Characterization and virulence of hemolysin III from Vibrio vulnificus.

abstract：:Degradation of n-alkanes in diesel oil by Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain WatG (WatG) was verified in soil microcosms. The total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) degradation level in two bioaugmentation samples was 51% and 46% for 1 week in unsterilized and sterilized soil microcosms, respectively. The TPH degradation in the...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Ueno A,Hasanuzzaman M,Yumoto I,Okuyama H

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High yields (1939 U/ml) of an alkaline protease were obtained in batch fermentation of a Bacillus sp. using a response surface methodology. The interaction of four variables, viz., starch, peptone, incubation time, and inoculum density, suggested inoculum density to be an insignificant variable. However, incubation ti...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Puri S,Beg QK,Gupta R

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between 16S rRNA gene sequence-derived phylogeny and the bacterial production of diterpenoids from 18 isolates of marine bacteria belonging to the genus Saprospira was determined. Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of the PCR amplified 16S rRNA genes of these isolates indicated f...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Mincer TJ,Spyere A,Jensen PR,Fenical W

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli causes diarrhea by producing several virulence factors including heat-labile enterotoxin (LT). LT is maximally expressed at 37 degrees C. The histone-like nucleoid structuring protein (H-NS) appears to inhibit LT expression by binding to a downstream regulatory element (DRE) at low tem...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Trachman JD,Yasmin M

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Raw vine-trimming wastes or the solid residues obtained after different fractionation treatments were evaluated for their suitability as Amycolatopsis sp. immobilization carriers during the bioconversion of ferulic acid into valuable phenolic compounds such as vanillin, vanillyl alcohol, and vanillic acid, the main fl...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Castañón-Rodríguez JF,Pérez-Rodríguez N,de Souza Oliveira RP,Aguilar-Uscanga MG,Domínguez JM

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moutai Jiuqu is a famous aromatic raw material of Maotai flavor liquor in China. It is brewed at high temperature and contains many kinds of bacteria, molds, and yeasts. There are many useful glycoside hydrolases in these microfloras, from which efficient glycoside hydrolases can be screened for biotransformation of n...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Zuo SS,Wang YC,Zhu L,Zhao JY,Li MG,Han XL,Wen ML

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic studies of Ochrobactrum anthropi, a bacterial species important in bioremediation and biopesticide degradation, are hindered by the lack of suitably regulated gene expression system. A tightly regulated gene-expression system was developed for O. anthropi using the lacI(q) gene and a re-engineered coliphage T5...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Alqublan H,Seleem MN,Boyle SM,Sriranganathan N

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gut microbiota play a central role in the health of animals. The bacteria that individuals acquire as they age may therefore have a profound effect on their future fitness. Since most birds are capable of flight, they can be widely distributed in and adapted to various ecosystems. Moreover, birds are also challenged b...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Shang W,Li S,Zhang L,Wu H,Jiang Y

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phage H188, a novel Vibrio kanaloae phage, was isolated from the surface water of Yellow Sea. Morphological analysis by transmission electron microscopy reveals that it belongs to the family Myoviridae. Present result suggests that the phage is stable at pH between 4.0 and 12.0. No significant difference in phage tite...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Li Y,Wang M,Liu Q,Song X,Wang D,Ma Y,Shao H,Jiang Y

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The duodenal ulcer promoting gene (dupA), located in the plasticity region of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), is predicted to form a type IV secretory system (T4SS) with vir genes around dupA. In the study, we investigated the association between the dupA cluster status and the virulence of H. pylori in a littoral re...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Wang MY,Shao C,Li J,Yang YC,Wang SB,Hao JL,Wu CM,Gao XZ,Shao SH

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanide has been proved to be degraded by Klebsiella oxytoca. In order to examine the physiological responses of cyanide degradation by this bacterium, two-dimensional (2-DE) electrophoresis approach and MALDI-TOF-MS allow us to identify 106 proteins spots that were significantly altered in the presence of 1 mM cyanid...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Tang P,Hseu YC,Chou HH,Huang KY,Chen SC

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the in vitro phytopathogen suppression activity of siderophoregenic preparations of Alcaligenes feacalis vis-à-vis the oraganochlorine fungicide, bavistin. Siderophore-rich culture broth, siderophore-rich supernatant, and purified siderophore preparation exerted antifungal activity against Aspergillus niger ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Sayyed RZ,Chincholkar SB

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactic-acid-producing bacteria (LABs) are known to have immunomodulating activity. In the current study, various LABs were tested for their immunity-enhancing activity, especially the phagocytic activity of leukocytes. Viable but not heat-killed cells of Weissella kimchii strain PL9001, Lactobacillus fermentum strain ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Lee Y,Lee TS

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trioxacarcin A is a polyoxygenated, structurally complex antibiotic produced by Streptomyces spp., which possesses high anti-bacterial, anti-malaria, and anti-tumor activities. The trioxacarcin biosynthetic pathway involves type II polyketide synthases (PKSs) with L-isoleucine as a unique starter unit, as well as many...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Yang K,Qi LH,Zhang M,Hou XF,Pan HX,Tang GL,Wang W,Yuan H

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Francisella tularensis, the causative agent of tularemia, has attained the status of one of the high priority agents that could be used in the act of bioterrorism. Currently, there is no licensed vaccine for this highly infectious intracellular pathogen. Being a listed 'Category A' agent of the U.S. Center for Disease...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Gaur R,Alam SI,Kamboj DV

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli (E. coli) has been widely used as a host organism for producing recombinant proteins such as biocatalysts, antibody fragments, and therapeutic hormones. To enhance recombinant protein production, many E. coli strains have been genetically engineered on practical purposes. In this study, we developed t...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Kim M,Jang B,Ahn YJ

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral nervous necrosis infections are causing severe problems on aquaculture industry due to ecological and economic impacts. Their causal agent is nervous necrosis virus or nodavirus, which has been classified into four genotypes. Different genotypes correlate with differences in viral pathogenicity. Therefore, ratio...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Toubanaki DK,Margaroni M,Karagouni E

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new cultivation-independent method for studying conjugal gene transfer between bacteria was evaluated. The method was based on direct detection and enumeration of donor and transconjugant bacterial cells by flow cytometry. Specific detection of transconjugants was obtained by using a conjugative plasmid tagged with ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Sørensen SJ,Sørensen AH,Hansen LH,Oregaard G,Veal D

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms used by Campylobacter jejuni to colonize the (chicken) intestinal tract have not been defined. In this study, we obtained evidence that in the presence of chicken serum and mucus, C. jejuni secreted proteins that may play a role in the colonization of chicken gut (Campylobacter invasion antigen = Cia). ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Biswas D,Fernando UM,Reiman CD,Willson PJ,Townsend HG,Potter AA,Allan BJ

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Chinese HCV cDNA clone, designated as Q379, 379 nucleotides in length, was selected by recombinant immunoscreening from a random-primed Chinese HCV lambda gt11 library. DNA sequencing demonstrated that Q379 situated from positions 7314 to 7695 at NS5 region corresponded with the American prototype HCV nucleotide seq...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Qi Z,Arima T

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Gram-stain-negative bacterium, designated WF-2T, was isolated from bensulfuron-methyl contaminated watermelon soil in Weifang, Shandong province, China. Cells of strain WF-2T were strictly aerobic, non-motile and rod-shaped. Strain WF-2T grew optimally at 30 °C, pH 7.0. Strain WF-2T possessed ubiquinone-8 (Q-8) as t...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Zhang H,Zhao HZ,Liu J,Qin W,Huang X

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lectins LI and LII, localized on the surface of the nitrogen-fixing soil bacterium Bacillus polymyxa 1460, were shown to possess proteolytic activity. A relationship was found between the proteolytic and hemagglutinating activities of the lectins. Blocking of hemagglutinating activity with specific carbohydrate hapten...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Mel'nikova UY,Karpunina LV,Ostakhina NV,Ignatov VV

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes encoding enzymes that catalyze butyryl-CoA formation from acetyl-CoA in a type II strain of Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens were analyzed. The genes encoding thiolase, beta-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase, butyryl-CoA dehydrogenase, and electron transfer flavoproteins were clustered, but the crotonase gene was not pr...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Asanuma N,Kawato M,Ohkawara S,Hino T

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corrinoids in several diverse species of methanogens were quantified by a bioassay utilizingEscherichia coli 113-3, a corrinoid auxotroph. All five species examined contained >0.65 nmol corrinoid/mg dry cells when grown on H2/CO2 as carbon and energy source. The highest corrinoid levels (4.1 nmol/mg cells) were found ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Krzycki J,Zeikus JG

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphisms in enzymatically amplified ribosomal DNA (rDNA) were examined in 18 strains of Saccharomyces. Restriction patterns generated from the region spanning the internal transcribed spacers (ITS) and the 5.8S rDNA produced two clusters corresponding to S. bayanus and S. cerevisiae. The type culture of S. carlsb...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Molina FI,Inoue T,Jong SC

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genetic fingerprinting analysis of Caribbean isolates of M. avium complex (MAC) from AIDS patients by a Southern blotting technique after Pstl digestion with nonradioactive DNA probes coding for single-copy sequences DT1 and DT6 was performed. In parallel, a selective amplification of a 187-bp fragment within the DT...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Sola C,Devallois A,Goh KS,Legrand E,Rastogi N

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous fungal infections are common and widespread. Antifungal agents used for the treatment of these infections often have undesirable side effects. Furthermore, increased resistance of the microorganisms to the antifungal drugs becomes the growing problem. Accordingly, the search for natural antifungal compounds ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Lastauskienė E,Zinkevičienė A,Girkontaitė I,Kaunietis A,Kvedarienė V

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter coli cells are characterized by a comma, or spiral shape, and a single polar flagellum. Here we report stable spontaneous changes in morphology to an aflagellated straight rod. The ability to colonize the chick cecum was lost. The atypical cells were compared with the original C. coli 67 culture from whi...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Ziprin RL,Hume ME,Andrews K,Droleskey RE,Harvey RB,Sheffield CL

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The organization of the clusters of genes encoding proteins of the botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) progenitor complex was elucidated in a strain of Clostridium botulinum producing type B and F neurotoxins. With PCR and sequencing strategies, the type B BoNT-gene cluster was found to be composed of genes encoding BoNT/B, n...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Santos-Buelga JA,Collins MD,East AK

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Culture-based analysis was employed in parallel with PCR amplification of 16S rDNA, coupled with denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE), to profile bacterial species associated with different developmental stages of the pine false webworm (PFW), Acantholyda erythrocephala, a sawfly pest responsible for inciden...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Zahner V,Lucarotti CJ,McIntosh D

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00