Yeast expression of the Tuber borchii fruiting body specific protein, TBF-1: identification of a noncanonical signal peptide.

abstract：:Three different whole cell biosensor constructs were made by fusing the mercury inducible promoter, P(mer), and its regulatory gene, merR, from transposon Tn21 with reporter genes luxCDABE, lacZYA, or gfp. In Escherichia coli these biosensor constructs responded to low levels of mercury by producing light, beta-galact...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hansen LH,Sørensen SJ

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipoate acetyltransferase (E2p) subunits of the pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) complex of Escherichia coli have three tandemly repeated lipoyl domains, although net deletions of one or two has no apparent effect on the activity of the purified complexes. Plasmids containing IPTG-inducible aceEF-lpd operons, which en...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Machado RS,Clark DP,Guest JR

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We devised a screening method to obtain basidiomycetous fungi capable of degrading dioxins. About 200 fungal strains were selected from more than 1500 strains by their ability to decolorize Remazol brilliant blue R dye as an indicator. To attempt to eliminate the factor of dioxin sorption by mycelia, we prepared two s...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sato A,Watanabe T,Watanabe Y,Harazono K,Fukatsu T

更新日期：2002-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:High 1,3-beta-glucanase activity was detected during autolysis in a culture medium containing Penicillium oxalicum. It was due to the combined action of four enzymes. The purification process for the major enzyme produced a homogeneous band in the SDS polyacrylamide gel that corresponded to a molecular weight of 79,40...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Copa-Patiño JL,Reyes F,Pérez-Leblic MI

更新日期：1989-12-01 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：:Nine clinical isolates of Enterobacteriaceae (six Escherichia coli and three Proteus mirabilis) isolated in three Parisian hospitals between 1989 and 2000 showed a particular extended-spectrum cephalosporin-resistance profile characterized by resistance to cefotaxime and aztreonam but not to ceftazidime. CTX-M-1, CTX-...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Saladin M,Cao VT,Lambert T,Donay JL,Herrmann JL,Ould-Hocine Z,Verdet C,Delisle F,Philippon A,Arlet G

更新日期：2002-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cell lines are often infected by mycoplama strains. We have demonstrated that when infected by Mycoplasma fermentans, human B lymphoma cell proliferation increased strongly. These infected B cells expressed a p45 kDa protein which interacted with the intracellular domain of CD21, the EBV/C3d receptor. p45 analys...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Balbo M,Barel M,Lottin-Divoux S,Jean D,Frade R

更新日期：2005-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The DnaK chaperone system is involved in various cellular processes such as the control of the folded and oligomeric state of proteins under stress and non-stress conditions. In this study we functionally characterised the homologues of the DnaK system from Clostridium acetobutylicum DnaK, DnaJ, GrpE and OrfA were het...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Rüngeling E,Laufen T,Bahl H

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enterobacterium Photorhabdus luminescens produces a number of toxins to kill its insect host. By analyzing the genomic sequence of P. luminescens TT01, we found that amino acid sequences encoded by plu1961 and plu1962 showed high similarity to XaxAB binary toxin of Xenorhabuds nematophila, which has both necrotic ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhang X,Hu X,Li Y,Ding X,Yang Q,Sun Y,Yu Z,Xia L,Hu S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) have a long history in industrial processes as food starters and biocontrol agents, and also as producers of high-value compounds. Lactic acid, their main product, is among the most requested chemicals because of its multiple applications, including the synthesis of biodegradable plastic pol...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tarraran L,Mazzoli R

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Piscirickettsia salmonis is a novel, aggressive, facultative Gram-negative bacterium that drastically affects salmon production at different latitudes, with particular impact in southern Chile. Initially, P. salmonis was described as a Rickettsia-like, obligate, intracellular Alphaproteobacteria, but it was reclassifi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Marshall SH,Henríquez V,Gómez FA,Cárdenas C

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae is an important plant pathogen which causes bacterial blight of rice. To facilitate genome studies of this bacterium, we have constructed a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) library of strain MAFF 311018. It consisted of 750 clones representing 16 genome equivalents, and had an insert...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ochiai H,Inoue Y,Hasebe A,Kaku H

更新日期：2001-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, 52 Streptococcus suis isolates from pigs in southern China were divided into four known sequence types (STs) and six new STs, using multilocus sequence typing. Ten representative isolates were selected from 10 STs for the analysis of whole genome sequences. Virulence was assessed in 10 isolates, which w...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Peng L,Lin M,Huang Z,Guo S,Sun H,Yang X

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bananas contain large quantities of neurochemicals. Extracts from the peel and pulp of bananas in increasing stages of ripening were prepared and evaluated for their ability to modulate the growth of non-pathogenic and pathogenic bacteria. Extracts from the peel, and to a much lesser degree the pulp, increased the gro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lyte M

更新日期：1997-09-15 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：: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：:Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum is the causative agent of both the cutaneous and visceral forms of leishmaniasis in southwest Europe; the dog is the main reservoir. In order to identify the L. (L.) infantum zymodemes present in Spain, a total number of 85 Leishmania stocks isolated from dogs (31), HIV-positive patien...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jiménez M,Ferrer-Dufol M,Cañavate C,Gutiérrez-Solar B,Molina R,Laguna F,López-Vélez R,Cercenado E,Daudén E,Blázquez J

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis (S. Enteritidis) possesses plasmids of different sizes and roles. Besides the serovar-specific virulence plasmid present in most field strains, S. Enteritidis can harbour plasmids of low molecular mass whose biological role is poorly understood. We therefore sequenced plasmid pC...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gregorova D,Pravcova M,Karpiskova R,Rychlik I

更新日期：2002-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Salmonella enteritidis expressed a novel porin with a subunit size of 35.5 kDa as shown by SDS-PAGE. This protein was expressed as a major outer membrane protein (MOMP) when grown on nutrient agar, McConkey agar or blood agar, or in Tris-succinate medium; but was only produced in trace amounts when strains ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chart H,Frost JA,Rowe B

更新日期：1993-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Astaxanthin possesses higher antioxidant activity than other carotenoids and, for this and other reasons, has great commercial potential for use in the aquaculture, pharmaceutical, and food industries. The basidiomycetous yeast Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous is one of the best natural producers of astaxanthin, but wild...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ukibe K,Katsuragi T,Tani Y,Takagi H

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel transposon mutagenesis system for the phytopathogenic bacteria Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) and X. campestris pv. campestris (Xcc) was developed using a Tn5-based transposome. A highly efficient transformation up to 10(6) transformants per microg transposon DNA was obtained. Southern blot and thermal as...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sun Q,Wu W,Qian W,Hu J,Fang R,He C

更新日期：2003-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Xylose reductase catalyzes the NAD(P)H-dependent reduction of xylose to xylitol and is essential for growth on xylose by yeasts. To understand the nature of coenzyme binding to the Pichia stipitis xylose reductase, we investigated the role of the strictly conserved Lys270 in the putative IPKS coenzyme binding motif by...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kostrzynska M,Sopher CR,Lee H

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagemid vectors for display of protein/peptides on the surface of filamentous phage utilize a plasmid genome carrying the phage origin of replication, along with the gene fused to a fragment of gene III. Generation of phage particles displaying the fusion protein also requires superinfection of the host bacterium wit...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dueñas M,Borrebaeck CA

更新日期：1995-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel 36-kDa endochitinase named chit36 has been isolated and characterized from Trichoderma harzianum Rifai TM. Partial amino acid sequences from the purified protein were used to clone the fungal cDNA, based on polymerase chain reaction with degenerate primers. The complete open reading frame encodes a 344-amino a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Viterbo A,Haran S,Friesem D,Ramot O,Chet I

更新日期：2001-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The AbGst1 gene encoding a glutathione transferase from the necrotrophic pathogen Alternaria brassicicola was cloned from a benzyl isothiocyanate-treated conidial culture using differential display reverse transcription. The deduced amino-acid sequence of AbGst1p showed a significant degree of similarity to glutathion...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sellam A,Poupard P,Simoneau P

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A critical step in the process of metagenome analysis is to screen for clones that contain specific genes among a large number of clones. To form one of the sequence-based screening tools of a metagenome library, we designed a format of microarray [metagenome microarray (MGA)] that is arrayed with fosmid library clone...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Park SJ,Kang CH,Chae JC,Rhee SK

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the specificity of six different lysozymes for peptidoglycan substrates obtained by extraction of a number of gram-negative bacteria and Micrococcus lysodeikticus with chloroform/Tris-HCl buffer (chloroform/buffer). The lysozymes included two that are commercially available (hen egg white lysozyme...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nakimbugwe D,Masschalck B,Deckers D,Callewaert L,Aertsen A,Michiels CW

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori ATCC43504 responds chemotactically to aspartic acid and serine, but not to arginine, nor to sodium bicarbonate. In contrast, H. pylori ATCC700392 (strain 26695) shows chemotaxis to all four attractants. Open reading frame HP0099 from H. pylori 26695 is predicted to encode one of three methyl-accept...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cerda O,Rivas A,Toledo H

更新日期：2003-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The low heat resistance (D100 = 0.554 min, z = 13.4 degrees C) of dormant lysozyme-sensitized spores of Bacillus sphaericus 9602 was correlated with a low protoplast wet density (1.305 g/ml) equivalent to a high protoplast water content (61.0%, wet weight basis). These values for these unusual spores were consistent w...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Beaman TC,Pankratz HS,Gerhardt P

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas spp., in particular Pseudomonas fragi, are dominant in aerobically stored chilled meats. This work isolated P. fragi isolates from spoiled chicken and investigated the effect of modified atmosphere packaging (MAP, CO2/N2 30%/70%) on physicochemical properties of P. fragi isolates compared to the correspond...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wang GY,Li M,Ma F,Wang HH,Xu XL,Zhou GH

更新日期：2017-06-15 00:00:00