Effects of three benzimidazoles on growth, general morphology and ultrastructure of Tritrichomonas foetus.

abstract：:In a large-scale gene disruption screen of Magnaporthe oryzae, a gene MoST1 encoding a protein belonging to the hexose transporter family was identified as a gene required for conidiation and culture pigmentation. The gene MoST1 located on chromosome V of the M. oryzae genome was predicted to be 1892 bp in length with...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Saitoh H,Hirabuchi A,Fujisawa S,Mitsuoka C,Terauchi R,Takano Y

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the ability of a nested PCR system to detect Salmonella senftenberg in raw oysters. The specific primers of the PCR were derived from the invA gene sequence, essential for Salmonella invasiveness into epithelial cells. First, for the extraction of DNA, four methods (guanidine isot...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Vázquez-Novelle MD,Pazos AJ,Abad M,Sánchez JL,Pérez-Parallé ML

更新日期：2005-02-01 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：:We have re-examined the stringent response of Streptococcus rattus and Streptococcus pyogenes, two organisms that had originally been reported not to accumulate ppGpp following amino acid deprivation. We conclude that ppGpp does accumulate when S. rattus and S. pyogenes are deprived of isoleucine by mupirocin addition...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Whitehead KE,Webber GM,England RR

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermophilic bacteria have recently attracted great attention because of their potential application in improving different biochemical processes such as anaerobic digestion of various substrates, wastewater treatment or hydrogen production. In this study we report on the design of a specific 16S rRNA-targeted oligonu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gagliano MC,Braguglia CM,Rossetti S

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of virulence markers related to cytolethal distending toxin-V (CDT-V), subtilase cytotoxin (SubAB), the enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli factor for adherence (Efa1), the adhesin similar to IrgA (Iha), the long polar fimbriae (LpfO113), the autoagglutinating adhesin (Saa), and the protein required fo...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cergole-Novella MC,Nishimura LS,Dos Santos LF,Irino K,Vaz TM,Bergamini AM,Guth BE

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rod-shaped Alphaproteobacteria possessing long prosthecae-like appendages have been detected abundantly in biofilms attaching onto anode graphite of cellulose-fed microbial fuel cells (MFCs). To identify their ecological roles, the present study isolated a corresponding bacterium (strain Mfc52) by direct plating of a ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kodama Y,Watanabe K

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria carry a number of genes that cause cell growth arrest or cell lysis upon expression. Notably, defective prophages retain many lysis proteins. Here, we identified a novel lytic gene, ydfD, on the Qin prophage segment of the Escherichia coli genome. YdfD lyses 99.9% of cells within 2 h of its induction. The co-...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Masuda H,Awano N,Inouye M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical responses to cold and osmotic stresses overlap because each decreases the availability of free water. Since RNA-binding proteins are known to accumulate following cold stress and play key roles in regulating transcription termination, the effect of osmotic stress on expression of RNA-binding proteins was e...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mori S,Castoreno A,Mulligan ME,Lammers PJ

更新日期：2003-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The rhl quorum sensing (QS) circuit of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is known to regulate the expression of a number of virulence factors. This study investigates the regulation of rhlI, encoding the auto-inducer synthase RhlI responsible for the synthesis of N-butryl-L-homoserine lactone (BHL). A putative RpoN binding site ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Thompson LS,Webb JS,Rice SA,Kjelleberg S

更新日期：2003-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:This review is devoted to the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in mollicutes (class Bacilli, subclass Mollicutes), the smallest self-replicating bacteria, that can cause diseases in plants, animals and humans, and also contaminate cell cultures and vaccine preparations. Research in this area has been mainly based o...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chernov VM,Chernova OA,Mouzykantov AA,Medvedeva ES,Baranova NB,Malygina TY,Aminov RI,Trushin MV

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monocytes and macrophages are an important host defense in humans infected with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi. Bacterial ability to survive in these cells is therefore a crucial virulence characteristic of this pathogen. In this study, we demonstrate that growth of a Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi enterochelin ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gorbacheva VY,Faundez G,Godfrey HP,Cabello FC

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role in virulence of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae urease activity was investigated. A urease-negative mutant was isolated following transposon mutagenesis with a mini-Tn10 derivative. Both the parent strain and the urease-negative mutant exhibited identical LD50 values in a murine infection model. Pig challenge...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tascón Cabrero RI,Vázquez-Boland JA,Gutiérrez CB,Rodríguez-Barbosa JI,Rodríguez-Ferri EF

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In microbial corrinoid-dependent methyltransferase systems, adventitious Co(I)-corrinoid oxidation halts catalysis and necessitates repair by ATP-dependent reductive activases. RamA, an activase with a C-terminal ferredoxin domain with two [4Fe-4S] clusters from methanogenic archaea, has been far less studied than the...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Huening KA,Jiang R,Krzycki JA

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the enhanced bactericidal activity of ofloxacin in drug-containing Eudragit E100(®) dispersions (EuCl-OFX) against Pseudomonas aeruginosa and the effect of the cationic polymer on bacterial membrane. Organisms treated with EuCl-OFX showed changes in cell morphology, altered outer membrane (OM) and cytoplasm...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Romero VL,Pons P,Bocco JL,Manzo RH,Alovero FL

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focused on the alanine racemase gene (alr-2), which is involved in the synthesis of d-alanine that forms the backbone of the cell wall. A stable alr-2 knockout mutant of Aeromonas hydrophila HBNUAh01 was constructed. When the mutant was supplemented with d-alanine, growth was unaffected; deprivation of d-al...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Liu D,Zhang L,Xue W,Wang Y,Ju J,Zhao B

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brief exposure of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to a temperature of 10 degrees C or lower caused a significant leakage of the periplasmic beta-lactamase into the medium. The extent of leakage increased as the incubation temperature was lowered to 4 degrees C and reached a maximum at 0 degrees C. Cells grown in the presence o...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lei Y,Satake S,Ishii J,Nakae T

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides (Mmm) strain Afadé had previously been shown to undergo spontaneous phase variations between an opaque capsulated variant and a translucent (TR) variant devoid of a capsule but able to secrete cell-free exopolysaccharides. This phase variation is associated with an ON/OFF genetic sw...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gaurivaud P,Lakhdar L,Le Grand D,Poumarat F,Tardy F

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the construction of two broad host range promoter-probe plasmid vectors for rapid analysis of promoters in Gram-negative bacteria. The new vectors, pME4507 and pME4510, carry carbenicillin and gentamycin resistance genes, respectively, and are small sized (4 kb) with a flexible multiple cloning site to facil...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Rist M,Kertesz MA

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteus mirabilis strain MAG1, a clinical isolate that is resistant to broad-spectrum penicillins and co-amoxiclav, produces inhibitor-resistant TEM (IRT)-21, a novel mutant of TEM beta-lactamase. This enzyme has a pI of 5.2 and is derived from the bla(TEM-1a) gene ancestor. It contains two major amino acid substituti...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mammeri H,Gilly L,Laurans G,Vedel G,Eb F,Paul G

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:An internal segment of the penicillin-binding protein gene, pbpA, of Streptomyces griseus was amplified from genomic DNA using the polymerase chain reaction and used as a hybridization probe to isolate the complete gene from a cosmid library. pbpA encodes a 485 amino acid sequence that conserves three motifs of PBPs, ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jiang H,Kendrick KE

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A relatively simple, rapid sample preparation method has been developed for analysis of low-molecular mass compounds present in soluble coal products generated by microbial coal solubilizing agents. Acidification of the sample followed by direct extraction into hexanes is coupled with gas chromatography/mass spectrome...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Toth-Allen J,Torzilli AP,Isbister JD

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncultured archaeal anaerobic methanotrophs (ANMEs) are known to operate the anaerobic oxidation of methane process, an important sink for the greenhouse gas methane in natural environments. In this study, we designed 16S rRNA gene-specific primers for each of the phylogenetic groups of ANMEs (ANME-1, Guaymas Basin hy...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Miyashita A,Mochimaru H,Kazama H,Ohashi A,Yamaguchi T,Nunoura T,Horikoshi K,Takai K,Imachi H

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：:Streptococcus mutans and certain other oral lactic-acid bacteria were found to have the ability to carry out malolactic fermentation involving decarboxylation of L-malate to yield L-lactic acid and concomitant reduction in acidity. The activity was inducible by L-malate in S. mutans UA159 growing in suspensions or bio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sheng J,Marquis RE

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chrysene-degrading bacterium Pseudoxanthomonas sp. PNK-04 was isolated from a coal sample. Three novel metabolites, hydroxyphenanthroic acid, 1-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid and salicylic acid, were identified by TLC, HPLC and MS. Key enzyme activities, namely 1-hydroxy-2-naphthoate hydroxylase, 1,2-dihydroxynaphthalen...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nayak AS,Sanjeev Kumar S,Santosh Kumar M,Anjaneya O,Karegoudar TB

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellulase-producing fungal strain Y-94, isolated in Japan and invalidly described as Acremonium cellulolyticus nom. nud. strain Y-94, seldom forms enteroarthric conidia under nutrient starvation conditions. Phylogenetic analysis using ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 and RNA polymerase II large subunit gene sequences revealed that ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fujii T,Hoshino T,Inoue H,Yano S

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acyl carrier protein (ACP) of Escherichia coli is a small acidic protein which functions as carrier of growing acyl chains during their biosynthesis and as donor of acyl chains during transfer to target molecules. This unique ACP of E. coli is expressed constitutively. In more complex bacteria, multiple ACPs are prese...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Geiger O,López-Lara IM

更新日期：2002-03-05 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 photoinduced bactericidal capacity of TiO(2) based films was evaluated, using as model organism Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Thin films were obtained by spray pyrolysis; they included undoped, Cu doped, and Al doped TiO(2). Scanning electron microscopy was used to observe the final effect of the irradiated films upon t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Amézaga-Madrid P,Nevárez-Moorillón GV,Orrantia-Borunda E,Miki-Yoshida M

更新日期：2002-06-04 00:00:00