Efficient screening for astaxanthin-overproducing mutants of the yeast Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous by flow cytometry.

abstract：:The effect of coumarin (1,2 benzopyrone) on glucose utilisation by the anaerobic rumen fungi Neocallimastix frontalis and N. patriciarum has been compared with the effect of p-coumaric acid. Both compounds largely inhibited glucose utilisation by N. patriciarum strain Cx when present in the medium at a concentration o...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cansunar E,Richardson AJ,Wallace G,Stewart CS

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three (0140J, C197C and EF20) out of four strains of Streptococcus uberis exhibited high levels of bound plasmin activity following growth in the presence of bovine plasminogen. The remaining strain (C197) bound considerably less plasmin following growth in the same medium. In contrast to the others, this strain was u...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Leigh JA,Lincoln RA

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile, a Gram-positive spore-forming anaerobe, causes infections in humans ranging from mild diarrhoeal to potentially life-threatening pseudomembranous colitis. The availability of genomic information for a range of C. difficile strains affords researchers the opportunity to better understand not only...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jain S,Graham RL,McMullan G,Ternan NG

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present evidence that the anthrax toxin lethal factor binds multiple zinc atoms. Results from atomic adsorption spectroscopy indicate that lethal factor contains approximately three zinc atoms per toxin molecule. Lethal factor treated with EDTA and o-phenanthroline contained a similar number of zinc atoms, indicati...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kochi SK,Schiavo G,Mock M,Montecucco C

更新日期：1994-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a novel verocytotoxin named VT2y was described which belongs to the STx family and is produced by Escherichia coli isolated from domestic poultry with swollen head syndrome (SHS). The VT2y toxin induced apoptosis in Vero, HeLa, CHO, CEF (primary chicken embryo fibroblast) and PCK (primary chicken kidney) cel...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Salvadori MR,Yamada AT,Yano T

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tn4560 (8.6 kb) was derived from Tn4556, a Tn3-like element from Streptomyces fradiae. It contains a viomycin resistance gene that has not been used previously for selection in mycobacteria. Tn4560, cloned in a Streptomyces plasmid, was introduced by electroporation into Mycobacterium smegmatis mc(2)155. Tn4560 transp...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bhatt A,Stewart GR,Kieser T

更新日期：2002-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-linear dielectric spectroscopy is a novel technique for determining the activity of (predominantly) membranous enzymes as their ability to generate harmonics when excited with a sinusoidal electrical field. In washed suspensions of yeast cells, the ability to generate harmonics is inhibited by low concentrations o...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Woodward AM,Kell DB

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report for the first time the production of acyl homoserine lactones (AHLs) by Erwina amylovora, an important quarantine bacterial pathogen that causes fire blight in plants. E. amylovora produces one N-acyl homoserine lactone [a N-(3-oxo-hexanoyl)-homoserine lactone or a N-(3-hydroxy-hexanoyl)-homoserine lactone] ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Venturi V,Venuti C,Devescovi G,Lucchese C,Friscina A,Degrassi G,Aguilar C,Mazzucchi U

更新日期：2004-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the genetic basis of minocycline resistance in a strain of Streptococcus infantis isolated from a healthy human oral cavity. We demonstrate that tet(S), identical to tet(S) found on the enterococcal conjugative transposon Tn6000, is responsible for the observed resistance. The gene is located on a s...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ciric L,Brouwer MS,Mullany P,Roberts AP

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the discriminatory power of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) for detecting subtle differences in isogenic isolates, we tested isogenic strains of Staphylococcus aureus differing in their expression of resistance to methicillin or teicoplanin. More i...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Majcherczyk PA,McKenna T,Moreillon P,Vaudaux P

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hybridized DNA fragment was cloned as a 7.6-kb fragment from Streptomyces lavendulae KCCS0263 using a 1.9-kb SacI-XbaI DNA fragment from S. cellulosae as a probe. The latter fragment encoded a beta-lactamase which can bind blue dextran. The hybridized region was reduced to a 2.8-kb KpnI-BclI fragment and the nucleot...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sendouda A,Urabe H,Ogawara H

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella usually carry two highly homologous genes (omp2a and omp2b) for porin-like proteins. In several B. abortus biovars the omp2a gene has a large deletion compared to other Brucella omp2's. In this study we have measured Omp2 pore activity in planar bilayers. Omp2b exhibits well-defined trimeric channel activity ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mobasheri H,Ficht TA,Marquis H,Lea EJ,Lakey JH

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand their mechanism of antimicrobial activity against Gram-negative bacteria, ostrich beta-defensins, ostricacins-1 and 2 (Osp-1 and Osp-2), were compared with those of sheep myeloid antimicrobial peptide (SMAP)-29 and human neutrophil peptide (HNP)-1, well-characterized sheep alpha-helical and human alpha-d...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sugiarto H,Yu PL

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In haloarchaea, a cluster of three genes is localized directly adjacent to the major replication origin, and, hence, the encoded proteins were annotated as 'origin-associated proteins' (Oap). However, prior to this study, no experimental data were available for these conserved hypothetical proteins. Bioinformatic anal...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wolters M,Borst A,Pfeiffer F,Soppa J

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophages infecting Salmonella spp. were isolated from sewage using soft agar overlays containing three Salmonella serovars and assessed with regard to their potential to control food-borne salmonellae. Two distinct phages, as defined by plaque morphology, structure and host range, were obtained from a single sam...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Carey-Smith GV,Billington C,Cornelius AJ,Hudson JA,Heinemann JA

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viable counts and activities of sulfate-reducing bacteria were determined in the oral cavities of 12 healthy volunteers. Of these, 10 harboured viable sulfate-reducing bacteria populations. Six separate sites were sampled: the posterior tongue, anterior tongue, mid buccal mucosa, vestibular mucosa, supragingival plaqu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Willis CL,Gibson GR,Allison C,Macfarlane S,Holt JS

更新日期：1995-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A molecular cloning strategy has been designed to isolate the gene that encodes the small cytoplasmic RNA (scRNA) component of bacterial signal recognition particles. Using this strategy a putative Listeria monocytogenes scRNA lambda gt11 recombinant clone was isolated. A previously described complementation assay dev...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Barry T,Kelly M,Glynn B,Peden J

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma fermentans has been reported to be pathogenic for man. All fourteen strains tested contain an insertion sequence-like element (ISLE) which may be present in multiple copies. To determine whether ISLE copies are similarly distributed in different strains of M. fermentans, restriction enzyme digest fragments ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pitcher D,Hilbocus J

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, the homology relationships among fragments amplified by ERIC (Enterobacterial Repetitive Intergenic Consensus) and REP (Repetitive Extragenic Palindromic) primers in Drechslera avenae and Stemphylium solani causing leaf blotch and black spot of oats and leaf blight of cotton, respectively, were i...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mehta A,Mehta YR,Rosato YB

更新日期：2002-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of 14 Lactobacillus strains, isolated from fermented dry sausages, to transfer tetracycline resistance encoded by tet(M) through conjugation was examined using filter mating experiments. Seven out of 14 tetracycline-resistant Lactobacillus isolates were able to transfer in vitro this resistance to Enteroco...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gevers D,Huys G,Swings J

更新日期：2003-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes is a facultative intracellular pathogen responsible for both invasive and non-invasive food-borne illness in animals and humans. In this study, macrorestriction analysis following pulsed-field gel electrophoresis was used to show that Listeria monocytogenes serovar 1/2a strain EGD has a single c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： von Both U,Otten S,Darbouche A,Domann E,Chakraborty T

更新日期：1999-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a glnII (encoding glutamine synthetase II) PCR selective screening, a Frankia ACN14a gene library clone was isolated. A derived glnII-hybridising 2.7-kb HindIII subclone was characterised. Identities of 95% and 93% were observed, respectively, with the corresponding Frankia CpI1 glnI and glnII regions. A variabl...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cournoyer B,Lavire C

更新日期：1999-08-01 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：:Carboxy (C)-terminal processing proteases (CTP) are a relatively new group of serine proteases. Found in a broad range of organisms - bacteria, archaea, algae, plants and animals - these proteases are involved in the C-terminal processing of proteins. In comparison with amino-terminal processing of bacterial proteins,...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hoge R,Laschinski M,Jaeger KE,Wilhelm S,Rosenau F

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although very little, if any, beta-galactosidase activity is detected in Yersinia pestis by a standard Miller assay, we found that Y. pestis KIM6+ cells formed blue colonies on plates containing 5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl-beta-D-galactoside (X-gal). Searches of the Y. pestis genome databases revealed the presence of n...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bobrov AG,Perry RD

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodic evolution of H(2)S during aerobic chemostat culture of Saccharomyces cerevisiae resulted in ultradian metabolic oscillation via periodic inhibition of respiratory activity. To understand the nature of periodic H(2)S evolution, we investigated whether oxidative stress is associated with H(2)S production. The c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kwak WJ,Kwon GS,Jin I,Kuriyama H,Sohn HY

更新日期：2003-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:FNR is an iron-binding transcriptional regulator of Escherichia coli which controls the expression of target genes in response to anaerobiosis. The mechanism used by FNR to sense and respond to anaerobiosis is unknown but it is thought to involve iron. In vitro transcription analyses have shown that iron-deficient FNR...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Green J,Guest JR

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have observed significant cell lysis upon temperature up-shift of recombinant Escherichia coli cultures harboring CI857-repressed lambda-based expression vectors. This event, that becomes evident about 30-40 min after the heat shock, takes place when using the lambda promoter system in Ind- lysogenic strains, but n...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hoffmann F,Arís A,Carbonell X,Rohde M,Corchero JL,Rinas U,Villaverde A

更新日期：1999-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular copper routing in Enterococcus hirae is accomplished by the CopZ copper chaperone. Under copper stress, CopZ donates Cu(+) to the CopY repressor, thereby releasing its bound zinc and abolishing repressor-DNA interaction. This in turn induces the expression of the cop operon, which encodes CopY and CopZ, ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Stoyanov JV,Mancini S,Lu ZH,Mourlane F,Poulsen KR,Wimmer R,Solioz M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the phylum Bacteroidetes, the gyrB gene, encoding for the B subunit of the DNA gyrase, has been used as a phylogenetic marker for several genera closely related to Flavobacterium. The phylogenies of the complete 16S rRNA gene and the gyrB gene were compared for 33 Antarctic Flavobacterium isolates and 23 type s...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Peeters K,Willems A

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00