Mapping of nutrient-induced biochemical changes in living algal cells using synchrotron infrared microspectroscopy.

abstract：:Escherichia coli heat stable enterotoxin (STa) binds to isolated rat intestinal epithelial cells and triggers a cascade reaction including increase of intracellular calcium levels ([Ca(2+)](i)) and membrane bound protein kinase C (PKC) activity. In response to STa, the cytosolic PKC activity falls from 110 to 35 nmol ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ganguly U,Chaudhury AG,Basu A,Sen PC

更新日期：2001-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Lyme disease is a multisystemic disorder caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, an invasive spirochete. B. burgdorferi has a predilection for collagenous tissue and one major clinical manifestation of the disease is arthritis. We have identified a collagenolytic activity in B. burgdorferi detergent lysates using iodinated ge...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Grab DJ,Kennedy R,Philipp MT

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding Aquifex aeolicus (Aae) DNA polymerase was expressed under the control of the trp promoter on a high-copy plasmid, pTRPNS, in Escherichia coli. The expressed enzyme was purified 11-fold with a 13.8% yield and a specific activity of 2268.3 U mg(-1). The optimum pH of the enzyme was 6.8-7.2. The optimal...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chang JR,Choi JJ,Kim HK,Kwon ST

更新日期：2001-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The diheme cytochromes c of the widespread TsdA family are bifunctional thiosulfate dehydrogenase/tetrathionate reductases. Here, biochemical information was collected about TsdA from the Epsilonproteobacterium Wolinella succinogenes (WsTsdA). The situation in W. succinogenes is unique since TsdA is closely associated...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kurth JM,Schuster A,Seel W,Herresthal S,Simon J,Dahl C

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichoderma reesei is a filamentous fungus widely used as an efficient protein producer and known to secrete large quantities of biomass degrading enzymes. Much work has been done aimed at improving the secretion efficiency of this fungus. It is generally accepted that the major bottlenecks in secretion are protein fo...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Diener SE,Dunn-Coleman N,Foreman P,Houfek TD,Teunissen PJ,van Solingen P,Dankmeyer L,Mitchell TK,Ward M,Dean RA

更新日期：2004-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 401 enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 isolates from two experimentally infected calves were analyzed using molecular biological methods. Genetic differences detected by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis were observed between the inoculated and recovered strains as early as 1 day post inoculat...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Akiba M,Sameshima T,Nakazawa M

更新日期：2000-03-01 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：:parD and chpA are homologous conditional killer systems of plasmid and chromosomal origin, respectively, encoding a killer protein (Kid and ChpAK) and an antidote (Kis and ChpAI). Here it is shown that these systems can functionally interact. A multicopy chpA recombinant partially complements two mutations in the anti...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Santos-Sierra S,Giraldo R,Díaz-Orejas R

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the dental caries pathogen Streptococcus mutans, an MarR-like transcriptional regulator (RcrR), two ABC efflux pumps (RcrPQ) and two effector peptides encoded in the rcrRPQ operon provide molecular connections between stress tolerance, (p)ppGpp metabolism and genetic competence. Here, we examined the role of RcrRPQ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Shields RC,Burne RA

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found two Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 strains isolated from humans carrying the stx(1) gene with an IS1203-like element (designated as IS1203v(1)). The IS1203v(1) was inserted into the coding region of the A subunit 7 bp upstream from the TGA termination codon, resulting in a loss of two amino ac...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Suzuki M,Kondo F,Ito Y,Matsumoto M,Hata M,Oka H,Takahashi M,Sakae K

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial production of acetone and butanol was one of the first large-scale industrial fermentation processes of global importance. During the first part of the 20th century, it was indeed the second largest fermentation process, superseded in importance only by the ethanol fermentation. After a rapid decline after t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sauer M

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The P39 antigen is a specific, highly conserved, and immunogenic protein of Lyme disease spirochetes, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato. The nucleotide sequence of the gene encoding this protein was determined and found to be the first of two tandemly arranged open reading frames located on the spirochete's chromosome. ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Simpson WJ,Cieplak W,Schrumpf ME,Barbour AG,Schwan TG

更新日期：1994-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxidase-conjugated transferrin was used to detect transferrin receptors both in intact outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) from Neisseria species in a dot blot assay, and in SDS-PAGE-separated OMV proteins after transferring to nitrocellulose membranes. All N. meningitidis strains produced transferrin receptors after cu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ferreirós CM,Criado MT,Pintor M,Ferrón L

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Blocking glycolytic breakdown of glucose by inactivation of phosphoglucose isomerase (Pgi) in Escherichia coli led to a greatly reduced maximum specific growth rate. Examination of the operational catabolic pathways and their flux ratios using [U-(13)C(6)]glucose-labeling experiments and metabolic flux ratio analysis ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Canonaco F,Hess TA,Heri S,Wang T,Szyperski T,Sauer U

更新日期：2001-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Poultry is one of the most consumed meats worldwide and there are many different types of poultry products available on the market for consumers. Many poultry producers provide a variety of labeled meats based on rearing system such as organic, free-range and antibiotic-free. However, these labels often can be mislead...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lee SI,Choi J,Daeschel DZ,Park SH

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcriptional repressor Rex has been implicated in the regulation of energy metabolism and fermentative growth in response to redox potential. Streptococcus mutans, the primary causative agent of human dental caries, possesses a gene that encodes a protein with high similarity to members of the Rex family of pro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bitoun JP,Nguyen AH,Fan Y,Burne RA,Wen ZT

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The replication region of plasmid pRA2 from Pseudomonas alcaligenes NCIB 9867 (strain P25X) was localized within a 5.9-kbp DNA fragment and its sequence was determined. An interesting feature of the sequence is the presence of a 1.3-kbp region containing seven, highly conserved, direct repeats of 72 bp in length. The ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kwong SM,Yeo CC,Chuah D,Poh CL

更新日期：1998-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have observed significant cell lysis upon temperature up-shift of recombinant Escherichia coli cultures harboring CI857-repressed lambda-based expression vectors. This event, that becomes evident about 30-40 min after the heat shock, takes place when using the lambda promoter system in Ind- lysogenic strains, but n...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hoffmann F,Arís A,Carbonell X,Rohde M,Corchero JL,Rinas U,Villaverde A

更新日期：1999-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The miniplasmid profiles of 18 Bacillus thuringiensis strains belonging to 8 different serotypes were determined using an alkaline hydrolysis method for isolation of low molecular mass plasmids. Nearly all the strains contained covalently closed circular (CCC) DNA species ranging from 2 to 5 species per strain and fro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Marin R,Tanguay RM,Valéro J,Letarte R,Bellemare G

更新日期：1992-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella calmodulin-like protein was purified from culture supernatant fluid of B. pertussis, B. parapertussis and B. bronchiseptica by successive chromatography on hydroxyapatite, Toyopearl HW-50F and QAE-Toyopearl 550C columns. The purified calmodulin-like protein appeared to be homogeneous by SDS-polyacrylamide g...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nagai M,Endoh M,Danbara H,Nakase Y

更新日期：1994-02-15 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：:It is often claimed that Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was secretive about his methods. However, closer examination of his letters suggests that this reputation was not always deserved. Some letters were not published in the Royal Society Proceedings, and others were edited. This paper describes the repetition of his experim...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Robertson LA

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A structural characterization of polysaccharides extracted from the aposymbiotically cultured photobiont of the lichen Ramalina gracilis was carried out in order to compare them with those previously found in the symbiotic thallus. The photobiont was isolated from thallus fragments, following the method of Yamamoto, a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cordeiro LM,Carbonero ER,Sassaki GL,Reis RA,Stocker-Wörgötter E,Gorin PA,Iacomini M

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) are common bacterial colonizers of the human skin. They are often involved in nosocomial infections due to biofilm formation in indwelling medical devices. While biofilm formation has been extensively studied in Staphylococcus epidermidis, little is known regarding other CoNS sp...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Oliveira F,Lima CA,Brás S,França Â,Cerca N

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NadR is the repressor protein that controls the expression of genes for NAD synthesis. It is also believed to be involved in nucleotide transport. Point mutations conferring different phenotypes were localized to six different regions within the nadR gene. That mutations affecting repression and transport all mapped w...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Foster JW,Penfound T

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tagging of two cell wall mannoproteins, Cwp1p and Cwp2p, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae with the green fluorescent protein from Aequorea victoria resulted in incorporation of fluorescent fusion proteins into the cell wall. Both living cells and isolated cell walls became brightly labeled. Intriguingly, the incorporation ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ram AF,Van den Ende H,Klis FM

更新日期：1998-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella usually carry two highly homologous genes (omp2a and omp2b) for porin-like proteins. In several B. abortus biovars the omp2a gene has a large deletion compared to other Brucella omp2's. In this study we have measured Omp2 pore activity in planar bilayers. Omp2b exhibits well-defined trimeric channel activity ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mobasheri H,Ficht TA,Marquis H,Lea EJ,Lakey JH

更新日期：1997-10-01 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：:Interest in endophytes as natural sources for new medicines was inspired by the discovery of paclitaxel-producing endophytic fungi. This study investigated the anti-cancer activity of extracts of endophytes isolated from two Australian plants, Eremophila longifolia (EL) and Eremophila maculata (EM). Endophytes were is...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zaferanloo B,Pepper SA,Coulthard SA,Redfern CPF,Palombo EA

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a novel verocytotoxin named VT2y was described which belongs to the STx family and is produced by Escherichia coli isolated from domestic poultry with swollen head syndrome (SHS). The VT2y toxin induced apoptosis in Vero, HeLa, CHO, CEF (primary chicken embryo fibroblast) and PCK (primary chicken kidney) cel...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Salvadori MR,Yamada AT,Yano T

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00