Comparison of cell-specific activity between free-living and attached bacteria using isolates and natural assemblages.

abstract：:In this study, PCR fingerprinting using the universal primer T3B was applied to distinguish among clinical and environmental species of the Sporothrix complex, Sporothrix brasiliensis, S. globosa, S. mexicana, S. pallida, S. luriei and S. schenckii sensu stricto. The T3B fingerprinting generated clearly distinct bandi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Oliveira MM,Franco-Duarte R,Romeo O,Pais C,Criseo G,Sampaio P,Zancope-Oliveira RM

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein, we report a high-quality draft genome sequence of an uncultivated aromatic compound-degrading bacterium, obtained by the stable isotope probing method from a sulfate-reducing microcosm from an oil-contaminated tidal flat. The obtained genome was closely related with that of Desulfobacula toluolica Tol2. Abunda...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kim SJ,Park SJ,Jung MY,Kim JG,Min UG,Hong HJ,Rhee SK

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of exopolysaccharide production by heterofermentative sourdough lactic acid bacteria has shown that Weissella strains isolated from sourdoughs produce linear dextrans containing α-(1→6) glucose residues with few α-(1→3) linkages from sucrose. In this study, several dextran-producing strains, Weissella cibari...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bounaix MS,Robert H,Gabriel V,Morel S,Remaud-Siméon M,Gabriel B,Fontagné-Faucher C

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of specific inhibitors of glycoprotein trimming reactions on Junin virus (JV) replication were investigated. Bromoconduritol, an inhibitor of glucosidase II, significantly reduced infective virus production (DE50: 1.1 mM) and viral protein expression. Neither 1-deoxynojirimycin, an inhibitor of both glucos...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Silber AM,Candurra NA,Damonte EB

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and ninety-eight clinical isolates of Mycobacterium kansasii collected between 2003 and 2004 in Japan were genotyped by PCR and restriction enzyme analysis (PRA) and 16S-23S internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequencing. The results demonstrated that clinical isolates of M. kansasii in Japan are almost excl...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Iwamoto T,Saito H

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hybridoma cell lines producing monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against a hemagglutinin/protease (HA/P) from Vibrio cholerae non-01 were produced and characterized. The two MAbs contained the kappa light chain and were IgG1 type. They similarly neutralized HA/P protease activity derived from both V. cholerae non-01 an...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Honda T,Hata-Naka A,Lertpocasombat K,Miwatani T

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A physical map of the Enterococcus faecium ATCC19434 chromosome was constructed by NotI, I-CeuI and Sse8387I. The chromosome was a circular DNA of 2600 kb in size, and contained six rRNA operons (rrn). The locations and orientations of the six rrn operons and 24 different determinants were mapped. Genomes of three add...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Oana K,Okimura Y,Kawakami Y,Hayashida N,Shimosaka M,Okazaki M,Hayashi T,Ohnishi M

更新日期：2002-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage M102 is a virulent siphophage that propagates in some serotype c Streptococcus mutans strains, but not in S. mutans of serotype e, f or k. The serotype of S. mutans is determined by the glucose side chain of rhamnose-glucose polysaccharide (RGP). Because the first step in the bacteriophage infection proc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Shibata Y,Yamashita Y,van der Ploeg JR

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species of strictly and facultatively anaerobic cellulolytic bacteria from soils and sediments were examined for the ability to degrade chitin. Of 22 species studied, 16 degraded insoluble chitin. Cellulomonas uda, which was selected for a comparative study of its cellulase and chitinase enzyme systems, produced diffe...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Reguera G,Leschine SB

更新日期：2001-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Amylosucrase produces an insoluble alpha-1,4-linked glucan from sucrose, releasing fructose. In addition to polymerisation, in the presence of sucrose as sole substrate, amylosucrase catalyses sucrose hydrolysis and oligosaccharide synthesis in significant proportions. The effects of both glycogen acceptor and sucrose...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Potocki de Montalk G,Remaud-Simeon M,Willemot RM,Monsan P

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipid etherlipid (PLEL) derived isoprenoids and phospholipid fatty acids (PLFA) were determined in eight Euryarchaeotal monocultures for taxonomic profiling. For the first time significant amounts of fatty acids in the PLFA of Euryarchaeota were determined. The PLFA proportion varied between 11.3 and 35.5% of t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gattinger A,Schloter M,Munch JC

更新日期：2002-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila, the aetiologic agent of legionnaires' disease, contains a single, monopolar flagellum which is composed of one major subunit, the FlaA protein. Expression studies using a reporter gene fusion of the flaA promoter with the luxAB gene revealed that the flaA expression is not only temperature regu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Heuner K,Brand BC,Hacker J

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve strains of Candida albicans were grown in defined medium which had been deferrated by ion-exchange chromatography and then supplemented with FeCl3 to give iron concentrations ranging from 0.026 microM (growth-limiting) to 0.8 microM (excess). All of the strains secreted hydroxamate-type siderophores; phenolate ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sweet SP,Douglas LJ

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large cellulosomal gene cluster was identified in the recently sequenced genome of Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824. Sequence analysis revealed that this cluster contains the genes for the scaffolding protein CipA, the processive endocellulase Cel48A, several endoglucanases of families 5 and 9, the mannanase Man5...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sabathé F,Bélaïch A,Soucaille P

更新日期：2002-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative cloning efficiencies for B. megaterium, B. subtilis, and E. coli were compared. Transformation of B. megaterium is less efficient than transformation of B. subtilis or E. coli. The frequency of recombinant clones was equal in E. coli and B. megaterium; both somewhat higher than in B. subtilis. Equivalent ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Von Tersch MA,Robbins HL

更新日期：1990-08-01 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 species of Dechlorospirillum was isolated from an Fe(II)-oxidizing, opposing-gradient-culture enrichment using an inoculum from a circumneutral, freshwater creek that showed copious amounts of Fe(III) (hydr)oxide precipitation. In gradient cultures amended with a redox indicator to visualize the depth of oxygen pene...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Picardal FW,Zaybak Z,Chakraborty A,Schieber J,Szewzyk U

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：:The isolate NJ-101 obtained from agricultural soil was characterized and presumptively identified as Pseudomonas sp. The isolate exhibited efficient degradation of the insecticide carbofuran with a rate constant of 0.035 day(-1), following first-order rate kinetics. The ability of performing multifarious biological ac...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bano N,Musarrat J

更新日期：2004-02-09 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：: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：:We identified a novel type-III staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) element carried by eight methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains from different wards and patients in an Indian hospital. Although the pulsed-field gel electrophoresis pattern and spa types of eight strains were identical...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Arakere G,Nadig S,Ito T,Ma XX,Hiramatsu K

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emergence of races in Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici (Fol) is caused by loss or mutation of at least one avirulence (AVR) gene. The product of AVR1 is a small protein (Avr1) secreted by Fol in tomato xylem sap during infection. This protein triggers Fol race 1 specific resistance (I) in tomato, indicating that ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kashiwa T,Suzuki T,Sato A,Akai K,Teraoka T,Komatsu K,Arie T

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Researchers studying both cellular and viral disease agents in the laboratory have become infected since the early days of microbiology 150 years ago. However, in the early 21st century, new concerns about bioweapons being used to generate terror and also with a series of newly emerging or newly understood disease-cau...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Silver S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella flexneri, which causes shigellosis in humans, evolved from Escherichia coli. The sequencing of Shigella genomes has revealed that a large number of insertion sequence (IS) elements (over 200 elements) reside in the genome. Although the presence of these elements has been noted previously and summarized, more ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zaghloul L,Tang C,Chin HY,Bek EJ,Lan R,Tanaka MM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacteroides fragilis enterotoxin is an extracellular zinc metalloprotease that has been implicated in diarrheal disease of humans and animals. This toxin causes fluid accumulation in intestinal loops and is cytotoxic for HT-29 cells, an intestinal carcinoma cell line. Here we report the cloning and sequencing of t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kling JJ,Wright RL,Moncrief JS,Wilkins TD

更新日期：1997-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphogluconate, the key intermediate of the Entner-Doudoroff pathway, has long been thought to inhibit growth of bacteria, but careful measurements of 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphogluconate accumulation by growing cells and the correlation of intracellular 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphogluc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fuhrman LK,Wanken A,Nickerson KW,Conway T

更新日期：1998-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The filamentous fungi Monascus spp., which have been used in traditional fermented food in Asia for centuries, are well-known producers of a group of bioactive metabolites that are widely used as food additives and nutraceutical supplements worldwide. However, its potential to produce the mycotoxin citrinin poses a th...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Li L,Shao Y,Li Q,Yang S,Chen F

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrons are bacterial genetic elements capable of capturing and expressing potentially adaptive genetic material. Class 1 integrons constitute the most intensely studied group of these elements to date, mainly due to their well-established role in the acquisition and dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes in c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hardwick SA,Stokes HW,Findlay S,Taylor M,Gillings MR

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A two-step enzymatic synthesis process of 4-hydroxyisoleucine is suggested. In the first step, the aldol condensation of acetaldehyde and alpha-ketobutyrate catalyzed by specific aldolase results in the formation of 4-hydroxy-3-methyl-2-keto-pentanoate (HMKP). In the second step, amination of HMKP by the branched-chai...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Smirnov SV,Samsonova NN,Novikova AE,Matrosov NG,Rushkevich NY,Kodera T,Ogawa J,Yamanaka H,Shimizu S

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00