Lipid modification of prelipoproteins is dispensable for growth in vitro but essential for virulence in Streptococcus pneumoniae.

abstract：:Autophagy, a eukaryotic cellular activity leading to the degradation of cellular components, serves as a defense mechanism against facultative intracellular bacteria as well as a growth niche for the obligate intracellular bacterium Coxiella burnetii. We here demonstrate that the obligate intracellular bacterial patho...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pachikara N,Zhang H,Pan Z,Jin S,Fan H

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A plasmid has been constructed which is a bifunctional vector for Escherichia coli and for streptomycetes, containing the cos site of Streptomyces phage phi C31. It can be efficiently transduced into S. lividans 66 and into several other Streptomyces species. The nucleotide sequence of a 311-bp DNA fragment containing...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kobler L,Schwertfirm G,Schmieger H,Bolotin A,Sladkova I

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eikenella corrodens 33EK(L), a clinical isolate, was assayed for its ability to utilise amino acids as substrates in the reduction of nitrate to nitrite. The metabolism of proline, glutamate, serine and glutamine was found to result in relatively high rates of nitrate reduction. The ability of cells to metabolise thes...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gully NJ,Rogers AH

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel strain of Rhizopus oryzae WPG secretes a noninduced lipase (ROLw) in the culture medium; purified ROLw is a protein of 29 kDa, the 45 N-terminal amino acid residues were sequenced, this sequence is very homologous to Rhizopus delemar lipase (RDL), Rhizopus niveus lipase (RNL) and R. oryzae lipase (ROL29) seque...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Salah RB,Mosbah H,Fendri A,Gargouri A,Gargouri Y,Mejdoub H

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous study [DeVault et al. (1991) Mol. Microbiol. 5, 2503-2509] suggested that growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in glucose-containing medium represses algD gene transcription. In this study, growth of P. aeruginosa in rich medium containing glucose or gluconate increased alginate production and algD transcriptio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ma JF,Phibbs PV,Hassett DJ

更新日期：1997-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes prfA, encoding positive regulatory factor A, is transcribed from three promoters (prfAP1, prfAP2, and PplcA). The prfAP2 promoter was previously proposed to be sigma B (sigma(B))-dependent. This hypothesis was tested by creating prfA promoter-gus transcriptional fusions in both L. monocytogenes ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Schwab U,Bowen B,Nadon C,Wiedmann M,Boor KJ

更新日期：2005-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A peptide from human parotid secretion which inhibited hemagglutination of Bacteroides gingivalis 381 was purified by ultrafiltration followed by DEAE-Sephadex A-25 column chromatography and by gel filtration on Sephadex G-25, and then by reversed-phase HPLC. The complete amino acid sequence of the peptide, determined...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Murakami Y,Amano A,Takagaki M,Shizukuishi S,Tsunemitsu A,Aimoto S

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spirochaete, Serpulina pilosicoli, is the agent of intestinal spirochaetosis, a diarrhoeal disease of humans and other species. By mechanisms as yet unknown, large numbers of these spirochaetes intimately attach to the colonic mucosa by one cell end. In some infected individuals, the spirochaetes may invade the la...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hartland EL,Mikosza AS,Robins-Browne RM,Hampson DJ

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer membrane protein (OMP) profiles of four different strains of Bacteroides fragilis, as determined by Coomassie blue stained polyacrylamide gels, were compared after growth in broth culture and in the mouse peritoneal cavity. There was no induction of the expression of large quantities of novel OMP after growt...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Patrick S,Lutton DA

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The agp gene encoding the ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase is involved in cyanobacterial glycogen synthesis and glucosylglycerol formation. By in vitro DNA recombination technology, a mutant with partial deletion of agp gene in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 was constructed. This mutant could not synthesiz...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Miao X,Wu Q,Wu G,Zhao N

更新日期：2003-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Tolaasin is a peptide toxin produced by Pseudomonas tolaasii and causes brown blotch disease of the cultivated mushrooms. Two types of ion channels were identified by the incorporation of tolaasin into lipid bilayer. The slope conductance of type 1 channel measured in the buffer containing 100 mM KCl was 150 pS with a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cho KH,Kim YK

更新日期：2003-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A red-pigmented, Gram-negative, motile, strictly aerobic, mesophilic, oval- or short rod-shaped bacterium (TDMA-17(T)) was isolated from fresh water collected at Misasa, a radioactive site in Japan. TDMA-17(T) was slightly tolerant against gamma-ray irradiation, and effectively produced carotenoids (2.8 mg g(-1) dry c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Asker D,Beppu T,Ueda K

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 129 sRNA candidates were identified in Brucella abortus 2308 in our previous work, and one candidate with potential to regulate expression of hemH gene was further analyzed in this study. We found that the novel sRNA can inhibit the expression of hemH and called it BsrH (Brucella sRNA regulating HemH). The ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Peng X,Dong H,Wu Q

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fire blight, caused by plant pathogenic bacterium Erwinia amylovora, is one of the most important diseases of Rosaceae plants. Due to the lack of effective control measures, fire blight infections pose a recurrent threat on agricultural production worldwide. Recently, bacterial viruses, or bacteriophages, have been pr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Besarab NV,Akhremchuk AE,Zlatohurska MA,Romaniuk LV,Valentovich LN,Tovkach FI,Lagonenko AL,Evtushenkov AN

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed an improved HEp-2 cell assay method for the detection of Bacillus cereus toxin, which affects the proliferation of HEp-2 cells. The cytostatic toxin was stable upon exposure to heat, pH 2, pH 11 and trypsin, which suggests it is an emetic. Using the HEp-2 cell assay, we examined the distribution and conta...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mikami T,Horikawa T,Murakami T,Matsumoto T,Yamakawa A,Murayama S,Katagiri S,Shinagawa K,Suzuki M

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of dormant endospores is a complex morphological process that permits long-term survival in inhospitable environments for many Gram-positive bacteria. Sporulation for the anaerobic gastrointestinal pathogen Clostridium difficile is necessary for survival outside of the gastrointestinal tract of its host....

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Edwards AN,McBride SM

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two conservative gene clusters, the S10 ribosomal protein region and one (of the two) set of rRNA genes, were split in a genome crossover rearrangement event in Mycoplasma gallisepticum. As a result of the rearrangement the major part of the S10 ribosomal protein cluster is located upstream of genes for 23S-5S rRNA (r...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Skamrov A,Feoktistova E,Goldman M,Beabealashvilli R

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction, energy gain, effect on growth, and interaction of nitrate and nitrite reduction of Bradyrhizobium sp. (Lupinus) USDA 3045 were characterized. Both nitrate and nitrite were reduced in air, although nitrite reduction was insensitive to ammonium inhibition. Anaerobic reduction of both ions was shown to be link...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Polcyn W,Luciński R

更新日期：2003-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The shaA gene (sodium-hydrogen antiporter gene A, identical to mrpA) is largely responsible for Na+ extrusion in Bacillus subtilis. The disruption of shaA combined with a low concentration of NaCl completely abolishes sporulation but allows normal growth. To investigate the role of shaA and shaA-mediated sodium ion ho...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kosono S,Asai K,Sadaie Y,Kudo T

更新日期：2004-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Two bifunctional plasmid vectors pZG5 (7.45 kb) and pZG6 (6.95 kb), for gene transfer between Streptomyces spp. and Escherichia coli have been constructed by fusion of the multicopy broad-host-range Streptomyces plasmid pIJ350 with E. coli plasmids Bluescribe M13- (pZG5) or pUC18 (pZG6). Both plasmids possess several ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Durajlija S,Pigac J,Gamulin V

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Computational comparative techniques were applied to analysis of the aromatic amino acid regulon in Gram-positive bacteria. A new candidate transcription regulation signal of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate-7-phosphate synthase and shikimate kinase genes was identified in Streptococcus and Lactococcus species. New T-b...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Panina EM,Vitreschak AG,Mironov AA,Gelfand MS

更新日期：2003-05-28 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：:Pseudomonas fragi is a meat and milk spoilage bacterium with high iron requirements; however, mechanisms of iron acquisition remain largely unknown. The aim of this work was to investigate siderophore production as an iron acquisition system for P. fragi. A vibrioferrin siderophore gene cluster was identified in 13 P....

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Stanborough T,Fegan N,Powell SM,Tamplin M,Chandry PS

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the large number of techniques available for the transformation of bacteria, several species are still resistant to the introduction of foreign DNA. Oenococcus oeni are among the organisms that are particularly refractory to transformation. However, conjugal experiments from Lactococcus lactis to O. oeni with ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Beltramo C,Oraby M,Bourel G,Garmyn D,Guzzo J

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio vulnificus, an opportunistic human pathogen, can obtain iron from a variety of heme proteins. This process involves the digestion of heme proteins by an exoprotease to liberate protoheme (iron-protoporphyrin IX). In the present study, we tested whether this pathogen also uses a synthetic heme compound, Fe-alpha...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Miyoshi S,Kamei T,Inami Y,Ota Y,Yamamoto S,Tomochika K,Shinoda S

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A phage typing system using a group of 11 closely related phage (as judged by Southern analysis and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis) was able to distinguish at least six phage types in Salmonella heidelberg of human and animal origin. Restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis using cosmid pro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Harvey D,Harrington C,Heuzenroeder MW,Murray C

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA segment located immediately upstream of the eaeA gene of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 strain HA1 was cloned and sequenced. This segment contained an open reading frame encoding a predicted protein of 156 amino acids. A database search identified similar open reading frames upstream of the eaeA gene...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhao S,Mitchell SE,Meng J,Doyle MP,Kresovich S

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The twin-arginine translocation (Tat) system serves to translocate folded and often cofactor-containing proteins across biological membranes. The mechanistic limits of the Tat system can be explored by addressing the transport of specifically designed Tat substrates. It thus could be recently shown that unstructured p...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lindenstrauss U,Brüser T

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Digital game-based learning (DGBL) is being used increasingly as an alternative learning tool to teach science in further and higher education. A variety of digital game formats currently exist for science learning, alongside diverse methods for their implementation and evaluation. This paper aims to provide a broad s...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Brown CL,Comunale MA,Wigdahl B,Urdaneta-Hartmann S

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An open reading frame located in the tyrB-uvrA intergenic region of the Escherichia coli MG1655 chromosome was identified as encoding the class B acid phosphatase of this species on the basis of cloning and expression experiments. A protocol for purification of the enzyme (named AphA) was developed, and its properties...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Thaller MC,Schippa S,Bonci A,Cresti S,Rossolini GM

更新日期：1997-01-15 00:00:00