An electricity-generating prosthecate bacterium strain Mfc52 isolated from a microbial fuel cell.

abstract：:Paracoccus pantotrophus grown anaerobically under denitrifying conditions expressed similar levels of the periplasmic nitrate reductase (NAP) when cultured in molybdate- or tungstate-containing media. A native PAGE gel stained for nitrate reductase activity revealed that only NapA from molybdate-grown cells displayed ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gates AJ,Hughes RO,Sharp SR,Millington PD,Nilavongse A,Cole JA,Leach ER,Jepson B,Richardson DJ,Butler CS

更新日期：2003-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-six strains of S. thermophilus were examined for their plasmid content. Thirteen strains were found to contain one or two plasmids ranging in size from 2.1 to 7.4 kb. DNA-DNA hybridization analysis revealed the presence of five distinct groups of DNA homology. The complete nucleotide sequence of plasmid pST1 (A...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Janzen T,Kleinschmidt J,Neve H,Geis A

更新日期：1992-08-15 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：:Spores of Bacillus species have novel properties, which allow them to lie dormant for years and then germinate under favourable conditions. In the current work, the role of a key metabolic integrator, coenzyme A (CoA), in redox regulation of growing cells and during spore formation in Bacillus megaterium and Bacillus ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhyvoloup A,Yu BYK,Baković J,Davis-Lunn M,Tossounian MA,Thomas N,Tsuchiya Y,Peak-Chew SY,Wigneshweraraj S,Filonenko V,Skehel M,Setlow P,Gout I

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibacterial effects in terms of biofilm formation and swarming motility were studied using polyacrylate plates having protruding or recessed shark skin micropatterned surfaces with a shallow groove (2 μm pattern width and spacing, 0.4 μm pattern height). It was found that biofilm formation and swarming motility of P...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sakamoto A,Terui Y,Horie C,Fukui T,Masuzawa T,Sugawara S,Shigeta K,Shigeta T,Igarashi K,Kashiwagi K

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of the gene transfer agent of Rhodobacter capsulatus, RcGTA, is dependent upon several cellular regulatory systems, including a putative phosphorelay involving the CtrA and CckA proteins. These proteins are also involved in flagellar motility in R. capsulatus. The interactions of proteins in this system are...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mercer RG,Quinlan M,Rose AR,Noll S,Beatty JT,Lang AS

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：:Diesel fuel is a common environmental pollutant comprised of a large number of both aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbons. The microbial degradation of individual hydrocarbons has been well characterized, however, the community dynamics within a system degrading a complex pollutant such as diesel fuel are still poorly u...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ciric L,Philp JC,Whiteley AS

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ectomycorrhizal fungus Paxillus involutus efficiently took up exogenously supplied [14C]alanine and rapidly converted it to pyruvate, citrate, succinate, fumarate and to CO2, thus providing direct evidence for the utilisation of alanine as a respiratory substrate. [14C]alanine was further actively metabolised to g...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chalot M,Brun A,Finlay RD,Söderström B

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Bacillus subtilis, the yoxA and dacC genes were proposed to form an operon. The yoxA gene was overexpressed in Escherichia coli and its product fused to a polyhistidine tag was purified. An aldose-1-epimerase or mutarotase activity was measured with the YoxA protein that we propose to rename as GalM by analogy with...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Duez C,Zervosen A,Teller N,Melkonian R,Banzubazé E,Bouillenne F,Luxen A,Frère JM

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella is a leading cause of waterborne diseases. Salmonella can survive for a long time in aquatic environments, and its persistence in the environment is of great concern to public health. Nonetheless, the presence and diversity of Salmonella in the aquatic environments in most areas remain relatively unknown. I...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Huang KH,Hsu BM,Chou MY,Tsai HL,Kao PM,Wang HJ,Hsiao HY,Su MJ,Huang YL

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A plasmid-based food-grade vector system was developed for Lactococcus lactis by exploiting the genes for lactose metabolism. L. lactis MG5267 is a plasmid-free strain containing the entire lactose operon as a chromosomal insertion. The lacF gene was deleted from this strain by a double cross-over homologous recombina...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： MacCormick CA,Griffin HG,Gasson MJ

更新日期：1995-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent reports have indicated that cholesterol plays a crucial role during the uptake of mycobacteria by macrophages. However, the significance of cholesterol modification enzymes encoded by Mycobacterium tuberculosis for bacterial pathogenicity remains unknown. Here, the authors explored whether the well-known choles...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Brzostek A,Dziadek B,Rumijowska-Galewicz A,Pawelczyk J,Dziadek J

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel vip3-type gene named vip3LB has been isolated from Bacillus thuringiensis strain BUPM95. The corresponding secreted vegetative insecticidal protein was active against the lepidopteran insect Ephestia kuehniella. The vip3LB gene was shown, for the first time, to be carried by the large plasmid containing the cr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mesrati LA,Tounsi S,Jaoua S

更新日期：2005-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia mallei, the etiologic agent of the disease known as glanders, is primarily a disease affecting horses and is transmitted to humans by direct contact with infected animals. The use of B. mallei as a biological weapon has been reported and currently, there is no vaccine available for either humans or animal...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Whitlock GC,Estes DM,Torres AG

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M smegmatis cells with the sugar components of their surface-exposed glycans demonstrated that D-arabinose but not alpha-D-glucose or D-mannose, led to the dispersion of the large clumps formed by the bacilli in stationary liquid cultures. These results confirm the presence...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Anton V,Rougé P,Daffé M

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The halophilic actinomycete genus Streptomonospora, forming a distinct branch in the 16S rRNA gene phylogenetic tree adjacent to the genera Nocardiopsis and Thermobifida, was first proposed by Cui et al. to accommodate the species type Streptomonospora salina. During a biodiversity and taxonomic study on halophilic fi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhi XY,Tang SK,Li WJ,Xu LH,Jiang CL

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the amino acid-fermenting bacterium Clostridium aminophilum F was inoculated into media containing 1 microM monensin or a bacteriocin-like inhibitory substance (BLIS) from Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens JL5, the cultures lagged and growth was not observed for more than 12 h. The monensin- and BLIS-treated cultures eve...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Rychlik JL,Russell JB

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae is an important plant pathogen which causes bacterial blight of rice. To facilitate genome studies of this bacterium, we have constructed a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) library of strain MAFF 311018. It consisted of 750 clones representing 16 genome equivalents, and had an insert...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ochiai H,Inoue Y,Hasebe A,Kaku H

更新日期：2001-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Blocking glycolytic breakdown of glucose by inactivation of phosphoglucose isomerase (Pgi) in Escherichia coli led to a greatly reduced maximum specific growth rate. Examination of the operational catabolic pathways and their flux ratios using [U-(13)C(6)]glucose-labeling experiments and metabolic flux ratio analysis ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Canonaco F,Hess TA,Heri S,Wang T,Szyperski T,Sauer U

更新日期：2001-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated a fungal strain HS-1 utilizing either ethylene glycol dibenzoate or ethyl benzoate as sole source of carbon and energy, and identified it as Aspergillus nomius, based on morphological and rDNA analyses. An enzyme hydrolyzing the esters was purified from the culture supernatant of the strain to an electroph...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Uchida H,Kurakata Y,Sawamura H,Inamura N,Kotani T,Uwajima T

更新日期：2003-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast Cia2p is a component of the cytosolic Fe/S protein assembly (CIA) machinery. Initial studies of the CIA machinery were performed in yeast, but the precise role of Cia2p in this eukaryote is still unknown. We report that CIA2 deficiency results in impaired oxidative stress response, as evidenced by increased sens...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhao W,Zheng HZ,Niu YJ,Yuan Y,Fang BX,Liu YN,Cai LH,Zhou ZJ,Liu XG

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to illustrate the relative pervasiveness of Borderline Oxacillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (BORSA) and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in community and food of animal origin and their relationship with other genetic determinants. Staphylococcus aureus isolates were su...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zehra A,Gulzar M,Singh R,Kaur S,Gill JPS

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:To exert a beneficial effect on the host, adequate doses of probiotics must be administered and maintaining their viability until consumption is thus essential. Dehydrated probiotics exhibit enhanced long-term viability and can be incorporated into low-moisture food matrices, which also possess high stability at refri...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Marcial-Coba MS,Knøchel S,Nielsen DS

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weissella cibaria isolated from human saliva produces a soluble glucan that predominantly has alpha-1,6-glucosidic type linkages. Using degenerated primers that were selected based on the amino acid sequences of conserved regions from known glucansucrases, a single 2.7-kb fragment was isolated. In subsequent steps, a ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kang HK,Oh JS,Kim D

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:Escherichia coli is the most common organism associated with asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU) in humans. In contrast to uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) that cause symptomatic urinary tract infection, very little is known about the mechanisms by which these strains colonize the urinary tract. Here, we have investigated the ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hancock V,Ferrières L,Klemm P

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has emerged as one of the most pressing threats to public health. AMR evolution occurs in the clinic but also in the environment, where antibiotics and heavy metals can select and co-select for AMR. While the selective potential of both antibiotics and metals is increasingly well-charact...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Vos M,Sibleyras L,Lo LK,Hesse E,Gaze W,Klümper U

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The marine foodborne enteropathogen, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, has four putative catalase genes. Function of the katG-homologous genes, katG1(VPA0768) and katG2(VPA0453), was examined using gene deletion mutants, and compared with those of the katE-homologous genes, katE1(VPA1418) and katE2(VPA0305). Bacterial growth o...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yu SC,Fen SY,Chien CL,Wong HC

更新日期：2016-03-01 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