Predicting sigma28 promoters in eleven Shewanella genomes.

abstract：:A gene fusion between the Saccharomyces cerevisiae actin gene promoter and the cDNA of the Fusarium solani f. sp. pisi pelA gene has been constructed. This expression cassette has been introduced into the industrial wine yeast strain T73. The resulting recombinant strain is able to secrete active PELA enzyme into the ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： González-Candelas L,Cortell A,Ramon D

更新日期：1995-03-01 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：:In this study, we evaluated if recA species-specific PCR assays could be successfully applied to identify environmental isolates of the widespread Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) species. A total of 729 Bcc rhizosphere isolates collected in different samplings were assigned to the species B. cepacia genomovar I (61...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dalmastri C,Pirone L,Tabacchioni S,Bevivino A,Chiarini L

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces netropsis SD-07, the producer of novel polyene macrolide antifungal antibiotics, was isolated from soil. For the investigation of the functions of its biosynthesis genes and regulation mechanisms, a genetic operating system is necessary. In this study, we successfully transferred the plasmid DNA of pSET15...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wang XK,Jin JL

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aecA and aecB loci map at 250 and 290 degrees, respectively, on the Bacillus subtilis chromosomal genetic map. The aecB locus has been proposed as the structural gene for aspartokinase II. From DNA sequence analyses and comparisons to the sequence of the aspartokinase II gene, it can be concluded that the structur...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Petricek M,Rutberg L,Hederstedt L

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FlgM inhibits the flagella-specific sigma factor FliA and is involved in the mouse-virulence of Salmonella typhimurium. In recent experiments, we observed that: (i) a flgM gene that could function to negatively regulate flagella synthesis was present in a variety of salmonellae; and (ii) the flgM gene derived from Sal...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Schmitt CK,Darnell SC,O'Brien AD

更新日期：1996-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a multiplex PCR to detect the presence of methicillin- (mecA), cadmium/zinc-(czrC) and antiseptic-resistant (qacA/B) staphylococci and to identify Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL)-positive and -negative Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) from infected and healthy eyes. The ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Panda S,Kar S,Choudhury R,Sharma S,Singh DV

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An accurate monitoring of disease progression is important to evaluate disease susceptibility phenotypes. Over the years, Arabidopsis thaliana has become the model species to serve as a host in plant-pathogen interactions. Despite the efforts to study genetic mechanisms of host defense, little efforts are made for a t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Brouwer M,Lievens B,Van Hemelrijck W,Van den Ackerveken G,Cammue BP,Thomma BP

更新日期：2003-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Piscirickettsia salmonis is the etiological agent of Salmonid Rickettsial Septicemia, a disease affecting salmon aquaculture industry. We analyzed the 16S-23S rDNA spacer region (internal transcribed spacer, ITS) of Chilean P. salmonis isolates LF-89 and EM-90. Two main ITS amplification products were obtained by PCR ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Casanova A,Obreque J,Sandino AM,Jashés M

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alternative sigma factor sigmaH has been shown to play an important role in stress response and morphological differentiation in Streptomyces coelicolor. Its gene, sigH, is located in an operon with the gene encoding proposed anti-sigma factor UshX, and one of the promoters directing expression of the operon is de...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sevcikova B,Kormanec J

更新日期：2002-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Herbaspirillum seropedicae strains mutated in the nifX or orf1 genes showed 90% or 50% reduction in nitrogenase activity under low levels of iron or molybdenum respectively. Mutations in nifX or orf1 genes did not affect nif gene expression since a nifH::lacZ fusion was fully active in both mutants. nifX and the conti...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Klassen G,de Oliveira Pedrosa F,de Souza EM,Yates MG,Rigo LU

更新日期：2003-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We devised a screening method to obtain basidiomycetous fungi capable of degrading dioxins. About 200 fungal strains were selected from more than 1500 strains by their ability to decolorize Remazol brilliant blue R dye as an indicator. To attempt to eliminate the factor of dioxin sorption by mycelia, we prepared two s...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sato A,Watanabe T,Watanabe Y,Harazono K,Fukatsu T

更新日期：2002-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A characteristic feature of fungal hypha is the presence of large number of nuclei in a common cytoplasmic environment. Where it has been examined, the coenocytic mycelium is commonly heterokaryotic. The nuclei cooperate, compete or combat. It is proposed that in addition to their classical role in heredity, supernume...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Maheshwari R

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a DNA microarray for identification of Bacillus anthracis and other phylogenetic groupings within the "Bacillus cereus group". Nucleotide sequences of 16S-23S ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacers containing genes for tRNA(Ile) from 52 B. anthracis strains were found to be identical to sequences from...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nübel U,Schmidt PM,Reiss E,Bier F,Beyer W,Naumann D

更新日期：2004-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Type IV secretion systems are employed by a wide variety of Gram-negative microorganisms for the translocation of macromolecules across the cell envelope. The translocated substrates (proteins, protein-DNA complexes and DNA) are as diverse as the organisms on the donor and recipient side of the translocation process. ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Baron C

更新日期：2005-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme linked immune sorbent assay (ELISA) was developed to measure bacterial surface lipoteichoic acid (LTA). Numerous strains of oral streptococci belonging to the 'viridans' group were examined on three separate occasions. The results show that, under these cultural conditions, oral streptococci do not normally ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hogg SD,Manning JE

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corynebacterium diphtheriae, generally considered an extracellular coloniser, was evaluated for its ability to enter and survive within HEp-2 monolayers by gentamicin protection assay. Intracellular viability of HC01 strain, isolated from endocarditis, was more expressive (2.59%) than observed in 241 (0.21%) and CDC-E...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hirata R,Napoleão F,Monteiro-Leal LH,Andrade AF,Nagao PE,Formiga LC,Fonseca LS,Mattos-Guaraldi AL

更新日期：2002-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A chromosomal DNA fragment from Streptomyces antibioticus ATCC11891 was isolated by its ability to stimulate actinorhodin and undecylprodigiosin biosynthesis in Streptomyces lividans TK21. This fragment includes two open reading frames, whose deduced translated products resemble enzymes involved in sulfur metabolism (...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Scheu AK,Martínez E,Soliveri J,Malpartida F

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have generated interest in the use of the homologous recombination system of bacteriophage lambda for genetic engineering. The system, called Red, consists primarily of three proteins: lambda exonuclease, which processively digests the 5'-ended strand of a dsDNA end; beta protein, which binds to ssDNA a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Poteete AR

更新日期：2001-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Cry4Ba is a delta-endotoxin produced by Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis and Cyt2Aa2 is a cytolytic delta-endotoxin produced by B. thuringiensis subsp. darmstadiensis. Cry4Ba produced in Escherichia coli was toxic to Aedes aegypti larvae (LC(50)=140 ng ml(-1)) but virtually inactive to Culex quinquefasciatus ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Promdonkoy B,Promdonkoy P,Panyim S

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The argH gene encoding argininosuccinate lyase (ASL) of Methanococcus maripaludis was cloned on a 4.7-kb HindIII genomic fragment. The gene is preceded by a short open reading frame (ORF149), which encodes a polypeptide with an unknown function. The two genes are co-transcribed. The ASL of M. maripaludis shares a high...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cohen-Kupiec R,Kupiec M,Sandbeck K,Leigh JA

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The classical monomeric autotransporters are ubiquitously used by Gram-negative bacteria to export virulence and colonization factors to their cell surface or into their surroundings. They are expressed as monomeric proteins that pass the inner and outer membrane in two consecutive steps facilitated by the Sec translo...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： van Ulsen P,Zinner KM,Jong WSP,Luirink J

更新日期：2018-09-01 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：:We analyzed gel electrophoretic banding patterns of penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) of 16 type strains of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS). S. epidermidis, S. haemolyticus, S. saprophyticus, S. hominis, S. xylosus, S. simulans, S. warneri, S. capitis, S. saccharolyticus, S. auricularis, S. caseolyticus, S. ga...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kanda K,Hiramatsu K,Yokota T

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A plasmid has been constructed which is a bifunctional vector for Escherichia coli and for streptomycetes, containing the cos site of Streptomyces phage phi C31. It can be efficiently transduced into S. lividans 66 and into several other Streptomyces species. The nucleotide sequence of a 311-bp DNA fragment containing...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kobler L,Schwertfirm G,Schmieger H,Bolotin A,Sladkova I

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene expression system for both Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli was developed. The expression vector, pHASH102, produces any combination of promoter and open reading frame to be expressed based on the T-extended cloning method. Because the pHASH series vectors are designed to shuttle between the genome and a ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ohashi Y,Ohshima H,Tsuge K,Itaya M

更新日期：2003-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A high-level expression system for the Escherichia coli HB101 gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase (GGT) gene was constructed to obtain a sufficient amount of the enzyme for structural studies. About 300 mg of the enzyme was purified from 2 1 of culture broth. Both subunits were needed to reconstitute GGT activity. The E. col...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ishiye M,Niwa M

更新日期：1992-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A metagenomic approach was taken to investigate the genetic basis for the ability of an anaerobic consortium to grow on either 4-chlorobenzoate or 4-bromobenzoate under denitrifying conditions. Degenerate PCR primers were designed for the family of 4-chlorobenzoyl-CoA dehalogenase genes. The primers were utilized to s...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chae JC,Song B,Zylstra GJ

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ascomycetous black yeasts Hortaea werneckii, Phaeotheca triangularis, and Trimmatostroma salinum are halophilic fungi that inhabit hypersaline water of solar salterns. They are characterized by slow, meristematic growth and very thick, darkly pigmented cell walls. The dark pigment, generally thought to be melanin,...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kogej T,Wheeler MH,Lanisnik Rizner T,Gunde-Cimerman N

更新日期：2004-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A newly isolated strain of Variovorax paradoxus could grow on homovanillate and several monohydroxylated phenylacetic acids. During growth on homovanillate, the organism formed separate NAD(P)H-dependent hydroxylases with activity towards 4-hydroxyphenylacetic acid and homovanillate. Homovanillate hydroxylase catalyse...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Allison N,Turner JE,Wait R

更新日期：1995-12-15 00:00:00