Sphingomonas astaxanthinifaciens sp. nov., a novel astaxanthin-producing bacterium of the family Sphingomonadaceae isolated from Misasa, Tottori, Japan.

abstract：:To explore the discriminatory power of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) for detecting subtle differences in isogenic isolates, we tested isogenic strains of Staphylococcus aureus differing in their expression of resistance to methicillin or teicoplanin. More i...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Majcherczyk PA,McKenna T,Moreillon P,Vaudaux P

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salicylate was found to uniquely induce a 27-kDa protein in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex organisms but not in Mycobacterium smegmatis or Escherichia coli. The structural analogue antitubercular para-amino-salicylate also induced the 27-kDa protein but to a somewhat lower level than salicylate. Other structural a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sun Z,Cheng SJ,Zhang H,Zhang Y

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzymatic activity of salivary amylase bound to the surface of several species of oral streptococci was determined by the production of acid from starch and by the degradation of maltotetraose to glucose in a coupled, spectrophotometric assay. Most strains able to bind amylase exhibited functional enzyme on their ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Douglas CW,Heath J,Gwynn JP

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Total dsRNA extractions in five killer K2 strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae isolated from spontaneous fermentations revealed the presence of a novel dsRNA fragment (which we named NS dsRNA) of approximately 1.30 kb, together with L and M2 dsRNAs. NS dsRNA appeared to be encapsidated in the same kind of viral particl...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cansado J,Barros Velázquez J,Sieiro C,Gacto M,Villa TG

更新日期：1999-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tolaasin is a peptide toxin produced by Pseudomonas tolaasii and causes brown blotch disease of the cultivated mushrooms. Two types of ion channels were identified by the incorporation of tolaasin into lipid bilayer. The slope conductance of type 1 channel measured in the buffer containing 100 mM KCl was 150 pS with a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cho KH,Kim YK

更新日期：2003-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene (open reading frame (ORF) Tm1469, glk) encoding ATP-dependent ROK (repressors, ORFs, sugar kinases) glucokinase (ATP-GLK, EC 2.7.1.2) of the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima was cloned and functionally expressed in Escherichia coli. The purified recombinant enzyme is a homodimer with an apparen...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hansen T,Schönheit P

更新日期：2003-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We have devised a reliable procedure for the separation of three beta-lactamases of isoelectric focusing points (pI), 5.4, 6.5, and 7.9 by Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography (FPLC System). All of these enzymes were transferable and originated from a ceftazidime and cefotaxime resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated i...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Payne DJ,Hood J,Marriott MS,Amyes SG

更新日期：1990-06-01 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

abstract：:The glycolytic pathway of the hyperthermophilic archaea that belong to the order Thermococcales (Pyrococcus, Thermococcus and Palaeococcus) differs significantly from the canonical Embden-Meyerhof pathway in bacteria and eukarya. This archaeal glycolysis variant consists of several novel enzymes, some of which catalyz...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： van de Werken HJ,Verhees CH,Akerboom J,de Vos WM,van der Oost J

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of some enzymes belonging to the Leloir pathway, phosphoglucomutase, UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase, UDP-galactose 4-epimerase and galactose 1-P uridyl transferase, were studied in a wild ropy, a non-ropy and an overproducing mutant ropy strain of Streptococcus thermophilus. These activities were assayed...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Escalante A,Villegas J,Wacher C,García-Garibay M,Farrés A

更新日期：2002-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A broad distribution of the lactococcal IS elements ISS1 [1] and IS904 [2] in several lactococcal plasmids and chromosomal DNA was observed. Hybridization of the ISS1 and IS904 oligonucleotide gene probes with DNA of lactococcal phages showed that none of these tested bacteriophages contained one of the IS elements. O...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Schäfer A,Jahns A,Geis A,Teuber M

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:OMIZ-W68, a chemically defined medium that contains no long-chain fatty acids and yet supports in vitro proliferation of a wide range of fastidious oral anaerobes, is described. The type strains of Treponema denticola, Treponema lecithinolyticum, Treponema maltophilum, Treponema pectinovorum, Treponema socranskii, and...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wyss C

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lipopolysaccharide mutant of Leptospira interrogans (LaiMut) was obtained by growth in the presence of an agglutinating monoclonal antibody (mAb) against lipopolysaccharide. Agglutination reactions with anti-lipopolysaccharide mAbs and polyclonal antibodies showed that LaiMut had lost some serogroup Icterohaemorrhag...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zapata S,Trueba G,Bulach DM,Boucher D,Adler B,Hartskeerl R

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen solvent-sensitive transposon mutants were generated from the solvent-tolerant Pseudomonas putida strain S12 by applying the TnMod-KmO mutagenesis system. These mutants were unable to grow in the presence of octanol and toluene. By cloning the region flanking the transposon insertion point a partial sequence o...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kieboom J,Bruinenberg R,Keizer-Gunnink I,de Bont JA

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CaMK) gene was cloned and characterized from Arthrobotrys dactyloides, a nematode-trapping fungus. The resulting 373-amino-acid protein, FCaMK, has significant homology to mammalian CaMKs. FCaMK contains a serine/threonine kinase domain followed by a calmodulin-binding dom...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tsai PJ,Tu J,Chen TH

更新日期：2002-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:An obligately anaerobic spirochete designated strain SEBR 4228T (T = type strain) was isolated from an oil field of Congo, Central Africa. The strain grew optimally with a sodium chloride concentration of 5% (sodium chloride concentration) growth range 1.0-10%) at 37 degrees C (growth temperature range 20-40 degrees C...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Magot M,Fardeau ML,Arnauld O,Lanau C,Ollivier B,Thomas P,Patel BK

更新日期：1997-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We present draft genome sequences of three Holospora species, hosted by the ciliate Paramecium caudatum; that is, the macronucleus-specific H. obtusa and the micronucleus-specific H. undulata and H. elegans. We investigate functions of orthologous core genes conserved across the three Holospora species, which may be e...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dohra H,Tanaka K,Suzuki T,Fujishima M,Suzuki H

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular proteases of Yarrowia lipolytica have been scarcely studied. These enzymes may play an important role in nitrogen metabolism, posttranslational processing, nutritional stress, dimorphism, etc.; biochemical and genetic control of these enzymes can help in obtaining high-level expression of recombinant pro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hernández-Montañez Z,Araujo-Osorio J,Noriega-Reyes Y,Chávez-Camarillo G,Villa-Tanaca L

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the gram-negative microorganisms with probiotic properties, Escherichia coli strain Nissle 1917 (briefly EcN) is probably the most intensively investigated bacterial strain today. Since nearly 100 years, the EcN strain is used as the active pharmaceutical ingredient in a licensed medicinal product that is distri...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sonnenborn U

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

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：:As shown by both bioassay and high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) analysis, penicillin G production by Aspergillus nidulans is subject to regulation by the pH of the growth medium. Penicillin titres were highest at alkaline pH and in strains carrying mutations in the regulatory gene pacC which mimics the ef...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Shah AJ,Tilburn J,Adlard MW,Arst HN Jr

更新日期：1991-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify antigens that would improve the accuracy of serological diagnosis of active tuberculosis, we cloned the genes encoding nine potentially immunogenic secreted or surface-associated proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Recombinant proteins were reacted with sera from HIV-negative individuals with extrapulm...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Moran AJ,Treit JD,Whitney JL,Abomoelak B,Houghton R,Skeiky YA,Sampaio DP,Badaró R,Nano FE

更新日期：2001-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogenase is oxygen-labile. Cyanobacterial heterocysts can fix N(2) in an oxic milieu because their interior is micro-oxic, for which the glycolipid layer of the heterocyst envelope is required. ORF all5341 of the Anabaena sp. genome predicts a glycosyl transferase. An insertional mutant of all5341 synthesized only ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Awai K,Wolk CP

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new Volvariella volvacea gene encoding a carbohydrate esterase (CE) family 4 acetyl xylan esterase (AXE) (designated as VvaxeII) was cloned and characterized. The coded polypeptide had 253 amino acid residues, with the first 19 serving as a secretion signal peptide. The VvaxeII transcript levels were high when the f...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Liu X,Ding S

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Correct identification of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli isolates to the species or subspecies level is a cumbersome but nevertheless important task for a routine diagnostic laboratory. The widely used biochemical tests might be often misleading while more sophisticated phenotypic or genotypic methods are...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Steinbrueckner B,Haerter G,Pelz K,Kist M

更新日期：1999-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The spirochaete, Serpulina pilosicoli, is the agent of intestinal spirochaetosis, a diarrhoeal disease of humans and other species. By mechanisms as yet unknown, large numbers of these spirochaetes intimately attach to the colonic mucosa by one cell end. In some infected individuals, the spirochaetes may invade the la...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hartland EL,Mikosza AS,Robins-Browne RM,Hampson DJ

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic relationships between Tuber pseudoexcavatum and other Tuber species were investigated by studying the sequences of four genes: 5.8S-ITS2, beta-tubulin, protein kinase C and elongation factor 1alpha. The four phylogenetic trees allowed to differentiate the black truffle clade, composed of two subclades, on...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wang Y,Tan ZM,Zhang DC,Murat C,Jeandroz S,Le Tacon F

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial specific primers were used to amplify 23S rRNA genes from a representative strain from each of the 23 serogroups of the pathogenic Leptospira interrogans and 8 strains from 6 serogroups of the non-pathogenic Leptospira biflexa. Only regions of extreme variability, which had been identified on the basis of ho...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Woo TH,Smythe LD,Symonds ML,Norris MA,Dohnt MF,Patel BK

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inoculation of soil with bacteria (a Gram-negative rod [PD2] and a 4-membered consortium [DC1]) accelerated mineralisation of phenanthrene and pyrene (but not naphthalene) added individually to a pristine sand and a pristine organic soil. The half-life of naphthalene was 3.5 days in both soils whether inoculated or no...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Smith MJ,Lethbridge G,Burns RG

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) synthase (PhaC(Da)) from Delftia acidovorans DS-17 (formerly Comamonas acidovorans) has a unique large insertion consisting of 40 amino acid residues in the alpha/beta hydrolase fold region. In order to examine whether this insertion is necessary for enzyme function, we generated a mutan...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tsuge T,Imazu S,Takase K,Taguchi S,Doi Y

更新日期：2004-02-09 00:00:00