Escherichia coli O157 somatic antigen is present in an isolate of E. fergusonii.

abstract：:Termites are global pests and can cause serious damage to buildings, crops, and plantation forests. The symbiotic intestinal flora plays an important role in the digestion of cellulose and nitrogen in the life of termites. Termites and their symbiotic microbes in the gut form a synergistic system. These organism work ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Zhou J,Duan J,Gao M,Wang Y,Wang X,Zhao K

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process ofBeggiatoa trichome division was elucidated through phase-contrast microscopy and transmission and scanning electron microscopy. Trichome breakage and dispersion is accomplished by the formation of sacrificial cells (necridia) at various points within the trichome. Upon dying, the sacrificial cells lyse, ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Strohl WR,Larkin JM

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid direct-extraction method was used to obtain DNA from environmental soil samples. Heat, enzymes, and guanidine isothiocyanate were utilized to lyse cells. The DNA was purified by agarose gel electrophoresis, amplified with 16S rRNA-based primers by use of the polymerase chain reaction, and then digested with th...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Porteous LA,Armstrong JL,Seidler RJ,Watrud LS

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm-forming bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a common pathogen in mechanically ventilated newborns, which can cause life-threatening infections. Alginate of mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms is considered an important virulence factor which contributes to the resistance to antibiotics. Traditionally, ambrox...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Li F,Yu J,Yang H,Wan Z,Bai D

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Findings show 21 fungal isolates belonging to eight genera recovered from Egyptian soils that have the potential to attack L-methionine under submerged conditions. Aspergillus flavipes had the most methioninolytic activity, giving the highest yield of L-methioninase (10.78 U/mg protein), rate of methionine uptake (93....

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Khalaf SA,El-Sayed AS

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of the recA gene expression in the obligately anaerobic rumen bacterium Prevotella ruminicola was investigated by monitoring the recA-specific transcript level. P. ruminicola recA forms a monocistronic unit, but no SOS-box sequences resembling those of Escherichia coli or Bacillus subtilis can be identi...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Aminov RI,Tajima K,Ogata K,Nagamine T,Sugiura M,Benno Y

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid residues in the active site of quinoline 2-oxidoreductase (Qor) that are deemed important for substrate binding and turnover were replaced by site-directed mutagenesis. The apparent k(cat) values for quinoline were reduced 2.4-, 38-, 40-, and 199-fold in the protein variants QorA259G, QorW331G, QorV373A, an...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Purvanov V,Fetzner S

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variable-number-of-tandem-repeats (VNTR) markers are increasingly being used in population genetic studies of bacteria. They were recently developed for Pasteuria ramosa, an endobacterium that infects Daphnia species. In the present study, we genotyped P. ramosa in 18 infected hosts from the United Kingdom, Belgium, a...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Mouton L,Ebert D

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, a few works have performed a correlation of metabolic variables in bacteria; however specific correlations with these variables have not been reported. In this work, we included 36 human pathogenic bacteria and 18 non- or less-pathogenic-related bacteria and obtained all metabolic variables, including enzymes...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Brambila-Tapia AJ,Poot-Hernández AC,Garcia-Guevara JF,Rodríguez-Vázquez K

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To present an overview of the existing epidemiological evidence regarding the occurrence of tinea gladiatorum in wrestlers and dermatophyte contamination in wrestling halls, five electronic databases including "PubMed," "Scopus," "Google Scholar," "Science Direct," and "Web of Science" were searched from inception to ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Kermani F,Moosazadeh M,Hosseini SA,Bandalizadeh Z,Barzegari S,Shokohi T

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The selected robust fungus, Aspergillus oryzae strain BCC7051 is of interest for biotechnological production of lipid-derived products due to its capability to accumulate high amount of intracellular lipids using various sugars and agro-industrial substrates. Here, we report the genome sequence of the oleaginous A. or...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Thammarongtham C,Nookaew I,Vorapreeda T,Srisuk T,Land ML,Jeennor S,Laoteng K

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Raw vine-trimming wastes or the solid residues obtained after different fractionation treatments were evaluated for their suitability as Amycolatopsis sp. immobilization carriers during the bioconversion of ferulic acid into valuable phenolic compounds such as vanillin, vanillyl alcohol, and vanillic acid, the main fl...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Castañón-Rodríguez JF,Pérez-Rodríguez N,de Souza Oliveira RP,Aguilar-Uscanga MG,Domínguez JM

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endophytes are beneficial microbes that reside intercellularly inside the plants. Interaction of endophytes with the host plants and their function within their host are important to address ecological relevance of endophyte. Four endophytic bacteria OS-9, OS-10, OS-11, and OS-12 were isolated from healthy leaves of O...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Tiwari R,Kalra A,Darokar MP,Chandra M,Aggarwal N,Singh AK,Khanuja SP

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zygomycetes such as Cunninghamella elegans seem to be promising biosorbents for pollutants removal from wastewaters because of their particular cell wall characteristics. In this article the effect of ten culture media on C. elegans biomass composition was investigated by means of Fourier transform infra red spectrosc...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Tigini V,Prigione V,Donelli I,Freddi G,Varese GC

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria acquire new DNA in a process known as horizontal gene transfer (HGT). To investigate the evolutionary impact of this transfer of DNA, various methods have been developed to detect past HGT events. For example, codon usage-based methods detect the presence of transferred genes by identifying atypical patterns ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Friedman R,Ely B

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes encoding enzymes that catalyze butyryl-CoA formation from acetyl-CoA in a type II strain of Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens were analyzed. The genes encoding thiolase, beta-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase, butyryl-CoA dehydrogenase, and electron transfer flavoproteins were clustered, but the crotonase gene was not pr...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Asanuma N,Kawato M,Ohkawara S,Hino T

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus thermophilus (ST) chromosomal DNA fragments generated by partial Sau3A digestion were cloned into the unique BamHI site upstream from the promoterless chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (cat) gene of the Escherichia coli (EC)promoter-probe vector pKK520-3. Recombinant plasmids containing ST sequences with...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Solaiman DK,Somkuti GA

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus causes a wide range of suppurative infections in humans and animals. Due to its high virulence, ability to adopt various environmental conditions, and acquired multiple drug resistance, treatment of such infections has become difficult. Therefore, there is an immense need to develop alternate dru...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Gupta R,Prasad Y

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bt cotton was the first genetically modified crop approved for use in India. However, only a few studies have been conducted to assess the feasibility of its commercial application. Bt cotton is genetically modified to express a proteinaceous endotoxin (Cry) encoded by cry gene of Bacillus thuringiensis that has speci...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Kapur M,Bhatia R,Pandey G,Pandey J,Paul D,Jain RK

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The citric acid-producing fungus Aspergillus niger WU-2223L possesses a cyanide-insensitive respiratory pathway catalyzed by alternative oxidase. The regulation of the alternative oxidase under the conditions of citric acid production was determined from the transcription level of the alternative oxidase gene (aox1). ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Hattori T,Kino K,Kirimura K

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas sp. OX1, an aromatic compound-degrading bacterium that was tentatively identified by conventional biochemical methods as P. stutzeri, has now been investigated at the molecular level to clarify its taxonomic position. Amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysis and multiple enzyme restriction fragment len...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Radice F,Orlandi V,Massa V,Cavalca L,Demarta A,Wood TK,Barbieri P

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Debaryomyces nepalensis, a halotolerant food-spoiling yeast could grow in complex (YEPD) medium at different pHs ranging between 3.0 and 11.0 in the absence of salt and at pH 3.0-9.0 in the presence of different concentrations of NaCl and KCl. The specific growth rate of D. nepalensis was not affected by the initial p...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Kumar S,Lal P,Gummadi SN

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite their ubiquity, relatively few bacteriophages have been characterized. Here, we set out to explore Caulobacter bacteriophages (caulophages) in the rhizosphere and characterized Kronos, the first caulophage isolated from the rhizosphere. Kronos is a member of the Siphoviridae family since it has a long flexible...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Berrios L,Ely B

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyclomaltodextrinase gene from Bacillus subtilis high-temperature growth transformant H-17 was cloned on separate PstI, BamHI, and EcoRI fragments into the plasmid vector pUC18, but was expressed in an inactive form in the host, Escherichia coli DH5 alpha. High level constitutive expression of the gene product was...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Krohn BM,Lindsay JA

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Degradation of n-alkanes in diesel oil by Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain WatG (WatG) was verified in soil microcosms. The total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) degradation level in two bioaugmentation samples was 51% and 46% for 1 week in unsterilized and sterilized soil microcosms, respectively. The TPH degradation in the...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Ueno A,Hasanuzzaman M,Yumoto I,Okuyama H

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magainin 2 is pore-forming antimicrobial peptide on lipid matrix of bacterial membrane, secreted from the skin of the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis. The aim of this study was to investigate a new concept for antibacterial mechanisms called bacterial apoptosis-like cell death. We examined the morphological changes...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Lee W,Lee DG

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flagella occur on many prokaryotes, which primarily propel cells to move from detrimental to favorable environments. A variety of species-specific flagellation patterns have been identified. Although it is presumed that for each of these flagellated microorganisms, an evolutionarily fixed flagellation pattern is favor...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Yang RS,Chen YT

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, EMA (ethidium monoazide) treatment was applied to a silty-sand reference soil prior to DNA extraction to enable a differentiation between dead and living cells. For this purpose, a reference soil was spiked with Listeria monocytogenes cells or cell equivalents, respectively. With the purpose of e...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Wagner AO,Praeg N,Illmer P

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orf101 (Bm101) of Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus (BmNPV) is a highly conserved gene in lepidopteran nucleopolyhedroviruses, but its function remains unknown. In this study, Bm101 was characterized. Transcripts of Bm101 were detected from 24 through 96 h post infection (h p.i.) by RT-PCR. The corresponding protein wa...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Chen H,Li M,Huang G,Mai W,Chen K,Zhou Y

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high-virulence clone (HVC) was proposed as causing much of the morbidity and mortality when a collection of group B Streptococcus (GBS) isolates was examined by multi-locus enzyme electrophoresis. HVC isolates could be further distinguished by their inability to grow at 40 degrees C, and a temperature-sensitive aldo...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Palacios GC,Timmons BC,Eskew EK,Solórzano F,Mattingly SJ

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00