Confirmation by using mutant strains that the membrane-bound H(+)-ATPase is the major source of non-linear dielectricity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

abstract：:The denitrifying bacterium Thauera aromatica strain AR-1 grows anaerobically with protocatechuate (3,4-dihydroxybenzoate (DHB)) as sole energy and carbon source. This bacterium harbors two distinct pathways for degradation of aromatic compounds, the benzoyl-coenzyme A (CoA) pathway for benzoate degradation and the hyd...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Philipp B,Kemmler D,Hellstern J,Gorny N,Caballero A,Schink B

更新日期：2002-06-18 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：: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：:The enteric microogranisms Salmonella, Escherichia coli and Shigella flexneri prefer to grow in neutral pH environments. They nevertheless experience dramatic pH fluctuations in nature and during pathogenesis. In response to environmental encounters with acid, these organisms have evolved complex, inducible acid survi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bearson S,Bearson B,Foster JW

更新日期：1997-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Coxiella is a genus of obligate intracellular bacteria engaged in a variety of interactions with eukaryotes. The type species, Coxiella burnetii, infects several vertebrate species, including humans, and is the causative agent of Q fever. Multiple copies of a specific transposable element, the insertion sequence IS111...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Duron O

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the commercial strains of Flammulina velutipes was analyzed for the presence of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) elements to examine the underlying mechanism of strain degeneration. As a result, two dsRNA elements sized 1.9 and 1.8 kb were detected in mycelium derived from spontaneously brown-colored fruit body. The...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Magae Y,Hayashi N

更新日期：1999-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve strains of Candida albicans were grown in defined medium which had been deferrated by ion-exchange chromatography and then supplemented with FeCl3 to give iron concentrations ranging from 0.026 microM (growth-limiting) to 0.8 microM (excess). All of the strains secreted hydroxamate-type siderophores; phenolate ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sweet SP,Douglas LJ

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary structure of a bacteriocin produced by Enterococcus hirae DCH5 was determined by combined amino acid and DNA sequencing. Nucleotide analysis of a 2838-bp DNA fragment of E. hirae DCH5 revealed five putative ORFs. The first orf (hirJM79) encodes a 74-amino-acid peptide containing an N-terminal signal peptid...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sánchez J,Diep DB,Herranz C,Nes IF,Cintas LM,Hernández PE

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the single rRNA gene cluster from the Archaeon, Pyrococcus furiosus. This isolate grows optimally at 100 degrees C and is thus a hyperthermophile. In P. furiosus, transcription of 16S rRNA is subject to regulation over a 7.5-fold range in response to a 20-fold increase in growth rate. The single cluste...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： DiRuggiero J,Achenbach LA,Brown SH,Kelly RM,Robb FT

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cold shock domain (CSD)-containing protein, CspD, of molecular mass ~7.28 kDa in a psychrotolerant Antarctic Janthinobacterium sp. Ant5-2 (ATCC BAA-2154) exhibited constitutive expression at 37, 22, 15, 4 and -1°C. The cspD gene encoding the CspD protein of Ant5-2 was cloned, sequenced and analyzed. The deduced prot...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mojib N,Andersen DT,Bej AK

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：:Plastocyanin, encoded by the petE gene, can transfer electrons to photosystem I (PSI) and cytochrome c oxidase during photosynthetic and respiratory metabolism in cyanobacteria. We constructed a petE mutant of Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 and investigated its phenotypic properties under different light conditions...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wang XQ,Jiang HB,Zhang R,Qiu BS

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enteric conjugative transposon-like IncJ elements R391, R392, R705, R706 and pMERPH, all demonstrated increased conjugative transfer upon UV irradiation. The transfer frequency increased on average from its basal rate of 10(-5) to 10(-3) per recipient, upon pre-exposure to UV irradiation. However, the transfer fre...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： McGrath BM,O'Halloran JA,Pembroke JT

更新日期：2005-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera epidemics caused by Vibrio cholerae 01 continue to represent a major public health concern in many developing countries. A rapid and simple test kit for the detection of V. cholerae 01 has been developed. The kit, CholeraScreen is a monoclonal antibody-based, co-agglutination test and is used directly with sto...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Colwell RR,Hasan JA,Huq A,Loomis L,Siebeling RJ,Torres M,Galvez S,Islam S,Tamplin MT,Bernstein D

更新日期：1992-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that efficient functioning of photosynthesis and respiration in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803 requires the presence of either cytochrome c6 or plastocyanin. In order to check whether the blue copper protein plastocyanin can act as electron donor to cytochrome c oxidase, we investigated th...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Paumann M,Bernroitner M,Lubura B,Peer M,Jakopitsch C,Furtmüller PG,Peschek GA,Obinger C

更新日期：2004-10-15 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：:A growing body of evidence implicates streptococcal and staphylococcal superantigens in the development of psoriasis, atopic dermatitis and Kawasaki syndrome. In each of these illnesses, an abnormal state of immunologic activity is observed. Superantigens, which have a unique ability to activate large numbers of lymph...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yarwood JM,Leung DY,Schlievert PM

更新日期：2000-11-01 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：:Transposon mini-Tn7 vectors insert into the chromosome of several Gram-negative bacteria in a site-specific manner. Here, we showed the application of mini-Tn7 as single copy site-specific integration vector system for Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris. The transposition of the mini-Tn7 into the bacterial genome w...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jittawuttipoka T,Buranajitpakorn S,Fuangthong M,Schweizer HP,Vattanaviboon P,Mongkolsuk S

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the role of Listeria monocytogenes ferritin was investigated. The fri gene encoding the ferritin was deleted and the phenotype of the mutant was analyzed demonstrating that ferritin is necessary for optimal growth in minimal medium in both presence and absence of iron, as well as after cold- and heat-sh...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dussurget O,Dumas E,Archambaud C,Chafsey I,Chambon C,Hébraud M,Cossart P

更新日期：2005-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene product with an apparent molecular mass of approximately 39,000 Da can be identified in the cytoplasmic membrane of Escherichia coli upon expression of cloned envC. In this communication we report that the product was labelled with [3H]glycerol and [3H]palmitic acid, and a precursor molecule of increased molecu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Seiffer D,Klein JR,Plapp R

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Agona is an important zoonotic pathogen, causing serious human illness worldwide, but knowledge about its genetics and evolution, especially regarding the genomic events that might have contributed to the formation of S. Agona as an important pathogen, is lacking. As a first step toward und...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chen F,Poppe C,Liu GR,Li YG,Peng YH,Sanderson KE,Johnston RN,Liu SL

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：:To investigate the generality of efficient double-strand break repair and damage-induced mutagenesis in hyperthermophilic archaea, we systematically measured the effects of five DNA-damaging agents on Sulfolobus acidocaldarius and compared the results to those obtained for Escherichia coli under corresponding conditio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Reilly MS,Grogan DW

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Three 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes, namely, PSMg437 targeting several members of the genus Pseudomonas, Hlm474 targeting several members of the genus Halomonas, and Clw844 targeting several members of the genus Colwellia, were designed. The microbial community structure and nitrogen removal ability of nitr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yoshie S,Noda N,Tsuneda S,Hirata A,Inamori Y

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both form I and II ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO) genes were detected in Thiobacillus intermedius by heterologous hybridization using specific probes from Anacystis nidulans and Rhodobacter sphaeroides, respectively. However, only the previously reported form I enzyme could be demonstrated i...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Stoner MT,Shively JM

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding and hemagglutinating activities of the B subunit(s) of the heat-labile enterotoxin (LTh-B) isolated from human enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli were investigated. The binding of 125I-labeled LTh-B to neuraminidase-treated human type B erythrocytes was most effectively inhibited by ganglioside GM1. A number...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sugii S,Tsuji T

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Probiotics are known for their health-promoting abilities through the production of various metabolites, and also benefits are membrane associated. Probiotic Enterococcus faecalis AG5 has been previously assessed for its probiotic properties and this study further strengthens that claim. Strain AG5 was inoculated with...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mishra AK,Kumar SS,Ghosh AR

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we have investigated the ability of nonencapsulated, nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae, NT477 to survive in the J774 mouse macrophage-like cell line. Viable, intracellular nontypeable H. influenzae could still be recovered from macrophages 72 h after phagocytosis. In contrast, H. influenzae strain Rd, a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Craig JE,Cliffe A,Garnett K,High NJ

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins which are secreted or associated with the cell envelope of Mycobacterium tuberculosis may contain protective T-cell epitopes. Prior to this study, a recombinant clone bank of enzymatically active M. tuberculosis-alkaline phosphatase fusions, were screened for immunogenicity in a murine T-cell model. Five of t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Moran AJ,Doran JL,Wu J,Treit JD,Ekpo P,Kerr VJ,Roberts AD,Orme IM,Galant S,Ress SR,Nano FE

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00