Evidence for the involvement of bacterial superantigens in psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, and Kawasaki syndrome.

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis produces a trypsin-like enzyme, Protease I, which is thought to be an important virulence determinant of the organism in adult periodontal disease. Protease I is transiently inhibited by physiological inhibitors of human thrombin. The aim of the present work was to establish whether Protease I...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Curtis MA,Macey M,Slaney JM,Howells GL

更新日期：1993-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The RpoS sigma factor is required for the transition of Escherichia coli into stationary phase, as well as adaptation to environmental stresses and nutrient depletion. In this study, we report that under nutrient poor conditions, RpoS protein accumulation in E. coli was strongly enhanced by a secreted factor. Expressi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Holland AM,Rather PN

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutants in Aspergillus niger unable to grow on acetate as a sole carbon source were previously isolated by resistance to 1.2% propionate medium containing 0.1% glucose. AcuA mutants lacked acetyl-CoA synthetase (ACS) activity and acuB mutants lacked both ACS and isocitrate lyase activity. An acuA mutant was transforme...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Papadopoulou S,Sealy-Lewis HM

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultrastructure of hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg) particles produced by recombinant yeast cells was examined using high-resolution negative staining, and ice embedding, electron microscopy. With negative staining, the HBsAg particles were spherical to slightly ovoid with a mean diameter of 27.5 nm and co...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yamaguchi M,Sugahara K,Shiosaki K,Mizokami H,Takeo K

更新日期：1998-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A bacterial strain, designated as TSB-6, was isolated from the sediments of a Tantloi (India) hot spring at 65 °C. The strain showed 98% 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with Anoxybacillus kualawohkensis strain KW12 and was found to grow optimally at 37 °C. However, growing cells, cell suspensions, and cell-free extr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Paul SC,Jain P,Mitra J,Dutta S,Bhattacharya P,Bal B,Bhattacharyya D,Das Gupta S,Pal S

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We transformed haploid mycelium of Hebeloma cylindrosporum via Agrobacterium tumefaciens and optimised the procedure to develop a new tool for insertional mutagenesis in this fungus. Southern blot analysis of 83 randomly selected transformants showed that they all contained plasmid inserts. Each of them showed a uniqu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Combier JP,Melayah D,Raffier C,Gay G,Marmeisse R

更新日期：2003-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-six strains of S. thermophilus were examined for their plasmid content. Thirteen strains were found to contain one or two plasmids ranging in size from 2.1 to 7.4 kb. DNA-DNA hybridization analysis revealed the presence of five distinct groups of DNA homology. The complete nucleotide sequence of plasmid pST1 (A...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Janzen T,Kleinschmidt J,Neve H,Geis A

更新日期：1992-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of the alternative oxidase protein consisting of cyanide-insensitive and salicylhydroxamic acid-sensitive respiration in Aspergillus niger was investigated. Cyanide-insensitive respiration was enhanced by addition of antimycin A to the incubation mixture, but repressed by the addition of cycloheximide...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kirimura K,Matsui T,Sugano S,Usami S

更新日期：1996-08-01 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：:Strains of the filamentous gliding bacterium Vitreoscilla, LB13 and C1, are shown to be highly sensitive to UV-A (320-400 nm), with an LD50 of less than 20 kJ m(-2). Vitreoscilla LB13 can be protected from UV-A by including superoxide dismutase and catalase, separately or in combination, during the exposure, indicatin...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Biggs LF,Moody AJ

更新日期：2003-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug resistance plasmids carrying the bla(CMY-2) gene have been identified in Salmonella enterica serovars Typhimurium and Newport from the United States. This gene confers decreased susceptibility to ceftriaxone, and is most often found in strains with concomitant resistance to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, strep...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Doublet B,Carattoli A,Whichard JM,White DG,Baucheron S,Chaslus-Dancla E,Cloeckaert A

更新日期：2004-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding of meningitis-causing Escherichia coli K1 to human brain microvascular endothelial cells (HBMEC) contributes to traversal of the blood-brain barrier, which occurs in part by the mannose-sensitive binding of FimH. In this study, we showed that FimH also binds to HBMEC, independent of mannose, and identified ATP...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Shin S,Kim KS

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella strains are human pathogens and their identification is usually based on their O-antigens. The O-antigen gene cluster of Shigella boydii O11 was sequenced. All the expected genes for the synthesis of the O-antigen were identified on the basis of homology and genes for the biosynthesis of dTDP-l-Rhamnose, gene...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tao J,Feng L,Guo H,Li Y,Wang L

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dissimilatory metal-reducing bacteria (DMRB), such as Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, are of great interest for their importance in the biogeochemical cycling of metals and utility in biotechnological processes, such as bioremediation and microbial fuel cells. To identify genes necessary for metal reduction, this study co...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kouzuma A,Hashimoto K,Watanabe K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three (0140J, C197C and EF20) out of four strains of Streptococcus uberis exhibited high levels of bound plasmin activity following growth in the presence of bovine plasminogen. The remaining strain (C197) bound considerably less plasmin following growth in the same medium. In contrast to the others, this strain was u...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Leigh JA,Lincoln RA

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) and mung bean (Vigna radiata) are important legume crops yet their rhizobia have not been well characterized. In the present study, 62 rhizobial strains isolated from the root nodules of these plants grown in the subtropical region of China were analyzed via a polyphasic approach. The result...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhang YF,Wang ET,Tian CF,Wang FQ,Han LL,Chen WF,Chen WX

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemerythrins are oxygen-binding proteins found in the body fluids and tissues of certain invertebrates. Oxygen is bound at a nonheme iron centre consisting of two oxo-bridged iron atoms bound to a characteristic set of conserved histidine: aspartate and glutamate residues with the motifs H-HxxxE-HxxxH-HxxxxD. It has r...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： French CE,Bell JM,Ward FB

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to understand the pathogenesis of motile aeromonas septicemia caused by an emergent, high virulent Aeromonas hydrophila (vAh) in channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus Adipose fin clipped catfish were challenged with vAh using a waterborne challenge method, and the distribution of vAh over a ti...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhang D,Moreira GS,Shoemaker C,Newton JC,Xu DH

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two isolates, belonging to a new species of a novel genus of the Phylum "Deinococcus/Thermus ", were recovered from hot spring runoffs on the Island of São Miguel in the Azores. Strains RQ-24(T) and TU-8 are the first cultured representatives of a distinct phylogenetic lineage within this phylum. These strains form or...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Albuquerque L,Simões C,Nobre MF,Pino NM,Battista JR,Silva MT,Rainey FA,da Costa MS

更新日期：2005-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The TBF-1 is an 11.9-kDa fruiting body specific protein of the Ascomycetes hypogeous fungus Tuber borchii Vittad. found in aqueous extract and the hyphal cell wall. The tbf-1 gene codes a 12-amino acid N-terminal stretch not present in mature protein. This sequence does not match with any homologous signal sequences s...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Palma F,Cerigini E,Stocchi V

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glt operon of Escherichia coli comprises the structural genes for the glutamate synthase subunits (gltB and gltD) and gltF, whose product was previously suggested to have regulatory functions. The A/T-rich region between gltD and gltF contains a weak promoter and a translation initiation site for gltF. The GltF pr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Grassl G,Bufe B,Müller B,Rösel M,Kleiner D

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A plasmid-based food-grade vector system was developed for Lactococcus lactis by exploiting the genes for lactose metabolism. L. lactis MG5267 is a plasmid-free strain containing the entire lactose operon as a chromosomal insertion. The lacF gene was deleted from this strain by a double cross-over homologous recombina...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： MacCormick CA,Griffin HG,Gasson MJ

更新日期：1995-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two Pseudomonas aeruginosa genes encoding the enzymes 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate (DXP) synthase and DXP reductoisomerase, both involved in the mevalonate-independent biosynthesis of isoprenoids, have been expressed as recombinant enzymes in Escherichia coli. The purified P. aeruginosa DXP reductoisomerase was inhi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Altincicek B,Hintz M,Sanderbrand S,Wiesner J,Beck E,Jomaa H

更新日期：2000-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) are common bacterial colonizers of the human skin. They are often involved in nosocomial infections due to biofilm formation in indwelling medical devices. While biofilm formation has been extensively studied in Staphylococcus epidermidis, little is known regarding other CoNS sp...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Oliveira F,Lima CA,Brás S,França Â,Cerca N

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brief exposure of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to a temperature of 10 degrees C or lower caused a significant leakage of the periplasmic beta-lactamase into the medium. The extent of leakage increased as the incubation temperature was lowered to 4 degrees C and reached a maximum at 0 degrees C. Cells grown in the presence o...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lei Y,Satake S,Ishii J,Nakae T

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the dimethylsulfoxide respiratory (dor) operon of Rhodobacter is regulated by oxygen, light intensity and availability of substrate. Since dimethylsulfoxide reductase contains a pterin molybdenum cofactor, the role of molybdate in the regulation of dor operon expression was investigated. In this report w...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Solomon PS,Shaw AL,Young MD,Leimkuhler S,Hanson GR,Klipp W,McEwan AG

更新日期：2000-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A chemiluminescence immunoassay (CLIA) was developed to detect Cryptosporidium parvum growth in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cell cultures. Optimal results were obtained when MDCK cells were plated at a density of 1 x 10(4) cells/well (96-well plate) and maintained as a monolayer for 4 days prior to infection with...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： You X,Arrowood MJ,Lejkowski M,Xie L,Schinazi RF,Mead JR

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that the secreted M. tuberculosis complex proteins CFP-10 and ESAT-6 form a tight, 1:1 complex, which may represent their functional form. In the work reported here a combination of yeast two-hybrid and biochemical analysis has been used to characterise complex formation between two other pair...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lightbody KL,Renshaw PS,Collins ML,Wright RL,Hunt DM,Gordon SV,Hewinson RG,Buxton RS,Williamson RA,Carr MD

更新日期：2004-09-01 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：:Plasmodium falciparum sirtuin, PfSir2, contains histone deacetylase (HDAC) activity that may be central to the regulation of virulence gene expression in the parasites. Although a few reports have been published recently regarding in vitro and in vivo function of PfSir2, expression of the endogenous protein (c. 30 kDa...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Prusty D,Mehra P,Srivastava S,Shivange AV,Gupta A,Roy N,Dhar SK

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00