Genetic evidence for a novel thymidylate synthase in the halophilic archaeon Halobacterium salinarum and in Campylobacter jejuni.

abstract：:Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) is an important diarrhoeal pathogen causing diseases in multiple epidemiological and clinical settings. In developing countries like India, diarrhoeal diseases are one of the major killers among paediatric population and oddly, few studies are available from Indian paediatric ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gupta D,Sharma M,Sarkar S,Thapa BR,Chakraborti A

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the pathogenicity of mouse cytomegalovirus (MCMV) and to identify virulence determinants, we have isolated and phenotypically characterised 25 temperature-sensitive (ts) mutants. Six of these (tsm9, tsm13, tsm20, tsm22, tsm28 and tsm30) failed to replicate in mice and were avirulent. Five mutants (tsm14, tsm1...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Akel HM,Sweet C

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present evidence that the anthrax toxin lethal factor binds multiple zinc atoms. Results from atomic adsorption spectroscopy indicate that lethal factor contains approximately three zinc atoms per toxin molecule. Lethal factor treated with EDTA and o-phenanthroline contained a similar number of zinc atoms, indicati...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kochi SK,Schiavo G,Mock M,Montecucco C

更新日期：1994-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolates of anaerobic fungi obtained from the rumen, duodenum and faeces of sheep were identified as Piromyces mae based on their morphological characteristics observed using light microscopy. There was no significant morphological variation among the isolates of P. mae from the rumen, duodenum and faeces. Isozymes of...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wong MV,Ho YW,Tan SG,Abdullah N,Jalaludin S

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii is known to inhibit apoptosis of its host cell. The molecular mechanisms of this interference are, however, not yet completely understood. We show here that viable parasites prominently inhibited the activation of caspase 3/7 induced by cytochrome c, dATP and dithiothreitol...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Keller P,Schaumburg F,Fischer SF,Häcker G,Gross U,Lüder CG

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the regulatory mechanism governing antifungal metabolite biosynthesis, two kinds of global regulator genes in Pseudomonas sp. M18, an rpoS and an rsmA gene, were cloned and mutated by inserting with an aacC1 cassette, respectively. Two mutants showed the same regulatory mode with repression of phenazine...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ge Y,Yang S,Fang Y,Yang R,Mou D,Cui J,Wen L

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli heat stable enterotoxin (STa) binds to isolated rat intestinal epithelial cells and triggers a cascade reaction including increase of intracellular calcium levels ([Ca(2+)](i)) and membrane bound protein kinase C (PKC) activity. In response to STa, the cytosolic PKC activity falls from 110 to 35 nmol ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ganguly U,Chaudhury AG,Basu A,Sen PC

更新日期：2001-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Three 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes, namely, PSMg437 targeting several members of the genus Pseudomonas, Hlm474 targeting several members of the genus Halomonas, and Clw844 targeting several members of the genus Colwellia, were designed. The microbial community structure and nitrogen removal ability of nitr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yoshie S,Noda N,Tsuneda S,Hirata A,Inamori Y

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium sp. PYR-1 was previously isolated in our laboratory and was shown to be able to mineralize high molecular mass polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) [Heitkamp and Cerniglia, (1988) Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 54, 1612-1614]. In this research, the 16S rRNA gene (rDNA) of this strain was amplified by polym...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wang RF,Cao WW,Cerniglia CE

更新日期：1995-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella flexneri, which causes shigellosis in humans, evolved from Escherichia coli. The sequencing of Shigella genomes has revealed that a large number of insertion sequence (IS) elements (over 200 elements) reside in the genome. Although the presence of these elements has been noted previously and summarized, more ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zaghloul L,Tang C,Chin HY,Bek EJ,Lan R,Tanaka MM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetotactic bacteria are microorganisms that respond to magnetic fields. We studied the surface ultrastructure of uncultured magnetotactic cocci collected from a marine environment by transmission electron microscopy using freeze-fracture and freeze-etching. All bacteria revealed a Gram-negative cell wall. Many bact...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Freitas F,Keim CN,Kachar B,Farina M,Lins U

更新日期：2003-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. ATCC 29132 was shown to contain two sequence-specific endonucleases. Nsp(29132) I was an isoschizomer of AsuII, and Nsp(29132) II was an isoschizomer of BamHI. Nsp(29132) II was shown to generate ends that could be ligated to those generated by BamHI. ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Muro-Pastor AM,Herrero A,Flores E

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhamnolipids are biosurfactants produced by the soil bacterium P seudomonas aeruginosa. In addition to their high industrial potential as surface-active molecules, rhamnolipids also have antimicrobial properties. In densely populated habitats, such as the soil, production of antimicrobial compounds is important to inh...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wecke T,Bauer T,Harth H,Mäder U,Mascher T

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of low concentrations of cyanide on dissimilatory perchlorate and chlorate reduction and aerobic respiration was examined using pure cultures of Azospira sp. KJ. Cyanide at a concentration of 38 microM inhibited cell growth on perchlorate, chlorate and molecular oxygen, but it did not inhibit the activity o...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Song Y,Logan BE

更新日期：2004-10-15 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：:Porphyromonas gingivalis produces a trypsin-like enzyme, Protease I, which is thought to be an important virulence determinant of the organism in adult periodontal disease. Protease I is transiently inhibited by physiological inhibitors of human thrombin. The aim of the present work was to establish whether Protease I...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Curtis MA,Macey M,Slaney JM,Howells GL

更新日期：1993-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sugar alcohols (polyols) have important roles as nutrients, anti-freezing agents and scavengers of free radicals in cold-adapted bacteria, but the characteristics of polyol dehydrogenases in cold-adapted bacteria remain largely unknown. In this study, based on the observation that a cold-adapted bacterium Pseudomonas ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： DangThu Q,Nguyen TT,Jang SH,Lee C

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Three clinical isolates of Salmonella enterica recovered between 2000 and 2003 in France and Senegal were found to produce extended-spectrum beta-lactamase CTX-M-15. The two isolates from Senegal were recovered from stool of a hospitalized patient with gastroenteritis in 2000 and from an urine specimen of an out-patie...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Weill FX,Perrier-Gros-Claude JD,Demartin M,Coignard S,Grimont PA

更新日期：2004-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical and molecular mechanism of toxicity of nitrite towards food-spoilage bacteria such as Clostridium botulinum or Clostridium sporogenes is not well understood. In order to discover the active species and explore its chemistry, a number of compounds related to nitrite were synthesized. Their bacteriocidal ef...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cui X,Joannou CL,Hughes MN,Cammack R

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific non-typhoid Salmonella serovars carry large virulence plasmids that promote sustained extra-intestinal infections. These plasmids all share a highly conserved 8-kb region containing the spv operon, consisting of the regulatory spvR locus and the four structural spvABCD genes. The SpvR protein belongs to the L...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Guiney DG,Fang FC,Krause M,Libby S

更新日期：1994-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus parasiticus (255), a non-toxigenic isolate showed the presence of secondary metabolites-aflatoxins (B1, B2, G1, G2) when grown in yeast extract sucrose media but not in basal media, thus demonstrating its toxigenic potential. Native PAGE of the crude protein isolated at different growth periods of A. paras...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Shashidhar J,Sashidhar RB,Deshpande V

更新日期：2005-10-01 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

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：:Rifampicin is a principal drug used to combat infections by mycobacteria and related organisms. Most strains of Mycobacterium are able to inactivate this antibiotic by ribosylation via an ADP-ribosylated intermediate. We found that this inactivation was inhibited by light at levels similar to those prevailing in labor...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dabbs ER,Quan S

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial swarming motility is a flagella-dependent translocation on the surface environment. It has received extensive attention as a population behavior involving numerous genes. Here, we report that Citrobacter freundii, an opportunistic pathogen, exhibits swarming movement on a solid medium surface with appropriat...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cong Y,Wang J,Chen Z,Xiong K,Xu Q,Hu F

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeasts of various genera were screened for denitrifying activity, and several yeast strains such as Trichosporon cutaneum, Fellomyces fuzhouensis, and Candida sp. were found to exhibit distinct activities to convert nitrite to nitrous oxide. Dissimilatory nitrite reductase (Nir) or nitric oxide reductase (Nor) activit...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tsuruta S,Takaya N,Zhang L,Shoun H,Kimura K,Hamamoto M,Nakase T

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria have the exquisite ability to maintain a precise diameter, cell length, and shape. The dimensions of bacteria size and shape are a classical metric in the distinction of bacterial species. Much of what we know about the particular morphology of any given species is the result of investigations of planktonic c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Justice SS,Harrison A,Becknell B,Mason KM

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the hemolytic activity of Escherichia coli strain EC901 carrying plasmid pBJN406 containing genes draA-E involved in expression of the mannose-resistant Dr hemagglutinin, and in its isogenic insertion mutants devised with Tn5, Tn3, and TnphoA. While E. coli BN406 displayed rapid hemolytic activity agai...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Goluszko P,Nowicki S,Kaul AK,Pham T,Nowicki BJ

更新日期：1995-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis (M. paratuberculosis), the causative agent of Johne's disease, is an important animal pathogen that has also been implicated in human disease. The major proteins expressed by M. paratuberculosis were analyzed by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, and a superoxide dismutase (...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Liu X,Feng Z,Harris NB,Cirillo JD,Bercovier H,Barletta RG

更新日期：2001-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between sugar availability and RTX (repeats in toxin) cytotoxin (leukotoxin) production in the periodontopathic bacterium, Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, was investigated using a chemostat. A actinomycetemcomitans 301-b produced significant amounts of leukotoxin in anaerobic fructose-limited ch...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mizoguchi K,Ohta H,Miyagi A,Kurihara H,Takashiba S,Kato K,Murayama Y,Fukui K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00