An improved aminoglycoside resistance gene cassette for use in gram-negative bacteria and Streptomyces.

abstract：:The response regulator DegU and its cognate histidine kinase DegS constitute a two-component system in the Gram-positive soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis. The phosphorylated form of DegU is known to activate transcription of more than 120 genes in B. subtilis, including the bpr gene encoding bacillopeptidase F. To cha...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tsukahara K,Ogura M

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of Helminthosporium solani, the cause of silver scurf in potato tubers, has been impaired by selection of benzimidazole-resistant strains as a result of repeated use of the fungicide thiabendazole. Identification of thiabendazole-resistant strains of H. solani by conventional techniques takes several weeks. Pr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： McKay GJ,Cooke LR

更新日期：1997-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this work was to analyze the effects of thermosonication (TS) on induction of a viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state in Salmonella Typhimurium and to examine incubation factors affecting subsequent resuscitation of cells. A TS treatment of 380 W at 53°C for 30 min induced the VBNC state in S. Typhim...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Liao H,Jiang L,Zhang R

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New Delhi Metallo beta-lactamase (NDM) is of significant public health concern due to its enormous potential to hydrolyse all major beta-lactams including carbapenems. Amino acid substitutions outside the active site reportedly affect NDM beta-lactamase activities. Here, the effect of amino acid substitutions in the p...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kumar G,Issa B,Kar D,Biswal S,Ghosh AS

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystalline 3-methylaspartase (EC 4.3.1.2) from Escherichia coli strain YG1002 that had been isolated from soil was characterized. The enzyme activity was induced when the organism was grown statically on medium containing (S)-glutamic acid. Its molecular mass is about 84 kDa, and it may be composed of two identical s...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Asano Y,Kato Y

更新日期：1994-05-15 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：:A novel Toxoplasma gondii interspersed repeat element (TgIRE), present in most of the tachyzoite chromosomes, was characterised. Two regions on the TgIRE sequence showed high identity to two different T. gondii expressed sequence tag cDNAs of unknown function, which seems to be TgIRE pseudogenes. Two set of primers we...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Echeverria PC,Rojas PA,Martin V,Guarnera EA,Pszenny V,Angel SO

更新日期：2000-03-01 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：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, genes involved in thiamin pyrophosphate (TPP) synthesis (THI genes) and the pyruvate decarboxylase structural gene PDC5 are transcriptionally induced in response to thiamin starvation. Three positive regulatory factors (Thi2p, Thi3p, and Pdc2p) are involved in the expression of THI genes, ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nosaka K,Esaki H,Onozuka M,Konno H,Hattori Y,Akaji K

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：:The beta-lactamase genes blaA and blaB were detected by PCR amplification in strains of Yersinia enterocolitica biovar 1A isolated from India, Germany, France and the USA. Both genes were detected in all strains. Polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism revealed genetic heterogeneity in blaA ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sharma S,Mittal S,Mallik S,Virdi JS

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimethylphthalate (DMP), one of the phthalate esters, is used in the manufacture of plasticizers, insect repellents, and synthetic fibers, and contributes to environmental pollution. In the present study, we report a novel bacterium belonging to the Bacillus sp., which has the ability to utilize DMP as the sole source...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Niazi JH,Prasad DT,Karegoudar TB

更新日期：2001-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceramide mono (CMH) or dihexoside (CDH) fractions from Trypanosoma cruzi (Dm28c clone) were identified as glucosyl and lactosylceramides containing non-hydroxylated fatty acids. The di-glycosylated form was much more efficiently recognized by sera from T. cruzi-immunized rabbits, indicating that glycosylation influenc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Villas-Boas MH,Wait R,Silva RB,Rodrigues ML,Barreto-Bergter E

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mild alkaline solutions (beta-elimination), after removing the non-covalently bonded wall materials by hot SDS, released 13% and 26% of remaining wall proteins from mycelial and yeast cells of Candida albicans, respectively. When the beta-elimination was carried out after digestion of the walls with chitinase, four-fo...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mormeneo S,Marcilla A,Iranzo M,Sentandreu R

更新日期：1994-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:TraJ is an activator of the transfer (tra) operon in the F plasmid that counteracts H-NS silencing at the main transfer promoter (P(Y)). TraJ contains 226 aa (26 670 kDa), not 229 aa as reported previously, and forms homodimers. TraJ binds DNA containing P(Y)in vivo as demonstrated using a chromatin-immunoprecipitatio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Rodriguez-Maillard JM,Arutyunov D,Frost LS

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The wine yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is central in the production of aroma compounds during fermentation. Some of the most important yeast-derived aroma compounds produced are esters. The esters ethyl acetate and isoamyl acetate are formed from alcohols and acetyl-CoA in a reaction catalysed by alcohol acetyltransf...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cordente AG,Swiegers JH,Hegardt FG,Pretorius IS

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：:It was speculated that the increase of the UDP-GlcNAc pool observed with chloramphenicol can modulate the residual PEP:UDP-GlcNAc-enolpyruvate activity of fosfomycin-treated cells. This provided an explanation on how chloramphenicol can insure the formation of enough UDP-MurNAc-pentapeptide to sustain peptidoglycan sy...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mengin-Lecreulx D,van Heijenoort J

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodic evolution of H(2)S during aerobic chemostat culture of Saccharomyces cerevisiae resulted in ultradian metabolic oscillation via periodic inhibition of respiratory activity. To understand the nature of periodic H(2)S evolution, we investigated whether oxidative stress is associated with H(2)S production. The c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kwak WJ,Kwon GS,Jin I,Kuriyama H,Sohn HY

更新日期：2003-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus bovis HC5 cultures released a broad spectrum lantibiotic, bovicin HC5, into the cell-fee culture supernatant after they reached stationary phase, but most of the antibacterial activity remained cell-associated. Cell-associated bovicin HC5 was more resistant to degradation by Pronase E than the cell-free ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Xavier BM,Houlihan AJ,Russell JB

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a putative N-acetylmuramyl-l-alanine amidase gene (bb0666) was identified in the genome of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. This protein shares c. 30% identity with its counterparts from other bacteria. Reverse transcriptase-PCR analysis showed that bb0666 along with two other genes (bb...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yang Y,Li C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alkyl ether-degrading Rhodococcus sp. strain DEE5151, isolated from activated sewage sludge, has an activity for the oxidation of a variety of alkyl ethers, aralkyl ethers and dibenzyl ether. The whole cell activity for diethyl ether oxidation was effectively inhibited by 2,3-dihydrofurane, ethyl vinyl ether and gluta...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kim YH,Engesser KH

更新日期：2005-02-15 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：:Two actinomycete strains, CHR3 and CHR28, were isolated from metal-contaminated sediments from Baltimore Inner Harbor. The isolates were classified as Streptomyces spp. Agar diffusion assays showed both isolates to be resistant to mercuric chloride and phenylmercuric acetate. Hybridization experiments indicated that g...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ravel J,Amoroso MJ,Colwell RR,Hill RT

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the impacts of bacterial DNA extraction methodology on downstream analysis of fish gut microbiota. Feces and intestine samples were taken from three sympatric freshwater fish species with varying diets. Samples were processed immediately (approximately 4 h after capture; fresh), stored at -20 °...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Larsen AM,Mohammed HH,Arias CR

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the genus Actinoplanes are considered to be representative of motile actinomycetes. To infer the flagellar diversity of Actinoplanes species, novel degenerate primers were designed for the flagellin (fliC) gene. The fliC gene of 21 Actinoplanes strains was successfully amplified and classified into two grou...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yamamura H,Hanawa K,Kusunoki M,Nakamura K,Nakagawa Y,Ishida Y,Hamada M,Otoguro M,Tamura T,Fujita N,Hayakawa M

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：:To explore the discriminatory power of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) for detecting subtle differences in isogenic isolates, we tested isogenic strains of Staphylococcus aureus differing in their expression of resistance to methicillin or teicoplanin. More i...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Majcherczyk PA,McKenna T,Moreillon P,Vaudaux P

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterobacter cloacae CHE, a clinical strain with overproduced cephalosporinase was found to be highly resistant to the new cephalosporins, cefepime and cefpirome (MICs> or =128 microg ml(-1)). The strain was isolated from a child previously treated with cefepime. The catalytic efficiency of the purified enzyme with th...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Barnaud G,Labia R,Raskine L,Sanson-Le Pors MJ,Philippon A,Arlet G

更新日期：2001-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) strain Ec2173, causing post weaning diarrhoea in swine, harbours six plasmids ranging from 13 to 200 kb in size. The heat stable toxin genes sta, stb and a tetracycline resistance gene were located on a self conjugative 120-kb plasmid, called pTC. In the cloned ColE1 type or...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Olasz F,Fekete PZ,Blum-Oehler G,Boldogkoi Z,Nagy B

更新日期：2005-03-15 00:00:00