Cloning and characterization of the Halobacillus trueperi betH gene, encoding the transport system for the compatible solute glycine betaine.

abstract：:Streptococcus bovis HC5 cultures released a broad spectrum lantibiotic, bovicin HC5, into the cell-fee culture supernatant after they reached stationary phase, but most of the antibacterial activity remained cell-associated. Cell-associated bovicin HC5 was more resistant to degradation by Pronase E than the cell-free ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Xavier BM,Houlihan AJ,Russell JB

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase (CGTase) gene of Brevibacillus brevis CD162 was cloned into Escherichia coli using pUC19 as a vector. Determination of the nucleotide sequence showed the presence of an open reading frame of 2079 bp encoding a polypeptide of 693 amino acid residues, composed of a 20-amino acid signal...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kim MH,Sohn CB,Oh TK

更新日期：1998-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two L-methionine-enriched mutants, SN-78 and SE-57, were isolated in a sulphur-deficient medium from the methylotrophic yeast Candida boidinii ICCF26. No significant differences were detected between the L-cysteine pools of the mutants and the wild-type. In mutant strain SE-57, S-adenosylmethionine and ergosterol leve...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Avram D,Stan R

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports on the antifungal activities of statins combined with an antifungal compound secreted by Penicillium chrysogenum, PAF. Several species belonging in the class Zygomycetes are considered to be agents of human or animal mycoses; other species have significance as postharvest plant pathogens. In the pre...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Galgóczy L,Papp T,Lukács G,Leiter E,Pócsi I,Vágvölgyi C

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：:The genes for fructosyltransferase (ftf) and glucan-binding protein (gbp) of Streptococcus mutans strain Ingbritt have been cloned in E. coli using bacteriophage and plasmid vectors. A single ftf gene appears to be responsible for the appearance of several FTF of different electrophoretic mobilities. Despite the fact ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Aduse-Opoku J,Gilpin ML,Russell RR

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium leprae incorporated exogenously supplied pyrimidines as bases or nucleosides, but not as a nucleotide, into its nucleic acids. Notably, thymine was incorporated approximately 5 times more rapidly than thymidine by both suspensions of, or intracellular M. leprae. Thymine incorporation was significantly in...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wheeler PR

更新日期：1989-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ruminococcus albus is a Gram-positive bacterium that degrades plant cell walls in the rumen of herbivores. It was described to synthesize two major glycoside-hydrolases (Cel9B and Cel48A), which are exported and anchored at the cell surface. In bacteria, proteins destined to cross the cytoplasmic membrane are synthesi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Esbelin J,Martin C,Forano E,Mosoni P

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The porin-associated protein of Rhodospirillum rubrum FR1 was found to contain a peptidoglycan binding motif. A partial fragment of 179 amino acids, obtained by cleavage of PAP with trypsin, Asp-N protease, and CNBr, was sequenced. Substantial sequence homology was found of the C-terminal part (residues 126-179) of po...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Neumann U,Schiltz E,Stahl B,Hillenkamp F,Weckesser J

更新日期：1996-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a rapid and reliable two-step multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay to identify the 10 Bacteroides fragilis group species - Bacteroides caccae, B. distasonis, B. eggerthii, B. fragilis, B. merdae, B. ovatus, B. stercoris, B. thetaiotaomicron, B. uniformis and B. vulgatus. These 10 species were firs...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Liu C,Song Y,McTeague M,Vu AW,Wexler H,Finegold SM

更新日期：2003-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed a DNA library from a virulent Salmonella typhimurium strain, in an avirulent strain. The process of selecting the components of interest from the library involved iterative growth in liquid culture. This resulted, after four cycles, in the culture becoming homogeneous for a single plasmid, which wa...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lodge JM,Robey M,Stephen J,Brown NL

更新日期：1999-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Piscirickettsia salmonis is the etiological agent of Salmonid Rickettsial Septicemia, a disease affecting salmon aquaculture industry. We analyzed the 16S-23S rDNA spacer region (internal transcribed spacer, ITS) of Chilean P. salmonis isolates LF-89 and EM-90. Two main ITS amplification products were obtained by PCR ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Casanova A,Obreque J,Sandino AM,Jashés M

更新日期：2001-04-01 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：:Currently, interest in phage science is on the rise again as this subject remains largely unexplored, and its potential diversity mainly untapped. Here, we present phage vB_BsuP-Goe1, a new isolate that infects Bacillus subtilis The phage forms round plaques with a matt outline on agar plates containing a B. subtilis ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Willms IM,Hertel R

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two yeasts from the effluent of a uranium mineral heap were identified as Candida sorbophila and Rhodotorula mucilaginosa. They are well adapted to such an environment as shown by their tolerance to metals and acid pH. However, different mechanisms could be involved in the adaptation: C. sorbophila could be considered...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： de Silóniz MI,Payo EM,Callejo MA,Marquina D,Peinado JM

更新日期：2002-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma agalactiae is a worldwide ruminant pathogen that causes significant economic losses by inflicting contagious agalactia in sheep and goats. The development of efficient control strategies requires a better understanding of the mycoplasma factors that promote successful infection. However, lack of genetic too...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chopra-Dewasthaly R,Marenda M,Rosengarten R,Jechlinger W,Citti C

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:The presence of insertion sequence IS1 in 70 multiple-antibiotic resistant clinical strains was determined. This 70-strain collection comprised 46 Escherichia coli, 18 Salmonella and 6 Shigella strains. The presence of IS1 was detected in the chromosome and plasmids of 73% and 63% of the strains, respectively, and 51%...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ramirez-Santos J,Alvarez G,Cisneros E,Gomez-Eichelmann MC

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review describes the factors which are currently recognized as being central to the virulence of the human pathogen, Vibrio vulnificus. This estuarine/marine bacterium occurs in high numbers in molluscan shellfish, primarily oysters, and its ingestion in raw oysters results in a ca. 60% mortality in those persons...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Linkous DA,Oliver JD

更新日期：1999-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of an association of human neuroborreliosis with the development of an antibody response against an antigen in neural tissue that cross-reacts with an epitope on the flagellin protein of Borrelia burgdorferi, C3H transgenic mice were created that expressed the flagellin epitope (amino acids 213-224) as a fusio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fikrig E,Barthold SW

更新日期：1997-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The adhesion-promoting proteins (APP) (molecular mass approx. 300 kDa), which promote adhesion of Streptococcus mutans JBP (serotype c) to hydroxyapatite, were isolated from human submandibular-sublingual (SMSL) saliva by gel filtration on a Trisacryl GP2000 M column. The effects of hexoses, pentoses, methyl-pentoses,...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kishimoto E,Hay DI,Gibbons RJ

更新日期：1991-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In our recent screen for soil-induced genes, the expression of andA operon (andAcAdAbAa) for anthranilate catabolism in Burkholderia multivorans ATCC 17616 was found to increase dramatically in a soil sample (Nishiyama et al., Environ Microbiol 12: 2539, 2010). The operon was preceded by andR encoding a putative trans...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nishiyama E,Ohtsubo Y,Yamamoto Y,Nagata Y,Tsuda M

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：:The glnAntrBC operon of Proteus vulgaris was cloned and heterologously expressed in Escherichia coli. The nucleotide sequence was determined. An open reading frame of 1407 bp was identified as the glnA gene and the deduced amino acid sequence showed 82% identity with the E. coli glutamine synthetase protein. Heterolog...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Steglitz-Mörsdorf U,Mörsdorf G,Kaltwasser H

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The filamentous fungus Cunninghamella elegans has the ability to metabolize xenobiotics, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and pharmaceutical drugs, by both phase I and II biotransformations. Cytosolic and microsomal fractions were assayed for activities of cytochrome P450 monooxygenase, aryl sulfotransferase...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhang D,Yang Y,Leakey JE,Cerniglia CE

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of Helminthosporium solani, the cause of silver scurf in potato tubers, has been impaired by selection of benzimidazole-resistant strains as a result of repeated use of the fungicide thiabendazole. Identification of thiabendazole-resistant strains of H. solani by conventional techniques takes several weeks. Pr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： McKay GJ,Cooke LR

更新日期：1997-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis (S. suis) is an emerging zoonotic agent that exhibits high level resistance to classic antibiotics and a heavy burden in the swine industry. Therefore alternative antibacterial agents need to be developed. A novel endolysin derived from the S. suis temperate phage phi5218, termed Ply5218, was identi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhang H,Zhang C,Wang H,Yan YX,Sun J

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori possesses a gene (HP0326/JHP309) homologous to neuA of other bacteria, encoding a cytidyl monophosphate-N-acetylneuraminic acid synthetase-homologous enzyme in its N-terminal portion. We analysed the function of this gene, which is controlled by a flagellar class 2 sigma(54) promoter, in flagellar ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Josenhans C,Vossebein L,Friedrich S,Suerbaum S

更新日期：2002-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The spirochaete, Serpulina pilosicoli, is the agent of intestinal spirochaetosis, a diarrhoeal disease of humans and other species. By mechanisms as yet unknown, large numbers of these spirochaetes intimately attach to the colonic mucosa by one cell end. In some infected individuals, the spirochaetes may invade the la...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hartland EL,Mikosza AS,Robins-Browne RM,Hampson DJ

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fungal inhibitory effects of strain Lactobacillus plantarum MiLAB 393, producing broad-spectrum antifungal compounds, were evaluated. A co-cultivation method was set up to monitor effects on fungal growth and protein expression of growing Aspergillus nidulans with L. plantarum MiLAB 393. The effects of inhibitory ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ström K,Schnürer J,Melin P

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00