Global transcriptional profiles of Staphylococcus aureus treated with berberine chloride.

abstract：:Integrons are bacterial genetic elements capable of capturing and expressing potentially adaptive genetic material. Class 1 integrons constitute the most intensely studied group of these elements to date, mainly due to their well-established role in the acquisition and dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes in c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hardwick SA,Stokes HW,Findlay S,Taylor M,Gillings MR

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix proteins are the driving force of assembly of enveloped viruses. Their main function is to interact with and polymerize at cellular membranes and link other viral components to the matrix-membrane complex resulting in individual particle shapes and ensuring the integrity of the viral particle. Although matrix p...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Timmins J,Ruigrok RW,Weissenhorn W

更新日期：2004-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The TBF-1 is an 11.9-kDa fruiting body specific protein of the Ascomycetes hypogeous fungus Tuber borchii Vittad. found in aqueous extract and the hyphal cell wall. The tbf-1 gene codes a 12-amino acid N-terminal stretch not present in mature protein. This sequence does not match with any homologous signal sequences s...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Palma F,Cerigini E,Stocchi V

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural resistance of wheat plants to wheat sharp eyespot is inadequate, and new strategies for controlling the disease are required. Biological control is an alternative and attractive way of reducing the use of chemicals in agriculture. In this study, we investigated the biocontrol properties of endophytic bacterium...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Xu YB,Chen M,Zhang Y,Wang M,Wang Y,Huang QB,Wang X,Wang G

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) technique was used to develop DNA probes for the identification of ectomycorrhizal fungi belonging to the genus Tuber. RAPD fingerprinting revealed a high degree of interspecific variability and a low degree of intraspecific variability. One band (approximately 1.5 kb), cons...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lanfranco L,Wyss P,Marzachí C,Bonfante P

更新日期：1993-12-15 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：:Bacillus sp. strain CS93, which was previously isolated from Pozol, was previously shown to produce iturin A, bacilysin and chlorotetaine. To investigate the biosynthetic mechanism of chlorotetaine production, the bac genes were amplified from genomic DNA of Bacillus sp. CS93 by PCR and sequenced. The genes bacABCDE w...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Moran S,Robertson K,Paradisi F,Rai DK,Murphy CD

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atypical psychrophilic Aeromonas salmonicida isolates were obtained from farmed and wild fish in Northeastern North America. These bacteria were isolated between 1992 and 2001 and carried tetracycline resistance (Tc(r)) plasmids of approximately 58 kb. The nine isolates had plasmids which could be divided into four gr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Casas C,Anderson EC,Ojo KK,Keith I,Whelan D,Rainnie D,Roberts MC

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mosquitocidal crystal protein, Cry19Aa, from Bacillus thuringiensis ssp. jegathesan, has high toxicity to Anopheles stephensi and Culex pipiens but is less toxic to Aedes aegypti. To study the functional role of putative domain II and surface residues in mosquito toxicity, 16 alanine substitution mutations were in...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Roh JY,Nair MS,Liu XS,Dean DH

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This commentary describes an assessment exercise known as the TRIPSE (Tri-Partite Problem Solving Exercise) that mimics science in operation. Students frame hypotheses based on limited data, design experiments to test them, which they later revise with new information. It is emphasised that there are no single correct...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nastos S,Rangachari PK

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An open reading frame located in the tyrB-uvrA intergenic region of the Escherichia coli MG1655 chromosome was identified as encoding the class B acid phosphatase of this species on the basis of cloning and expression experiments. A protocol for purification of the enzyme (named AphA) was developed, and its properties...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Thaller MC,Schippa S,Bonci A,Cresti S,Rossolini GM

更新日期：1997-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this work was to analyze the effects of thermosonication (TS) on induction of a viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state in Salmonella Typhimurium and to examine incubation factors affecting subsequent resuscitation of cells. A TS treatment of 380 W at 53°C for 30 min induced the VBNC state in S. Typhim...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Liao H,Jiang L,Zhang R

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus cereus is becoming one of the more important causes of food poisoning in the industrialised world. It produces one emetic toxin and three different enterotoxins. The emetic toxin is a ring-shaped structure of three repeats of four amino and/or oxy acids: [D-O-Leu-D-Ala-L-O-Val-L-Val]3. This ring structure has...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Granum PE,Lund T

更新日期：1997-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of the antiseptic-resistance genes qacE and qacE delta 1 was studied in a large number of Gram-negative bacteria by a method that included the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). A total of 117 strains of Gram-negative bacteria, isolated from clinical or environmental sources, was used in this analysis. ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kazama H,Hamashima H,Sasatsu M,Arai T

更新日期：1998-02-15 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：:Yeast two-hybrid and Far Western analyses were used to detect interactions between Bacillus subtilis spores' nutrient germinant receptor proteins and proteins encoded by the spoVA operon, all of which are involved in spore germination and located in the spores' inner membrane. These analyses indicated that two subunit...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Vepachedu VR,Setlow P

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-free protein synthesis has emerged in recent years as a powerful tool that can potentially transform the production of recombinant proteins. Cell-free protein synthesis harnesses the synthetic power of living cells while eliminating many of the constraints of traditional cell-based gene expression methods. Due to...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lee KH,Kim DM

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of bacterial strains formerly known as CDC group M-5 are opportunistic pathogens to humans. In 1993, a name, Neisseria weaveri, was proposed by two independent studies to harbor CDC group M-5 strains, namely N. weaveri Holmes et al. 1993 and N. weaveri Andersen et al. 1993, with two different 'type' strains. H...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yi H,Cho YJ,Yoon SH,Park SC,Chun J

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The small heat shock protein (smHsp) Lo18 from lactic acid bacteria Oenococcus oeni reduces in vitro thermal aggregation of proteins and modulates the membrane fluidity of native liposomes. An absence of information relating to the way in which the smHsp demonstrates a stabilizing effect for both proteins and membrane...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Weidmann S,Rieu A,Rega M,Coucheney F,Guzzo J

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three tri-substituted spermidines, di-p-coumaroyl-caffeoylspermidine, tri-caffeoylspermidine and tri-p-coumaroylspermidine, isolated from pollen of Quercus alba, were examined for antifungal activity. Both di-p-coumaroyl-caffeoylspermidine and tri-p-coumaroylspermidine reduced mycelial growth of the oat leaf stripe pa...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Walters D,Meurer-Grimes B,Rovira I

更新日期：2001-07-24 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：:The applicability of different PCR-based techniques, random amplified polymorphic DNA, cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence and SSRs (simple sequence repeats) to genetically identify, typify and discriminate among Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains, was investigated. The analysis and comparison of the genetic profiles...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pérez MA,Gallego FJ,Hidalgo P

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolate NJ-101 obtained from agricultural soil was characterized and presumptively identified as Pseudomonas sp. The isolate exhibited efficient degradation of the insecticide carbofuran with a rate constant of 0.035 day(-1), following first-order rate kinetics. The ability of performing multifarious biological ac...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bano N,Musarrat J

更新日期：2004-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus parasiticus (255), a non-toxigenic isolate showed the presence of secondary metabolites-aflatoxins (B1, B2, G1, G2) when grown in yeast extract sucrose media but not in basal media, thus demonstrating its toxigenic potential. Native PAGE of the crude protein isolated at different growth periods of A. paras...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Shashidhar J,Sashidhar RB,Deshpande V

更新日期：2005-10-01 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：:Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis (M. paratuberculosis), the causative agent of Johne's disease, is an important animal pathogen that has also been implicated in human disease. The major proteins expressed by M. paratuberculosis were analyzed by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, and a superoxide dismutase (...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Liu X,Feng Z,Harris NB,Cirillo JD,Bercovier H,Barletta RG

更新日期：2001-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii rosR gene encodes a transcriptional regulator involved in the positive regulation of exopolysaccharide synthesis. Transcription of rosR is directed by two promoters, distal P1 and proximal P2, of different strengths. We demonstrated that rosR P1 functions as the main promoter and, ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Janczarek M,Skorupska A

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus johnsonii La1 (La1) is a probiotic strain capable of stimulating the immune system of the host and interfering with gastrointestinal pathogens. This study evaluates how the ingestion of different amounts of La1 influences the main bacterial populations of the fecal microbiota. Eight asymptomatic voluntee...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Garrido D,Suau A,Pochart P,Cruchet S,Gotteland M

更新日期：2005-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovine footrot is a debilitating and highly infectious disease that is primarily caused by the Gram-negative, anaerobic bacterium Dichelobacter nodosus. The major antigens implicated in virulence are the type IV fimbriae and extracellular proteases. The fimbriae show sequence and structural similarity to other type IV ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Billington SJ,Johnston JL,Rood JI

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pFL10 plasmid vector for translational fusions was constructed. pFL10 is based in the promiscuous pLS1 replicon and contains the pC194 cat gene deprived of its transcriptional promoter and Shine-Dalgarno (SD) sequence. Three promoters (Pcit, PpolA and PtetL) from Gram-positive bacteria, inserted in pFL10, were tes...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： López de Felipe F,Corrales MA,López P

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00