Role of the 5'-UTR in accumulation of the rbpA1 transcript at low temperature in the cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis M3.

abstract：:The chrysene-degrading bacterium Pseudoxanthomonas sp. PNK-04 was isolated from a coal sample. Three novel metabolites, hydroxyphenanthroic acid, 1-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid and salicylic acid, were identified by TLC, HPLC and MS. Key enzyme activities, namely 1-hydroxy-2-naphthoate hydroxylase, 1,2-dihydroxynaphthalen...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nayak AS,Sanjeev Kumar S,Santosh Kumar M,Anjaneya O,Karegoudar TB

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports the development and characterization of 151 sequence characterized amplified region (SCAR) markers for the seven Eimeria species that infect the domestic fowl. From this set, 84 markers are species-specific and 67 present partial specificity. The complete nucleotide sequence was derived for all mark...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fernandez S,Katsuyama AM,Kashiwabara AY,Madeira AM,Durham AM,Gruber A

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequence analysis of the nadA gene of Ehrlichia chaffeensis revealed a 942 bp open reading frame with the capacity to encode 314 amino acids. The amino acid sequence of the E. chaffeensis quinolinate synthetase A (NAD/A) has 53.6% identity and 82% similarity to the NAD A of the cyanelle of Cyanophora paradoxa. Por...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yu XJ,Walker DH

更新日期：1997-09-01 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：: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：:We investigated the hemolytic activity of Escherichia coli strain EC901 carrying plasmid pBJN406 containing genes draA-E involved in expression of the mannose-resistant Dr hemagglutinin, and in its isogenic insertion mutants devised with Tn5, Tn3, and TnphoA. While E. coli BN406 displayed rapid hemolytic activity agai...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Goluszko P,Nowicki S,Kaul AK,Pham T,Nowicki BJ

更新日期：1995-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein kinase from Dictyostelium discoideum which phosphorylates the synthetic peptide, calmodulin-dependent protein kinase substrate (CDPKS, amino acid sequence: PLRRTLSVAA) and is stimulated by Ca2+/calmodulin is described. This is the first report of a protein kinase with these characteristics in D. discoideum. ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dunbar AJ,Wheldrake JF

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weissella cibaria isolated from human saliva produces a soluble glucan that predominantly has alpha-1,6-glucosidic type linkages. Using degenerated primers that were selected based on the amino acid sequences of conserved regions from known glucansucrases, a single 2.7-kb fragment was isolated. In subsequent steps, a ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kang HK,Oh JS,Kim D

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract The emergence of the nontuberculosis mycobacteria (NTM) as clinically relevant pathogens has warranted the study of these ubiquitous organisms in the context of their likely environmental niche, the biofilm. We assayed the NTM bacterium Mycobacterium marinum strain 1218R, a fish outbreak isolate, for biofilm ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hall-Stoodley L,Brun OS,Polshyna G,Barker LP

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus produces a number of virulence factors. The major virulence factors exhibited by S aureus include various antigens, enzymes, cytotoxins and exotoxins (e.g. hemolysins, enterotoxins and toxic shock syndrome toxin). In this report, we show the influence of punicalagin on the secretion of exoprotein...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mun SH,Kong R,Seo YS,Zhou T,Kang OH,Shin DW,Kwon DY

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two Pseudomonas aeruginosa genes, termed phaJ1(Pa) and phaJ2(Pa), homologous to the Aeromonas caviae (R)-specific enoyl-CoA hydratase gene (phaJ(Ac)) were cloned using a PCR technique to investigate the monomer-supplying ability for polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) synthesis from beta-oxidation cycle. Two expression plasmid...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tsuge T,Fukui T,Matsusaki H,Taguchi S,Kobayashi G,Ishizaki A,Doi Y

更新日期：2000-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The fatty acid composition during the transformation of Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigotes into metacyclic trypomastigotes (metacyclogenesis) was analysed by gas-liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry. Significant qualitative and quantitative changes in the fatty acid composition occurred during incubation of epimas...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Esteves MG,Gonzales-Perdomo M,Alviano CS,Angluster J,Goldenberg S

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A relatively simple, rapid sample preparation method has been developed for analysis of low-molecular mass compounds present in soluble coal products generated by microbial coal solubilizing agents. Acidification of the sample followed by direct extraction into hexanes is coupled with gas chromatography/mass spectrome...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Toth-Allen J,Torzilli AP,Isbister JD

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrobacterium tumefaciens is the causal agent of crown gall disease and is a vector for DNA transfer in transgenic plants. The transformation process by A. tumefaciens has been widely studied, but the attachment stage has not been well characterized. Most measurements of attachment have used microscopy and colony coun...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Petrovicheva A,Joyner J,Muth TR

更新日期：2017-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The alternative sigma factor sigmaH has been shown to play an important role in stress response and morphological differentiation in Streptomyces coelicolor. Its gene, sigH, is located in an operon with the gene encoding proposed anti-sigma factor UshX, and one of the promoters directing expression of the operon is de...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sevcikova B,Kormanec J

更新日期：2002-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:An 18-kDa protein that occurs in Vibrio cholerae has been described as an in vivo and low-iron regulated outer membrane antigen. Monoclonal antibodies which recognized this antigen were protective as passive vaccines in the infant rabbit model of cholera disease. In this study, those monoclonal antibodies were used in...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sciortino CV Jr

更新日期：1993-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Myxococcus xanthus cells move over surfaces by gliding motility. The frz signal transduction system is used to control the reversal frequency, and thus the overall direction of movement of M. xanthus cells. We analyzed the behavior of wild-type and frz mutant cells in response to prey bacteria (Escherichia coli). Wild...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： McBride MJ,Zusman DR

更新日期：1996-04-01 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：:In Streptomyces cyanogenus S136 gene cluster for biosynthesis of polyglycosylated angucycline landomycin A (LaA), a divergently oriented gene pair for a TetR-family regulator (lanK) and an efflux protein (lanJ) is located, whose functions remained obscure. Overexpression and disruption studies showed that lanK and lan...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ostash I,Ostash B,Luzhetskyy A,Bechthold A,Walker S,Fedorenko V

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two type B15 P1.16 strains of Neisseria meningitidis were examined by immunogold electron microscopy for accessibility of two outer membrane protein (OMPs) to monoclonal antibodies. Both strains exhibited cell-to-cell variation of one epitope of the Class 3 OMP (P3.15) and one of the Class 1 OMPs (P1.16) when grown in...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wall RA,Davies HA,Borriello SP

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary structure of a bacteriocin produced by Enterococcus hirae DCH5 was determined by combined amino acid and DNA sequencing. Nucleotide analysis of a 2838-bp DNA fragment of E. hirae DCH5 revealed five putative ORFs. The first orf (hirJM79) encodes a 74-amino-acid peptide containing an N-terminal signal peptid...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sánchez J,Diep DB,Herranz C,Nes IF,Cintas LM,Hernández PE

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus anthracis lethal toxin (PALF) stimulated the proliferation of human peripheral blood T-cells in vitro. Activation of T-lymphocytes by PALF required the presence of monocytes and did not result from a collaborative effect between T-cells and B-cells. PALF acted directly on monocytes and independently of T-cell...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Guidi-Rontani C,Duflot E,Mock M

更新日期：1997-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this analysis of membrane lipid compositions in Helicobacter pylori, the membrane lipid profiles drastically changed during coccoid formation: cholesteryl-6-O-tetradecanoyl-alpha-D-glucopyranoside levels increased, cholesteryl-alpha-D-glucopyranoside and phosphatidyl ethanolamine decreased, and a coordinated increa...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Shimomura H,Hayashi S,Yokota K,Oguma K,Hirai Y

更新日期：2004-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome sequence of Roseovarius sp. strain 217 indicated that many pathway enzymes found in other organisms for the degradation of taurine are represented, but that a novel, apparently energy-dependent pathway is involved in the conversion of acetyl phosphate to acetyl CoA. Thus, an ABC transporter for taurine coul...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Baldock MI,Denger K,Smits TH,Cook AM

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among a few potential archezoan groups, only the Metamonada (diplomonads, retortamonads, and oxymonads) still retain the status of amitochondriate protists that diverged before the acquisition or retention of mitochondria. Indeed, finding that diplomonad genomes harbor a gene encoding a mitochondrial type chaperonin 6...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Emelyanov VV

更新日期：2003-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A lipopolysaccharide mutant of Leptospira interrogans (LaiMut) was obtained by growth in the presence of an agglutinating monoclonal antibody (mAb) against lipopolysaccharide. Agglutination reactions with anti-lipopolysaccharide mAbs and polyclonal antibodies showed that LaiMut had lost some serogroup Icterohaemorrhag...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zapata S,Trueba G,Bulach DM,Boucher D,Adler B,Hartskeerl R

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the intraperoxisomal location of catalase in peroxisomes of methanol-grown Hansenula polymorpha by (immuno)cytochemical means. In completely crystalline peroxisomes, in which the crystalline matrix is composed of octameric alcohol oxidase (AO) molecules, most of the catalase protein is located in a nar...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Keizer I,Roggenkamp R,Harder W,Veenhuis M

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The asexual spore, or conidium, is critical in the life cycle of many fungi because it is the primary means for dispersion and serves as a 'safe house' for the fungal genome in adverse environmental conditions. This review discusses the physiological process of germination, conidial adhesion and initiation of protein ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Osherov N,May GS

更新日期：2001-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus sp. strain CS93, which was previously isolated from Pozol, was previously shown to produce iturin A, bacilysin and chlorotetaine. To investigate the biosynthetic mechanism of chlorotetaine production, the bac genes were amplified from genomic DNA of Bacillus sp. CS93 by PCR and sequenced. The genes bacABCDE w...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Moran S,Robertson K,Paradisi F,Rai DK,Murphy CD

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) have been extensively studied in natural and agricultural ecosystems, but little is known about their diversity and community structure in highly petroleum-polluted soils. In this study, we described an unexpected diversity of AMF in a sedimentation basin of a former petrochemical pl...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： de la Providencia IE,Stefani FO,Labridy M,St-Arnaud M,Hijri M

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00