Enzyme activity of lectins from the nitrogen-fixing soil bacterium Bacillus polymyxa.

abstract：:An in vitro study was conducted to examine the metabolism of histidine (His) by mixed rumen bacteria (B), mixed rumen protozoa (P), and a combination of the two (BP). Rumen microorganisms were collected from fistulated goats fed with lucerne cubes (Medicago sativa) and a concentrate mixture twice a day. Microbial susp...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Wadud S,Onodera R,Or-Rashid MM,Oshiro S

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Gram-negative, short rod-shaped, gliding motile, and pale pink-pigmented bacterial strain, designated 15J9-9T, was isolated from the soil of Iho Tewoo Beach, Jeju Island, Korea, and characterized taxonomically using a polyphasic approach. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that strain 15J9-9T belonge...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Park SJ,Lee JJ,Lee SY,Lee DS,Kim MK,Ten LN,Jung HY

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study genetically screened endophytic and epiphytic bacteria associated with ethnomedicinal plants for the presence of the non-ribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) gene and identified horizontal gene transfer (HGT) of the NRPS gene between the bacterial species. NRPSs are large multimodular enzymes that synthesize...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Nongkhlaw FM,Joshi SR

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate (APS) reductase is a key enzyme involved in the pathways of sulfate reduction and sulfide oxidation in the biological sulfur cycle. In this study, the gene of APS reductase from Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli, the soluble protein was purified by ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Zheng C,Zhang Y,Liu Y,Wu A,Xia L,Zeng J,Liu J,Qiu G

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we investigated the effect of exogenous calcium on improving viability of Debaryomyces hansenii and Pichia membranaefaciens under heat stress, and evaluated the role of calcium in reducing oxidant damage of proteins in the yeast cells. The results indicated that high concentration of exogenous calcium...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： An B,Li B,Qin G,Tian S

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early blight, caused by Alternaria solani, is one of the most devastating diseases of potato that causes severe yield loss worldwide. The infected potato debris existed in the soil serve as the initial infection sources for the next growing potato. Current identification of A. solani in soil relies primarily on cultur...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Gu Q,Yang ZH,Zhao DM,Zhang D,Wang Q,Ma LS,Zhu JH

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminopeptidases (APN) may play a role in host colonization of M. gallinarum. Characterization of endogenous APN activity suggests that the leucine APN (LAP) of M. gallinarum is a metallo-aminopeptidase activated by Mn2+ and is present in the cytosol and possibly associated with the inner leaflet of the membrane. A 1.3...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Wan X,Branton SL,Hanson LA,Pharr GT

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodobacter sphaeroides is a bacterium that can produce hydrogen by interaction with hydrogenase and nitrogenase. We report a hydrogen production system using co-cultivation of hydrogenase in liquid medium and immobilized nitrogenase in Escherichia coli. The recombinant plasmid has been constructed to analyze the effe...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Lee HJ,Sekhon SS,Kim YS,Park JY,Kim YH,Min J

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene encoding the rice (Oryza sativa L.) 90-kDa heat shock protein (OsHsp90) was introduced into Escherichia coli using the pGEX-6p-3 expression vector with a glutathione-S-transferase (GST) tag to analyze the possible function of this protein under heat stress for the first time. We compared the survivability of E....

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Liu D,Lu Z,Mao Z,Liu S

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacilli are members of the normal mucosal microflora of most animals. Many isolates of Lactobacillus spp. are adherent to epithelial cells. In this study, using Lactobacillus acidophilus and L. agilis, we detected adherence in a pattern that suggested that the bacteria were binding to extracellular matrix protein...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Kapczynski DR,Meinersmann RJ,Lee MD

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphisms in enzymatically amplified ribosomal DNA (rDNA) were examined in 18 strains of Saccharomyces. Restriction patterns generated from the region spanning the internal transcribed spacers (ITS) and the 5.8S rDNA produced two clusters corresponding to S. bayanus and S. cerevisiae. The type culture of S. carlsb...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Molina FI,Inoue T,Jong SC

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipids contribute significantly to the pathogenesis of fungal infectious diseases and an understanding of lipid metabolism occurring in fungal pathogens can help the development of more efficient antifungal therapeutic strategies. In this study, the effect of culture age on the distribution of fatty acids among differ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Zarnowski R,Dobrzyn A,Ntambi JM,Woods JP

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus produces levan from sucrose by a secreted levansucrase (LsdA). A levanase-encoding gene ( lsdB), starting 51 bp downstream of the lsdA gene, was cloned from strain SRT4. The lsdB gene (1605 bp) encodes a protein (calculated molecular mass 58.4 kDa) containing a putative 36-amino-acid s...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Menéndez C,Hernández L,Selman G,Mendoza MF,Hevia P,Sotolongo M,Arrieta JG

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodococcus sp. Eu-32 has shown an extended novel dibenzothiophene desulfurization sulfur-specific 4S pathway and could remove significant amounts of organic sulfur from coal. Here, we present the draft genome sequence of Eu-32 with a genome size of approximately 5.61 Mb, containing 5065 protein coding sequences with ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Akhtar N,Ghauri MA,Akhtar K,Parveen S,Farooq M,Ali A,Schierack P

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sheath rot disease of rice caused by Sarocladium oryzae (Sawada) (=Acrocylindrium oryzae, Sawada) has become an important production constraint in all rice-growing countries. Pathogenicity, phytotoxic metabolites, and random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers were used to assess the level of genetic variability ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Ayyadurai N,Kirubakaran SI,Srisha S,Sakthivel N

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lake Elmenteita is one of the alkaline saline lakes within the Kenyan Rift valley. The lake is situated on the floor of the Kenyan Rift Valley at 1,776 m above sea level and has no direct outlet. The microbial diversity of the lake was investigated using a culture-independent approach. Five different sampling points w...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Mwirichia R,Cousin S,Muigai AW,Boga HI,Stackebrandt E

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae represent a global public health concern. K. pneumoniae strains isolated during 2010 and 2014-2016 within a single hospital of Molise Region, Central Italy, were analyzed testing antimicrobial susceptibility, clonality by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and random ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Ripabelli G,Tamburro M,Guerrizio G,Fanelli I,Flocco R,Scutellà M,Sammarco ML

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterovirus 71 (EV71) is the main pathogen of the hand, foot, and mouth disease. It was firstly isolated from sputum specimens of infants with central nervous system diseases in California in 1969, and has been repeatedly reported in various parts of the world, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. EV71 3C protein is...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Wen W,Qi Z,Wang J

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipid modification of membrane proteins was investigated in Acholeplasma laidlawii by metabolic labeling and by chemical analysis. A S-glycerylcysteine residue was identified from membrane proteins and we reported the strong preference for saturated acyl chains into the lipid modification. Differential release of ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Le Hénaff M,Chollet A,Fontenelle C

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas fluorescens is a physiologically diverse species of bacteria present in many habitats, which possesses multifunctional traits that provide it with the capability to exhibit biological control activities, promote plant health or cause plant disease. Here, we present the draft genome sequence of the kiwifrui...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Zhang L,Wu Z,Wang X,Tan G,Song J

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Neurospora crassa, multinucleate macroconidia are used for genetic transformation. The barrier for such a transformation can be either at the cell membrane level or at the nuclear membrane level. For assessment of these possibilities, a forced heterokaryon (containing two genetically marked nuclei and auxotrophic f...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Dev K,Maheshwari R

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three aerobic bacterial consortia, AC, BC, and DC, developed from pesticide-contaminated soils of Punjab were able to degrade chlorpyrifos after 21 days of incubation in basal medium by 54, 46, and 61% and chlorpyrifos (50 mg/L) in soil after 30 days by 50, 56, and 64%. Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Bacillus cereus, Klebsie...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Lakshmi CV,Kumar M,Khanna S

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel actinomycete, designated strain LAM7112T, was isolated from soil sample collected from a birch forest in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. The new isolate was found to be able to grow at 20-45 °C (optimum: 35 °C), pH 5.0-10.0 (optimum: 7.0) and in the presence of 0-10.0% (optimum: 3.0%) (w/v) NaCl. The ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Ma Q,Zhang Q,Jiang X,Kong D,Han X,Xue H,Zhou Y,Zhang Y,Zhang W,Ruan Z

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focuses on the isolation and characterization of a high cadmium (Cd)-resistant bacterial strain, and possible exploitation of its Cd-accumulation and Cd-induced siderophore production property to improve plant growth in cadmium-contaminated soil through root colonization. The bacterial strain could tolerate...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Sinha S,Mukherjee SK

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A systematic evaluation of the ability of different bacterial genera to transform 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT), and grow in its presence, was conducted. Aerobic Gram-negative organisms degraded TNT and evidenced net consumption of reduced metabolites when cultured in molasses medium. Some Gram-negative isolates transfo...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Fuller ME,Manning JF Jr

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell protein profiles of submerged cultures of Streptomyces aureofaciens cultivated in the absence or presence of 12 microM benzyl thiocyanate (BT) were analyzed by one-dimensional SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Substantial increase in the intensity of the 13, 35, 37, 60, and 100 kDa protein bands was observe...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Novotná J,Li XM,Novotná J,Vohradský J,Weiser J

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single strain, designated BF49(T), was isolated from a biofilm of a tufa deposit from the Westerhöfer rivulet, Lower Saxony, Germany. The G+C content of the genomic DNA of strain BF49(T) was 69 mol% and the predominant ubiquinone was Q-8. Major fatty acids were C(16:1)omega7c/15 iso 2OH and C(16:0). Comparative 16S ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Stackebrandt E,Frühling A,Cousin S,Brambilla E,Lünsdorf H,Verbarg S

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:White pepper (Piper nigrum L.), a well-known spice, is the main pepper processing product in Hainan province, China. The solid-state method of fermentation can peel pepper in a highly efficient manner and yield high-quality white pepper. In the present study, we used next-generation sequencing to reveal the dynamic ch...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Hu Q,Zhang J,Xu C,Li C,Liu S

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Culture-based analysis was employed in parallel with PCR amplification of 16S rDNA, coupled with denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE), to profile bacterial species associated with different developmental stages of the pine false webworm (PFW), Acantholyda erythrocephala, a sawfly pest responsible for inciden...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Zahner V,Lucarotti CJ,McIntosh D

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors would like to correct the errors in the publication of the original article. ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Neveling DP,Ahire JJ,Laubscher W,Rautenbach M,Dicks LMT

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00