New genus-specific primers for the PCR identification of novel isolates of the genus Streptomonospora.

abstract：:This study characterizes the glucomannan utilization operon (gmuBACDREFG, formerly ydhMNOPQRST) of Bacillus subtilis. Transcription of the operon is induced by konjac glucomannan and requires the last mannanase gene (gmuG). Cellobiose and mannobiose, possible degradation products of glucomannan by GmuG, are strong ind...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sadaie Y,Nakadate H,Fukui R,Yee LM,Asai K

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of nitrate reductase in the unicellular cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942 took place at a slow rate when the cells were incubated without a supply of inorganic carbon, but addition to these cells of CO(2)/bicarbonate or, in a Synechococcus strain transformed with a gene encoding a 2-oxoglutara...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Vázquez-Bermúdez MF,Herrero A,Flores E

更新日期：2003-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent molecular approaches for the study of microbial communities such as PCR-cloning have enabled the detection and identification of as-yet-unculturable taxa. Cloning and sequencing of multiple samples is extremely laborious and expensive to perform thoroughly due to the large diversity involved. For this purpose, ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gafan GP,Spratt DA

更新日期：2005-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The viability of probiotics is affected by several factors during manufacturing, storage and gastrointestinal tract passage. Protecting the probiotics from harmful conditions is particularly critical for oxygen sensitive species like Akkermansia muciniphila, a bacterium which recently has been proposed as a next-gener...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

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

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:A succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase gene (gabD) was identified to be disrupted in a transposon-induced mutant of Ralstonia eutropha exhibiting the phenotype 4-hydroxybutyric acid-leaky. The native gabD gene was cloned by colony hybridization using a homologous gabD-specific DNA probe. DNA sequencing revealed an 145...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lütke-Eversloh T,Steinbüchel A

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) is an important diarrhoeal pathogen causing diseases in multiple epidemiological and clinical settings. In developing countries like India, diarrhoeal diseases are one of the major killers among paediatric population and oddly, few studies are available from Indian paediatric ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gupta D,Sharma M,Sarkar S,Thapa BR,Chakraborti A

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella pertussis is the causative agent of whooping cough. Traditional vaccines against this disease are inherently reactogenic, thus research is currently focussed on the production of less reactive, acellular vaccines. Expression of candidate antigens for these vaccines in Escherichia coli would be preferable, h...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Smith AM,Yan H,Groves N,Dalla Pozza T,Walker MJ

更新日期：2000-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel vip3-type gene named vip3LB has been isolated from Bacillus thuringiensis strain BUPM95. The corresponding secreted vegetative insecticidal protein was active against the lepidopteran insect Ephestia kuehniella. The vip3LB gene was shown, for the first time, to be carried by the large plasmid containing the cr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mesrati LA,Tounsi S,Jaoua S

更新日期：2005-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia mallei, the etiologic agent of the disease known as glanders, is primarily a disease affecting horses and is transmitted to humans by direct contact with infected animals. The use of B. mallei as a biological weapon has been reported and currently, there is no vaccine available for either humans or animal...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Whitlock GC,Estes DM,Torres AG

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-free protein synthesis has emerged in recent years as a powerful tool that can potentially transform the production of recombinant proteins. Cell-free protein synthesis harnesses the synthetic power of living cells while eliminating many of the constraints of traditional cell-based gene expression methods. Due to...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lee KH,Kim DM

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of light on adenyl cyclase (E.C. 4.6.1.1) and 3':5'-cyclic-AMP-phosphodiesterase (E.C. 3.1.4.17) activity of Trichoderma viride was investigated. Adenyl cyclase proved to be a membrane-associated enzyme, requiring Mn2+ and was activated by light. In contrast, 3':5'-cyclic-AMP-phosphodiesterase showed no lig...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kolarova N,Haplová J,Gresík M

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The major heat shock proteins from Thiobacillus ferrooxidans were identified as DnaK and GroEL equivalents by Western blotting and analysis of the N-terminal amino acid sequence of spots isolated from dried 2-D polyacrylamide electrophoresis gels. The T. ferrooxidans chaperonins showed 70% and 80% identity with the Es...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Varela P,Jerez CA

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2.5-kb erythromycin resistance (EmR) plasmid pPV142 of Staphylococcus simulans 13044 was isolated and characterized. Sequence analysis identified ORF1 and ORF2 encoding a 158-residue replication protein (Rep142) and a 244-residue erythromycin resistance protein (Erm, rRNA adenine N-6-methyltransferase), respective...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Somkuti GA,Solaiman DK,Steinberg DH

更新日期：1998-08-15 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：:Biochemical responses to cold and osmotic stresses overlap because each decreases the availability of free water. Since RNA-binding proteins are known to accumulate following cold stress and play key roles in regulating transcription termination, the effect of osmotic stress on expression of RNA-binding proteins was e...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mori S,Castoreno A,Mulligan ME,Lammers PJ

更新日期：2003-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bacteria are capable of accumulating intracellular granules of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA). In this work, we developed confocal microscopy analysis of bacterial cells to study changes in the diameters of cells as well as PHA granules during growth and PHA accumulation in the bacterium Cupriavidus necator H16 (for...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mravec F,Obruca S,Krzyzanek V,Sedlacek P,Hrubanova K,Samek O,Kucera D,Benesova P,Nebesarova J

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we investigated the potential prebiotic effect of natural (NS) and blanched (BS) almond skins, the latter being a byproduct of the almond-processing industry. A full model of the gastrointestinal tract, including in vitro gastric and duodenal digestion, followed by colonic fermentation using mixed faecal...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mandalari G,Faulks RM,Bisignano C,Waldron KW,Narbad A,Wickham MS

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) are a group of microorganisms that have the ability to synthesize intracellular magnetic crystals (magnetosomes). They prefer microaerobic or anaerobic aquatic sediments. Thus, there is growing interest in their ecological roles in various habitats. In this study we found co-occurrence of ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pan H,Dong Y,Teng Z,Li J,Zhang W,Xiao T,Wu LF

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we were interested in the association of attenuated mutants of Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis with subpopulations of porcine white blood cells (WBC). The mutants included those with inactivated aroA, phoP, rfaL, rfaG, rfaC and fliC genes and a mutant with five major pathogenicity islands remove...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Stepanova H,Volf J,Malcova M,Matiasovic J,Faldyna M,Rychlik I

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An Acremonium chrysogenum strain improvement program based on the transformation with cephalosporin biosynthetic genes was carried out to enhance cephalosporin C production. Best results were obtained with cefEF and cefG genes, selecting transformants with increased cephalosporin C production and lower accumulation of...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Rodríguez-Sáiz M,Lembo M,Bertetti L,Muraca R,Velasco J,Malcangi A,de la Fuente JL,Barredo JL

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal DNA from 62 strains of 'Campylobacter upsaliensis' from blood and faecal specimens of patients in Australia, Belgium, South Africa and England, and seven dog isolates from England and Sweden were examined. DNA base compositions of 21 strains were 35 +/- 1 mol% G + C. Electrophoresis of HaeIII DNA digests g...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Owen RJ,Hernandez J

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally occurring antimicrobial cationic polypeptides play a major role in innate and adaptive immunity. These polypeptides are found to be either linear and unstructured or structured through disulfide bonds. Among the structured antimicrobial polypeptides, defensins comprise a family of cysteine-rich cationic poly...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Raj PA,Dentino AR

更新日期：2002-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Mathematical modeling is an important tool in biological research, allowing for the synthesis of results from many studies into an understanding of a system. Despite this, the need for extensive subject matter knowledge and complex mathematics often leaves modeling as an esoteric subspecialty. A 2-fold approach can be...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lofgren ET

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：:We have identified, cloned and characterized a formerly unknown protein from Streptomyces lividans spores. The deduced protein belongs to a novel member of the metallophosphatase superfamily and contains a phosphatase domain and predicted binding sites for divalent ions. Very close relatives are encoded in the genomic...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lamp J,Weber M,Cingöz G,Ortiz de Orué Lucana D,Schrempf H

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：:Rhodococcus rhodochrous NCIMB13064 can dehalogenate and utilise a number of halogenated aliphatic compounds as sole carbon and energy source. Mutants of NCIMB13064 can be easily isolated with an enlarged range of 1-chloroalkane utilising ability. Dehalogenation of 1-chlorononane, 1-chlorodecane and short-chain 1-chlor...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kulakova AN,Reid KA,Larkin MJ,Allen CC,Kulakov LA

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus niger represents a promising host for the expression of recombinant proteins, but only a few expression systems are available for this organism. In this study, the inducible catalase promoter (PcatR) from A. niger was characterized. For this, constructs were developed and checked for the expression of the ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sharma R,Katoch M,Govindappa N,Srivastava PS,Sastry KN,Qazi GN

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA segment located immediately upstream of the eaeA gene of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 strain HA1 was cloned and sequenced. This segment contained an open reading frame encoding a predicted protein of 156 amino acids. A database search identified similar open reading frames upstream of the eaeA gene...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhao S,Mitchell SE,Meng J,Doyle MP,Kresovich S

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00