The transcriptional regulator pool of the marine bacterium Rhodopirellula baltica SH 1T as revealed by whole genome comparisons.

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila, an intracellular parasite of macrophages and protozoa, requires iron for extra- and intracellular growth. In a new screen of a mutant library of L. pneumophila for strains defective for growth on agar media lacking supplemental iron, seven mutants were obtained. All of the mutants had a disrupt...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Naylor J,Cianciotto NP

更新日期：2004-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The photoinduced bactericidal capacity of TiO(2) based films was evaluated, using as model organism Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Thin films were obtained by spray pyrolysis; they included undoped, Cu doped, and Al doped TiO(2). Scanning electron microscopy was used to observe the final effect of the irradiated films upon t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Amézaga-Madrid P,Nevárez-Moorillón GV,Orrantia-Borunda E,Miki-Yoshida M

更新日期：2002-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytochromes are red/far-red light photoreceptors found in plants, cyanobacteria and heterotrophic bacteria. Biochemical analyses have established that the genes bphO and bphP (PA4116 and PA4117) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa encode both phytochrome components: BphO, a heme oxygenase that produces the linear tetrapyrrole ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Barkovits K,Harms A,Benkartek C,Smart JL,Frankenberg-Dinkel N

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of the pel1 mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were found to contain an extremely low content of cardiolipin, a decreased level of phosphatidylcholine and an increased level of phosphatidylinositol. Disruption of the PEL1 gene in cells containing a null mutation in the CHO1 gene was lethal. Despite its putative ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Janitor M,Obernauerová M,Kohlwein SD,Subík J

更新日期：1996-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has emerged as one of the most pressing threats to public health. AMR evolution occurs in the clinic but also in the environment, where antibiotics and heavy metals can select and co-select for AMR. While the selective potential of both antibiotics and metals is increasingly well-charact...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Vos M,Sibleyras L,Lo LK,Hesse E,Gaze W,Klümper U

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibacterial effects in terms of biofilm formation and swarming motility were studied using polyacrylate plates having protruding or recessed shark skin micropatterned surfaces with a shallow groove (2 μm pattern width and spacing, 0.4 μm pattern height). It was found that biofilm formation and swarming motility of P...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sakamoto A,Terui Y,Horie C,Fukui T,Masuzawa T,Sugawara S,Shigeta K,Shigeta T,Igarashi K,Kashiwagi K

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple restriction fragments, homologous to the previously described Mycoplasma bovis vspA gene, were identified in the chromosome of Mycoplasma agalactiae. The vspA, a representative variable surface lipoprotein gene of the vsp gene family, and four synthetic oligonucleotides, representing sequences complementary t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Flitman-Tene R,Levisohn S,Rosenbusch R,Rapoport E,Yogev D

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The symbiotic plasmid (pSym) DNA present in bacteroids of strain RCR1001 of Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar viceae has been compared qualitatively and quantitatively with that present in free living bacteria by hybridization experiments with appropriate probes. A decrease in the relative amount of pSym DNA was observed...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Vierny C,Iaccarino M

更新日期：1989-07-01 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：: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：:Hydrogenotrophic methanogens live in a synthrophic relationship with the human gut microbiota as the terminal part of the anaerobic food chain. Methanobrevibacter smithii of the Methanobacteriales is the prevailing archaeal species. Recently, methylotrophic archaea of the novel order Methanomassiliicoccales were isola...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Vanderhaeghen S,Lacroix C,Schwab C

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ammonia-induced injury was investigated in pure cultures of Escherichia coli and Enterobacter aerogenes, and in natural coliform populations obtained from the oligotrophic Luxapallila and the eutrophic Sunflower Rivers in northern Mississippi. Pure cultures were affected by ammonia exposure as indicated by changes in ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Naundorf G,Aumen NG

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hybrid Pseudomonas cepacia strain JHR22 was tested for its ability to degrade Aroclor 1221 in soil. The influence of supplements--mineral salts and trace elements--on the degradation was investigated. Disappearance of Aroclor 1221 congeners, occurrence of metabolites, and release of chloride were measured under di...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Havel J,Reineke W

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found the presence of DNA sequence which shows sequence similarity to the class IV chitin synthase gene (CHS3) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in the genome of 14 Rhizopus species which belong to zygomycetes. We cloned a gene (chs3), which might correspond to one of these homologous sequences, from Rhizopus oligosporus...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Motoyama T,Horiuchi H,Ohta A,Yamaguchi I,Takagi M

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial aerotaxis is a rapid response towards or away from oxygen. Here we report on the use of computer-assisted motion analysis coupled to flash photolysis of caged oxygen to quantify aerotactic responses in bacteria. The caged compound (mu-peroxo)(mu-hydroxo)bis[bis(bipyridyl) cobalt(III)] perchlorate liberates m...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yu HS,Saw JH,Hou S,Larsen RW,Watts KJ,Johnson MS,Zimmer MA,Ordal GW,Taylor BL,Alam M

更新日期：2002-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbial adhesion to hydrocarbons (MATH) test is one of the most common method to determine the hydrophobicity of cell surfaces. Despite its prevalence, no standard test parameters are used in literature, making a direct comparison of data almost impossible. Criticism also focuses on test parameters that may mask...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nachtigall C,Weber C,Rothenburger S,Jaros D,Rohm H

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two thermophilic bacteria, which are capable of growing on starch at 60-70 degrees C under anaerobic conditions, were isolated from a sugar refinery in Uelzen and from Solar lake in Israel. On the basis of their physiological characteristics they were identified as Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum Uel 1 and C. thermo...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Klingeberg M,Hippe H,Antranikian G

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-linear dielectric spectroscopy is a novel technique for determining the activity of (predominantly) membranous enzymes as their ability to generate harmonics when excited with a sinusoidal electrical field. In washed suspensions of yeast cells, the ability to generate harmonics is inhibited by low concentrations o...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Woodward AM,Kell DB

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pasteurella multocida, a Gram-negative nonmotile coccobacillus, is the causative agent of fowl cholera in poultry, hemorrhagic septicemia in cattle, atropic rhinitis in swine, and snuffles in rabbits. The differentially expressed gene profile of P. multocida in infected rabbit livers was identified and compared with t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Guo D,Lu Y,Zhang A,Liu J,Yuan D,Jiang Q,Lin H,Si C,Qu L

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene product with an apparent molecular mass of approximately 39,000 Da can be identified in the cytoplasmic membrane of Escherichia coli upon expression of cloned envC. In this communication we report that the product was labelled with [3H]glycerol and [3H]palmitic acid, and a precursor molecule of increased molecu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Seiffer D,Klein JR,Plapp R

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding of meningitis-causing Escherichia coli K1 to human brain microvascular endothelial cells (HBMEC) contributes to traversal of the blood-brain barrier, which occurs in part by the mannose-sensitive binding of FimH. In this study, we showed that FimH also binds to HBMEC, independent of mannose, and identified ATP...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Shin S,Kim KS

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Bacillus subtilis, the yoxA and dacC genes were proposed to form an operon. The yoxA gene was overexpressed in Escherichia coli and its product fused to a polyhistidine tag was purified. An aldose-1-epimerase or mutarotase activity was measured with the YoxA protein that we propose to rename as GalM by analogy with...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Duez C,Zervosen A,Teller N,Melkonian R,Banzubazé E,Bouillenne F,Luxen A,Frère JM

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-six strains of S. thermophilus were examined for their plasmid content. Thirteen strains were found to contain one or two plasmids ranging in size from 2.1 to 7.4 kb. DNA-DNA hybridization analysis revealed the presence of five distinct groups of DNA homology. The complete nucleotide sequence of plasmid pST1 (A...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Janzen T,Kleinschmidt J,Neve H,Geis A

更新日期：1992-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, 29 strains of Kluyveromyces marxianus with peculiar genetic and phenotypic traits previously isolated from a fermented goat milk of Yaghnob valley were investigated for chromosome length polymorphism (CLP) by PFGE, adhesion properties and carbon usage by Biolog analysis. Obtained data showed that strain...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Perpetuini G,Tittarelli F,Mattarelli P,Modesto M,Cilli E,Suzzi G,Tofalo R

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiology of the response in the methanotrophic bacterium Methylococcus capsulatus Bath towards thermal and solvent stress was studied. A systematic investigation of the toxic effects of organic compounds (chlorinated phenols and alkanols) on the growth of this bacterium was carried out. The sensitivity to the te...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Löffler C,Eberlein C,Mäusezahl I,Kappelmeyer U,Heipieper HJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown here by flow cytometry that Bacillus subtilis YabA negatively regulates the timing of replication initiation. When the level of YabA was reduced, replication began at a decreased cell mass and when the level was increased, initiation was delayed. Synchrony of replication initiation was also disrupted at lo...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hayashi M,Ogura Y,Harry EJ,Ogasawara N,Moriya S

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SPC(3) is a multiple antigen peptide derived from the V(3) loop of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) envelope (Env). It exerts a potent anti-HIV activity whereas it alters neither Env expression nor binding to CD(4). Here, SPC(3) binding characteristics, its subsequent intracellular fate and the fact that it inhibite...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Barbouche R,Papandréou MJ,Miquelis R,Guieu R,Fenouillet E

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The mating response of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe is mediated by mating pheromones, M-factor and P-factor, produced by h- and h+ cells, respectively. When the M-factor receptor (Map3) was ectopically expressed in h- cells lacking the P-factor receptor (Mam2), they acquired mating competence in respons...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kitamura K,Nakamura T,Miki F,Shimoda C

更新日期：1996-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight-day-old embryonated hen's eggs were used as a model to study Mycobacterium avium virulence. Strains isolated from human patients caused 20-90% mortality when eggs were infected by injection of bacterial suspensions into the amniotic sac. Virulence of examined strains subsequently decreased with passage through e...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Long EG,Ewing EP Jr,Bartlett JH,Horsburgh CR Jr,Birkness KA,Yakrus MA,Newman GW,Quinn FD

更新日期：2000-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A Phoma sp. was isolated and characterized as endophytic and as a pathogen of Larrea tridentata (creosote bush) growing in the desert region of southern Utah, USA. This fungus produces a unique mixture of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), including a series of sesquiterpenoids, some alcohols and several reduced napht...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Strobel G,Singh SK,Riyaz-Ul-Hassan S,Mitchell AM,Geary B,Sears J

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00