Ku70 or Ku80 deficiencies in the fungus Botrytis cinerea facilitate targeting of genes that are hard to knock out in a wild-type context.

abstract：:The ecology of aerobic microorganisms is never explored in marine oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) sediments. Here we reveal aerobic bacterial communities along ∼3 m sediment-horizons of the eastern Arabian Sea OMZ. Sulfide-containing sediment-cores retrieved from 530 mbsl (meters beneath the sea-level) and 580 mbsl were exp...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bhattacharya S,Roy C,Mandal S,Sarkar J,Rameez MJ,Mondal N,Mapder T,Chatterjee S,Pyne P,Alam M,Haldar PK,Roy R,Fernandes S,Peketi A,Chakraborty R,Mazumdar A,Ghosh W

更新日期：2020-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of maintaining prokaryotic RNA in Synechococcus and Pseudomonas cells, fixed in 96% ethanol, 4% paraformaldehyde, or suspended in RNAlater, and held in cold storage for 3 months was compared. Fluorometric determination of the RNA extracted from Synechococcus and Pseudomonas cells indicated that the c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bachoon DS,Chen F,Hodson RE

更新日期：2001-07-24 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：:The photoinduced bactericidal capacity of TiO(2) based films was evaluated, using as model organism Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Thin films were obtained by spray pyrolysis; they included undoped, Cu doped, and Al doped TiO(2). Scanning electron microscopy was used to observe the final effect of the irradiated films upon t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Amézaga-Madrid P,Nevárez-Moorillón GV,Orrantia-Borunda E,Miki-Yoshida M

更新日期：2002-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction, energy gain, effect on growth, and interaction of nitrate and nitrite reduction of Bradyrhizobium sp. (Lupinus) USDA 3045 were characterized. Both nitrate and nitrite were reduced in air, although nitrite reduction was insensitive to ammonium inhibition. Anaerobic reduction of both ions was shown to be link...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Polcyn W,Luciński R

更新日期：2003-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Phycoerythrin-containing Synechococcus strains are unicellular cyanobacteria that are of great ecological importance in the marine environment. These organisms are known to be susceptible to infection by cyanophages (viruses that infect cyanobacteria). The infection cycle takes several hours and during this time the c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Shan J,Jia Y,Clokie MR,Mann NH

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：:Hopanoid fingerprints allowed to differentiate bacteria formerly connected to the genus Pseudomonas. Whereas all strains related to Pseudomonas and Ralstonia were devoid of any detectable hopanoid, these pentacyclic triterpenoids were found in the Burkholderia species and in related soil isolates, which contained as m...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cvejic JH,Putra SR,El-Beltagy A,Hattori R,Hattori T,Rohmer M

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pectinases are enzymes that catalyze pectin degradation. There is a global demand for pectinases because of their wide utility and catalytic efficiency. Optimization of the fermentation process to increase the pectolytic enzyme activity is generally practiced to lower process costs, but whether temperature influences ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Guan Y,Yin D,Du X,Ye X

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrons are bacterial genetic elements capable of capturing and expressing potentially adaptive genetic material. Class 1 integrons constitute the most intensely studied group of these elements to date, mainly due to their well-established role in the acquisition and dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes in c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hardwick SA,Stokes HW,Findlay S,Taylor M,Gillings MR

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochemical staining and microscopy were used to study the trophic structures and cellular morphotypes that are produced during the colonization of oil-water interfaces by oil-degrading yeasts and bacteria. Among the microorganisms studied here, the yeasts (Schwanniomyces occidentalis, Torulopsis candida, Candida tro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dmitriev VV,Crowley D,Rogachevsky VV,Negri CM,Rusakova TG,Kolesnikova SA,Akhmetov LI

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis of the 2 kb nucleotide sequence including the 5'-flanking region of a cell-adhesion protein-encoding gene (mfbA) isolated from the basidiomycete Lentinus edodes revealed that the promoter region contains a TATA box, a GC box, a CAAT box, a CT-rich sequence element, a TATA box, two CT-rich sequences, and a ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kondoh O,Shishido K

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The filamentous fungus Fusarium lateritium is cyanide tolerant, due partly to the induction of the enzyme cyanide hydratase in the presence of cyanide. This enzyme catalyses the hydration of cyanide to formamide. The expression in Escherichia coli of a cDNA clone encoding cyanide hydratase is described. The cDNA clone...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Brown DT,Turner PD,O'Reilly C

更新日期：1995-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of Mycobacterium microti was inhibited within J774A.1 macrophage cells activated with either interferon-gamma or tumor necrosis factor-alpha. Activation with interferon-gamma or tumor necrosis factor-alpha alone did not stimulate the production of nitrite in J774A.1 cells. Interferon-gamma but not tumor nec...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gupta R,Dogra N,Raje M,Majumder S

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The marine dinoflagellate genus Alexandrium includes a number of species that produce potent neurotoxins responsible for paralytic shellfish poisoning, which in humans may cause muscular paralysis, neurological symptoms and, in extreme cases, death. Because of the genetic diversity of different genera and species, mol...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wang L,Li L,Alam MJ,Geng Y,Li Z,Yamasaki S,Shi L

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We cloned and characterized the Neisseria meningitidis rfaC gene which encodes an enzyme, alpha-1,5 heptosyltransferase I, involved in the synthesis of the deep-core of the lipooligosaccharide. The N. meningitidis rfaC mutant, obtained by an allelic exchange, produced lipooligosaccharide which migrated faster in sodiu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Stojiljkovic I,Hwa V,Larson J,Lin L,So M,Nassif X

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An obligately anaerobic spirochete designated strain SEBR 4228T (T = type strain) was isolated from an oil field of Congo, Central Africa. The strain grew optimally with a sodium chloride concentration of 5% (sodium chloride concentration) growth range 1.0-10%) at 37 degrees C (growth temperature range 20-40 degrees C...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Magot M,Fardeau ML,Arnauld O,Lanau C,Ollivier B,Thomas P,Patel BK

更新日期：1997-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In Streptomyces cyanogenus S136 gene cluster for biosynthesis of polyglycosylated angucycline landomycin A (LaA), a divergently oriented gene pair for a TetR-family regulator (lanK) and an efflux protein (lanJ) is located, whose functions remained obscure. Overexpression and disruption studies showed that lanK and lan...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ostash I,Ostash B,Luzhetskyy A,Bechthold A,Walker S,Fedorenko V

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fe(III) reductase activity was studied in the South African Fe(III)-reducing bacterium, Thermus scotoductus (SA-01). Fractionation studies revealed that the membrane as well as the soluble fraction contained NAD(P)H-dependent Fe(III) reductase activity. The membrane-associated enzyme was solubilized by KCl treatme...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Möller C,van Heerden E

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two thermophilic bacteria, which are capable of growing on starch at 60-70 degrees C under anaerobic conditions, were isolated from a sugar refinery in Uelzen and from Solar lake in Israel. On the basis of their physiological characteristics they were identified as Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum Uel 1 and C. thermo...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Klingeberg M,Hippe H,Antranikian G

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endophytic fungi colonize plants without causing symptoms of disease and can enhance the resistance of their host to pathogens. We cultivated 53 fungal strains from wild lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus) and investigated their effects on pathogens using in vitro assays and experiments in planta. Most strains were annotate...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Adame-Álvarez RM,Mendiola-Soto J,Heil M

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation is a metabolic process of clostridia that produces bio-based solvents including butanol. It is enabled by an underlying metabolic reaction network and modulated by cellular gene regulation and environmental cues. Mathematical modeling has served as a valuable strategy to faci...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Liao C,Seo SO,Lu T

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three clinical isolates of Salmonella enterica recovered between 2000 and 2003 in France and Senegal were found to produce extended-spectrum beta-lactamase CTX-M-15. The two isolates from Senegal were recovered from stool of a hospitalized patient with gastroenteritis in 2000 and from an urine specimen of an out-patie...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Weill FX,Perrier-Gros-Claude JD,Demartin M,Coignard S,Grimont PA

更新日期：2004-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Many antibiotic-producing actinomycetes possess at least one ABC (ATP-binding cassette) transporter which forms part of the antibiotic biosynthetic pathway and in most cases confers resistance to the drug in an heterologous host. Three types of antibiotic ABC transporters have been so far described in producer organis...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Méndez C,Salas JA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we describe and characterize two oligomer probes that are broadly homologous to conserved eubacterial 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) sequences not present in human 18 rRNA or human mitochondrial 12S rRNA. One or both of the probes can detect all of 23 phylogenetically diverse eubacterial nucleic acids against...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chen K,Neimark H,Rumore P,Steinman CR

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stability of the membrane-bound and purified H+-translocating NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase, Complex I, was studied. The loss of the enzyme activity is strongly increased by alkaline pH and dilution of the sample. Complex I inactivation is prevented specifically by a low concentration of Ca2+ and/or an intracellular ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Belevich G,Belevich N,Knuuti J,Verkhovskaya M

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pythium drechsleri Paul was described as a new species from soil samples taken in a salt-marsh of Arzew, Algeria [Paul, B. (1988) Une nouvelle espèce de Pythium isolée d'une saline de l'ouest Algérien. Cryptogam. Mycol. 9, 325-333]. The name of the fungus, P. drechsleri, is a nomen invalidum, as it is a later homonym ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Paul B

更新日期：2000-02-01 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：: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：:Tolaasin is a peptide toxin produced by Pseudomonas tolaasii and causes brown blotch disease of the cultivated mushrooms. Two types of ion channels were identified by the incorporation of tolaasin into lipid bilayer. The slope conductance of type 1 channel measured in the buffer containing 100 mM KCl was 150 pS with a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cho KH,Kim YK

更新日期：2003-04-25 00:00:00