Alteration in the composition of cholesteryl glucosides and other lipids in Helicobacter pylori undergoing morphological change from spiral to coccoid form.

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：:Aceticlastic methanogens metabolize acetate to methane and carbon dioxide. The central metabolism and the electron transport chains of these organisms have already been investigated. However, no particular attention has been paid to the mechanism by which acetate enters the archaeal cell. In our study we investigated ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Welte C,Kröninger L,Deppenmeier U

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A suite of six sterols, lanosterol, lanost-8(9)-en-3beta-ol, 4, 4-dimethylcholesta-8(14),24-dien-3beta-ol, 4, 4-dimethylcholest-8(14)-en-3beta-ol, 4-methylcholesta-8(14), 24-dien-3beta-ol and 4-methylcholest-8(14)-en-3beta-ol, were identified in the psychrophilic methanotrophic bacterium, Methylosphaera hansonii. Thei...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Schouten S,Bowman JP,Rijpstra WI,Sinninghe Damsté JS

更新日期：2000-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Because probiotic effects are strain dependent, genomic explanations of these differences will contribute to understanding their mechanisms of action. The genomic sequence of the Bifidobacterium longum probiotic strain NCC2705 was determined, but little is known about the genetic diversity between strains of this spec...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Delcenserie V,Lessard MH,LaPointe G,Roy D

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haloarchaea thrive under saline and hypersaline conditions and often dominate microbial communities in saltmarshes, salted lakes/soils and some oceanic areas. Some of the predominant species show denitrifying capabilities, although it remains unclear whether they are complete or partial denitrifiers. As complete denit...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Torregrosa-Crespo J,Bergaust L,Pire C,Martínez-Espinosa RM

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The halophilic actinomycete genus Streptomonospora, forming a distinct branch in the 16S rRNA gene phylogenetic tree adjacent to the genera Nocardiopsis and Thermobifida, was first proposed by Cui et al. to accommodate the species type Streptomonospora salina. During a biodiversity and taxonomic study on halophilic fi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhi XY,Tang SK,Li WJ,Xu LH,Jiang CL

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type II toxin-antitoxin systems (TAs) are small autoregulated bicistronic operons that encode a toxin protein with the potential to inhibit metabolic processes and an antitoxin protein to neutralize the toxin. Most of the bacterial genomes encode multiple TAs. However, the diversity and accumulation of TAs on bacteria...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ramisetty BC,Santhosh RS

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food-borne diseases are a threat to human health and can cause severe economic losses. Nowadays, in a growing and increasingly interconnected world, food-borne diseases need to be dealt with in a global manner. In order to tackle this issue, it is essential to consider all possible entry routes of human pathogens into...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Schierstaedt J,Grosch R,Schikora A

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in gene expression play a critical role in enhancing the ability of cyanobacteria to survive under cold conditions. In the present study, Spirulina platensis cultures were grown at the optimal growth temperature, in the light, before being transferred to dark conditions at 22 degrees C. Two dimensional-differe...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jeamton W,Mungpakdee S,Sirijuntarut M,Prommeenate P,Cheevadhanarak S,Tanticharoen M,Hongsthong A

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrolide is inactivated with ATP plus crude extract of Escherichia coli producing macrolide 2'-phosphotransferase (MPH(2')), but not by living cells. Therefore, a convenient method for detection of MPH(2') using intact cells is needed. In this report, we determine that the modified lysozyme-DNase-RNase (LDR) method (...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Taniguchi K,Nakamura A,Tsurubuchi K,O'Hara K,Sawai T

更新日期：1998-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The phyCg gene encoding a new phytase from Citrobacter gillenii was optimized, synthesized, cloned and expressed in Pichia pastoris. Analysis of the amino acid sequence of the enzyme showed that it belongs to the histidine acid phosphatase family. The amino acid sequence of the PhyCg phytase has the highest homology (...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tkachenko AA,Kalinina AN,Borshchevskaya LN,Sineoky SP,Gordeeva TL

更新日期：2020-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the discriminatory power of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) for detecting subtle differences in isogenic isolates, we tested isogenic strains of Staphylococcus aureus differing in their expression of resistance to methicillin or teicoplanin. More i...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Majcherczyk PA,McKenna T,Moreillon P,Vaudaux P

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoic acid is an essential cofactor for a variety of mitochondrial enzymes. We have characterised a gene from Saccharomyces cerevisiae which appears to encode a protein involved in the attachment of lipoic acid groups to the pyruvate dehydrogenase and glycine decarboxylase complexes. The predicted protein product of ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Marvin ME,Williams PH,Cashmore AM

更新日期：2001-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Acylated homoserine lactone (AHL)-based quorum sensing (QS) has been reported to be present only in Gram-negative microorganisms. Isolation of a novel Gram-positive microorganism from sea water, capable of producing AHL, is reported here. The isolate (GenBank: JF915892, designated as MPO) belonging to the Exiguobacter...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Biswa P,Doble M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously-developed PCR protocols specific for the 16S rRNA gene of the intestinal spirochaetes Brachyspira aalborgi and Brachyspira pilosicoli were adapted for the detection of these species in human faeces, following DNA extraction and purification using mini-prep columns. The limits of detection in seeded faeces f...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mikosza AS,La T,Margawani KR,Brooke CJ,Hampson DJ

更新日期：2001-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The chimeric plasmid pMY10 containing the origin of replication of pAL5000, the origin of replication of pBR322, the origin of transfer of pRK2 and a kanamycin resistance gene was constructed and successfully transferred by conjugation from Escherichia coli harbouring the helper plasmid pRK4.24 into Mycobacterium smeg...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lazraq R,Clavel-Sérès S,David HL,Roulland-Dussoix D

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction, energy gain, effect on growth, and interaction of nitrate and nitrite reduction of Bradyrhizobium sp. (Lupinus) USDA 3045 were characterized. Both nitrate and nitrite were reduced in air, although nitrite reduction was insensitive to ammonium inhibition. Anaerobic reduction of both ions was shown to be link...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Polcyn W,Luciński R

更新日期：2003-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Outer membrane-associated proteins of 18 kDa were expressed by enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAggEC) belonging to serotypes O126:H27 and O44:H18, which hybridized with a probe derived from a plasmid necessary for enteroaggregative adhesion. The 18 kDa proteins expressed by strains of E. coli, belonging to these ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chart H,Smith HR,Rowe B

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to investigate the binding activity of Streptococcus suis serotype 2 to albumin. Using flow cytometry we observed a binding activity of S. suis to albumin for virulent as well as for avirulent isolates. Western immunoblots analysis revealed that a 39-kDa S. suis protein was responsible, at le...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Quessy S,Busque P,Higgins R,Jacques M,Dubreuil JD

更新日期：1997-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The scrA gene coding for sucrose EnzymeII of the phosphoenolpyruvate dependent phosphotransferase system previously isolated from Streptococcus mutans was fused in vitro to the promoterless lacZ' gene to monitor the expression of the scrA gene. The scrA::lacZ gene fusion was introduced back into S. mutans GS-5IS3 by t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sato Y,Yamamoto Y,Suzuki R,Kizaki H,Kuramitsu HK

更新日期：1991-04-15 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：:The intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii is known to inhibit apoptosis of its host cell. The molecular mechanisms of this interference are, however, not yet completely understood. We show here that viable parasites prominently inhibited the activation of caspase 3/7 induced by cytochrome c, dATP and dithiothreitol...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Keller P,Schaumburg F,Fischer SF,Häcker G,Gross U,Lüder CG

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Staphylococcus aureus bacteriophage phi11 endolysin has two peptidoglycan hydrolase domains (endopeptidase and amidase) and an SH3b cell wall-binding domain. In turbidity reduction assays, the purified protein can lyse untreated staphylococcal mastitis pathogens, Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphy...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Donovan DM,Lardeo M,Foster-Frey J

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcaligenes sp. strain PPH degrades phenanthrene via 1-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid (1-H2NA), 1,2-dihydroxynaphthalene (1,2-DHN), salicylic acid and catechol. Enzyme activity versus growth profile and heat stability studies suggested the presence of two distinct hydroxylases, namely 1-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid hydroxylase ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Deveryshetty J,Phale PS

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel 36-kDa endochitinase named chit36 has been isolated and characterized from Trichoderma harzianum Rifai TM. Partial amino acid sequences from the purified protein were used to clone the fungal cDNA, based on polymerase chain reaction with degenerate primers. The complete open reading frame encodes a 344-amino a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Viterbo A,Haran S,Friesem D,Ramot O,Chet I

更新日期：2001-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we describe and characterize two oligomer probes that are broadly homologous to conserved eubacterial 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) sequences not present in human 18 rRNA or human mitochondrial 12S rRNA. One or both of the probes can detect all of 23 phylogenetically diverse eubacterial nucleic acids against...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chen K,Neimark H,Rumore P,Steinman CR

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sugar alcohols (polyols) have important roles as nutrients, anti-freezing agents and scavengers of free radicals in cold-adapted bacteria, but the characteristics of polyol dehydrogenases in cold-adapted bacteria remain largely unknown. In this study, based on the observation that a cold-adapted bacterium Pseudomonas ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： DangThu Q,Nguyen TT,Jang SH,Lee C

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative cloning efficiencies for B. megaterium, B. subtilis, and E. coli were compared. Transformation of B. megaterium is less efficient than transformation of B. subtilis or E. coli. The frequency of recombinant clones was equal in E. coli and B. megaterium; both somewhat higher than in B. subtilis. Equivalent ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Von Tersch MA,Robbins HL

更新日期：1990-08-01 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：:Integrons are bacterial genetic elements capable of capturing and expressing potentially adaptive genetic material. Class 1 integrons constitute the most intensely studied group of these elements to date, mainly due to their well-established role in the acquisition and dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes in c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hardwick SA,Stokes HW,Findlay S,Taylor M,Gillings MR

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00