PCR primers specific for the genus Tuber reveal the presence of several truffle species in a truffle-ground.

abstract：:Three heterocytous cyanobacterial strains were isolated from different habitats of Central India, and initial morphological studies indicated them to be members of the genus Nostoc or other closely related genera. Subsequent studies using morphological, ecological, molecular and phylogenetic methods indicated the thre...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Saraf A,Dawda HG,Suradkar A,Behere I,Kotulkar M,Shaikh ZM,Kumat A,Batule P,Mishra D,Singh P

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of dormant endospores is a complex morphological process that permits long-term survival in inhospitable environments for many Gram-positive bacteria. Sporulation for the anaerobic gastrointestinal pathogen Clostridium difficile is necessary for survival outside of the gastrointestinal tract of its host....

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Edwards AN,McBride SM

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An exo-polygalacturonase (EC 3.2.1.15) was purified to apparent homogeneity from cultures of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lycopersici on synthetic medium supplemented with citrus pectin, using preparative isoelectric focusing. The enzyme, denominated PG2, had an apparent M(r) of 74000 Da upon SDS-PAGE. The pI of the main ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Di Pietro A,Roncero MI

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The SbmA protein is involved in the transport of MccB17-, MccJ25-, bleomycin- and proline-rich peptides into the Escherichia coli cytoplasm. sbmA gene homologues were found in a variety of bacteria. However, the physiological role of this protein still remains unknown. Previously, we found that a combination of sbmA a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Corbalán NS,Adler C,de Cristóbal RE,Pomares MF,Delgado MA,Vincent PA

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the existence of an acid stress response in Helicobacter pylori the global changes in the proteins synthesized by the bacterium when subjected to an acid stress were studied. H. pylori ATCC43504 previously adapted to pH 7 did not show an acid stress response as detected by the two-dimensional electrophore...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Toledo H,Valenzuela M,Rivas A,Jerez CA

更新日期：2002-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Fire blight, caused by plant pathogenic bacterium Erwinia amylovora, is one of the most important diseases of Rosaceae plants. Due to the lack of effective control measures, fire blight infections pose a recurrent threat on agricultural production worldwide. Recently, bacterial viruses, or bacteriophages, have been pr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Besarab NV,Akhremchuk AE,Zlatohurska MA,Romaniuk LV,Valentovich LN,Tovkach FI,Lagonenko AL,Evtushenkov AN

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypA-E operon is involved in the maturation of all three NiFe hydrogenases in Escherichia coli. Two hyp promoters have been described; a sigma54-dependent promoter upstream of hypA, and a sigma70-dependent promoter (PhypA) within the hypA coding region. Here it is shown that the oxygen-responsive transcription fac...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Messenger SL,Green J

更新日期：2003-11-07 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：:A semi-automated method has been developed for the quantification and measurement of conidia discharged by the aphid pathogen Erynia neoaphidis. This was used to compare conidiation by E. neoaphidis-mycosed pea aphid cadavers, mycelial plugs cut from agar plates, mycelial pellets from shake flasks and by mycelial pell...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bonner TJ,Pell JK,Gray SN

更新日期：2003-03-14 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：:Human cell lines are often infected by mycoplama strains. We have demonstrated that when infected by Mycoplasma fermentans, human B lymphoma cell proliferation increased strongly. These infected B cells expressed a p45 kDa protein which interacted with the intracellular domain of CD21, the EBV/C3d receptor. p45 analys...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Balbo M,Barel M,Lottin-Divoux S,Jean D,Frade R

更新日期：2005-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of adaptation of bacteria to survive at elevated temperature in the human host and the expression of heat-shock proteins in response to stress was examined by labelling with [35S]methionine. An increase in culture temperature from 26 degrees C to 37 degrees C induced expression of certain bacterial prote...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Salotra P,Singh DK,Seal KP,Krishna N,Jaffe H,Bhatnagar R

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two yeasts from the effluent of a uranium mineral heap were identified as Candida sorbophila and Rhodotorula mucilaginosa. They are well adapted to such an environment as shown by their tolerance to metals and acid pH. However, different mechanisms could be involved in the adaptation: C. sorbophila could be considered...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： de Silóniz MI,Payo EM,Callejo MA,Marquina D,Peinado JM

更新日期：2002-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The low heat resistance (D100 = 0.554 min, z = 13.4 degrees C) of dormant lysozyme-sensitized spores of Bacillus sphaericus 9602 was correlated with a low protoplast wet density (1.305 g/ml) equivalent to a high protoplast water content (61.0%, wet weight basis). These values for these unusual spores were consistent w...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Beaman TC,Pankratz HS,Gerhardt P

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The P39 antigen is a specific, highly conserved, and immunogenic protein of Lyme disease spirochetes, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato. The nucleotide sequence of the gene encoding this protein was determined and found to be the first of two tandemly arranged open reading frames located on the spirochete's chromosome. ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Simpson WJ,Cieplak W,Schrumpf ME,Barbour AG,Schwan TG

更新日期：1994-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Plastocyanin, encoded by the petE gene, can transfer electrons to photosystem I (PSI) and cytochrome c oxidase during photosynthetic and respiratory metabolism in cyanobacteria. We constructed a petE mutant of Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 and investigated its phenotypic properties under different light conditions...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wang XQ,Jiang HB,Zhang R,Qiu BS

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are arguments against the conclusion drawn by Haselwandter and Ebner that fungal spores have survived for some 5300 years on hay padding in the leather boots of a frozen body discovered in the Austrian Alps. According to cryobiological experience, long-term survival of fungal spores is very unlikely at temperatu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gams W,Stalpers JA

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Halobacillus trueperi accumulates glycine betaine under condition of high osmolarity. A fragment of the glycine betaine transporter betH gene was obtained from the genome of H. trueperi with degenerate primers. Through Southern blot hybridization and inverse PCR, a 5.1 kb EcoRI fragment containing the complete betH ge...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lu W,Zhao B,Feng D,Yang S

更新日期：2004-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of diatoms in victim's internal organs has been regarded as a gold biological evidence of drowning. The idea becomes true at the advent of DNA metabarcoding. Unfortunately, the DNA barcode of diatoms are far from being applicable due to neither consensus on the barcode and nor reliable reference library.I...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Liu M,Zhao Y,Sun Y,Wu P,Zhou S,Ren L

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrating short DNA fragments at the correct leader-repeat junction is key to successful CRISPR-Cas memory formation. The Cas1-2 proteins are responsible to carry out this process. However, the CRISPR adaptation process additionally requires a DNA element adjacent to the CRISPR array, called leader, to facilitate ef...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kieper SN,Almendros C,Brouns SJJ

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:parD and chpA are homologous conditional killer systems of plasmid and chromosomal origin, respectively, encoding a killer protein (Kid and ChpAK) and an antidote (Kis and ChpAI). Here it is shown that these systems can functionally interact. A multicopy chpA recombinant partially complements two mutations in the anti...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Santos-Sierra S,Giraldo R,Díaz-Orejas R

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a putative N-acetylmuramyl-l-alanine amidase gene (bb0666) was identified in the genome of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. This protein shares c. 30% identity with its counterparts from other bacteria. Reverse transcriptase-PCR analysis showed that bb0666 along with two other genes (bb...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yang Y,Li C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial competition for carbon sources is a primary determinant of rhizosphere ecology. We employed the PCR to examine the population fluctuations of a symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacterium (Rhizobium etli) during the first 11 days following inoculation of Phaseolus vulgaris seedlings grown in the presence or absence ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Petersen DJ,Srinivasan M,Chanway CP

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of Helminthosporium solani, the cause of silver scurf in potato tubers, has been impaired by selection of benzimidazole-resistant strains as a result of repeated use of the fungicide thiabendazole. Identification of thiabendazole-resistant strains of H. solani by conventional techniques takes several weeks. Pr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： McKay GJ,Cooke LR

更新日期：1997-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2.5-kb erythromycin resistance (EmR) plasmid pPV142 of Staphylococcus simulans 13044 was isolated and characterized. Sequence analysis identified ORF1 and ORF2 encoding a 158-residue replication protein (Rep142) and a 244-residue erythromycin resistance protein (Erm, rRNA adenine N-6-methyltransferase), respective...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Somkuti GA,Solaiman DK,Steinberg DH

更新日期：1998-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Desulfovibrio fructosovorans possesses two periplasmic hydrogenases (a nickel-iron and an iron hydrogenase) and a cytoplasmic NADP-dependent hydrogenase. The hydAB genes encoding the periplasmic iron hydrogenase were replaced, in the wild-type strain as well as in single mutants depleted of one of the other two hydrog...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Casalot L,Valette O,De Luca G,Dermoun Z,Rousset M,de Philip P

更新日期：2002-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The RcsCDB (Rcs) phosphorelay system regulates capsule synthesis, flagella production and other cellular activities in several enteric bacteria. This system consists of three proteins: the sensor RcsC, the cognate response regulator RcsB and the histidine-containing phosphotransfer protein RcsD (YojN), which is hypoth...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pescaretti Mde L,Morero R,Delgado MA

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High 1,3-beta-glucanase activity was detected during autolysis in a culture medium containing Penicillium oxalicum. It was due to the combined action of four enzymes. The purification process for the major enzyme produced a homogeneous band in the SDS polyacrylamide gel that corresponded to a molecular weight of 79,40...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Copa-Patiño JL,Reyes F,Pérez-Leblic MI

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) on bacterial cell adhesion onto solid surfaces was investigated using 27 heterotrophic bacterial strains isolated from a wastewater treatment reactor. Cell adhesion onto glass beads was carried out by the packed-bed method and the results were discussed in term...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tsuneda S,Aikawa H,Hayashi H,Yuasa A,Hirata A

更新日期：2003-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemerythrins are oxygen-binding proteins found in the body fluids and tissues of certain invertebrates. Oxygen is bound at a nonheme iron centre consisting of two oxo-bridged iron atoms bound to a characteristic set of conserved histidine: aspartate and glutamate residues with the motifs H-HxxxE-HxxxH-HxxxxD. It has r...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： French CE,Bell JM,Ward FB

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00