Genomic 3' terminal sequence comparison of three isolates of rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus.

abstract：:We present a method to directly characterize the yeast diversity present in wine fermentations by employing denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) of polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-amplified 26S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes. PCR-DGGE of a portion of the 26S rRNA gene was shown to distinguish most yeast genera a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cocolin L,Bisson LF,Mills DA

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monocytes and macrophages are an important host defense in humans infected with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi. Bacterial ability to survive in these cells is therefore a crucial virulence characteristic of this pathogen. In this study, we demonstrate that growth of a Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi enterochelin ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gorbacheva VY,Faundez G,Godfrey HP,Cabello FC

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CaMK) gene was cloned and characterized from Arthrobotrys dactyloides, a nematode-trapping fungus. The resulting 373-amino-acid protein, FCaMK, has significant homology to mammalian CaMKs. FCaMK contains a serine/threonine kinase domain followed by a calmodulin-binding dom...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tsai PJ,Tu J,Chen TH

更新日期：2002-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Agona is an important zoonotic pathogen, causing serious human illness worldwide, but knowledge about its genetics and evolution, especially regarding the genomic events that might have contributed to the formation of S. Agona as an important pathogen, is lacking. As a first step toward und...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chen F,Poppe C,Liu GR,Li YG,Peng YH,Sanderson KE,Johnston RN,Liu SL

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lineage-specific genes (LSGs) are defined as genes with sequences that are not significantly similar to those in any other lineage. LSGs have been proposed, and sometimes shown, to have significant effects in the evolution of biological function. In this study, two sets of Hanseniaspora spp. LSGs were identified by co...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chen K,Tian Z,Chen P,He H,Jiang F,Long CA

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：:The molecular mechanisms controlling expression of the long polar fimbriae 2 (Lpf2) of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 were evaluated. Primer extension was used to locate the lpfA2 transcriptional start site in EHEC strain EDL933 at 171 bp upstream of the lpfA2 start codon. Semi-quantitative RT-PCR d...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Arenas-Hernández MM,Rojas-López M,Medrano-López A,Nuñez-Reza KJ,Puente JL,Martínez-Laguna Y,Torres AG

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tn10 transposon mutagenesis of Escherichia coli producing K99 fimbriae was carried out to identify host factors involved in regulation of biosynthesis of fimbriae. Two chromosomal mutants were obtained that showed a strongly reduced cell surface expression of K99 fimbriae upon colony blotting and ELISA. Analysis by in...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pilipcinec E,Huisman TT,Willemsen PT,Appelmelk BJ,de Graaf FK,Oudega B

更新日期：1994-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of maintaining prokaryotic RNA in Synechococcus and Pseudomonas cells, fixed in 96% ethanol, 4% paraformaldehyde, or suspended in RNAlater, and held in cold storage for 3 months was compared. Fluorometric determination of the RNA extracted from Synechococcus and Pseudomonas cells indicated that the c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bachoon DS,Chen F,Hodson RE

更新日期：2001-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria meningitidis is able to chelate iron from human transferrin (HTF), the main sequestrator of extracellular iron in vivo. Previous workers have reported that a ca. 70 kilodalton (kDa) iron regulated outer membrane protein (FeRP-70) is a highly specific receptor for HTF. We have examined the interaction between...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ala'Aldeen DA,Davies HA,Wall RA,Borriello SP

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

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：:To investigate the auto-ecology of a strain of Gigaspora margarita in a commercial inoculum, we found a pair of PCR primers amplifying a sequence of 235 bp diagnostic of the isolate. We designed an oligonucleotide probe based on the DNA sequence. The combination of PCR and the probing successfully detected the diagnos...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yokoyama K,Tateishi T,Marumoto T,Saito M

更新日期：2002-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposon mini-Tn7 vectors insert into the chromosome of several Gram-negative bacteria in a site-specific manner. Here, we showed the application of mini-Tn7 as single copy site-specific integration vector system for Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris. The transposition of the mini-Tn7 into the bacterial genome w...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jittawuttipoka T,Buranajitpakorn S,Fuangthong M,Schweizer HP,Vattanaviboon P,Mongkolsuk S

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae is an important plant pathogen which causes bacterial blight of rice. To facilitate genome studies of this bacterium, we have constructed a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) library of strain MAFF 311018. It consisted of 750 clones representing 16 genome equivalents, and had an insert...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ochiai H,Inoue Y,Hasebe A,Kaku H

更新日期：2001-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas fragi is a meat and milk spoilage bacterium with high iron requirements; however, mechanisms of iron acquisition remain largely unknown. The aim of this work was to investigate siderophore production as an iron acquisition system for P. fragi. A vibrioferrin siderophore gene cluster was identified in 13 P....

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Stanborough T,Fegan N,Powell SM,Tamplin M,Chandry PS

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：:A gene responsible for increased synthesis of hexaheme nitrite reductase (cytochrome c552) of Escherichia coli K-12 was cloned into pBR322 by the direct immunological screening method using antiserum against the purified enzyme. The cloned gene was mapped at 5 min on the chromosomal linkage map as the dni gene (relate...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kajie S,Ideta R,Yamato I,Anraku Y

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) and mung bean (Vigna radiata) are important legume crops yet their rhizobia have not been well characterized. In the present study, 62 rhizobial strains isolated from the root nodules of these plants grown in the subtropical region of China were analyzed via a polyphasic approach. The result...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhang YF,Wang ET,Tian CF,Wang FQ,Han LL,Chen WF,Chen WX

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capsular polysaccharide released from the bacterial surface by cell wall turnover during growth exhibited less size heterogeneity and a higher average molecular mass than the polysaccharide extracted from the cell by treatment with lysostaphin or low pH. Treatment of turnover polysaccharide, radiolabelled by growt...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Havaei SA,Hancock IC

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wood-rotting fungi possess remarkably diverse extracellular oxidation mechanisms, including enzymes, such as laccase and peroxidases, and Fenton chemistry. The ability to biologically drive Fenton chemistry by the redox cycling of quinones has previously been reported to be present in both ecologically diverging main ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Krueger MC,Bergmann M,Schlosser D

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that efficient functioning of photosynthesis and respiration in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803 requires the presence of either cytochrome c6 or plastocyanin. In order to check whether the blue copper protein plastocyanin can act as electron donor to cytochrome c oxidase, we investigated th...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Paumann M,Bernroitner M,Lubura B,Peer M,Jakopitsch C,Furtmüller PG,Peschek GA,Obinger C

更新日期：2004-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacteria belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex have the ability to invade and replicate in non-phagocytic cells, an event that requires the presence of bacterial surface components capable of triggering a cell response and the subsequent internalization of the microorganism. In this study, we report ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Flesselles B,Anand NN,Remani J,Loosmore SM,Klein MH

更新日期：1999-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A derivative of Staphylococcus simulans biovar staphylolyticus cured of all five plasmids present in the wild-type organism was developed, and the characteristics of extracellular protein production by this plasmidless strain were compared to those of the wild type. Although staphylolytic endopeptidase (lysostaphin) a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nitterauer JD,Heath HE,Heath LS,LeBlanc PA,Sloan GL

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is the causative agent for pseudomembranous colitis in humans. Toxic strains of C. difficile produce two toxins, toxin A and toxin B. A reliable and definitive method of typing the toxic strains of C. difficile is needed since nosocomial cross infection is a primary concern in hospitals and other...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： McMillin DE,Muldrow LL

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoplasmic inclusions surrounded by a bilayer membrane were seen in thin sections. negatively stained and freeze-fractured preparations of Shewanella putrefaciens. Cells harvested from the late exponential and early stationary phase showed a higher number of these vesicles than bacteria isolated from early exponentia...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Krause B,Beveridge TJ,Remsen CC,Nealson KH

更新日期：1996-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We transformed haploid mycelium of Hebeloma cylindrosporum via Agrobacterium tumefaciens and optimised the procedure to develop a new tool for insertional mutagenesis in this fungus. Southern blot analysis of 83 randomly selected transformants showed that they all contained plasmid inserts. Each of them showed a uniqu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Combier JP,Melayah D,Raffier C,Gay G,Marmeisse R

更新日期：2003-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Competition assays measure differences between populations of bacteria after stress adaptation, populations of different bacteria and mutations in antibiotic resistance genes. We have developed a competition-based assay to evaluate if genes upregulated under starvation are important for bacterial survival. Stress resp...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Havis S,Rangel J,Mali S,Bodunrin A,Housammy Z,Zimmerer R,Murphy J,Widger WR,Bark SJ

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The RS1 element associated with Vibrio cholerae CTX phi prophage was cloned from an E1 Tor biotype Vibrio cholerae strain. We used the recA- vaccine strain Peru-15, that lacks the target for RS-mediated site-specific integration, to show that RS1 promotes autonomous replication of a suicide vector. A linker insertion ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Campos J,Fando R,Silva A,Rodriguez BL,Benitez JA

更新日期：1998-07-01 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：:A real-time nucleic acid sequence-based amplification assay, targeting tmRNA, was designed for the rapid identification of Staphylococcus aureus. The selectivity of the assay was confirmed against a panel of 76 Staphylococcus strains and species and 22 other bacterial species. A detection limit of 1 cell equivalent wa...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： O'Grady J,Lacey K,Glynn B,Smith TJ,Barry T,Maher M

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00