The role of the serine protease active site in the mode of action of epidermolytic toxin of Staphylococcus aureus.

abstract：:CRISPR-Cas systems provide adaptive immunity against mobile genetic elements, but employment of this resistance mechanism is often reported with a fitness cost for the host. Whether or not CRISPR-Cas systems are important barriers for the horizontal spread of conjugative plasmids, which play a crucial role in the spre...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： van Sluijs L,van Houte S,van der Oost J,Brouns SJ,Buckling A,Westra ER

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimethylphthalate (DMP), one of the phthalate esters, is used in the manufacture of plasticizers, insect repellents, and synthetic fibers, and contributes to environmental pollution. In the present study, we report a novel bacterium belonging to the Bacillus sp., which has the ability to utilize DMP as the sole source...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Niazi JH,Prasad DT,Karegoudar TB

更新日期：2001-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A protease (protease A) was successfully purified from the extracellular proteins of Vibrio parahaemolyticus no. 93, a clinical strain carrying neither tdh nor trh genes, using phenyl-Sepharose CL-4B hydrophobic interaction chromatography. The molecular mass of protease A was 43 kDa using gel filtration, which was in ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lee CY,Cheng MF,Yu MS,Pan MJ

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Trinitrotoluene (TNT) is an explosive chemical generally used for military, civil and industrial purposes. Therefore, TNT residue can be found in soil and ground water as an environmental pollutant. The environmental control of TNT pollution has become a critical issue because of its potential toxicity and carcinogeni...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kao CM,Wei SF,Chen SC,Yao CL,Ma C,Chien CC

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronological analysis of 125 Vibrio cholerae O139 strains isolated during 1993-2005 in Kolkata revealed the prevalence of two new genotypes of cholera toxin (CT) and novel combinations of ctxB and rstR alleles resulting in variant CTX prophages. One of the new genotypes of ctxB, which first appeared in 1996 with the ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Raychoudhuri A,Mukherjee P,Ramamurthy T,Nandy RK,Takeda Y,Nair GB,Mukhopadhyay AK

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraterrestrial life has been found at depths of several thousand metres in deep sub-sea floor sediments and in the basement crust beneath the sediments. It has also been found at up to 2800-m depth in continental sedimentary rocks, 5300-m depth in igneous rock aquifers and in fluid inclusions in ancient salt deposit...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pedersen K

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-component systems are widespread in nature and constitute the most common mechanism of transmembrane signal transduction in bacteria. Recently, a functionally active two-component system consisting of malS and malR genes possibly involved in the expression of a C4-dicarboxylate transporter system (dctAB operon) wa...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Papa R,Rippa V,Duilio A

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) have been extensively studied in natural and agricultural ecosystems, but little is known about their diversity and community structure in highly petroleum-polluted soils. In this study, we described an unexpected diversity of AMF in a sedimentation basin of a former petrochemical pl...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： de la Providencia IE,Stefani FO,Labridy M,St-Arnaud M,Hijri M

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the biodiversity of 154 strains of lactic acid bacteria, including 112 dairy product isolates presumptively identified as obligately heterofermentative lactobacilli (OHL) by classical microbiological tests, as well as 23 OHL-type strains, was investigated by PCR-based methods and gene sequencing. Using ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Coton M,Berthier F,Coton E

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Roundup Ready (RR) soybeans containing recombinant Agrobacterium spp. CP4 5-enol-pyruvyl-shikimate-3-phosphate synthase (cp4 epsps) genes tolerant to the herbicide glyphosate are extensively grown worldwide. The concentration of recombinant DNA from RR soybeans in soil aggregates was studied due to the possibility of ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Levy-Booth DJ,Gulden RH,Campbell RG,Powell JR,Klironomos JN,Pauls KP,Swanton CJ,Trevors JT,Dunfield KE

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyphae of the human pathogenic fungus Candida albicans exhibit thigmotropic behaviour in vitro, in common with phytopathogenic and saprotrophic fungi. An examination of the literature on C. albicans hyphal penetration of epithelial and endothelial membranes does not support the premise that hyphal thigmotropism plays ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Davies JM,Stacey AJ,Gilligan CA

更新日期：1999-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:For the dissemination of microbiology and science in general, social media is an underutilized but increasingly powerful tool, and one that transcends traditional avenues for scientific outputs. In order to reach and potentially inspire a deeply interested and general public, scientists should engage with platforms su...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hines HN

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophages co-exist and co-evolve with their hosts in natural environments. Virulent phages lyse infected cells through lytic cycles, whereas temperate phages often remain dormant and can undergo lysogenic or lytic cycles. In their lysogenic state, prophages are actually part of the host genome and replicate passi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Menouni R,Hutinet G,Petit MA,Ansaldi M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) has become one of the major techniques in environmental microbiology. The original version of this technique often suffered from limited sensitivity due to low target copy number or target inaccessibility. In recent years there have been several developments to amend this prob...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zwirglmaier K

更新日期：2005-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focused on the alanine racemase gene (alr-2), which is involved in the synthesis of d-alanine that forms the backbone of the cell wall. A stable alr-2 knockout mutant of Aeromonas hydrophila HBNUAh01 was constructed. When the mutant was supplemented with d-alanine, growth was unaffected; deprivation of d-al...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Liu D,Zhang L,Xue W,Wang Y,Ju J,Zhao B

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serum-susceptible, guinea-pig chamber-passaged, laboratory strain (BS4 (agar)) of Neisseria gonorrhoeae was converted to serum resistance by incubation with cytidine 5-monophospho-N-acetyl neuraminic acid (CMP-NANA) and examined by electron microscopy after staining with ruthenium-red. In contrast to serum susceptib...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fox AJ,Curry A,Rowland PL,Lancaster S,Jones DM,Parsons NJ,Cole JA,Smith H

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA from Penicillium minioluteum HI-4 encoding a dextranase (1,6-alpha-glucan hydrolase, EC 3.2.1.11) was isolated and characterized. cDNA clones corresponding to genes expressed in dextran-induced cultures were identified by differential hybridization. Southern hybridization and restriction mapping analysis of sel...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Garcia B,Margolles E,Roca H,Mateu D,Raices M,Gonzales ME,Herrera L,Delgado J

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electron transfer pathway to Fe(III) reduction in Geobacter sulfurreducens has been hypothesized to consist of a series of c-type cytochromes. Previous genetic studies suggested that the inner membrane-associated, c-type cytochrome, MacA, was a component of the electron transfer chain leading to Fe(III) reduction ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kim BC,Lovley DR

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of Entamoeba histolytica trophozoites with collagen type I and calcium induces a membrane to nuclei signaling. The transduction pathways involved in such phenomena are still poorly understood. Using a combination of immunoprecipitation assays, Western immunoblot analysis, electrophoretic mobility shift...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cruz-Vera J,Clara L,Hernández-Kelly R,Alfredo Méndez J,Pérez-Salazar E,Ortega A

更新日期：2003-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A broad distribution of the lactococcal IS elements ISS1 [1] and IS904 [2] in several lactococcal plasmids and chromosomal DNA was observed. Hybridization of the ISS1 and IS904 oligonucleotide gene probes with DNA of lactococcal phages showed that none of these tested bacteriophages contained one of the IS elements. O...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Schäfer A,Jahns A,Geis A,Teuber M

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods for in vivo monitoring of redox changes in different cellular compartments have been developed in recent years, and are mostly based on redox-sensitive variants of the green fluorescent protein (GFP). However, due to the thermodynamic stability of the introduced reactive disulfide bond, these sensors are limit...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Delic M,Mattanovich D,Gasser B

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli yehZYXW operon encodes a putative osmoprotectant uptake system of the ABC transporter family. yehZ is identical to osmF, an osmotically inducible gene identified previously. Construction and analysis of a yehZ-lacZ transcriptional fusion demonstrated that yehZ is inducible not only by osmolarity, ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Checroun C,Gutierrez C

更新日期：2004-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown here by flow cytometry that Bacillus subtilis YabA negatively regulates the timing of replication initiation. When the level of YabA was reduced, replication began at a decreased cell mass and when the level was increased, initiation was delayed. Synchrony of replication initiation was also disrupted at lo...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hayashi M,Ogura Y,Harry EJ,Ogasawara N,Moriya S

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high-pathogenicity island (Yen HPI) of Yersinia enterocolitica biogroup (BG) 1B strains is associated with mouse virulence. Three repeated sequences are clustered on the A+T-rich part of the Yen HPI downstream of the fyuA yersiniabactin receptor gene in Y. enterocolitica O:8 strains WA-314 and 8081. In addition to...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Rakin A,Schubert S,Guilvout I,Carniel E,Heesemann J

更新日期：2000-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The major haem component in the black pigment of Porphyromonas gingivalis is the mu-oxo bishaem of iron protoporphyrin IX and formation and cell-surface binding of this haem species is proposed as an extracellular buffer against reactive oxidants [Smalley, J.W. et al. (1998) Biochem. J. 331, 681-685]. P. gingivalis ce...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Smalley JW,Birss AJ,Silver J

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrolide is inactivated with ATP plus crude extract of Escherichia coli producing macrolide 2'-phosphotransferase (MPH(2')), but not by living cells. Therefore, a convenient method for detection of MPH(2') using intact cells is needed. In this report, we determine that the modified lysozyme-DNase-RNase (LDR) method (...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Taniguchi K,Nakamura A,Tsurubuchi K,O'Hara K,Sawai T

更新日期：1998-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified a novel type-III staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) element carried by eight methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains from different wards and patients in an Indian hospital. Although the pulsed-field gel electrophoresis pattern and spa types of eight strains were identical...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Arakere G,Nadig S,Ito T,Ma XX,Hiramatsu K

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate uptake in the Gram-positive Corynebacterium glutamicum is mediated via a binding protein-dependent transport system, which is encoded by the gluABCD gene cluster. Cloning of these genes in an expression vector and subsequent transformation of the resulting plasmid allows different strains of the Gram-negativ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Burkovski A,Krämer R

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity of a collection of 49 Lactococcus garvieae strains, including isolates of dairy, fish, meat, vegetable and cereal origin, was explored using a molecular polyphasic approach comprising PCR-ribotyping, REP and RAPD-PCR analyses and a multilocus restriction typing (MLRT) carried out on six partial genes (at...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ferrario C,Ricci G,Borgo F,Rollando A,Fortina MG

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer of DNA by conjugation has been the method generally used for genetic manipulation of Edwardsiella ictaluri because, previously, attempts to transform E. ictaluri by the uptake of naked DNA have apparently failed. We report here the successful transformation of seven strains of E. ictaluri using electroporatio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Russo R,Panangala VS,Wood RR,Klesius PH

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00