Structure and properties of novel inclusions in Shewanella putrefaciens.

abstract：:The genome size of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae was determined by pulsed field gel electrophoresis of AscI and ApaI digested chromosomal DNA. The genome size of the type strain 4074T (serotype 1) was determined to be 2404 +/- 40 kb. The chromosome sizes for the reference strains of the other serotypes range between...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chevallier B,Dugourd D,Tarasiuk K,Harel J,Gottschalk M,Kobisch M,Frey J

更新日期：1998-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of a methodology to identify the origin of fecal pollution is important both for assessing the degree of risk posed to public health and for developing strategies to mitigate the environmental loading of pathogens associated with waterborne disease transmission. Five rep-PCR genomic fingerprinting meth...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mohapatra BR,Broersma K,Mazumder A

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chondroitin 6-sulfate depolymerizing activity was examined in the culture supernatant of Streptococcus intermedius ATCC 27335. 2-Acetamido-2-deoxy-3-O-(beta-D-gluco-4-enepyranosyluronic acid)-6-O-sulfo-D-galactose was split from the substrate. The enzyme(s) was not active upon chondroitin 4-sulfate or dermatan sulfate...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hibi E,Osano E,Fujii Y,Moriyama T

更新日期：1989-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:MHYT, a new conserved protein domain with a likely signaling function, is described. This domain consists of six transmembrane segments, three of which contain conserved methionine, histidine, and tyrosine residues that are projected to lie near the outer face of the cytoplasmic membrane. In Synechocystis sp. PCC6803,...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Galperin MY,Gaidenko TA,Mulkidjanian AY,Nakano M,Price CW

更新日期：2001-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Attachment of soil bacteria to plant cells is supposedly the very early step required in plant-microbe interactions. Attachment also is an initial step for the formation of microbial biofilms on plant roots. For the rhizobia-legume symbiosis, various mechanisms and diverse surface molecules of both partners have been ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Rodríguez-Navarro DN,Dardanelli MS,Ruíz-Saínz JE

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:A novel vip3-type gene named vip3LB has been isolated from Bacillus thuringiensis strain BUPM95. The corresponding secreted vegetative insecticidal protein was active against the lepidopteran insect Ephestia kuehniella. The vip3LB gene was shown, for the first time, to be carried by the large plasmid containing the cr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mesrati LA,Tounsi S,Jaoua S

更新日期：2005-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The filamentous fungi Monascus spp., which have been used in traditional fermented food in Asia for centuries, are well-known producers of a group of bioactive metabolites that are widely used as food additives and nutraceutical supplements worldwide. However, its potential to produce the mycotoxin citrinin poses a th...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Li L,Shao Y,Li Q,Yang S,Chen F

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The time course production of xylanolytic enzymes by the rumen anaerobic fungus Neocallimastix frontalis was studied during growth on different carbon sources and revealed using isoelectric focusing and immunoblotting. A constant low level of endoxylanase expression was observed in glucose medium. A high level of xyla...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gomez de Segura B,Durand R,Fèvre M

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the alpha-subunit of methanol dehydrogenase (mxaF) and its flanking region was isolated from a methylotrophic bacterium, Hyphomicrobium methylovorum GM2. The deduced amino acid sequence of MxaF showed 80, 80, 74 and 66% identity with those of Methylobacterium extorquens AM1, M. organophilum XX, Parac...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tanaka Y,Yoshida T,Watanabe K,Izumi Y,Mitsunaga T

更新日期：1997-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA was performed on the genera Planococcus, Marinococcus, Sporosarcina and endospore-forming rods. In agreement with earlier 16S rRNA cataloguing data, Planococcus citreus and Sporosarcina ureae clustered with Bacillus pasteurii and other bacilli containing lysine in their cell w...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Farrow JA,Ash C,Wallbanks S,Collins MD

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FNR is an iron-binding transcriptional regulator of Escherichia coli which controls the expression of target genes in response to anaerobiosis. The mechanism used by FNR to sense and respond to anaerobiosis is unknown but it is thought to involve iron. In vitro transcription analyses have shown that iron-deficient FNR...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Green J,Guest JR

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene responsible for increased synthesis of hexaheme nitrite reductase (cytochrome c552) of Escherichia coli K-12 was cloned into pBR322 by the direct immunological screening method using antiserum against the purified enzyme. The cloned gene was mapped at 5 min on the chromosomal linkage map as the dni gene (relate...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kajie S,Ideta R,Yamato I,Anraku Y

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herbaspirillum seropedicae strains mutated in the nifX or orf1 genes showed 90% or 50% reduction in nitrogenase activity under low levels of iron or molybdenum respectively. Mutations in nifX or orf1 genes did not affect nif gene expression since a nifH::lacZ fusion was fully active in both mutants. nifX and the conti...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Klassen G,de Oliveira Pedrosa F,de Souza EM,Yates MG,Rigo LU

更新日期：2003-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enteritidis isolated from poultry infections generated a convoluted colonial morphology after 48 h growth on colonisation factor antigen (CFA) agar at 25 degrees C. A mutant S. enteritidis defective for the elaboration of the SEF17 fimbrial antigen, in which the agf gene cluster was inactivated by insertion...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Allen-Vercoe E,Dibb-Fuller M,Thorns CJ,Woodward MJ

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochemical staining and microscopy were used to study the trophic structures and cellular morphotypes that are produced during the colonization of oil-water interfaces by oil-degrading yeasts and bacteria. Among the microorganisms studied here, the yeasts (Schwanniomyces occidentalis, Torulopsis candida, Candida tro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dmitriev VV,Crowley D,Rogachevsky VV,Negri CM,Rusakova TG,Kolesnikova SA,Akhmetov LI

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：:Himalaya hosts a unique environment for microbial ecology. The present study aimed to explore the bioplastic producing bacterial communities along altitude gradient of Pangi-Chamba trans-Himalayan region. A total of 411 bacteria were isolated and 70 characterized at the molecular level for potential polyhydroxyalkanoa...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kumar V,Thakur V,Ambika,Kumar S,Singh D

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amanita exitialis Zhu L. Yang and T.H. Li is a lethal mushroom species recently isolated in Guangdong Province, China. In this report, a pure culture of this species was obtained for the first time. To confirm the identity of the pure culture, the internal transcribed spacer regions of the nuclear ribosomal DNA of the...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhang P,Chen Z,Hu J,Wei B,Zhang Z,Hu W

更新日期：2005-11-15 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：: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 1.5-kb XbaI-SacII fragment containing the upstream region of the Trichoderma reesei cellobiohydrolase I gene (cbh1) has been sequenced. The 1.5-kb fragment contains eight 6-bp sites having an identical or similar sequence to the consensus sequence for binding a catabolite repressor, Aspergillus nidulans CreA. Result...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Takashima S,Iikura H,Nakamura A,Masaki H,Uozumi T

更新日期：1996-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of the pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) cofactor on the activity and stability of the psychrophilic alanine racemase, having a high catalytic activity at low temperature, from Bacillus psychrosaccharolyticus at high temperatures. The decrease in the enzyme activity at incubation temperatures over 40...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Okubo Y,Yokoigawa K,Esaki N,Soda K,Misono H

更新日期：2000-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Deferoxamine (DFO), an FDA-approved iron chelator used for treatment of iron poisoning, affects bacteria as iron availability is intimately connected with growth and several virulence determinants. However, little is known about the effect on oral pathogens. In this study, the effect of DFO on Porphyromonas gingivalis...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Moon JH,Herr Y,Kim SW,Lee JY

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fingerprinting technique similar to repetitive extragenic palindromic PCR was developed to identify strains of Lactococcus lactis. The method distinguishes closely related strains and discriminates among some with identical ldh sequences. The fingerprinting primer LL-Rep1 complements a moderately repeated sequence f...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Urbach E,Schindler C,Giovannoni SJ

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiology of the response in the methanotrophic bacterium Methylococcus capsulatus Bath towards thermal and solvent stress was studied. A systematic investigation of the toxic effects of organic compounds (chlorinated phenols and alkanols) on the growth of this bacterium was carried out. The sensitivity to the te...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Löffler C,Eberlein C,Mäusezahl I,Kappelmeyer U,Heipieper HJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoglucanase of Aspergillus niger AS-101 was partially purified by ammonium sulphate fractionation and molecular sieving on Sephadex G-200. The enzyme was found to be unstable on storage, however, it received some protection on the addition of BSA, glycerol or sodium azide. Glycerol also protected the enzyme from ina...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Singh A,Agrawal AK,Abidi AB,Darmwal NS

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) play pivotal roles in inflammatory diseases including chronic periodontitis. The effects of Prevotella intermedia, a major periodontal pathogen, on MMP-9 production in primary human periodontal ligament (hPDL) cells were examined in the present study. MMP-9 mRNA expression was measured...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Guan SM,Shu L,Fu SM,Liu B,Xu XL,Wu JZ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella pertussis strains contain at least three distinct genes coding for fimbrial subunits, designated fim2, fim3, and fimX. The sequences of the fim2 and fimX genes have been published. Here we present the sequence of the fim3 gene. Proximal and distal to the fim3 gene, regions were observed that could function ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mooi FR,ter Avest A,van der Heide HG

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix proteins are the driving force of assembly of enveloped viruses. Their main function is to interact with and polymerize at cellular membranes and link other viral components to the matrix-membrane complex resulting in individual particle shapes and ensuring the integrity of the viral particle. Although matrix p...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Timmins J,Ruigrok RW,Weissenhorn W

更新日期：2004-04-15 00:00:00