Production of a novel compound, 7,10,12-trihydroxy-8(E)-octadecenoic acid from ricinoleic acid by Pseudomonas aeruginosa PR3.

abstract：:Vibrio vulnificus, a highly virulent marine bacterium, is the causative agent of both serious wound infections and fatal septicemia in many areas of the word. A gene (hlyIII) encoding a hemolysin was cloned and sequenced from V. vulnificus. Nucleotide sequence analysis predicted an open reading frame of 642 bp encodin...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Chen YC,Chang MC,Chuang YC,Jeang CL

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyclomaltodextrinase gene from Bacillus subtilis high-temperature growth transformant H-17 was cloned on separate PstI, BamHI, and EcoRI fragments into the plasmid vector pUC18, but was expressed in an inactive form in the host, Escherichia coli DH5 alpha. High level constitutive expression of the gene product was...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Krohn BM,Lindsay JA

更新日期：1993-04-01 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：:With PCR products as probes, we have cloned two new cry-type genes from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. wuhanensis. The deduced amino acid sequence of the first clone is 77.3% identical to Cry1Ga1. The deduced protein sequence of the second clone is 69.8-78.7% identical to that of Cry1B group. The nomenclature assignmen...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Kuo WS,Lin JH,Tzeng CC,Kao SS,Chak KF

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：:Bacillus sp. B25 is an effective biocontrol agent against the maize pathogenic fungus Fusarium verticillioides (Fv). Previous in vitro assays have shown that B25 has protease, glucanase, and chitinase activities and siderophores production; however, specific mechanisms by which B25 controls Fv are still unknown. To de...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Douriet-Gámez NR,Maldonado-Mendoza IE,Ibarra-Laclette E,Blom J,Calderón-Vázquez CL

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several rhizobial strains possess the ability to modulate leguminous plants ethylene levels by producing the enzyme 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) deaminase. While the effect of ACC deaminase has been studied in several rhizobia belonging to the Alphaproteobacteria class, not much is understood about its impa...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Nascimento FX,Tavares MJ,Glick BR,Rossi MJ

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic engineering of Lactococcus lactis to produce a heterologous protein may cause potential risks to the environment despite the industrial usefulness of engineered strains. To reduce the risks, we generated three auxotrophic recombinant L. lactis subsp. lactis IL1403 strains expressing a heterologous protein, Bmp...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Kim EB,Son JS,Zhang QK,Lee NK,Kim SH,Choi JH,Kang SK,Choi YJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pasteurella haemolytica (Ph) is the most important cause of the bovine acute fibrinohemorrhagic pneumonia that occurs in market stressed calves after shipment to feedyards. Recent characterization of neuraminidase production by these organisms has shown that all 16 serotypes produce an immunologically similar form of ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Straus DC,Purdy CW,Loan RW,Briggs RF,Frank GH

更新日期：1998-10-01 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：:In the present study, probiotic, safety and functional characteristics of eight indigenous bifidobacterial isolates were compared to identify suitable strains for functional food application. Among the isolates, six strains of Bifidobacterium longum and one each of Bifidobacterium breve and Bifidobacterium bifidum wer...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Achi SC,Halami PM

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiothrix spp., sulfide-oxidizing filamentous bacteria, were found to be a principal bacterial component of aquatic biofilms causing biofouling in selected municipal water storage tanks, private wells, and drip irrigation systems in Florida. Treatments of up to 200 ppm chlorine in the affected systems could not preven...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Brigmon RL,Martin HW,Aldrich HC

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The great increase in the abundance and phylogenetic diversity of Flavobacterium spp. within a few hundred meters downstream of the discharge site of the Westerhöfer Bach, a hardwater rivulet, raised the question whether adjacent soil may serve as a reservoir of bacteria not detected in discharge water. To address thi...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Cousin S

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain of Bacillus thuringiensis that showed significantly high toxicity to Plutella xylostella and Spodoptera exigua was isolated from a Korean soil sample and characterized. The isolate, named B. thuringiensis K1, was determined to belong to ssp. kurstaki (H3a3b3c) type by an H antisera agglutination test and prod...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Li MS,Je YH,Lee IH,Chang JH,Roh JY,Kim HS,Oh HW,Boo KS

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：:Soil microcosm experiments were used to investigate the effects on growth and activity of soil microorganisms of an herbicide combination (60% bromoxynil + 3% prosulfuron) frequently used to provide a broad spectrum control of weed species. Culturable aerobic bacteria, fungi, and actinomycetes, the fundamental groups ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Pampulha ME,Oliveira A

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide synthase (NOS), the enzyme responsible for the production of endogenous nitric oxide from arginine, has been recently discovered in a number of Gram-positive bacteria. While bacterial NOS has been implicated in mediating nitrosative stress, much remains unknown about the functional role of endogenous nitr...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Treece E,Pinkham A,Kim T

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：:Pantoea beijingensis, a gram-negative pathogenic bacterium, causes soft rot disease in the fungus Pleurotus eryngii in China. However, the taxonomic classification of this pathogen is controversial due to close relationships between bacteria of the genera Pantoea and Erwinia. This study aimed to resolve the identity o...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Xu F,Yan H,Liu Y,Zhao S,Song S,Gu T,Song Z,Xie J,Rong C

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lectins LI and LII, localized on the surface of the nitrogen-fixing soil bacterium Bacillus polymyxa 1460, were shown to possess proteolytic activity. A relationship was found between the proteolytic and hemagglutinating activities of the lectins. Blocking of hemagglutinating activity with specific carbohydrate hapten...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Mel'nikova UY,Karpunina LV,Ostakhina NV,Ignatov VV

更新日期：2000-10-01 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：:We have shown previously that Spo0A approximately P-dependent sinIR operon expression was substantially down-regulated in abrB null mutant backgrounds. In this report, we show that loss of function mutations in abrB also cause phosphorelay gene expression to be down regulated. abrB null mutations caused diminished veg...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Shafikhani SH,Leighton T

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contribution of host genetic backgrounds in the development of gastric microbiota has not been clearly defined. This study was aimed to characterize the biodiversity, structure and composition of gastric microbiota among twins. A total of four pairs of twins and eight unrelated individuals were enrolled in the study. ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Dong Q,Xin Y,Wang L,Meng X,Yu X,Lu L,Xuan S

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insecticidal proteins produced by strains of Bacillus thuringenesis are specific toward target pests. One of the Bt proteins, Cry 1Ac has been used successfully for controlling crop predation by polyphagous pests Helicoverpa armigera. Structurally, Bt proteins consist of three domains; domain I and III are fairly homo...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Sharma A,Kumar S,Bhatnagar RK

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The duodenal ulcer promoting gene (dupA), located in the plasticity region of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), is predicted to form a type IV secretory system (T4SS) with vir genes around dupA. In the study, we investigated the association between the dupA cluster status and the virulence of H. pylori in a littoral re...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Wang MY,Shao C,Li J,Yang YC,Wang SB,Hao JL,Wu CM,Gao XZ,Shao SH

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Butterfly stain, common in Chilean tepa (Laureliopsis philippiana [Looser] Schodde) trees, appears in cross-section of the stem as a series of partially overlapping orange-brown arcs that in early stages resembles a butterfly. Bacterial isolates from stained tepa wood samples cultured under aerobic and anaerobic condi...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： McLemore JB,Tainter FH,McElreath SD

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been reported that treatment with methotrexate (MTX) induces intestinal bacterial translocation; however, the definitive evidence of intestinal bacterial translocation induced by MTX has been lacking. The aim of this study was to confirm the intestinal bacterial translocation caused by MTX and to evaluate the p...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Song D,Shi B,Xue H,Li Y,Yu B,Xu Z,Liu F,Li J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the main requirements for probiotics is their ability to survive during passage through gastrointestinal tract and to maintain their activity at different adverse conditions. The aim of the study was to look for the strains of lactobacilli and streptococci with high adhesive properties even affected by inhibito...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Hakobyan L,Harutyunyan K,Harutyunyan N,Melik-Andreasyan G,Trchounian A

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microorganisms that colonize plants require a number of hydrolytic enzymes to help degrade the cell wall. The maize endophyte Acremonium zeae was surveyed for production of extracellular enzymes that hydrolyze cellulose and hemicellulose. The most prominent enzyme activity in cell-free culture medium from A. zeae NRRL...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Bischoff KM,Wicklow DT,Jordan DB,de Rezende ST,Liu S,Hughes SR,Rich JO

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel leucine aminopeptidase was purified from a Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti) culture. The purification stages included heating the concentrated supernatant to 65 degrees C for 90 min, anion-exchange chromatography by DEAE cellulose, and hydrophobic chromatography by phenyl Sepharose. The specific activi...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Cahan R,Hetzroni E,Nisnevitch M,Nitzan Y

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00