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

abstract：:Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) are a group of microorganisms that have the ability to synthesize intracellular magnetic crystals (magnetosomes). They prefer microaerobic or anaerobic aquatic sediments. Thus, there is growing interest in their ecological roles in various habitats. In this study we found co-occurrence of ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pan H,Dong Y,Teng Z,Li J,Zhang W,Xiao T,Wu LF

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetobacter spp. are used for industrial vinegar production because of their high ability to oxidize ethanol to acetic acid and high resistance to acetic acid. Two-dimensional gel electrophoretic analysis of a soluble fraction of Acetobacter aceti revealed the presence of several proteins whose production was enhanced...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nakano S,Fukaya M,Horinouchi S

更新日期：2004-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tachyzoites of Toxoplasma gondii multiply within the parasitophorous vacuole (PV) until the lysis of the host cell. This study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of hydroxyurea (a specific drug that arrests cell division at G1/S phase) on the multiplication of T. gondii tachyzoites in infected Vero cells. Infected ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： de Melo EJ,Mayerhoffer RO,de Souza W

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the nucleotide sequence downstream from the Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae recA gene reveals two orfs designated orfX and recX. The former has the potential to code for a 5.6 kDa protein of unknown function while the latter encodes for a putative 14.6 kDa protein with homology to RecX from various bacteria....

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sukchawalit R,Vattanaviboon P,Utamapongchai S,Vaughn G,Mongkolsuk S

更新日期：2001-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The number and incidence of Collinsella aerofaciens in the human intestine are the highest among Gram-positive non-spore-forming bacilli. Identification of this species is very difficult and requires considerable time. A PCR-based identification system using C. aerofaciens-specific primers is described. Using this PCR...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kageyama A,Sakamoto M,Benno Y

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding Aquifex aeolicus (Aae) DNA polymerase was expressed under the control of the trp promoter on a high-copy plasmid, pTRPNS, in Escherichia coli. The expressed enzyme was purified 11-fold with a 13.8% yield and a specific activity of 2268.3 U mg(-1). The optimum pH of the enzyme was 6.8-7.2. The optimal...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chang JR,Choi JJ,Kim HK,Kwon ST

更新日期：2001-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma salivarium cells bound the Fc fragment of human immunoglobulin G. The activity was remarkably enhanced by Mn2+, but not by Mg2+ and Ca2+; significantly inhibited by D-mannose; and reduced by pronase treatment of the cells. About 90% of the cells treated with pronase were not disrupted. Sodium dodecyl sulfat...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Shibata K,Sawa Y,Inoue S,Noda M,Watanabe T

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleoside diphosphate kinase (NDK) is a housekeeping enzyme localized in cellular organelles and distributed in various organs in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. In Neurospora crassa, NDK-1 is suggested to control catalases in response to heat, oxidative stress and light. In this study, we identified the presence of NDK-...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yoshida Y,Hasunuma K

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta-barrel outer membrane protease Pla from Yersinia pestis is an important virulence factor in plague and enables initiation of the bubonic plague. Pla is a multifunctional protease whose expression also enhances bacterial adherence to extracellular matrix. It has remained uncertain whether the increase in cellu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lobo LA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two interlinked quorum sensing circuits, las and rhl, which control pathogenesis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa are further modulated by numerous regulators, including VqsR (virulence and quorum sensing regulator). High-density oligonucleotide microarrays were used to compare the global expression profile of a wild-type an...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Juhas M,Wiehlmann L,Salunkhe P,Lauber J,Buer J,Tümmler B

更新日期：2005-01-15 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：:Mycobacteria belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex have the ability to invade and replicate in non-phagocytic cells, an event that requires the presence of bacterial surface components capable of triggering a cell response and the subsequent internalization of the microorganism. In this study, we report ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Flesselles B,Anand NN,Remani J,Loosmore SM,Klein MH

更新日期：1999-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Outer membrane-associated proteins of 18 kDa were expressed by enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAggEC) belonging to serotypes O126:H27 and O44:H18, which hybridized with a probe derived from a plasmid necessary for enteroaggregative adhesion. The 18 kDa proteins expressed by strains of E. coli, belonging to these ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chart H,Smith HR,Rowe B

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two plasmids, pEM4 (IncFI) determining virulence and pEM6 (IncI) determining colicine I production and resistance to tetracycline, have been found in a pathogenic strain of Citrobacter freundii. Even though pEM4 and pEM6 plasmids are conjugative and transfer themselves very efficiently during conjugation, a high cotra...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Morzejko E,Panek E,Cebrat S

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence and genetic content of integrons was investigated in eight Salmonella enteritica Typhimurium DT104 isolates from different pig herds in Denmark. Two different integrons were identified using PCR and sequencing. Each of the integrons carried a single resistance cassette in addition to the sull and qacE del...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sandvang D,Aarestrup FM,Jensen LB

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of exogenously added L-phenylalanine (L-Phe) on the activities of L-phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) and 3, 4-dimethoxybenzyl alcohol (veratryl alcohol, VA) biosynthesis in ligninolytic cultures of Phanerochaete chrysosporium were investigated. Increasing PAL activity was detected in low nitrogen (LN) cul...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hattori T,Nishiyama A,Shimada M

更新日期：1999-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods for in vivo monitoring of redox changes in different cellular compartments have been developed in recent years, and are mostly based on redox-sensitive variants of the green fluorescent protein (GFP). However, due to the thermodynamic stability of the introduced reactive disulfide bond, these sensors are limit...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Delic M,Mattanovich D,Gasser B

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, strains of 17 reference Acinetobacter genospecies were investigated by using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). We used primers to amplify spacer regions between the 16S and 23S genes in the prokaryotic rRNA genetic loci. When the spacer amplification products were resolved by electrophoresis, ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nowak A,Burkiewicz A,Kur J

更新日期：1995-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An enrichment culture which completely degraded fenoxaprop-ethyl (FE) was acquired by using FE as sole carbon source. An efficient FE-degrading strain T1 was isolated from the enrichment culture and identified as Rhodococcus sp. Strain T1 could degrade 94% of 100 mg L(-1) FE within 24 h and the metabolite fenoxaprop a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hou Y,Tao J,Shen W,Liu J,Li J,Li Y,Cao H,Cui Z

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus carnosus 833, inoculated into sausage meat, increased the level of methyl ketones, which contributed to the cured aroma. These ketones can arise from incomplete beta-oxidation followed by two enzymatic activities: a thioesterase and a decarboxylase. In this study we identified the beta-oxidative pathway...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Engelvin G,Feron G,Perrin C,Mollé D,Talon R

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial pathogens face constant challenges from DNA-damaging agents generated by host phagocytes. Although Borrelia burgdorferi appears to have much fewer DNA repair enzymes than pathogens with larger genomes, it does contain homologues of uvrA and uvrB (subunits A and B of excinuclease ABC). As a first step to expl...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sambir M,Ivanova LB,Bryksin AV,Godfrey HP,Cabello FC

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus equi ssp. equi is the causative agent of strangles, a highly contagious and serious disease in the upper respiratory tract of horses. The present study describes the characterization of IdeE, a homolog of the secreted IgG-specific protease IdeS/Mac of Streptococcus pyogenes. The activity of IdeE is compa...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lannergård J,Guss B

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multiplex-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay based on one-step amplification and detection of two different mycobacterial genomic fragments was designed for differentiation of Mycobacterium bovis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The oligonucleotide primers were chosen from a 500-bp genomic fragment which is well c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Shah DH,Verma R,Bakshi CS,Singh RK

更新日期：2002-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of a 714-bp DNA fragment containing the enterotoxic Escherichia coli (ETEC) adhesive factor 8786 structural gene, designated nfaA, revealed an open reading frame of 498 bp encoding a polypeptide of 166 amino acids. Primer-extension experiments showed that the nfaA gene is within a single transc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Aubel D,Darfeuille-Michaud A,Martin C,Joly B

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of adaptation of bacteria to survive at elevated temperature in the human host and the expression of heat-shock proteins in response to stress was examined by labelling with [35S]methionine. An increase in culture temperature from 26 degrees C to 37 degrees C induced expression of certain bacterial prote...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Salotra P,Singh DK,Seal KP,Krishna N,Jaffe H,Bhatnagar R

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Biology education is undergoing a transformation toward a more student-centered, inquiry-driven classroom. Many educators have designed engaging assignments that are designed to help undergraduate students gain exposure to the scientific process and data analysis. One of these types of assignments is use of a grant pr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sparks-Thissen RL

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：:The development of natural antibodies to Lactococcus lactis in three inbred strains of mice and the effect of inoculating L. lactis into these mice has been investigated. All animals developed detectable levels of natural (systemic and secretory) anti-lactococcal antibodies. Systemic anti-lactococcal antibodies were p...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Norton PM,Brown HW,Le Page RW

更新日期：1994-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the influence of the size and surface termination of diamond nanoparticles (DNPs) on their antibacterial activity against Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis was assessed. The average size and distribution of DNPs were determined by dynamic light scattering and X-ray diffraction techniques. The chemi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Beranová J,Seydlová G,Kozak H,Benada O,Fišer R,Artemenko A,Konopásek I,Kromka A

更新日期：2014-02-01 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