Extracellular hemicellulolytic enzymes from the maize endophyte Acremonium zeae.

abstract：:Nitric oxide synthase (NOS), the enzyme responsible for the production of endogenous nitric oxide from arginine, has been recently discovered in a number of Gram-positive bacteria. While bacterial NOS has been implicated in mediating nitrosative stress, much remains unknown about the functional role of endogenous nitr...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Treece E,Pinkham A,Kim T

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An alkaline phosphatase (phoA) gene from Zymomonas mobilis was isolated in Escherichia coli CC118 by use of the plasmid Bluescript KS+. The origin of the 6.4-kb DNA fragment in pZAP1 from the chromosome of Z. mobilis was confirmed by Southern blotting and hybridization studies. The Z. mobilis phoA gene was localized a...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Karunakaran T,Gunasekaran P

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new host specificity was discovered with the insecticidal protein encoded by the cryV gene. The cryV gene was cloned from the Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki INA-02 strain, which was selected among a number of B. thuringiensis isolates because of its high activity against Spodoptera litura. Analyses by polymerase ch...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Sasaki J,Asano S,Iizuka T,Bando H,Lay BW,Hastowo S,Powell GK,Yamamoto T

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maize root colonization by two fluorescentPseudomonas strains M.3.1. and TR335, isolated respectively frommaize and tomato roots, were studied in hydroponic conditions. Each bacteriumwas inoculated separately, and three different colonization areas werestudied: nutrient solution, rhizoplane, and endorhizosphere. The t...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Benizri E,Schoeny A,Picard C,Courtade A,Guckert A

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the effect of organics (yeast extract) on microbial community during chalcopyrite bioleaching at different temperature, real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was employed to analyze community dynamics of major bacteria applied in bioleaching. The results showed that yeast extract exerted great impact ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Li Q,Tian Y,Fu X,Yin H,Zhou Z,Liang Y,Qiu G,Liu J,Liu H,Liang Y,Shen L,Cong J,Liu X

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this study was to evaluate how two new hydrolysates from poultry by-products act on ten lactobacilli growth kinetics when supplemented to the growth medium. These effects were compared with ones induced by two most common commercial hydrolysates, i.e., tryptone and peptone. Growth medium, supplemented with...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Meli F,Lazzi C,Neviani E,Gatti M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In laboratory cultures of ice nucleation-active (Ice+) Erwinia herbicola isolates, it has been difficult to achieve high-level expression of ice nuclei, especially nuclei active at temperatures warmer than -5 degrees C (i.e., type 1 ice nuclei). Here we demonstrate that starvation for phosphate and exposure to low tem...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Fall AL,Fall R

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, a few works have performed a correlation of metabolic variables in bacteria; however specific correlations with these variables have not been reported. In this work, we included 36 human pathogenic bacteria and 18 non- or less-pathogenic-related bacteria and obtained all metabolic variables, including enzymes...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Brambila-Tapia AJ,Poot-Hernández AC,Garcia-Guevara JF,Rodríguez-Vázquez K

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the usefulness of flow cytometry for detection of vancomycin resistance in Enterococcus faecalis by direct binding of commercially available fluorescent vancomycin to cells obtained from culture. The cells were stained with Vancomycin@FL, sonicated and additionally stained with propidium iodide (PI). Regard...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Jarzembowski T,Jóźwik A,Wiśniewska K,Witkowski J

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a leading cause of hospital-acquired infections and difficult to treat due to acquired-resistance to multiple antibiotics. A pair of strains, M38100A and M38100B, previously identified from a single clinical isolate of P. aeruginosa was investigated to understand phenotypic and genotypic char...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Mahida K,Kwon DH

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erwinia amylovora causes fire blight of apple, pear, and other members of the Rosaceae family. The enzyme LuxS catalyzes the last step in the production of autoinducer-2 (AI-2), a molecule implicated with quorum sensing in many bacterial species. It is now well recognized that LuxS also plays a central role in sulfur ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Gao Y,Song J,Hu B,Zhang L,Liu Q,Liu F

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria use quorum sensing signalling in various functions, e.g. while forming biofilms, and inhibition of this signalling could be one way to control biofilm formation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the production of signalling molecules and its correlation with the biofilm formation capability of bacteria i...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Priha O,Virkajärvi V,Juvonen R,Puupponen-Pimiä R,Nohynek L,Alakurtti S,Pirttimaa M,Storgårds E

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we isolated six actinomycetes strains, 9-4, 10-1, 10-2, 10-3, 10-6, and 21-4, that produce phospholipase D (PLD) with high transphosphatidylation activity. In this study, we identified these strains, and the PLD activities were compared with those of reference strains. 16S rDNA sequences and DNA-DNA hybridi...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Nakazawa Y,Suzuki R,Uchino M,Sagane Y,Kudo T,Nagai T,Sato H,Takano K

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a previously created Mycobacterium avium genomic library with GFP-promoter trap in Mycobacterium smegmatis, we screened for genes that are upregulated upon infection of A. castellanii. Clones exhibiting a 2.5-fold or greater increase in GFP expression, out of a total of 10,000 clones, were selected for further e...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Tenant R,Bermudez LE

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae represent a global public health concern. K. pneumoniae strains isolated during 2010 and 2014-2016 within a single hospital of Molise Region, Central Italy, were analyzed testing antimicrobial susceptibility, clonality by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and random ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Ripabelli G,Tamburro M,Guerrizio G,Fanelli I,Flocco R,Scutellà M,Sammarco ML

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli causes diarrhea by producing several virulence factors including heat-labile enterotoxin (LT). LT is maximally expressed at 37 degrees C. The histone-like nucleoid structuring protein (H-NS) appears to inhibit LT expression by binding to a downstream regulatory element (DRE) at low tem...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Trachman JD,Yasmin M

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several di-, tri-, and oligopeptides were incubated individually in vitro with rumen fluid from two sheep receiving a mixed grass hay/concentrate diet and with washed cells of Prevotella (formerly Bacteroides) ruminicola M384 and P. ruminicola B(1)4. The rates of breakdown of most peptides were similar in the rumen fl...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Wallace RJ,McKain N,Broderick GA

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six cyclohexylacetic acid-degrading strains were isolated from soil samples in Japan and identified as members of the genera Cupriavidus (strain KUA-1), Rhodococcus, and Dietzia by 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. For the first time members of these genera were shown to be capable of degrading cyclohexylacetic acid. A...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Iwaki H,Nakai E,Nakamura S,Hasegawa Y

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Favre and coworkers (Favre et al., Biochimie 73:235-244, 1991) previously reported that the Bordetella pertussis recA gene present at high copy number could promote a low frequency of recombination, but not bacteriophage induction in Escherichia coli RecA- mutants. Reexamination of these phenotypes demonstrated that, ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Kuhl SA

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Degradation of n-alkanes in diesel oil by Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain WatG (WatG) was verified in soil microcosms. The total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) degradation level in two bioaugmentation samples was 51% and 46% for 1 week in unsterilized and sterilized soil microcosms, respectively. The TPH degradation in the...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Ueno A,Hasanuzzaman M,Yumoto I,Okuyama H

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, probiotic, safety and functional characteristics of eight indigenous bifidobacterial isolates were compared to identify suitable strains for functional food application. Among the isolates, six strains of Bifidobacterium longum and one each of Bifidobacterium breve and Bifidobacterium bifidum wer...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Achi SC,Halami PM

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial FtsE gene codes for the ATP-binding protein, FtsE, which in complex with the transmembrane protein, FtsX, participates in diverse cellular processes. Therefore, regulated expression of FtsE and FtsX might be critical to the human pathogen, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, under stress conditions. Although ftsX ge...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Roy S,Vijay S,Arumugam M,Anand D,Mir M,Ajitkumar P

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A common activity in the global search for useful Cry toxins is the microscopic screening of bacterial colonies for the presence of Bacillus thuringiensis. High-throughput screens require that aliquots from large numbers of colonies be arrayed on a microscopic slide. However, precisely placing a small amount of bacter...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Ammons D,Rampersad J

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofouling and microbiologically influenced corrosion are processes of material deterioration that originate from the attachment of microorganisms as quickly as the material is immersed in a nonsterile environment. Stainless steels, despite their wide use in different industries and as appliances and implant materials...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Baena MI,Márquez MC,Matres V,Botella J,Ventosa A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Culture-based analysis was employed in parallel with PCR amplification of 16S rDNA, coupled with denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE), to profile bacterial species associated with different developmental stages of the pine false webworm (PFW), Acantholyda erythrocephala, a sawfly pest responsible for inciden...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Zahner V,Lucarotti CJ,McIntosh D

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rhizobacterium with high antifungal activity was isolated from a potato field at Inneruulalik, South Greenland. Phylogenetic analysis based on multi locus sequence typing showed that the bacterium was affiliated with strains of Pseudomonas fluorescens. The bacterium, denoted as Pseudomonas fluorescens In5, inhibited...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Michelsen CF,Stougaard P

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The archaeal diversity in salt pan sediment from Mumbai, India, was investigated by 16S rDNA-dependent molecular phylogeny. Small-subunit rRNA (16S rDNA) from salt pan sediment metagenome were amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using primers specific to the domain archaea. Thirty-two unique phylotypes were o...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Ahmad N,Sharma S,Khan FG,Kumar R,Johri S,Abdin MZ,Qazi GN

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Gram-stain-negative, non-motile and coccoid, ovoid or rod-shaped bacterial strain, OITF-57T, which was isolated from a tidal flat sediment in South Korea, was characterized taxonomically. Strain OITF-57T grew optimally at 25 °C, at pH 7.0-8.0 and in the presence of 2.0% (w/v) NaCl. Strain OITF-57T exhibited the high...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Park S,Choi J,Park JM,Yoon JH

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio harveyi has been reported to enter into a viable but nonculturable (VBNC) state. One marine V. harveyi strain, SF1 became nonculturable when incubated in seawater microcosm at 4 °C within 60 days. We investigated protein expression in the exponential phase of V. harveyi SF1 and compared it to the VBNC state. Cy...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Jia J,Li Z,Cao J,Jiang Y,Liang C,Liu M

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral nervous necrosis infections are causing severe problems on aquaculture industry due to ecological and economic impacts. Their causal agent is nervous necrosis virus or nodavirus, which has been classified into four genotypes. Different genotypes correlate with differences in viral pathogenicity. Therefore, ratio...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Toubanaki DK,Margaroni M,Karagouni E

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00