In vitro evaluation of the prebiotic properties of almond skins (Amygdalus communis L.).

abstract：:Sixty-four breast-fed infants and 23 calves were investigated for bacteria and enzymatic activity in their faecal samples. The bacteria were measured using cultivation and fluorescence in situ hybridization. Enzymatic activity was also examined. Forty-seven (64%) infants and all the calves had high numbers of bifidoba...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Rada V,Vlková E,Nevoral J,Trojanová I

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：:Brucella usually carry two highly homologous genes (omp2a and omp2b) for porin-like proteins. In several B. abortus biovars the omp2a gene has a large deletion compared to other Brucella omp2's. In this study we have measured Omp2 pore activity in planar bilayers. Omp2b exhibits well-defined trimeric channel activity ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mobasheri H,Ficht TA,Marquis H,Lea EJ,Lakey JH

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photorhabdus (Enterobacteriaceae) bacteria are pathogenic to insects and mutualistic with entomopathogenic Heterorhabditis nematodes. Photorhabdus luminescens subsp. akhurstii LN2, associated with Heterorhabditis indica LN2, shows nematicidal activity against H. bacteriophora H06 infective juveniles (IJs). In the pres...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Qiu X,Wu C,Cao L,Ehlers RU,Han R

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MHYT, a new conserved protein domain with a likely signaling function, is described. This domain consists of six transmembrane segments, three of which contain conserved methionine, histidine, and tyrosine residues that are projected to lie near the outer face of the cytoplasmic membrane. In Synechocystis sp. PCC6803,...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Galperin MY,Gaidenko TA,Mulkidjanian AY,Nakano M,Price CW

更新日期：2001-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A collection of 45 epidemiologically unrelated Streptococcus agalactiae strains (group B Streptococcus, GBS), belonging to different serotypes, isolated from pregnant women in China and Russia was studied. Strains were characterized by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) employing hybridization with nine genes pot...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dmitriev A,Hu YY,Shen AD,Suvorov A,Yang YH

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a novel type of a positive screen for the discovery of antibacterial compounds that target the Escherichia coli replication initiator protein DnaA. DnaA is an essential replication protein, conserved in (almost) all bacteria--including all human pathogens--and no existing antibiotics target the main ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fossum S,De Pascale G,Weigel C,Messer W,Donadio S,Skarstad K

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of the antiseptic-resistance genes qacE and qacE delta 1 was studied in a large number of Gram-negative bacteria by a method that included the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). A total of 117 strains of Gram-negative bacteria, isolated from clinical or environmental sources, was used in this analysis. ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kazama H,Hamashima H,Sasatsu M,Arai T

更新日期：1998-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the molecular mechanism by which the MexR repressor regulates expression of the MexAB-OprM efflux pump, we investigated MexR and the mexR-mexA intergenic DNA (mexOP) interaction, and transcription of the mexA-lacZ reporter gene containing different lengths of mexOP. Homogeneously purified MexR bound speci...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Saito K,Eda S,Maseda H,Nakae T

更新日期：2001-02-05 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：:Among the etiological agents of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto strains carry a 16 kb plasmid, which did not hybridize to plasmids of B. garinii and B. afzelii strains. A 1271 bp DNA fragment of the 16 kb plasmid was cloned. It hybridized to several plasmids of this species (16, 27 and 55 kb). Sequenc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Misonne MC,Schuttler M,Dernelle JM,De Kesel M,Hoet PP

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-free protein synthesis has emerged in recent years as a powerful tool that can potentially transform the production of recombinant proteins. Cell-free protein synthesis harnesses the synthetic power of living cells while eliminating many of the constraints of traditional cell-based gene expression methods. Due to...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lee KH,Kim DM

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to screen two cheese starter cultures and cheese-borne microbial communities with the potential to produce biogenic amines in cheese during ripening. Bacteria of the genera Enterococcus and Lactobacillus and coliform bacteria were isolated from Dutch-type semi-hard cheese at the beginning of ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Burdychova R,Komprda T

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of specific inhibitors of glycoprotein trimming reactions on Junin virus (JV) replication were investigated. Bromoconduritol, an inhibitor of glucosidase II, significantly reduced infective virus production (DE50: 1.1 mM) and viral protein expression. Neither 1-deoxynojirimycin, an inhibitor of both glucos...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Silber AM,Candurra NA,Damonte EB

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytochromes are red/far-red light photoreceptors found in plants, cyanobacteria and heterotrophic bacteria. Biochemical analyses have established that the genes bphO and bphP (PA4116 and PA4117) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa encode both phytochrome components: BphO, a heme oxygenase that produces the linear tetrapyrrole ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Barkovits K,Harms A,Benkartek C,Smart JL,Frankenberg-Dinkel N

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the amino acid-fermenting bacterium Clostridium aminophilum F was inoculated into media containing 1 microM monensin or a bacteriocin-like inhibitory substance (BLIS) from Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens JL5, the cultures lagged and growth was not observed for more than 12 h. The monensin- and BLIS-treated cultures eve...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Rychlik JL,Russell JB

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a new procedure allowing the generation and detection of immunogenic antigens from Helicobacter pylori via the hemolysin secretion apparatus of Escherichia coli. The gene (or gene fragment) encoding the H. pylori protein (or protein domain) is inserted in-frame into a residual portion of the hemolysin gene...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Spreng S,Gentschev I,Goebel W,Mollenkopf H,Eck M,Müller-Hermelink HK,Schmausser B

更新日期：2000-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of inducible biodegradative threonine dehydratase of Escherichia coli increased several-fold in the presence of the DNA gyrase inhibitors, nalidixic acid and coumermycin. Temperature-sensitive gyrB mutants expressed higher levels of dehydratase as compared to an isogenic gyrB+ strain. Immunoblotting expe...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sumantran VN,Tranguch AJ,Datta P

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main hypothesis of this work was to evaluate the presence of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) intrinsically resistant to plant essential oils in sage (Salvia officinalis L.) and laurel (Laurus nobilis), for future applications in functional cheese production by addition of aromatic herbs. The effect of the drying proces...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gaglio R,Catania P,Orlando S,Vallone M,Moschetti G,Settanni L

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central carbon metabolism is well investigated in bacteria, but this is not the case for archaea. MJ0400-His(6) from Methanocaldococcus jannaschii catalyzes the cleavage of fructose-1,6-bisphosphate (FBP) to glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate and dihydroxyacetone phosphate with a V(max) of 33 mU mg(-1) and a K(m) of 430 m...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Samland AK,Wang M,Sprenger GA

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromobacterium violaceum is a Gram-negative opportunistic human pathogen and an inhabitant of tropical soils and waterways. Although known primarily for the synthesis of the pigment violacein, and more recently as a reporter strain for quorum sensing, clinical reports of chromobacteriosis comprise the largest block o...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Brumbach KC,Eason BD,Anderson LK

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：:Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) is an important diarrhoeal pathogen causing diseases in multiple epidemiological and clinical settings. In developing countries like India, diarrhoeal diseases are one of the major killers among paediatric population and oddly, few studies are available from Indian paediatric ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gupta D,Sharma M,Sarkar S,Thapa BR,Chakraborti A

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosomatids are unicellular protozoan parasites that cause many diseases in animals, including humans, and plants. These early divergent eukaryotes have many singular structures and processes, including the hyper-modified 'base J', a mitochondrial DNA network, RNA editing, and trans-splicing; all of these unique f...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gargantini PR,Lujan HD,Pereira CA

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is a multidrug-resistant opportunistic pathogen. S. maltophilia quorum-sensing system is mediated by the diffusible signal factor (DSF), which synthesis depends on rpfF. It has been reported that rpfF disruption in S. maltophilia K279a leads to a loss of DSF synthesis, reduced levels of ex...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Alcaraz E,García C,Friedman L,de Rossi BP

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenylate kinase isoenzymes localised in the mitochondria and in the cytosol have been detected in extracts of glucose-grown Aspergillus nidulans using specific staining after electrophoresis on cellulose acetate. The isoenzymes have similar Km values for AMP, ADP and MgATP2- but may differ in the mechanism used for i...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hoang VQ,Jaklitsch W,Scrutton MC

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We transformed haploid mycelium of Hebeloma cylindrosporum via Agrobacterium tumefaciens and optimised the procedure to develop a new tool for insertional mutagenesis in this fungus. Southern blot analysis of 83 randomly selected transformants showed that they all contained plasmid inserts. Each of them showed a uniqu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Combier JP,Melayah D,Raffier C,Gay G,Marmeisse R

更新日期：2003-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A CO-reactive hemoprotein was purified from the mitochondrial membrane fraction of Tetrahymena pyriformis. It showed absorption peaks at 615 and 455 nm in the reduced form and an alpha peak at 565 nm in the pyridine ferrohemochrome spectrum. Although the spectral properties were apparently similar to those of 'cytochr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Inokuchi A,Fukumori Y

更新日期：1993-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of exopolysaccharide production by heterofermentative sourdough lactic acid bacteria has shown that Weissella strains isolated from sourdoughs produce linear dextrans containing α-(1→6) glucose residues with few α-(1→3) linkages from sucrose. In this study, several dextran-producing strains, Weissella cibari...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bounaix MS,Robert H,Gabriel V,Morel S,Remaud-Siméon M,Gabriel B,Fontagné-Faucher C

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role in virulence of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae urease activity was investigated. A urease-negative mutant was isolated following transposon mutagenesis with a mini-Tn10 derivative. Both the parent strain and the urease-negative mutant exhibited identical LD50 values in a murine infection model. Pig challenge...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tascón Cabrero RI,Vázquez-Boland JA,Gutiérrez CB,Rodríguez-Barbosa JI,Rodríguez-Ferri EF

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00