Distribution of insertion sequence IS1 in multiple-antibiotic resistant clinical Enterobacteriaceae strains.

abstract：:The need for improved rapid diagnostic tests for tuberculosis disease has prompted interest in the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted by Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex bacteria. We have investigated VOCs emitted by Mycobacterium bovis BCG grown on Lowenstein-Jensen media using selected ion flow tube mass sp...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： McNerney R,Mallard K,Okolo PI,Turner C

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogenotrophic methanogens live in a synthrophic relationship with the human gut microbiota as the terminal part of the anaerobic food chain. Methanobrevibacter smithii of the Methanobacteriales is the prevailing archaeal species. Recently, methylotrophic archaea of the novel order Methanomassiliicoccales were isola...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Vanderhaeghen S,Lacroix C,Schwab C

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：:Three strains of Streptococcus uberis isolated from dairy cows with mastitis were co-cultured with a bovine mammary epithelial cell line (MAC-T) in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium without fetal bovine serum. Protein profiles from culture supernatants and bacterial pellets among different treatments were compared by...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fang W,Luther DA,Oliver SP

更新日期：1998-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis serotype 2 (S. suis 2 or SS2) is the causative agent of several diseases in both pigs and humans. 6-Phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6PGD) is a cell surface protein in SS2. In this study, the immunogenicity and protective efficacy of recombinant 6PGD (r6PGD) from SS2 was evaluated in piglets. Immuniz...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tan C,Liu M,Liu J,Yuan F,Fu S,Liu Y,Jin M,Bei W,Chen H

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery that all hyperthermophiles that have been evaluated have the capacity to reduce Fe(III) has raised the question of whether mechanisms for dissimilatory Fe(III) reduction have been conserved throughout microbial evolution. Many studies have suggested that c-type cytochromes are integral components in elec...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Childers SE,Lovley DR

更新日期：2001-02-20 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：:Bacteria carry a number of genes that cause cell growth arrest or cell lysis upon expression. Notably, defective prophages retain many lysis proteins. Here, we identified a novel lytic gene, ydfD, on the Qin prophage segment of the Escherichia coli genome. YdfD lyses 99.9% of cells within 2 h of its induction. The co-...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Masuda H,Awano N,Inouye M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A physical map of the Enterococcus faecium ATCC19434 chromosome was constructed by NotI, I-CeuI and Sse8387I. The chromosome was a circular DNA of 2600 kb in size, and contained six rRNA operons (rrn). The locations and orientations of the six rrn operons and 24 different determinants were mapped. Genomes of three add...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Oana K,Okimura Y,Kawakami Y,Hayashida N,Shimosaka M,Okazaki M,Hayashi T,Ohnishi M

更新日期：2002-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cry4Ba is a delta-endotoxin produced by Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis and Cyt2Aa2 is a cytolytic delta-endotoxin produced by B. thuringiensis subsp. darmstadiensis. Cry4Ba produced in Escherichia coli was toxic to Aedes aegypti larvae (LC(50)=140 ng ml(-1)) but virtually inactive to Culex quinquefasciatus ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Promdonkoy B,Promdonkoy P,Panyim S

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the dimethylsulfoxide respiratory (dor) operon of Rhodobacter is regulated by oxygen, light intensity and availability of substrate. Since dimethylsulfoxide reductase contains a pterin molybdenum cofactor, the role of molybdate in the regulation of dor operon expression was investigated. In this report w...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Solomon PS,Shaw AL,Young MD,Leimkuhler S,Hanson GR,Klipp W,McEwan AG

更新日期：2000-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage M102 is a virulent siphophage that propagates in some serotype c Streptococcus mutans strains, but not in S. mutans of serotype e, f or k. The serotype of S. mutans is determined by the glucose side chain of rhamnose-glucose polysaccharide (RGP). Because the first step in the bacteriophage infection proc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Shibata Y,Yamashita Y,van der Ploeg JR

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Francisella tularensis is a highly virulent bacterial species that causes various forms of tularemia in humans. The urgency in understanding the pathogenesis of these diseases has stimulated unprecedented interest in this bacterial species over the past few years. Recent findings underscore a number of important disti...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Parmely MJ,Fischer JL,Pinson DM

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, the homology relationships among fragments amplified by ERIC (Enterobacterial Repetitive Intergenic Consensus) and REP (Repetitive Extragenic Palindromic) primers in Drechslera avenae and Stemphylium solani causing leaf blotch and black spot of oats and leaf blight of cotton, respectively, were i...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mehta A,Mehta YR,Rosato YB

更新日期：2002-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The rhl quorum sensing (QS) circuit of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is known to regulate the expression of a number of virulence factors. This study investigates the regulation of rhlI, encoding the auto-inducer synthase RhlI responsible for the synthesis of N-butryl-L-homoserine lactone (BHL). A putative RpoN binding site ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Thompson LS,Webb JS,Rice SA,Kjelleberg S

更新日期：2003-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Carboxy (C)-terminal processing proteases (CTP) are a relatively new group of serine proteases. Found in a broad range of organisms - bacteria, archaea, algae, plants and animals - these proteases are involved in the C-terminal processing of proteins. In comparison with amino-terminal processing of bacterial proteins,...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hoge R,Laschinski M,Jaeger KE,Wilhelm S,Rosenau F

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of nitrite-dependent anaerobic methane oxidation (n-damo) mediated by 'Candidatus Methylomirabilis oxyfera' with nitrite and methane as substrates has connected biogeochemical carbon and nitrogen cycles in a new way. The paddy fields often carry substantial methane and nitrate, thus may be a favorable ha...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhou L,Wang Y,Long XE,Guo J,Zhu G

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA microarray was used to analyze the distribution of plasmid and chromosomal genes among strains of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) isolated from a prospective diarrhoea surveillance study in the United Kingdom. Target genes were extracted from existing databases and from the genome sequence of prototype...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jenkins C,van Ijperen C,Dudley EG,Chart H,Willshaw GA,Cheasty T,Smith HR,Nataro JP

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:Divergicin 750, a bacteriocin produced by Carnobacterium divergens 750, preferentially inhibited the growth of strains of Carnobacterium and Enterococcus. Selected strains of Listeria monocytogenes and Clostridium perfringens were also inhibited. The bacteriocin was purified to homogeneity by ammonium sulfate precipit...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Holck A,Axelsson L,Schillinger U

更新日期：1996-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two actinomycete strains, CHR3 and CHR28, were isolated from metal-contaminated sediments from Baltimore Inner Harbor. The isolates were classified as Streptomyces spp. Agar diffusion assays showed both isolates to be resistant to mercuric chloride and phenylmercuric acetate. Hybridization experiments indicated that g...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ravel J,Amoroso MJ,Colwell RR,Hill RT

更新日期：1998-05-01 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 regulation of nitrogen assimilation was investigated in the Gram-positive actinomycete Corynebacterium glutamicum. Biochemical studies and site-directed mutagenesis revealed that glutamine synthetase activity is regulated via adenylylation in this organism. The genes encoding the central signal transduction protei...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jakoby M,Krämer R,Burkovski A

更新日期：1999-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tagging of two cell wall mannoproteins, Cwp1p and Cwp2p, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae with the green fluorescent protein from Aequorea victoria resulted in incorporation of fluorescent fusion proteins into the cell wall. Both living cells and isolated cell walls became brightly labeled. Intriguingly, the incorporation ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ram AF,Van den Ende H,Klis FM

更新日期：1998-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A Gram-negative sporulating thermophilic anaerobe, designated AB11Ad, was isolated from the heated waters of the Great Artesian Basin of Australia. It grew on a variety of carbohydrates including glucose, starch, and dextran and produced a thermostable and thermoactive extracellular endo-dextranase. The enzyme was pro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wynter C,Patel BK,Bain P,de Jersey J,Hamilton S,Inkerman PA

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A search of the complete genome sequence of the halophilic archaeon Halobacterium salinarum failed to identify a gene homologous to the thymidylate synthase (thyA) gene present in the closely related Haloferax volcanii. To understand the source of thymidine synthesis in Hbt. salinarum, a genomic library of Hbt. salina...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Giladi M,Bitan-Banin G,Mevarech M,Ortenberg R

更新日期：2002-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus lipase (SAL) is known to possess broad substrate specificity for triacylglycerides. We found that a sub-minimum inhibitory concentration of farnesol (1000 mg L(-1)) inhibits this lipase activity on a Mueller-Hinton agar containing 1% Tween substrates. A quantitative lipase assay using p-nitrophen...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kuroda M,Nagasaki S,Ito R,Ohta T

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas sp. TLC6-6.5-4 is a multiple metal resistant plant growth-promoting bacteria isolated from copper-contaminated lake sediments. In this study, a comprehensive analysis of genes involved in copper resistance was performed by generating a library of transposon (Tn5) mutants. Two copper-sensitive mutants with ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Li K,Pidatala RR,Ramakrishna W

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bacterium strain, which is capable of degrading monocrotophos, was isolated from sludge collected from the bottom of a wastewater treatment system of a chemical factory, and named M-1. On the basis of the results of the cellular morphology, physiological and chemotaxonomic characteristics and phylogenetic similarity...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jia KZ,Cui ZL,He J,Guo P,Li SP

更新日期：2006-10-01 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