Kinetics of electron transfer between plastocyanin and the soluble CuA domain of cyanobacterial cytochrome c oxidase.

abstract：:A Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, motile and slightly curved rod-shaped bacterium (BFLP-4(T)) was isolated from the faeces of wild seahorses (Hippocampus guttulatus) captured in northwest Spain (Toralla, Galicia). Strain BFLP-4(T) grew at 10-35 degrees C and pH 5-9 (optimally at 20 degrees C and pH 7.2) and at...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Balcázar JL,Pintado J,Planas M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma salivarium cells bound the Fc fragment of human immunoglobulin G. The activity was remarkably enhanced by Mn2+, but not by Mg2+ and Ca2+; significantly inhibited by D-mannose; and reduced by pronase treatment of the cells. About 90% of the cells treated with pronase were not disrupted. Sodium dodecyl sulfat...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Shibata K,Sawa Y,Inoue S,Noda M,Watanabe T

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa uses quorum-sensing systems to regulate collective behaviour in response to the environment, by linking the expression of particular genes to population density. The quorum-sensing transcription factors LasR and RhlR and their cognate N-acyl-homoserine lactone (HSL) si...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Miklavič Š,Kogovšek P,Hodnik V,Korošec J,Kladnik A,Anderluh G,Gutierrez-Aguirre I,Maček P,Butala M

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein-D2 porin of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is lacking in carbapenem or fluoroquinolone-resistant strains and hence was thought to facilitate the diffusion of these antibiotics. We examined the effect of several antibiotics on the single channel conductivity of protein-D2 in planar lipid bilayers and found that flu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ishii J,Nakae T

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2.5-kb erythromycin resistance (EmR) plasmid pPV142 of Staphylococcus simulans 13044 was isolated and characterized. Sequence analysis identified ORF1 and ORF2 encoding a 158-residue replication protein (Rep142) and a 244-residue erythromycin resistance protein (Erm, rRNA adenine N-6-methyltransferase), respective...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Somkuti GA,Solaiman DK,Steinberg DH

更新日期：1998-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein interactions among RNA polymerase small subunits from the archaeon Methanococcus jannaschii were investigated using affinity pulldown assays in pairwise and higher-order combinations. In the most extensive study of archaeal RNA polymerase subunit interactions to date, including 37 pairs of proteins, 10 ternary...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Best AA,Olsen GJ

更新日期：2001-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Type IV secretion systems are employed by a wide variety of Gram-negative microorganisms for the translocation of macromolecules across the cell envelope. The translocated substrates (proteins, protein-DNA complexes and DNA) are as diverse as the organisms on the donor and recipient side of the translocation process. ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Baron C

更新日期：2005-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Oidium sp. has been recovered as an endophyte in Terminalia catappa (tropical chestnut) in Costa Rica. The volatile organic compounds (VOCs) of this organism uniquely and primarily consist of esters of propanoic acid, 2-methyl-, butanoic acid, 2-methyl-, and butanoic acid, 3-methyl-. The VOCs of Oidium sp. are slightl...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Strobel GA,Spang S,Kluck K,Hess WM,Sears J,Livinghouse T

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified phosphatidylethanolamine as one of the major phospholipids of Clostridium perfringens by two dimensional thin layer chromatography of the intact lipids and of their deacylation products and by liquid chromatography followed by mass spectrometry of the intact neutral phospholipid fraction. The princi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Johnston NC,Baker JK,Goldfine H

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphogluconate, the key intermediate of the Entner-Doudoroff pathway, has long been thought to inhibit growth of bacteria, but careful measurements of 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphogluconate accumulation by growing cells and the correlation of intracellular 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphogluc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fuhrman LK,Wanken A,Nickerson KW,Conway T

更新日期：1998-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:E7 oncoprotein of human papillomavirus-16 (HPV-16) is constitutively produced in cervical cancer (CxCa) and is a good candidate for the design of therapeutic vaccines. In this work, the nisin-controlled expression system was used to display the E7 protein at the cell surface of the food-grade Gram-positive bacterium L...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cortes-Perez NG,Bermúdez-Humarán LG,Le Loir Y,Rodriguez-Padilla C,Gruss A,Saucedo-Cárdenas O,Langella P,Montes-de-Oca-Luna R

更新日期：2003-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell wall LPS of Escherichia coli are organized as particles which are visible in the electron microscope, after treatment of the wall with alkali. We now describe alkali treated walls of three E. coli strains with differences in susceptibility to the T4 phage infection. Strain CR63, a usual host for the T4 phage, sho...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zorzopulos J,de Long S,Chapman V,Kozloff LM

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to illustrate the relative pervasiveness of Borderline Oxacillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (BORSA) and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in community and food of animal origin and their relationship with other genetic determinants. Staphylococcus aureus isolates were su...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zehra A,Gulzar M,Singh R,Kaur S,Gill JPS

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of 16S rDNA was developed to identify spirochaetes recovered from cases of intestinal spirochaetosis in humans and pigs; these bacteria belong to a distinct genetic group of spirochaetes, with the proposed name 'Anguillina coli'. The PCR incorporated a universal eubacter...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Park NY,Chung CY,McLaren AJ,Atyeo RF,Hampson DJ

更新日期：1995-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of pili on cells of Arthrobacter photogonimos is induced by photo-oxidative conditions. The nucleotide sequence was determined of a light-inducible gene (lipA) that encodes the precursor of a light-inducible pilin (designated LIP), a polypeptide of 212 amino acids. The N-terminal leader peptide includes a ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yang HS,Hoober JK

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial competition for carbon sources is a primary determinant of rhizosphere ecology. We employed the PCR to examine the population fluctuations of a symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacterium (Rhizobium etli) during the first 11 days following inoculation of Phaseolus vulgaris seedlings grown in the presence or absence ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Petersen DJ,Srinivasan M,Chanway CP

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently described adhesion to and invasion of bovine mammary gland cells by Staphylococcus aureus in vitro. Here, we show that the levels of adhesion and invasion are dependent on the bacterial growth phase and are controlled by the agr locus. Incubation of exponential growth phase cells of S. aureus with mammary ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lammers A,Nuijten PJ,Smith HE

更新日期：1999-11-01 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：: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：:The growth of Escherichia coli is inhibited by an antibiotic compound, azaserine (O-diazoacetyl-L-serine). Previous studies revealed the biochemical properties of azaserine, which involves inhibition of various enzymatic reactions as well as introduction of DNA breakage. However, genetically, nothing has been elucidat...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Koyanagi T,Katayama T,Suzuki H,Kumagai H

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five mutations in ccpA of Bacillus megaterium with impaired functions were analysed for carbon catabolite repression. The phenotypes support the hypothesis that CcpA assumes a PurR/LacI fold. The completely inactive mutants CcpA119GE and CcpA326am cause alterations which are incompatible with that fold. A mutation wit...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kraus A,Hillen W

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of cultivating the biotechnologically important bacterium Streptomyces griseus in single-species and mixed-species biofilms using a tubular biofilm reactor (TBR). Streptomyces griseus biofilm development was found to be cyclical, starting with the initial ad...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Winn M,Casey E,Habimana O,Murphy CD

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first method for enucleation of yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is reported. Various strains, including some killer strain and respiratory-deficient mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were enucleated after treatment with cytochalasin B. Removal of nuclei from protruding sphaeroplasts was induced by centrifugation ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Salek AT

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A transformation system for Moorella thermoacetica ATCC39073 was developed using thermostable kanamycin resistant gene (kanR) derived from the plasmid pJH1 that Streptococcus faecalis harbored. When kanR with its native promoter was introduced into uracil auxotrophic mutant of M. thermoacetica ATCC39073 together with ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Iwasaki Y,Kita A,Sakai S,Takaoka K,Yano S,Tajima T,Kato J,Nishio N,Murakami K,Nakashimada Y

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Candida albicans to adhere to subendothelial extracellular matrix (ECM) may be important in the pathogenesis of disseminated candidiasis. ECM proteins, such as fibronectin, laminin, and types I and IV collagen bind C. albicans avidly. These proteins all possess heparin-binding domains. The influence of ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Klotz SA,Smith RL

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we show that berberine chloride (BBR) has antimicrobial activities against all 43 tested strains of Staphylococcus aureus, an important human and animal pathogen. However, the response mechanisms of S. aureus to BBR are still poorly understood. Affymetrix GeneChips were used to determine the global tran...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wang D,Yu L,Xiang H,Fan J,He L,Guo N,Feng H,Deng X

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence and distribution of isoprenoid glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs), lipids that constitute the membranes of Archaea, have been investigated in a 50-cm long core from a Swedish peat bog. In the acrotelm, the periodically water saturated and thus oxic upper layer of the peat bog, only minor amount...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Weijers JW,Schouten S,van der Linden M,van Geel B,Damsté JS

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we describe the development of a highly stringent and dually regulated promoter system for Shigella flexneri. Dual regulation was provided by utilizing a promoter susceptible to control by the bacteriophage P1 temperature-sensitive C1 repressor that in turn was under the transcriptional control of LacI....

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Schofield DA,Westwater C,Dolan JW,Norris JS,Schmidt MG

更新日期：2002-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) play pivotal roles in inflammatory diseases including chronic periodontitis. The effects of Prevotella intermedia, a major periodontal pathogen, on MMP-9 production in primary human periodontal ligament (hPDL) cells were examined in the present study. MMP-9 mRNA expression was measured...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Guan SM,Shu L,Fu SM,Liu B,Xu XL,Wu JZ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of cholesteryl glucosides and high levels of lysophospholipids are elements making the cell wall of Helicobacter pylori unique. In this study, we have investigated the relationship between lysophospholipid content and cholesteryl glucoside composition of variants of 6 clinical isolates. The samples were c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tannaes T,Bukholm G

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00