Yersinia pestis lacZ expresses a beta-galactosidase with low enzymatic activity.

abstract：:Chromobacterium violaceum is a Gram-negative opportunistic human pathogen and an inhabitant of tropical soils and waterways. Although known primarily for the synthesis of the pigment violacein, and more recently as a reporter strain for quorum sensing, clinical reports of chromobacteriosis comprise the largest block o...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Brumbach KC,Eason BD,Anderson LK

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii strain A148, a clinical isolate resistant to imipenem (MIC = 32 mg l-1), synthesized two beta-lactamases with pIs 6.3 and > 9.2. The pI 6.3 enzyme hydrolyzed the penicillins, including isoxazoylpenicillins, first-, second- and, to a lesser extent, third-generation cephalosporins. It was inhibit...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hornstein M,Sautjeau-Rostoker C,Péduzzi J,Vessières A,Hong LT,Barthélémy M,Scavizzi M,Labia R

更新日期：1997-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Among aerobic prokaryotes, many different terminal oxidase complexes have been described. Sequence comparison has revealed that the aa3-type cytochrome c oxidase and the bo3-type quinol oxidase are variations on the same theme: the heme-copper oxidase. A third member of this family has recently been recognized: the cb...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： van der Oost J,de Boer AP,de Gier JW,Zumft WG,Stouthamer AH,van Spanning RJ

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae strain JNR.7/87 is a highly virulent, type 4 encapsulated Gram-positive bacterium whose transformability has not been tested previously, and whose genome is currently being sequenced. The strain was transformed at very low efficiency by addition of exogenous competence-stimulating peptide: How...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bricker AL,Camilli A

更新日期：1999-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 129 sRNA candidates were identified in Brucella abortus 2308 in our previous work, and one candidate with potential to regulate expression of hemH gene was further analyzed in this study. We found that the novel sRNA can inhibit the expression of hemH and called it BsrH (Brucella sRNA regulating HemH). The ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Peng X,Dong H,Wu Q

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Staphylococcus aureus bacteriophage phi11 endolysin has two peptidoglycan hydrolase domains (endopeptidase and amidase) and an SH3b cell wall-binding domain. In turbidity reduction assays, the purified protein can lyse untreated staphylococcal mastitis pathogens, Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphy...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Donovan DM,Lardeo M,Foster-Frey J

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levan fructotransferase (LFTase) from Arthrobacter ureafaciens K2032 was expressed with N-terminal fusion of a LacZ-derived secretion motif (TMITNSSSVP) using the lac promoter system in recombinant Escherichia coli JM109 [pUDF-A81]. In flask cultures, recombinant enzyme activity was detected in culture media, and sequ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lee J,Saraswat V,Koh I,Song KB,Park YH,Rhee SK

更新日期：2001-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that the presence of plasmids expressing tetracycline resistance or chloramphenicol resistance genes, but not those expressing ampicillin resistance or kanamycin resistance genes, in Escherichia coli led to the retardation of the process of removal of the heat-aggregated proteins (i.e. the S fraction) from th...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kedzierska S,Staniszewska M,Potrykus J,Wegrzyn G

更新日期：1999-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoplasmic inclusions surrounded by a bilayer membrane were seen in thin sections. negatively stained and freeze-fractured preparations of Shewanella putrefaciens. Cells harvested from the late exponential and early stationary phase showed a higher number of these vesicles than bacteria isolated from early exponentia...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Krause B,Beveridge TJ,Remsen CC,Nealson KH

更新日期：1996-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The ascomycete Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a plant pathogen with a very broad host range. In order to identify and characterize genes involved in S. sclerotiorum infection of Brassica napus (canola), expressed sequence tags (ESTs) were examined from libraries prepared from three tissues: complex appressorium (infectio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sexton AC,Cozijnsen AJ,Keniry A,Jewell E,Love CG,Batley J,Edwards D,Howlett BJ

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage P008 revealed irreversible and uniform adsorption to cell walls of L. lactis subsp. 'diacetylactis' F7/2, whereas phage P127 adsorbed reversibly to a limited number of receptor sites on cell walls of L. lactis subsp. cremoris Wg2-1. Neither extraction of lipids, cell wall- and membrane-teichoic acids nor...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Schäfer A,Geis A,Neve H,Teuber M

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microorganism which reduces Fe(III) during the fermentation of glucose was isolated from freshwater sediment. The Fe(III) was supplied to enrichment cultures as a soluble complex with the bidentate ligand maltol (3-hydroxy-2-methyl-4-pyrone). Advantages that were afforded by the use of Fe(III)(maltol)3 over previous...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dobbin PS,Carter JP,Garcia-Salamanca San Juan C,von Hobe M,Powell AK,Richardson DJ

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditional gene expression systems are useful tools for studying the role of essential or toxic gene products in bacterial systems. There is a paucity of such systems available for use in the mycobacteria. The utility of the Escherichia coli arabinose-inducible system was looked into, since it is tightly controlled i...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Carroll P,Brown AC,Hartridge AR,Parish T

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chitinase was purified from the cytosolic fraction of the anaerobic rumen fungus Piromyces communis OTS1 by affinity chromatography using regenerated chitin, gel filtration and chromatofocusing. The chitinase was most active at pH 6.2 and at 60 degrees C in a 20-min assay. The molecular mass of the purified protein ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sakurada M,Morgavi DP,Komatani K,Tomita Y,Onodera R

更新日期：1996-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Five transposon mutants of Francisella novicida were isolated that are compromised in their ability to grow in mouse macrophages in vitro. Sequence analysis of the DNA flanking the transposon insertions identified the genes that were interrupted in these mutants. One of the inactivated loci corresponds to the Francise...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gray CG,Cowley SC,Cheung KK,Nano FE

更新日期：2002-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogenobacter acidophilus strain 3H-1 is a thermoacidophilic, obligately chemolithoautotrophic, hydrogen-oxidizer isolated from a Japanese solfataric field. Strain 3H-1 requires elemental sulfur for growth. We used PCR to amplify the 16S rRNA gene of strain 3H-1, and sequenced the amplification product directly. Phy...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Shima S,Yanagi M,Saiki H

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports the production of astaxanthin in the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodovulum sulfidophilum, which has adequate precursor pools and storage capabilities for heterologous carotenoid production. Chemical mutagenesis was carried out using ethylmethane sulfonate to produce mutants with a modified carotenoid ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mukoyama D,Takeyama H,Kondo Y,Matsunaga T

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A red-pigmented, Gram-negative, motile, strictly aerobic, mesophilic, oval- or short rod-shaped bacterium (TDMA-17(T)) was isolated from fresh water collected at Misasa, a radioactive site in Japan. TDMA-17(T) was slightly tolerant against gamma-ray irradiation, and effectively produced carotenoids (2.8 mg g(-1) dry c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Asker D,Beppu T,Ueda K

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A selection of influential FEMS publications to celebrate the 40th anniversary of FEMS. ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Prosser JI,Cole JA,Nielsen J,Bavoil PM,Häggblom MM

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bacterial isolate, tentatively identified as Pseudomonas sp. strain TR3, was found to utilize the diaryl ester phenylbenzoate as sole source of carbon and energy. This strain has the ability to productively degrade phenylbenzoate and some substituted derivatives by a catabolic sequence which was characterized bioche...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Reich T,Schmidt S,Fortnagel P

更新日期：1999-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis is a worldwide cause of various swine infections and is also an important agent of zoonosis. Strains of S. suis are classified according to their serotype, and currently, 35 serotypes are recognized. The aim of this study was to characterize nontypeable isolates of S. suis with regard to their cell ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bonifait L,Gottschalk M,Grenier D

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To exert a beneficial effect on the host, adequate doses of probiotics must be administered and maintaining their viability until consumption is thus essential. Dehydrated probiotics exhibit enhanced long-term viability and can be incorporated into low-moisture food matrices, which also possess high stability at refri...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Marcial-Coba MS,Knøchel S,Nielsen DS

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This communication presents experimental evidence that intact fragile (osmotic sensitive) yeasts can be electrofused and give viable hybrids. The yield increases with one order of magnitude for electrofusion of intact fragile yeasts with protoplasts of non-fragile ones. The yield of viable hybrids, obtained by electro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tsoneva I,Doinov P,Dimitrov DS

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lin genes encode the gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane (gamma-HCH or lindane) catabolic pathway in lindane-degrading strains. The location and stability of these genes have been explored in the lindane-degrading Sphingobium francense strain Sp+, and in two non-lindane-degrading mutants (Sp1- and Sp2-). The lin genes, li...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cérémonie H,Boubakri H,Mavingui P,Simonet P,Vogel TM

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of inducible biodegradative threonine dehydratase of Escherichia coli increased several-fold in the presence of the DNA gyrase inhibitors, nalidixic acid and coumermycin. Temperature-sensitive gyrB mutants expressed higher levels of dehydratase as compared to an isogenic gyrB+ strain. Immunoblotting expe...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sumantran VN,Tranguch AJ,Datta P

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mixture of two lyso isomers of a galactolipid was obtained from Dictyonema glabratum. Aqueous hydrolysis gave rise to galactose and glycerol in a 3:1 molar ratio. ESI-MS spectroscopy gave, in the positive-ion mode, a pseudomolecular ion at m/z 839 and daughter ions with m/z 677, 600, 515 and 353, suggesting three ga...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sassaki GL,Gorin PA,Iacomini M

更新日期：2001-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter sp. strain 20B was isolated based on the ability to utilize dimethyl sulfide as the sole sulfur source. Since strain 20B oxidized indole as well as dimethyl sulfide, indigo production by recombinant Escherichia coli clones carrying Acinetobacter DNA was used as a selection for cloning genes encoding dime...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Horinouchi M,Kasuga K,Nojiri H,Yamane H,Omori T

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical and molecular taxonomic studies were performed on a representative strain of some lactic acid bacteria of unknown taxonomic position isolated from salmonid fish. The results demonstrate that the fish bacterium represents a new species of the genus Lactococcus for which the name Lactococcus piscium sp. nov. is...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Williams AM,Fryer JL,Collins MD

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of evidence implicates streptococcal and staphylococcal superantigens in the development of psoriasis, atopic dermatitis and Kawasaki syndrome. In each of these illnesses, an abnormal state of immunologic activity is observed. Superantigens, which have a unique ability to activate large numbers of lymph...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yarwood JM,Leung DY,Schlievert PM

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A collection of 45 epidemiologically unrelated Streptococcus agalactiae strains (group B Streptococcus, GBS), belonging to different serotypes, isolated from pregnant women in China and Russia was studied. Strains were characterized by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) employing hybridization with nine genes pot...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dmitriev A,Hu YY,Shen AD,Suvorov A,Yang YH

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00