RD1 region in mycobacterial genome is involved in the induction of necrosis in infected RAW264 cells via mitochondrial membrane damage and ATP depletion.

abstract：:The 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequences of Lactococcus lactis ssp. lactis and ssp. cremoris differ by 9-10 bp (depending on strain), within the first 200 bp of the sequence. These differences were used to develop two methods of genetically differentiating lactis and cremoris strains. Primers to conserved sequences in the...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ward LJ,Brown JC,Davey GP

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two clones, obtained by polymerase chain reaction from macronuclear DNA of the unicellular ciliated protist Blepharisma japonicum, were isolated and sequenced. They correspond to fragments of two different putative H4 histone genes. The existence of multiple H4 histone genes was also suggested by Southern blot hybridi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Salvini M,Bini E,Santucci A,Batistoni R

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is responsible for a broad variety of chronic infections. Most S. aureus clinical isolates show the capacity to adhere to abiotic surfaces and to develop biofilms. Because S. aureus growing in a biofilm is highly refractory to treatment, inhibition of biofilm formation represents a major therapeu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Stenz L,François P,Fischer A,Huyghe A,Tangomo M,Hernandez D,Cassat J,Linder P,Schrenzel J

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The malate dehydrogenase (MDH; EC 1.1.1.37; L-malate-NAD(+)-oxidoreductase) activities of truffles of the genus Tuber (Tuber melanosporum Vittad., Tuber brumale Vittad., Tuber aestivum Vittad., Tuber magnatum Pico, Tuber rufum Pico) have been characterized with regard to the K(m) and V(max) values in the direct and re...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zarivi O,Cesare P,Aimola P,Ragnelli AM,Scirri C,Cimini A,Bonfigli A,Pacioni G,Miranda M

更新日期：2000-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacteria belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex have the ability to invade and replicate in non-phagocytic cells, an event that requires the presence of bacterial surface components capable of triggering a cell response and the subsequent internalization of the microorganism. In this study, we report ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Flesselles B,Anand NN,Remani J,Loosmore SM,Klein MH

更新日期：1999-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes is a Gram positive pathogen that is ubiquitous in the environment. It is a facultative anaerobic rod that causes listeriosis, a disease with potentially lethal consequences for susceptible individuals. During infection, the pathogen is capable of sequestering metal ions to act as vital biocataly...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dowd GC,Casey PG,Begley M,Hill C,Gahan CG

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：:Listeria monocytogenes prfA, encoding positive regulatory factor A, is transcribed from three promoters (prfAP1, prfAP2, and PplcA). The prfAP2 promoter was previously proposed to be sigma B (sigma(B))-dependent. This hypothesis was tested by creating prfA promoter-gus transcriptional fusions in both L. monocytogenes ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Schwab U,Bowen B,Nadon C,Wiedmann M,Boor KJ

更新日期：2005-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Glucosidase in Aspergillus nidulans was found to be both intracellular and extracellular. The intracellular beta-glucosidase was synthesized after the exhaustion of carbon source in the medium. The extracellular enzyme appeared with autolysis of the mycelium. Biosynthesis of beta-glucosidase was not induced by va...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lee J,Kwon KS,Hah YC

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pythium glomeratum sp. nov. is described here. It was isolated from soil samples taken in the northern France in 1992, was wrongly identified as Pythium heterothallicum and was kept aside. Recently, the ITS region of the rDNA of this oomycete was amplified and sequenced. The differences between the sequence and a more...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Paul B

更新日期：2003-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been widely reported that pH mediates cadmium toxicity to bacteria. We used a tripartite approach to investigate mechanisms by which pH affects cadmium toxicity that included analyses of: (1) growth kinetics, (2) global gene expression, and (3) cadmium speciation. Cadmium extended the lag phase at pH 7, but not...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Worden CR,Kovac WK,Dorn LA,Sandrin TR

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of maintaining prokaryotic RNA in Synechococcus and Pseudomonas cells, fixed in 96% ethanol, 4% paraformaldehyde, or suspended in RNAlater, and held in cold storage for 3 months was compared. Fluorometric determination of the RNA extracted from Synechococcus and Pseudomonas cells indicated that the c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bachoon DS,Chen F,Hodson RE

更新日期：2001-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of glyantrypine from radiolabelled amino acid precursors has been shown experimentally to involve anthranilic acid, tryptophan and glycine. Low values for percentage incorporation of radiolabel into glyantrypine were partly influenced by a complex array of other novel alkaloids shown by the radiolabel...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Penn J,Purcell M,Mantle PG

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During our screening of amylolytic microorganisms from Brazilian fruits, we isolated a yeast strain classified as Cryptococcus flavus. When grown on starch-containing medium this strain exhibited the highest amylase production after 24 h of cultivation. The extracellular amylase from C. flavus was purified from the cu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wanderley KJ,Torres FA,Moraes LM,Ulhoa CJ

更新日期：2004-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), nine profile types were identified in XbaI digests of a panel of strains of Salmonella enteritidis phage type 4 (PT 4) isolated in England and Wales between 1967 and 1992. When applied to 39 isolates from humans, chickens, poultry products and feed, strains belonging to p...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Powell NG,Threlfall EJ,Chart H,Rowe B

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA uptake in competent Streptococcus pneumoniae was strongly dependent on intracellular pH. Ionophore treatments that either acidified or alkalinized the cytoplasm reduced DNA transport. This indicates that the optimum pH for DNA uptake corresponds to the intracellular pH of competent bacteria which is 8.3 +/- 0.2. I...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Clavé C,Trombe MC

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixed-substrate conversions are an under-regarded option to fix carbon dioxide in significant amounts. In such a conversion, carbon dioxide together with one other carbon source such as glucose is converted to a single carbon product. With mixed-substrate conversions, it is possible to incorporate carbon dioxide into ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Steiger MG,Mattanovich D,Sauer M

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental plasmids often expand the metabolic repertoire of bacteria that carry them, but they also interfere with the biochemical and genetic network of the host. The pWW0 plasmid born by Pseudomonas putida mt-2 encodes the TOL pathway for degradation of toluene/m-xylene through production of intermediate compoun...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Silva-Rocha R,de Lorenzo V

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter sp. strain 20B was isolated based on the ability to utilize dimethyl sulfide as the sole sulfur source. Since strain 20B oxidized indole as well as dimethyl sulfide, indigo production by recombinant Escherichia coli clones carrying Acinetobacter DNA was used as a selection for cloning genes encoding dime...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Horinouchi M,Kasuga K,Nojiri H,Yamane H,Omori T

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine viruses are the most abundant biological entity in the oceans, the majority of which infect bacteria and are known as bacteriophages. Yet, the bulk of bacteriophages form part of the vast uncultured dark matter of the microbial biosphere. In spite of the paucity of cultured marine bacteriophages, it is known th...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Perez Sepulveda B,Redgwell T,Rihtman B,Pitt F,Scanlan DJ,Millard A

更新日期：2016-08-01 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：:CheY, the response regulator of the chemotaxis system in Escherichia coli, can be regulated by two covalent modifications - phosphorylation and acetylation. Both covalent modifications are involved in chemotaxis, but the mechanism and role of the acetylation are still obscure. While acetylation was shown to repress th...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Li R,Chen P,Gu J,Deng JY

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein kinase from Dictyostelium discoideum which phosphorylates the synthetic peptide, calmodulin-dependent protein kinase substrate (CDPKS, amino acid sequence: PLRRTLSVAA) and is stimulated by Ca2+/calmodulin is described. This is the first report of a protein kinase with these characteristics in D. discoideum. ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dunbar AJ,Wheldrake JF

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photorhabdus (Enterobacteriaceae) bacteria are pathogenic to insects and mutualistic with entomopathogenic Heterorhabditis nematodes. Photorhabdus luminescens subsp. akhurstii LN2, associated with Heterorhabditis indica LN2, shows nematicidal activity against H. bacteriophora H06 infective juveniles (IJs). In the pres...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Qiu X,Wu C,Cao L,Ehlers RU,Han R

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The agp gene encoding the ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase is involved in cyanobacterial glycogen synthesis and glucosylglycerol formation. By in vitro DNA recombination technology, a mutant with partial deletion of agp gene in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 was constructed. This mutant could not synthesiz...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Miao X,Wu Q,Wu G,Zhao N

更新日期：2003-01-21 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：:Five independent collections, comprising a total of 34 clones encoding cellulases, hemicellulases and cell surface proteins of Clostridium thermocellum, were searched for overlapping or contiguous DNA fragments. The clones were hybridized to large genomic restriction fragments separated by pulse-field electrophoresis....

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Guglielmi G,Béguin P

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoplasmic precursors of the peptidoglycan biosynthetic pathway were purified from vancomycin-treated, glycopeptide-sensitive and -resistant strains of Enterococcus faecium. Resistance was due to production of a modified precursor, UDP-MurNAc-L-Ala-D-Glu-L-Lys-D-Ala-D-lactate, where lactate was identified on the basi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Messer J,Reynolds PE

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of diatoms in victim's internal organs has been regarded as a gold biological evidence of drowning. The idea becomes true at the advent of DNA metabarcoding. Unfortunately, the DNA barcode of diatoms are far from being applicable due to neither consensus on the barcode and nor reliable reference library.I...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Liu M,Zhao Y,Sun Y,Wu P,Zhou S,Ren L

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera, from 17 patients with diarrhoea or haemolytic uraemic syndrome, and six healthy adults, were tested for neutralisation of Vero cytotoxins (VT). For all 17 patients there was evidence of infection with Escherichia coli O157. Sera from two controls but from none of the patients neutralised VT1, although two patien...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Scotland SM,Said B,Thomas A,Rowe B

更新日期：1994-01-15 00:00:00