Sesquiterpene farnesol as a competitive inhibitor of lipase activity of Staphylococcus aureus.

abstract：:Picrophilus torridus has been shown to degrade glucose via a nonphosphorylative Entner-Doudoroff (ED) pathway. Here we report the characterization of a key enzyme of this pathway, glycerate kinase (2-phosphoglycerate forming). The enzyme was purified 5,100-fold to homogeneity. The 95 kDa homodimeric protein catalyzed ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Reher M,Bott M,Schönheit P

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homologs of the Escherichia coli oxyR gene were identified in several Erwinia species, using a combination of PCR and Southern hybridization analysis. The oxyR gene from Erwinia carotovora was isolated on a cosmid clone and characterized. The gene and deduced gene product shared high level sequence identity with their...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Calcutt MJ,Lewis MS,Eisenstark A

更新日期：1998-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori genomes contain about 30 hop genes that encode outer membrane proteins. Helicobacter pylori hopQ alleles exhibit a high level of genetic diversity, and two families of hopQ alleles have been described. Type I hopQ alleles are found more commonly in cag-positive H. pylori strains from patients with ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Loh JT,Torres VJ,Algood HM,McClain MS,Cover TL

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein A from the Staphylococcus aureus strain V8 has a molecular mass about 8000 Da less than that of known proteins A. The corresponding gene was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. Sequence analysis of this structurally new protein A revealed that it lacked an IgG-binding domain (58 amino acids), and that it...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Finck-Barbançon V,Prevost G,Mazurier I,Piemont Y

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen of the 18 Vibrio cholerae rough strains isolated from hospitalised diarrhoea patients were found to contain O1 serotype-specific (wbe) genes and all currently known virulence genes. Expression of the regulatory element ToxR was evident in these strains. Cholera toxin production ability of the rough strains was...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： De K,Ramamurthy T,Faruque SM,Yamasaki S,Takeda Y,Nair GB,Nandy RK

更新日期：2004-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated nickel-resistant bacterium from soil in order to identify a novel nickel resistance determinant. Using 16S rRNA gene sequencing, an isolate was identified as Enterobacter sp. Ni15. This species showed a medium-level (resistant to up to 10 mM) nickel resistance in nutrient-rich media. Enterobacter sp. Ni15 ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lee YK,Chang HH,Lee HJ,Park H,Lee KH,Joe MH

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adhesion-promoting proteins (APP) (molecular mass approx. 300 kDa), which promote adhesion of Streptococcus mutans JBP (serotype c) to hydroxyapatite, were isolated from human submandibular-sublingual (SMSL) saliva by gel filtration on a Trisacryl GP2000 M column. The effects of hexoses, pentoses, methyl-pentoses,...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kishimoto E,Hay DI,Gibbons RJ

更新日期：1991-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Diesel fuel is a common environmental pollutant comprised of a large number of both aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbons. The microbial degradation of individual hydrocarbons has been well characterized, however, the community dynamics within a system degrading a complex pollutant such as diesel fuel are still poorly u...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ciric L,Philp JC,Whiteley AS

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Taiwan, leptospirosis is caused mainly by Leptospira santarosai serovar shermani. Suppression subtractive hybridization was employed to isolate DNA fragments present in pathogenic L. santarosai serovar shermani but absent in non-pathogenic L. biflexa serovar patoc. Analysis of 23 subtracted DNA clones revealed 25 g...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hsieh WJ,Pan MJ

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus faecium has emerged as an important cause of nosocomial infections over the last two decades. We recently demonstrated collagen type I (CI) as a common adherence target for some E. faecium isolates and a significant correlation was found to exist between acm-mediated CI adherence and clinical origin. Here...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhao M,Sillanpää J,Nallapareddy SR,Murray BE

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We adapted PCR-based signature-tagged mutagenesis (STM) to Pseudomonas aeruginosa. A collection of 1056 mutants was screened in a chronic lung infection rat model. Thirteen mutants were confirmed to be attenuated. Analysis revealed that these STM mutants represented transposon insertions into eight genes previously de...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lehoux DE,Sanschagrin F,Levesque RC

更新日期：2002-04-23 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：:mlrA is the only microcystin-degrading gene detected in Sphingomonas sp. MJ-PV. The gene has an extremely rare nucleotide sequence and homologous genes have not yet been discovered in the DNA database. We discovered the existence of a gene homologous to mlrA in new microcystin-degrading bacteria, MD-1 and Y2. These st...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Saito T,Okano K,Park HD,Itayama T,Inamori Y,Neilan BA,Burns BP,Sugiura N

更新日期：2003-12-12 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：:Two fungal isolates, formerly classified as Verticillium alboatrum and proposed as forming the basis of a new sub-group ('Group 2') within the species, have been shown to be non-pathogenic to known hosts of V. alboatrum and, on the basis of molecular evidence, to be closely related to Verticillium psalliotae and Verti...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Carder JH,Barbara DJ

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

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：:A gene library of Neisseria meningitidis B15 P1.16 DNA was established in lambda Zap II and clones containing DNA encoding transferrin binding protein 1 (TBP-1) identified following hybridisation with a 63-bp DNA probe based on the codon assignment for the first 21 N-terminal amino acids of TBP-1. Sequencing of the cl...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Palmer HM,Powell NB,Ala'Aldeen DA,Wilton J,Borriello SP

更新日期：1993-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Dissimilatory metal-reducing bacteria (DMRB), such as Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, are of great interest for their importance in the biogeochemical cycling of metals and utility in biotechnological processes, such as bioremediation and microbial fuel cells. To identify genes necessary for metal reduction, this study co...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kouzuma A,Hashimoto K,Watanabe K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tn10 transposon mutagenesis of Escherichia coli producing K99 fimbriae was carried out to identify host factors involved in regulation of biosynthesis of fimbriae. Two chromosomal mutants were obtained that showed a strongly reduced cell surface expression of K99 fimbriae upon colony blotting and ELISA. Analysis by in...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pilipcinec E,Huisman TT,Willemsen PT,Appelmelk BJ,de Graaf FK,Oudega B

更新日期：1994-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two thermophilic bacteria, which are capable of growing on starch at 60-70 degrees C under anaerobic conditions, were isolated from a sugar refinery in Uelzen and from Solar lake in Israel. On the basis of their physiological characteristics they were identified as Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum Uel 1 and C. thermo...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Klingeberg M,Hippe H,Antranikian G

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of an educational board game developed to teach the pharmacology of antimicrobial drugs to medical students was compared with the lecture-based seminar as a supplemental tool to improve short- and long-term knowledge retention and the perception of the learning method by students. A group of 124 stud...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Karbownik MS,Wiktorowska-Owczarek A,Kowalczyk E,Kwarta P,Mokros Ł,Pietras T

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although very little, if any, beta-galactosidase activity is detected in Yersinia pestis by a standard Miller assay, we found that Y. pestis KIM6+ cells formed blue colonies on plates containing 5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl-beta-D-galactoside (X-gal). Searches of the Y. pestis genome databases revealed the presence of n...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bobrov AG,Perry RD

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Xoo recA insertion inactivation mutant was constructed. The mutant, lacking RecA, showed increased sensitivity towards mutagen killing. This phenotype could be complemented by a cloned, functional recA. Unlike other bacteria, both the recA mutant and the parental strain had similar level of resistance to H2O2 killin...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mongkolsuk S,Rabibhadana S,Sukchavalit R,Vaughn G

更新日期：1998-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether a subinhibitory concentration of clindamycin (Cli), corresponding to 1/2 the strain-specific minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC), could affect expression and stability of transcripts from genes coding for specific adhesins such as fibronectin binding proteins A (fnbA) and B (fnbB) as well as...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Blickwede M,Wolz C,Valentin-Weigand P,Schwarz S

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The twin-arginine translocation (Tat) system serves to translocate folded and often cofactor-containing proteins across biological membranes. The mechanistic limits of the Tat system can be explored by addressing the transport of specifically designed Tat substrates. It thus could be recently shown that unstructured p...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lindenstrauss U,Brüser T

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriocins from gram-positive bacteria are potent antimicrobial peptides that inhibit pathogenic and food-spoilage bacteria. They are usually ineffective against gram-negative bacteria because they cannot penetrate the outer membrane (OM). Disruption of the OM of some gram-negative bacteria was reported to sensitize...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Martin-Visscher LA,Yoganathan S,Sit CS,Lohans CT,Vederas JC

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic version of the ligA gene encoding the NAD-dependent DNA ligase from the Arctic bacterium Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis was substituted for its homolog in the chromosome of Mycobacterium smegmatis. The resulting recombinant strain grew identically to the parent strain at permissive temperatures but failed ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pinto CT,Nano FE

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is common among intracellular bacterial pathogens to use eukaryotic-like proteins that mimic and manipulate host cellular processes to promote colonization and intracellular survival. Eukaryotic-like proteins are bacterial proteins with domains that are rare in bacteria, and known to function in the context of a eu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Frank AC

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic therapies are known to disrupt gastrointestinal (GI) bacterial communities. HIV and pathogenic simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infections have also been associated with disrupted GI bacterial communities. We administered a combination antibiotic therapy to six SIV-infected rhesus macaques and collected ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zevin AS,Hensley-McBain T,Miller C,Smith E,Langevin S,Klatt NR

更新日期：2017-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevotella ruminicola B1(4) is a strictly anaerobic, Gram-negative, polysaccharide-degrading rumen bacterium. Xylanase activity in this strain was found to be inducible, the specific activity of cells grown on xylan being increased at least 20-fold by comparison with cells grown on glucose. Ten bacteriophage clones ex...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gasparic A,Marinsek-Logar R,Martin J,Wallace RJ,Nekrep FV,Flint HJ

更新日期：1995-01-15 00:00:00