Transcription and genetic analyses of a putative N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanine amidase in Borrelia burgdorferi.

abstract：:In this study, internal size variations in the VanA gene cluster Tn1546, encoding resistance to glycopeptides, is described. Studies of previously uncharacterized size variations of an internal region, encoding the vanX and vanY genes of Tn1546, revealed that these variations were due to the presence of the IS sequenc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jensen LB

更新日期：1998-12-15 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：:Streptococcus mutans, the etiologic agent of dental caries in humans, is considered a dominating force in the oral microbiome due to its highly-evolved propensity for survival. The oral pathogen encodes an elaborate array of regulatory elements, including the carbon catabolite-responsive regulator, CcpA, a global regu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lindsay EL,Faustoferri RC,Quivey RG

更新日期：2021-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial swarming motility is a flagella-dependent translocation on the surface environment. It has received extensive attention as a population behavior involving numerous genes. Here, we report that Citrobacter freundii, an opportunistic pathogen, exhibits swarming movement on a solid medium surface with appropriat...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cong Y,Wang J,Chen Z,Xiong K,Xu Q,Hu F

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although glycogen and other alpha-1,4-D-glucan storage polysaccharides are present in many bacteria, only few glucan phosphorylases from bacteria have been identified and characterised on the protein or gene level. All bacterial phosphorylases follow the same catalytic mechanisms as their plant and vertebrate counterp...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Schinzel R,Nidetzky B

更新日期：1999-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) belong to phylum Glomeromycota, an early divergent fungal lineage forming symbiosis with plant roots. Many reports have documented that bacteria are intimately associated with AMF mycelia in the soil. However, the role of these bacteria remains unclear and their diversity within intr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Iffis B,St-Arnaud M,Hijri M

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lin genes encode the gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane (gamma-HCH or lindane) catabolic pathway in lindane-degrading strains. The location and stability of these genes have been explored in the lindane-degrading Sphingobium francense strain Sp+, and in two non-lindane-degrading mutants (Sp1- and Sp2-). The lin genes, li...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cérémonie H,Boubakri H,Mavingui P,Simonet P,Vogel TM

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to investigate the binding activity of Streptococcus suis serotype 2 to albumin. Using flow cytometry we observed a binding activity of S. suis to albumin for virulent as well as for avirulent isolates. Western immunoblots analysis revealed that a 39-kDa S. suis protein was responsible, at le...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Quessy S,Busque P,Higgins R,Jacques M,Dubreuil JD

更新日期：1997-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Surrogate methods for detecting lateral gene transfer are those that do not require inference of phylogenetic trees. Herein I apply four such methods to identify open reading frames (ORFs) in the genome of Escherichia coli K12 that may have arisen by lateral gene transfer. Only two of these methods detect the same ORF...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ragan MA

更新日期：2001-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a rapid and reliable two-step multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay to identify the 10 Bacteroides fragilis group species - Bacteroides caccae, B. distasonis, B. eggerthii, B. fragilis, B. merdae, B. ovatus, B. stercoris, B. thetaiotaomicron, B. uniformis and B. vulgatus. These 10 species were firs...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Liu C,Song Y,McTeague M,Vu AW,Wexler H,Finegold SM

更新日期：2003-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In sausage, Staphylococcus carnosus increases the levels of methyl ketones which could arise from incomplete beta-oxidation of fatty acids followed by a decarboxylation. The objective of this work was to characterize the beta-decarboxylase activities in cell-free extract. By using different substrates, at least two ki...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fadda S,Leroy-Sétrin S,Talon R

更新日期：2003-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We adapted PCR-based signature-tagged mutagenesis (STM) to Pseudomonas aeruginosa. A collection of 1056 mutants was screened in a chronic lung infection rat model. Thirteen mutants were confirmed to be attenuated. Analysis revealed that these STM mutants represented transposon insertions into eight genes previously de...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lehoux DE,Sanschagrin F,Levesque RC

更新日期：2002-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The replication region of plasmid pRA2 from Pseudomonas alcaligenes NCIB 9867 (strain P25X) was localized within a 5.9-kbp DNA fragment and its sequence was determined. An interesting feature of the sequence is the presence of a 1.3-kbp region containing seven, highly conserved, direct repeats of 72 bp in length. The ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kwong SM,Yeo CC,Chuah D,Poh CL

更新日期：1998-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the mechanisms of Sch9 regulating the localization and phosphorylation of Bcy1. Our research indicated that Sch9 regulated localization of Bcy1 via Zds1 for the following reasons: (1) deletions of SCH9 or ZDS1 both caused nuclear localization of Bcy1; (2) Sch9 and Zds1 interacted physica...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhang A,Gao W

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Lentinula edodes is the second most important cultivated mushroom worldwide, most industrially cultivated strains have been identified only through traditional phenotypic analysis. Here, we report for the first time the use of sequence characterized amplified region (SCAR) markers for strain differentiation. ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Qin LH,Tan Q,Chen MJ,Pan YJ

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa on acyclic terpene alcohols (citronellol) and on other methyl-branched compounds such as leucine or isovalerate requires a functional leucine/isovalerate utilization (Liu) pathway. In this study, we investigated the liuABCDE gene cluster by insertion mutant analysis, heterologous expre...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Förster-Fromme K,Jendrossek D

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes how bkaR, a highly conserved mycobacterial TetR-like transcriptional repressor, regulates a number of nearby genes that have associations with branched-chain keto-acid metabolism. bkaR (MSMEG_4718) was deleted from the nonpathogenic species Mycobacterium smegmatis, and changes in global gene expre...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Balhana RJ,Swanston SN,Coade S,Withers M,Sikder MH,Stoker NG,Kendall SL

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the hypothesis that actA allelic variation contributes to virulence differences among Listeria monocytogenes strains, cell-to-cell spread and intracellular ActA phosphorylation patterns were characterized for 14 wild-type isolates and selected isogenic mutants. Our data show that (i) while actA allelic variati...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Roberts AJ,Wiedmann M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis cells must have cytochromes for growth and can synthesize cytochromes of a-, b-, c-, d-, and o-types. After a long lag, our knowledge of the structure, genetics and specific role for these cytochromes is now growing exponentially as the result of recent research. This progress is reviewed here and in...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： von Wachenfeldt C,Hederstedt L

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The cryopreservation of an anaerobic rumen fungus, Piromyces communis OTS1, was examined at -84 degrees C using dimethyl sulfoxide, propylene glycol or ethylene glycol as cryoprotectants. Ethylene glycol was the most effective agent, combining high survival and low toxicity, followed by dimethyl sulfoxide and propylen...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sakurada M,Tsuzuki Y,Morgavi DP,Tomita Y,Onodera R

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified phosphatidylethanolamine as one of the major phospholipids of Clostridium perfringens by two dimensional thin layer chromatography of the intact lipids and of their deacylation products and by liquid chromatography followed by mass spectrometry of the intact neutral phospholipid fraction. The princi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Johnston NC,Baker JK,Goldfine H

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An autonomous impala transposon trapped in Fusarium oxysporum by insertion within the niaD gene encoding nitrate reductase was introduced in the genome of the fungus Penicillium griseoroseum, a producer of pectinase enzymes. Through a phenotypic assay, we demonstrate that this element is able to excise from the niaD g...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： de Queiroz MV,Daboussi MJ

更新日期：2003-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The steady-state levels of the aminopeptidase Y (APY1) transcript and the level of assayable aminopeptidase Y activity were measured under a variety of nutritional conditions. Specific APY1 mRNA is less abundant in cells grown in minimal medium than in cells grown in rich medium, while active enzyme levels follow just...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Herrera-Camacho I,Suárez-Rendueles P

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transport of radioactively labelled uracil into submerged mycelium of T. viride was measured by means of a membrane filtration technique. It was found to be time-dependent (up to 90 min) and concentration-dependent (up to 8 mmol l-1). Its concentration dependence was biphasic and consisted from the saturatable par...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lakatos B,Simkovic M,Betina V,Varecka L

更新日期：1999-02-15 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：:Many bacteria are capable of accumulating intracellular granules of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA). In this work, we developed confocal microscopy analysis of bacterial cells to study changes in the diameters of cells as well as PHA granules during growth and PHA accumulation in the bacterium Cupriavidus necator H16 (for...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mravec F,Obruca S,Krzyzanek V,Sedlacek P,Hrubanova K,Samek O,Kucera D,Benesova P,Nebesarova J

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trehalase was studied in Schizosaccharomyces pombe cells growing vegetatively on minimal medium and in sporulating cultures. Acid trehalase activity, measured at pH 4.2, was absent in vegetative cells and occurred only in asci, indicating that this activity represented the sporulation-specific trehalase reported previ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： De Virgilio C,Müller J,Boller T,Wiemken A

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Bacillus subtilis, carbon catabolite control is mediated by the regulatory protein CcpA. In addition to loss of catabolite repression, ccpA mutants exhibit a severe growth defect. They are not able to grow with glucose and ammonium as single sources of carbon and nitrogen, respectively. Only ccpA mutant strains car...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ludwig H,Stülke J

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The study compared images of mature Streptococcus mutans biofilms captured at increasing magnification to determine which microscopy method is most acceptable for imaging the biofilm topography and the extracellular polymeric substance (EPS). In vitro S. mutans biofilms were imaged using (1) scanning electron microsco...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Weber K,Delben J,Bromage TG,Duarte S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resveratrol (3,5,4'-trihydroxy-trans-stilbene), an antifungal phytoalexin produced by grapes, peanuts, and Japanese knotweeds, is thought to be a beneficial dietary phytochemical in red wine and grape juice. Information on its antibacterial properties and biotransformation, however, is limited. We surveyed the interac...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jung CM,Heinze TM,Schnackenberg LK,Mullis LB,Elkins SA,Elkins CA,Steele RS,Sutherland JB

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00