DNA from Aspergillus flavus contains 5-methylcytosine.

abstract：:Sera, from 17 patients with diarrhoea or haemolytic uraemic syndrome, and six healthy adults, were tested for neutralisation of Vero cytotoxins (VT). For all 17 patients there was evidence of infection with Escherichia coli O157. Sera from two controls but from none of the patients neutralised VT1, although two patien...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Scotland SM,Said B,Thomas A,Rowe B

更新日期：1994-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Acylated homoserine lactone (AHL)-based quorum sensing (QS) has been reported to be present only in Gram-negative microorganisms. Isolation of a novel Gram-positive microorganism from sea water, capable of producing AHL, is reported here. The isolate (GenBank: JF915892, designated as MPO) belonging to the Exiguobacter...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Biswa P,Doble M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The AbGst1 gene encoding a glutathione transferase from the necrotrophic pathogen Alternaria brassicicola was cloned from a benzyl isothiocyanate-treated conidial culture using differential display reverse transcription. The deduced amino-acid sequence of AbGst1p showed a significant degree of similarity to glutathion...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sellam A,Poupard P,Simoneau P

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：:In this multidisciplinary study, we combined morphological, physiological, and phylogenetic approaches to identify three dominant water bloom-forming Cyanobacteria in a tropical marine mangrove in Guadeloupe (French West Indies). Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences place these marine Cyanobacteria i...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Guidi-Rontani C,Jean MR,Gonzalez-Rizzo S,Bolte-Kluge S,Gros O

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that mycolyl glycolipids from Nocardia rubra such as glucose or trehalose mycolates induced granuloma formation in mice. The structure of the carbohydrate moiety of the mycolyl glycolipids influenced the granuloma forming activity profoundly. Here, we have examined the macrophage-chemotacti...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Matsunaga I,Oka S,Inoue T,Yano I

更新日期：1990-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified, cloned and characterized a formerly unknown protein from Streptomyces lividans spores. The deduced protein belongs to a novel member of the metallophosphatase superfamily and contains a phosphatase domain and predicted binding sites for divalent ions. Very close relatives are encoded in the genomic...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lamp J,Weber M,Cingöz G,Ortiz de Orué Lucana D,Schrempf H

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis possesses two isogenes encoding glutamate racemases, the poly-gamma-glutamate synthesis-linking Glr enzyme and the YrpC isozyme, and produces abundant amounts of the Glr enzyme. The YrpC isozyme, but not the Glr enzyme, was found to influence the activity of DNA gyrase, as did the MurI-type glutamate...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ashiuchi M,Kuwana E,Komatsu K,Soda K,Misono H

更新日期：2003-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical and molecular taxonomic studies were performed on a representative strain of some lactic acid bacteria of unknown taxonomic position isolated from salmonid fish. The results demonstrate that the fish bacterium represents a new species of the genus Lactococcus for which the name Lactococcus piscium sp. nov. is...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Williams AM,Fryer JL,Collins MD

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 42- and 51-kDa protein genes of Bacillus sphaericus 1593 have been subcloned independently downstream from the cytA gene promoter of Bacillus thuringiensis serovar israelensis and introduced into a non-mosquitocidal strain of Bacillus thuringiensis. Consequently, each protein was overproduced and accumulated as in...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nicolas L,Nielsen-Leroux C,Charles JF,Delécluse A

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteus mirabilis strain MAG1, a clinical isolate that is resistant to broad-spectrum penicillins and co-amoxiclav, produces inhibitor-resistant TEM (IRT)-21, a novel mutant of TEM beta-lactamase. This enzyme has a pI of 5.2 and is derived from the bla(TEM-1a) gene ancestor. It contains two major amino acid substituti...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mammeri H,Gilly L,Laurans G,Vedel G,Eb F,Paul G

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori ATCC43504 responds chemotactically to aspartic acid and serine, but not to arginine, nor to sodium bicarbonate. In contrast, H. pylori ATCC700392 (strain 26695) shows chemotaxis to all four attractants. Open reading frame HP0099 from H. pylori 26695 is predicted to encode one of three methyl-accept...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cerda O,Rivas A,Toledo H

更新日期：2003-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here improvements to the growth media and fermentation conditions which result in a substantial increase of Helicobacter pylori growth and in the enhanced production of vacuolating cytotoxin. Addition of glucose to the medium resulted in the increase of cell yield, cell viability and a significant improvemen...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Marchini A,Massari P,Manetti R,Olivieri R

更新日期：1994-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hybridoma cell lines producing monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against a hemagglutinin/protease (HA/P) from Vibrio cholerae non-01 were produced and characterized. The two MAbs contained the kappa light chain and were IgG1 type. They similarly neutralized HA/P protease activity derived from both V. cholerae non-01 an...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Honda T,Hata-Naka A,Lertpocasombat K,Miwatani T

更新日期：1991-03-01 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：:Mycelium of Pleurotus ostreatus var. florida with a decreased growth rate contained seven double-stranded RNA segments and isometrical virus particles with diameters of 24 and 30 nm. Mycelium with a normal growth rate lacked dsRNA. Protoclones from virus-containing mycelium contained one to seven of these dsRNA segmen...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： van der Lende TR,Harmsen MC,Go SJ,Wessels JG,Wessel JG

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Halobacillus trueperi accumulates glycine betaine under condition of high osmolarity. A fragment of the glycine betaine transporter betH gene was obtained from the genome of H. trueperi with degenerate primers. Through Southern blot hybridization and inverse PCR, a 5.1 kb EcoRI fragment containing the complete betH ge...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lu W,Zhao B,Feng D,Yang S

更新日期：2004-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on second generation sequencing (MiSeq platform, Illumina), we determined the genetic diversity of T4-like bacteriophages of the family Myoviridae by analysing fragments of the major capsid protein gene g23 in the plankton of Lake Baikal. The sampling depth in our study was significantly higher than in those obt...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Potapov S,Belykh O,Krasnopeev A,Gladkikh A,Kabilov M,Tupikin A,Butina T

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We transformed a clinical Staphylococcus epidermidis isolate with the Enterococcus faecalis transposon Tn917-carrying plasmid pTV1. Loss of plasmid replication was observed at 47 degrees C. Tn917 transposes efficiently and apparently randomly. The transposition frequency could be stimulated by erythromycin. Transposon...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Grueter L,Koenig O,Laufs R

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cloning cassette, carrying a modified amino-glycoside resistance gene (neo) from transposon Tn5 was constructed. Three restriction sites internal to the neo gene were eliminated by in vitro mutagenesis, allowing their use in designing new cloning vectors. The original, suboptimal transcription promoter was replaced ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Denis F,Brzezinski R

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000, a plant pathogenic gram-negative bacterium, employs the type III secretion system (T3SS) to cause disease in tomato and Arabidopsis and to induce the hypersensitive response in nonhost plants. The expression of T3SS is regulated by the HrpL extracytoplasmic sigma factor. Express...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jovanovic M,Lawton E,Schumacher J,Buck M

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of Listeria monocytogenes infection on the cellular level of transcription factor NF-kappa B in the human epithelia-like cell line Caco-2 was investigated. Infection with L. monocytogenes or treatment with lipoteichoic acid induced the formation of three NF-kappa B-like DNA-protein complexes C1, C2, and C3,...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hauf N,Goebel W,Fiedler F,Kuhn M

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enterobacterium Erwinia amylovora is the causal agent of fire blight. This study presents the analysis of the complete genome of phage PhiEaH1, isolated from the soil surrounding an E. amylovora-infected apple tree in Hungary. Its genome is 218 kb in size, containing 244 ORFs. PhiEaH1 is the second E. amylovora in...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Meczker K,Dömötör D,Vass J,Rákhely G,Schneider G,Kovács T

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene encoding a phosphomannose isomerase from Streptococcus mutans GS-5 was identified immediately downstream from the fructokinase gene, scrK. Nucleotide sequence analysis of this region revealed an open reading frame (ORF) specifying a putative protein of 316 amino acids. The gene cloned in Escherichia coli expres...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sato Y,Yamamoto Y,Kizaki H,Kuramitsu HK

更新日期：1993-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The variable stress-sensitivity of individual cells within pure cultures is widely noted but generally unexplained. Here, factors determining the heterogeneous susceptibility to copper toxicity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae were examined with a rapid non-perturbing approach based on flow cytometry. By determination of t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Howlett NG,Avery SV

更新日期：1999-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Using oligonucleotides derived from the N-terminal sequence of a triazine hydrolase from Nocardioides sp. strain C190, two DNA fragments containing trzN were cloned into Escherichia coli and their nucleotide sequences were determined. The 456-amino acid polypeptide predicted from the 1356-bp trzN ORF displayed signifi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mulbry WW,Zhu H,Nour SM,Topp E

更新日期：2002-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:It was speculated that the increase of the UDP-GlcNAc pool observed with chloramphenicol can modulate the residual PEP:UDP-GlcNAc-enolpyruvate activity of fosfomycin-treated cells. This provided an explanation on how chloramphenicol can insure the formation of enough UDP-MurNAc-pentapeptide to sustain peptidoglycan sy...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mengin-Lecreulx D,van Heijenoort J

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceramide mono (CMH) or dihexoside (CDH) fractions from Trypanosoma cruzi (Dm28c clone) were identified as glucosyl and lactosylceramides containing non-hydroxylated fatty acids. The di-glycosylated form was much more efficiently recognized by sera from T. cruzi-immunized rabbits, indicating that glycosylation influenc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Villas-Boas MH,Wait R,Silva RB,Rodrigues ML,Barreto-Bergter E

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Xoo recA insertion inactivation mutant was constructed. The mutant, lacking RecA, showed increased sensitivity towards mutagen killing. This phenotype could be complemented by a cloned, functional recA. Unlike other bacteria, both the recA mutant and the parental strain had similar level of resistance to H2O2 killin...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mongkolsuk S,Rabibhadana S,Sukchavalit R,Vaughn G

更新日期：1998-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoic acid is an essential cofactor for a variety of mitochondrial enzymes. We have characterised a gene from Saccharomyces cerevisiae which appears to encode a protein involved in the attachment of lipoic acid groups to the pyruvate dehydrogenase and glycine decarboxylase complexes. The predicted protein product of ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Marvin ME,Williams PH,Cashmore AM

更新日期：2001-05-15 00:00:00