Genetic analysis of CTX prophages with special reference to ctxB and rstR alleles of Vibrio cholerae O139 strains isolated from Kolkata over a decade.

abstract：:Shigella flexneri, which causes shigellosis in humans, evolved from Escherichia coli. The sequencing of Shigella genomes has revealed that a large number of insertion sequence (IS) elements (over 200 elements) reside in the genome. Although the presence of these elements has been noted previously and summarized, more ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zaghloul L,Tang C,Chin HY,Bek EJ,Lan R,Tanaka MM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The time course production of xylanolytic enzymes by the rumen anaerobic fungus Neocallimastix frontalis was studied during growth on different carbon sources and revealed using isoelectric focusing and immunoblotting. A constant low level of endoxylanase expression was observed in glucose medium. A high level of xyla...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gomez de Segura B,Durand R,Fèvre M

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve strains of Candida albicans were grown in defined medium which had been deferrated by ion-exchange chromatography and then supplemented with FeCl3 to give iron concentrations ranging from 0.026 microM (growth-limiting) to 0.8 microM (excess). All of the strains secreted hydroxamate-type siderophores; phenolate ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sweet SP,Douglas LJ

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This commentary describes an assessment exercise known as the TRIPSE (Tri-Partite Problem Solving Exercise) that mimics science in operation. Students frame hypotheses based on limited data, design experiments to test them, which they later revise with new information. It is emphasised that there are no single correct...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nastos S,Rangachari PK

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chemiluminescence immunoassay (CLIA) was developed to detect Cryptosporidium parvum growth in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cell cultures. Optimal results were obtained when MDCK cells were plated at a density of 1 x 10(4) cells/well (96-well plate) and maintained as a monolayer for 4 days prior to infection with...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： You X,Arrowood MJ,Lejkowski M,Xie L,Schinazi RF,Mead JR

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether the luxA-luxB reporter system is suitable as a sensitive reporter for rapid real-time measurements of alpha-toxin gene (cpa) expression in Clostridium perfringens, and to widen the range of alpha-toxin-producing C. perfringens strains examined with respect to cpa expression during growth, the repo...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Phillips-Jones MK

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the complete nucleotide sequence of the 16341 bp plasmid pHH205 of the extremely halophilic archaeon Halobacterium salinarum J7. The plasmid has a G+C content of 61.1%. A number of direct and inverted repeat sequences were found in pHH205, while no insertion sequences were found. Thirty-eight large open ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ye X,Ou J,Ni L,Shi W,Shen P

更新日期：2003-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus mutans and certain other oral lactic-acid bacteria were found to have the ability to carry out malolactic fermentation involving decarboxylation of L-malate to yield L-lactic acid and concomitant reduction in acidity. The activity was inducible by L-malate in S. mutans UA159 growing in suspensions or bio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sheng J,Marquis RE

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) comprise an important group of paediatric pathogens. Atypical EPEC have reservoirs in farm and domestic animals where they can be either commensal or pathogenic; serogroup O26 is dominant in humans and animals. Central to intestinal colonization by EPEC is the transloc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ooka T,Vieira MA,Ogura Y,Beutin L,La Ragione R,van Diemen PM,Stevens MP,Aktan I,Cawthraw S,Best A,Hernandes RT,Krause G,Gomes TA,Hayashi T,Frankel G

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The commercialization of the n-butanol bioprocess is largely dependent on the price of feedstocks. Renewable cellulose appears to be an appealing feedstock. The microbial production of n-butanol still remains challenging because of the limited availability of intracellular NADH. To address this issue, an Escherichia c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Saini M,Chiang CJ,Li SY,Chao YP

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa are known to have a wide physiological potential allowing them to constantly populate diverse environments leading to severe infections of humans such as septicemia, leg ulcers, and burn wounds. We set out to probe physiological characteristics of P. aeruginosa isolates from diabetic leg ulcers ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Buivydas A,Pasanen T,Senčilo A,Daugelavičius R,Vaara M,Bamford DH

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As shown by both bioassay and high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) analysis, penicillin G production by Aspergillus nidulans is subject to regulation by the pH of the growth medium. Penicillin titres were highest at alkaline pH and in strains carrying mutations in the regulatory gene pacC which mimics the ef...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Shah AJ,Tilburn J,Adlard MW,Arst HN Jr

更新日期：1991-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Three (0140J, C197C and EF20) out of four strains of Streptococcus uberis exhibited high levels of bound plasmin activity following growth in the presence of bovine plasminogen. The remaining strain (C197) bound considerably less plasmin following growth in the same medium. In contrast to the others, this strain was u...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Leigh JA,Lincoln RA

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), rifampicin resistance is almost invariably due to mutations in the rpoB gene, whose function is critical for cell viability. Most of these mutations, at least initially, impair the fitness of the bacteria but confer a selective advantage when antibiotic pressure is exerted. Subsequ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bergval IL,Klatser PR,Schuitema AR,Oskam L,Anthony RM

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine viruses are the most abundant biological entity in the oceans, the majority of which infect bacteria and are known as bacteriophages. Yet, the bulk of bacteriophages form part of the vast uncultured dark matter of the microbial biosphere. In spite of the paucity of cultured marine bacteriophages, it is known th...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Perez Sepulveda B,Redgwell T,Rihtman B,Pitt F,Scanlan DJ,Millard A

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of hybrids obtained by fusion of protoplasts of complementary auxotrophic strains of Candida albicans were analysed for growth rates, cell volume, DNA content, stability and adherence to human buccal epithelial cells. SDS-PAGE analysis of the cell wall proteins indicated that the hybrid cell walls contained m...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Law C,Kavanagh K,Whittaker P

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on the porcine respiratory tract pathogen Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae requires the availability of improved genetic tools. Therefore, using the sacB gene of Bacillus subtilis, we developed a sucrose-based counterselection system that allows rapid curing of an Escherichia coli-A. pleuropneumoniae shuttle v...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Oswald W,Tonpitak W,Ohrt G,Gerlach G

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The copZ gene of Bacillus subtilis encodes a copper chaperon CopZ that donates copper to the copper transporter CopA. Both genes copZ and copA are clustered to an operon and its promoter is regulated by Cu ions and CueR, a Mer-like transcriptional activator. Here we show that cadmium ions activate copZA expression as ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Solovieva IM,Entian KD

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequences of two Piromyces cDNAs (manB and manC) encoding functional mannanases, defined as mannanase B (MANB) and mannanase C (MANC), revealed that both the cDNAs, and the encoded enzymes, exhibited extensive sequence identity with each other and with a previously described Piromyces mannanase. MANB and MANC, whi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Millward-Sadler SJ,Hall J,Black GW,Hazlewood GP,Gilbert HJ

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic resistance genes might be maintained by selection pressures different from those which are responsible for initially selecting resistant bacteria. This possibility was suggested from a comparison of oral commensal streptococci isolated from healthy people not taking antibiotics. Resistance frequencies were ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Díaz-Mejía JJ,Carbajal-Saucedo A,Amábile-Cuevas CF

更新日期：2002-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Herbaspirillum seropedicae strains mutated in the nifX or orf1 genes showed 90% or 50% reduction in nitrogenase activity under low levels of iron or molybdenum respectively. Mutations in nifX or orf1 genes did not affect nif gene expression since a nifH::lacZ fusion was fully active in both mutants. nifX and the conti...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Klassen G,de Oliveira Pedrosa F,de Souza EM,Yates MG,Rigo LU

更新日期：2003-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of insertion sequence IS1 in 70 multiple-antibiotic resistant clinical strains was determined. This 70-strain collection comprised 46 Escherichia coli, 18 Salmonella and 6 Shigella strains. The presence of IS1 was detected in the chromosome and plasmids of 73% and 63% of the strains, respectively, and 51%...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ramirez-Santos J,Alvarez G,Cisneros E,Gomez-Eichelmann MC

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A continuous culture technique utilising a variant of Staphylococcus aureus 8325-4 containing transcriptional gene fusions was used to investigate the relationships between cell density (OD(600)), steady-state specific growth rate (mu) and expression of both agr (accessory gene regulator) and tst (toxic shock syndrome...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wright JD,Holland KT

更新日期：2003-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous study [DeVault et al. (1991) Mol. Microbiol. 5, 2503-2509] suggested that growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in glucose-containing medium represses algD gene transcription. In this study, growth of P. aeruginosa in rich medium containing glucose or gluconate increased alginate production and algD transcriptio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ma JF,Phibbs PV,Hassett DJ

更新日期：1997-03-15 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：: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：:Endoglucanase of Aspergillus niger AS-101 was partially purified by ammonium sulphate fractionation and molecular sieving on Sephadex G-200. The enzyme was found to be unstable on storage, however, it received some protection on the addition of BSA, glycerol or sodium azide. Glycerol also protected the enzyme from ina...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Singh A,Agrawal AK,Abidi AB,Darmwal NS

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Glucosidase in Aspergillus nidulans was found to be both intracellular and extracellular. The intracellular beta-glucosidase was synthesized after the exhaustion of carbon source in the medium. The extracellular enzyme appeared with autolysis of the mycelium. Biosynthesis of beta-glucosidase was not induced by va...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lee J,Kwon KS,Hah YC

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila is known as a facultative intracellular parasite of free-living soil and freshwater amoebae, of which several species have been shown to support the growth of the pathogenic bacteria. We report for the first time the behaviour of two strains (c2c and Z503) of the amoeba Willaertia magna towards ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dey R,Bodennec J,Mameri MO,Pernin P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Riemerella anatipestifer is the causative agent of polyserositis of ducks and geese. We have previously reported that a 3.9-kb plasmid, pCFC1, carries protein genes (vapD1 and vapD2) that are similar to virulence-associated genes of other bacteria. In the present study, we report the complete sequence of a second plas...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Weng S,Lin W,Chang Y,Chang C

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00