 339 amino acids. The deduc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fernández de Henestrosa AR,Badiola I,Saco M,Perez de Rozas AM,Campoy S,Barbé J

更新日期：1997-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic oligonucleotide primers were used in a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) protocol to target a specific sequence in the gene coding for the A subunit of Escherichia coli verotoxin (VTe-variant, VTev). This PCR protocol permits the VTe-variant target sequence to be distinguished from closely related sequences in...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Johnson WM,Tyler SD,Wang G,Lior H

更新日期：1991-11-15 00:00:00