Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima: expression of the g6pd gene and characterization of an extremely thermophilic enzyme.

abstract：:Bacteriophages infecting Salmonella spp. were isolated from sewage using soft agar overlays containing three Salmonella serovars and assessed with regard to their potential to control food-borne salmonellae. Two distinct phages, as defined by plaque morphology, structure and host range, were obtained from a single sam...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Carey-Smith GV,Billington C,Cornelius AJ,Hudson JA,Heinemann JA

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of an educational board game developed to teach the pharmacology of antimicrobial drugs to medical students was compared with the lecture-based seminar as a supplemental tool to improve short- and long-term knowledge retention and the perception of the learning method by students. A group of 124 stud...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Karbownik MS,Wiktorowska-Owczarek A,Kowalczyk E,Kwarta P,Mokros Ł,Pietras T

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The locus of enterocyte effacement pathogenicity island confers the attaching and effacing histopathology on epithelial cells infected with enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli. We investigated the site of insertion of the locus of enterocyte effacement in E. coli strains in relation to their evolut...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wieler LH,McDaniel TK,Whittam TS,Kaper JB

更新日期：1997-11-01 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：:In order to investigate whether the iron acquisition mechanisms of Staphylococcus aureus are induced by iron restriction in vitro, we examined S. aureus ATCC 6538 for production of siderophore and expression of transferrin-binding protein (SA-tbp) in normal or deferrated brain heart infusion broth (BHI). Siderophore p...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lim Y,Shin SH,Lee SI,Kim IS,Rhee JH

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody to Escherichia coli O157 lipopolysaccharide was detected in the sera of healthy individuals more frequently in Southern Thailand than in Japan. The result suggested possible exposure of Thai people to E. coli O157. E. coli O157:H7 or O157:H(-) was isolated from four of 95 retail beef and one of 55 bovine fece...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Vuddhakul V,Patararungrong N,Pungrasamee P,Jitsurong S,Morigaki T,Asai N,Nishibuchi M

更新日期：2000-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular information suggests that there is a broad diversity of acetogens in the rumen, distinct from any currently isolated acetogens. We combined molecular analysis with enrichment culture techniques to investigate this diversity further. Methane-inhibited, hydrogenotrophic enrichment cultures produced acetate as ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gagen EJ,Padmanabha J,Denman SE,McSweeney CS

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil isolate Pseudomonas sp. strain AKN5 degrades atrazine as the sole source of nitrogen. The strain showed expeditious growth on medium containing citrate as the carbon source and ammonium chloride as the nitrogen source as compared to citrate plus atrazine or cyanuric acid. Biochemical and nitrogen-source-dependent...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sharma A,Kalyani P,Trivedi VD,Kapley A,Phale PS

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We characterized Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis insertion sequences related to insertion sequence 1541, recently identified in Yersinia pestis. For each of the two species, two insertion sequence copies were cloned and sequenced. Genetic elements from Y. pseudotuberculosis were almost identica...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Devalckenaere A,Odaert M,Trieu-Cuot P,Simonet M

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species of strictly and facultatively anaerobic cellulolytic bacteria from soils and sediments were examined for the ability to degrade chitin. Of 22 species studied, 16 degraded insoluble chitin. Cellulomonas uda, which was selected for a comparative study of its cellulase and chitinase enzyme systems, produced diffe...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Reguera G,Leschine SB

更新日期：2001-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Pasteurella multocida, a Gram-negative nonmotile coccobacillus, is the causative agent of fowl cholera in poultry, hemorrhagic septicemia in cattle, atropic rhinitis in swine, and snuffles in rabbits. The differentially expressed gene profile of P. multocida in infected rabbit livers was identified and compared with t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Guo D,Lu Y,Zhang A,Liu J,Yuan D,Jiang Q,Lin H,Si C,Qu L

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mating response of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe is mediated by mating pheromones, M-factor and P-factor, produced by h- and h+ cells, respectively. When the M-factor receptor (Map3) was ectopically expressed in h- cells lacking the P-factor receptor (Mam2), they acquired mating competence in respons...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kitamura K,Nakamura T,Miki F,Shimoda C

更新日期：1996-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Trehalase was studied in Schizosaccharomyces pombe cells growing vegetatively on minimal medium and in sporulating cultures. Acid trehalase activity, measured at pH 4.2, was absent in vegetative cells and occurred only in asci, indicating that this activity represented the sporulation-specific trehalase reported previ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： De Virgilio C,Müller J,Boller T,Wiemken A

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Burkholderia comprises over 28 species and species-specific, recA-based polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests are available for several species, but not for some soil-inhabiting species including B. fungorum. Previous analysis of several novel rhizospheric, environmental isolates belonging to the B. cepacia ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chan CH,Stead DE,Coutts RH

更新日期：2003-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of isogenic mutants lacking either the O1 (O-:K66) or K66 (O1:K-) antigens or both (O-:K-), some of which had additional defects in their LPS core polysaccharide was used to examine the interaction between polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMNLs) and K. pneumoniae serotype O1:K66. In the absence of serum compleme...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Williams P,Ciurana B,Camprubi S,Tomas JM

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twitching motility is a form of bacterial translocation over solid or semi-solid surfaces mediated by the extension, tethering, and subsequent retraction of type IV pili. These pili are also known to be involved in virulence, biofilm formation, formation of fruiting bodies, horizontal gene transfer, and protein secret...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Coil DA,Anné J

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) produces an antibiotic, actinorhodin, which belongs to the aromatic polyketides and which can function as an acid/base indicator. Its production results in the death of microorganisms in the vicinity of S. coelicolor A3(2), and this phenomenon can be used in concert with biopesticides. Th...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lee Y,Kim K,Suh JW,Rhee S,Lim Y

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of enteric pathogens, including enteropathogenic (EPEC) and enterohemorrhagic (EHEC) Escherichia coli, Hafnia alvei, a strain of Citrobacter freundii, and rabbit EPEC strain RDEC-1 cause attaching-effacing (AE) lesions in the gut mucosa. These bacteria have a pathogenicity cassette (locus of enterocyte efface...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Agin TS,Cantey JR,Boedeker EC,Wolf MK

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA from Penicillium minioluteum HI-4 encoding a dextranase (1,6-alpha-glucan hydrolase, EC 3.2.1.11) was isolated and characterized. cDNA clones corresponding to genes expressed in dextran-induced cultures were identified by differential hybridization. Southern hybridization and restriction mapping analysis of sel...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Garcia B,Margolles E,Roca H,Mateu D,Raices M,Gonzales ME,Herrera L,Delgado J

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oidium sp. has been recovered as an endophyte in Terminalia catappa (tropical chestnut) in Costa Rica. The volatile organic compounds (VOCs) of this organism uniquely and primarily consist of esters of propanoic acid, 2-methyl-, butanoic acid, 2-methyl-, and butanoic acid, 3-methyl-. The VOCs of Oidium sp. are slightl...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Strobel GA,Spang S,Kluck K,Hess WM,Sears J,Livinghouse T

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An iterative position-specific score matrix (PSSM)-based approach was used to predict sigma(28) promoters in 11 Shewanella genomes. The Shewanella Correlation Browser was used to distinguish true-positive predictions from false-positive predictions in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 by generating a sigma(28)-regulated tran...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Song W,Juhn FS,Naiman DQ,Konstantinidis KT,Gardner TS,Ward MJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently identified the phaG(Pp) gene encoding (R)-3-hydroxydecanoyl-ACP:CoA transacylase in Pseudomonas putida, which directly links the fatty acid de novo biosynthesis and polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biosynthesis. An open reading frame (ORF) of which the deduced amino acid sequence shared about 57% identity with P...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hoffmann N,Steinbüchel A,Rehm BH

更新日期：2000-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Type II restriction endonucleases were purified by heparin-sepharose followed by ion chromatography from Treponema strains. The results indicate that in addition to frequently cutting GATC-specific restriction enzymes, the tested strains also possess rarely cutting endonucleases. The purified restriction endonucleases...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Piknova M,Javorsky P,Pristas P

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixed-substrate conversions are an under-regarded option to fix carbon dioxide in significant amounts. In such a conversion, carbon dioxide together with one other carbon source such as glucose is converted to a single carbon product. With mixed-substrate conversions, it is possible to incorporate carbon dioxide into ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Steiger MG,Mattanovich D,Sauer M

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient type-III secretion depends on cytosolic molecular chaperones, which bind specifically to the translocators and effectors. In the past there has been a tendency to shoe-horn all type-III-secretion chaperones into a single structural and functional class. However, we have shown that the LcrH/SycD-like chaperon...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pallen MJ,Francis MS,Fütterer K

更新日期：2003-06-06 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：:Fourteen strains representing 11 Caragana-nodulating Mesorhizobium genomic species were identified as representing Mesorhizobium amorphae, Mesorhizobium huakuii, Mesorhizobium septentrionale and groups related to Mesorhizobium plurifarium, Mesorhizobium temperatum, Mesorhizobium tianshanense and Mesorhizobium mediterr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chen WF,Guan SH,Zhao CT,Yan XR,Man CX,Wang ET,Chen WX

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：:Herein, we report a high-quality draft genome sequence of an uncultivated aromatic compound-degrading bacterium, obtained by the stable isotope probing method from a sulfate-reducing microcosm from an oil-contaminated tidal flat. The obtained genome was closely related with that of Desulfobacula toluolica Tol2. Abunda...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kim SJ,Park SJ,Jung MY,Kim JG,Min UG,Hong HJ,Rhee SK

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid composition and structure of the peptidoglycan from Heliobacillus mobilis was determined by one- and two-dimensional thin-layer chromatography of completely and partially hydrolysed cell wall preparations. The structure was found to be of the A3 gamma type, with L,L-diaminopimelate in position 3, D-alan...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pickett MW,Weiss N,Kelly DJ

更新日期：1994-09-15 00:00:00