Ergosterol levels in two L-methionine-enriched mutants of the methylotrophic yeast Candida boidinii ICCF26.

abstract：:The aims of this work were to characterize the 16S-23S internal spacer region of the fish pathogen Tenacibaculum soleae and to develop a PCR assay for its identification and detection. All T. soleae strains tested displayed a single internal spacer region class, containing tRNA(I) (le) and tRNA(A) ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： López JR,Hamman-Khalifa AM,Navas JI,de la Herran R

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant antimicrobial peptide MiAMP1 from Macadamia integrifolia and the yeast killer toxin peptide WmKT from Williopsis mrakii are structural homologues. Comparative studies of yeast mutants were performed to test their sensitivity to these two antimicrobial peptides. No differences in susceptibility to MiAMP1 were...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Stephens C,Kazan K,Goulter KC,Maclean DJ,Manners JM

更新日期：2005-02-01 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：:A fast screening method was developed to assess the pathogenicity of a diverse collection of environmental and clinical Burkholderia cepacia complex isolates in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. The method was validated by comparison with the standard slow-killing assay. We observed that the pathogenicity of B. cep...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cardona ST,Wopperer J,Eberl L,Valvano MA

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was initiated to establish whether inhibition of growth of yeasts by medium-chain fatty acids resembled that caused by weak-acid preservatives or uncouplers. Unlike sorbic acid and 2,4-dinitrophenol, decanoic acid caused rapid cell death at its inhibitory concentration. This suggested a mode of action by me...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Stratford M,Anslow PA

更新日期：1996-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus cereus strains involved in food poisoning cases of the diarrheal type may produce two different enterotoxin complexes. To facilitate the identification of hemolysin BL-enterotoxin complex (HBL) and/or the nonhemolytic enterotoxin (NHE) producing colonies a colony immunoblot procedure was developed, which allo...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Moravek M,Wegscheider M,Schulz A,Dietrich R,Bürk C,Märtlbauer E

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Saccharomyces sensu stricto genus contains many species that are industrially important for fermentation of wines, beers and ales. The molecular characterization of the genomes of yeasts involved in these processes reveals that the majority arose from interspecific hybridization between two and sometimes three yea...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Querol A,Bond U

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactococcus lactis MG5267 is a plasmid-free strain in which the lactose operon is integrated in the bacterial chromosome. The chromosomal lacG gene which encodes phospho-beta-galactosidase was inactivated by a double cross-over integration event. Unexpectedly, the resultant mutant was shown to retain a Lac-positive ph...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Payne J,MacCormick CA,Griffin HG,Gasson MJ

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila, an intracellular parasite of macrophages and protozoa, requires iron for extra- and intracellular growth. In a new screen of a mutant library of L. pneumophila for strains defective for growth on agar media lacking supplemental iron, seven mutants were obtained. All of the mutants had a disrupt...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Naylor J,Cianciotto NP

更新日期：2004-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Small colony variants (SCVs) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa NCTC 6750 (WT) were repeatedly isolated in an in vitro kinetic model after exposure to gentamicin (GM). There were minor differences biochemically and in phage and serotyping between the wild type (WT) strain and SCVs. Changes in outer membrane protein profiles we...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Langford PR,Anwar H,Gonda I,Brown MR

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipid etherlipid (PLEL) derived isoprenoids and phospholipid fatty acids (PLFA) were determined in eight Euryarchaeotal monocultures for taxonomic profiling. For the first time significant amounts of fatty acids in the PLFA of Euryarchaeota were determined. The PLFA proportion varied between 11.3 and 35.5% of t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gattinger A,Schloter M,Munch JC

更新日期：2002-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-component systems are widespread in nature and constitute the most common mechanism of transmembrane signal transduction in bacteria. Recently, a functionally active two-component system consisting of malS and malR genes possibly involved in the expression of a C4-dicarboxylate transporter system (dctAB operon) wa...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Papa R,Rippa V,Duilio A

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymerase chain reaction was used to search for hepatitis B virus (HBV)-DNA sequences in the sera of HBsAg-negative Senegalese patients suffering from liver cirrhosis or liver cancer. Amplified HBV-DNA sequences were detected by hybridization with a digoxigenin-labelled HBV-DNA probe. HBV-DNA was detected in 17% ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Coursaget P,Le Cann P,Leboulleux D,Diop MT,Bao O,Coll AM

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Xanthomonas is composed of several species that cause severe crop losses around the world. In Latin America, one of the most relevant species is Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris, which is responsible for black rot in cruciferous plants. This pathogen causes yield losses in several cultures, including ca...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Andrade AE,Silva LP,Pereira JL,Noronha EF,Reis FB Jr,Bloch C Jr,dos Santos MF,Domont GB,Franco OL,Mehta A

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hopanoid fingerprints allowed to differentiate bacteria formerly connected to the genus Pseudomonas. Whereas all strains related to Pseudomonas and Ralstonia were devoid of any detectable hopanoid, these pentacyclic triterpenoids were found in the Burkholderia species and in related soil isolates, which contained as m...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cvejic JH,Putra SR,El-Beltagy A,Hattori R,Hattori T,Rohmer M

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The 181 251 bp accessory plasmid pSmeSM11b of Sinorhizobium meliloti strain SM11, belonging to a dominant indigenous S. meliloti subpopulation identified during a long-term field release experiment, was sequenced. This plasmid has 166 coding sequences (CDSs), 42% of which encode proteins with homology to proteins of k...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Stiens M,Schneiker S,Pühler A,Schlüter A

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of evidence implicates streptococcal and staphylococcal superantigens in the development of psoriasis, atopic dermatitis and Kawasaki syndrome. In each of these illnesses, an abnormal state of immunologic activity is observed. Superantigens, which have a unique ability to activate large numbers of lymph...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yarwood JM,Leung DY,Schlievert PM

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae exponentially growing in basic or 0.7 M NaCl medium were isotopically labelled with 35S-methionine, followed by protein separation and quantification by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2D-PAGE) combined with computerised image analysis. The electrophoretic separation resolv...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Norbeck J,Blomberg A

更新日期：1996-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparison of sequence data is necessary in older to investigate virus origins, identify features common to virulent strains, and characterize genomic organization within virus families. A virulent caliciviral disease of rabbits recently emerged in China. We have sequenced 1100 bases from the 3' ends of two independen...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Milton ID,Vlasak R,Nowotny N,Rodak L,Carter MJ

更新日期：1992-05-15 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：:Insertion sequence IS100 was localized on a 9.5-kb plasmid of Yersinia pestis and was shown to be specific for Y. pestis and serotype I strains of Y. pseudotuberculosis. The nucleotide sequence of IS100 isolated from this plasmid was determined. The element, which was flanked by 5-bp direct repeats, contained 1953 bp ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Podladchikova ON,Dikhanov GG,Rakin AV,Heesemann J

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glt operon of Escherichia coli comprises the structural genes for the glutamate synthase subunits (gltB and gltD) and gltF, whose product was previously suggested to have regulatory functions. The A/T-rich region between gltD and gltF contains a weak promoter and a translation initiation site for gltF. The GltF pr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Grassl G,Bufe B,Müller B,Rösel M,Kleiner D

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to identify pathogenic organisms rapidly provides significant benefits to clinicians; in particular, with respect to best prescription practices and tracking of recurrent infections. Conventional bioassays require 3-5 days before identification of an organism can be made, thus compromising the effectivenes...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jarvis RM,Goodacre R

更新日期：2004-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The ectomycorrhizal fungus Paxillus involutus efficiently took up exogenously supplied [14C]alanine and rapidly converted it to pyruvate, citrate, succinate, fumarate and to CO2, thus providing direct evidence for the utilisation of alanine as a respiratory substrate. [14C]alanine was further actively metabolised to g...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chalot M,Brun A,Finlay RD,Söderström B

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A smooth colony strain, resistant to phages lambda and P22, was isolated from sewage and identified as Escherichia coli (strain H). Four temperate phages plaquing on strain H were isolated from sewage. The archetype, HK620, does not plaque on strains C and K12 of E. coli nor on the LT2 strain of Salmonella enterica. B...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dhillon TS,Poon AP,Chan D,Clark AJ

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli mutant MM52 (secA(ts)) was transformed with a cosmid library from Staphylococcus carnosus, and a recombinant cosmid (pBO23) allowing growth at the non-permissive temperature (42 degrees C) was isolated. pBO23 also restored the growth defects of E. coli mutants IQ85 (secY(ts)) and IT41 (lep(ts)). Nucle...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Overhoff-Freundlieb B,Freudl R

更新日期：1991-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the phylum Bacteroidetes, the gyrB gene, encoding for the B subunit of the DNA gyrase, has been used as a phylogenetic marker for several genera closely related to Flavobacterium. The phylogenies of the complete 16S rRNA gene and the gyrB gene were compared for 33 Antarctic Flavobacterium isolates and 23 type s...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Peeters K,Willems A

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports the production of astaxanthin in the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodovulum sulfidophilum, which has adequate precursor pools and storage capabilities for heterologous carotenoid production. Chemical mutagenesis was carried out using ethylmethane sulfonate to produce mutants with a modified carotenoid ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mukoyama D,Takeyama H,Kondo Y,Matsunaga T

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A complementary DNA of the Aspergillus nidulans chsB gene encoding chitin synthase, an essential gene for hyphal growth, was obtained by RT-PCR and expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by using the GAL1 promoter in a multicopy plasmid. The biochemical characteristics of chitin synthase B (ChsB) expressed in S. cerevi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tatsuno K,Yamada-Okabe H,Takagi M,Arisawa M,Sudoh M

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenylate kinase isoenzymes localised in the mitochondria and in the cytosol have been detected in extracts of glucose-grown Aspergillus nidulans using specific staining after electrophoresis on cellulose acetate. The isoenzymes have similar Km values for AMP, ADP and MgATP2- but may differ in the mechanism used for i...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hoang VQ,Jaklitsch W,Scrutton MC

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00