A surface polysaccharide forms when gonococci are converted to serum resistance by cytidine 5'-monophospho-N-acetyl neuraminic acid.

abstract：:Researchers studying both cellular and viral disease agents in the laboratory have become infected since the early days of microbiology 150 years ago. However, in the early 21st century, new concerns about bioweapons being used to generate terror and also with a series of newly emerging or newly understood disease-cau...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Silver S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Piscirickettsia salmonis is the etiological agent of Salmonid Rickettsial Septicemia, a disease affecting salmon aquaculture industry. We analyzed the 16S-23S rDNA spacer region (internal transcribed spacer, ITS) of Chilean P. salmonis isolates LF-89 and EM-90. Two main ITS amplification products were obtained by PCR ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Casanova A,Obreque J,Sandino AM,Jashés M

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanisms controlling expression of the long polar fimbriae 2 (Lpf2) of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 were evaluated. Primer extension was used to locate the lpfA2 transcriptional start site in EHEC strain EDL933 at 171 bp upstream of the lpfA2 start codon. Semi-quantitative RT-PCR d...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Arenas-Hernández MM,Rojas-López M,Medrano-López A,Nuñez-Reza KJ,Puente JL,Martínez-Laguna Y,Torres AG

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins which are secreted or associated with the cell envelope of Mycobacterium tuberculosis may contain protective T-cell epitopes. Prior to this study, a recombinant clone bank of enzymatically active M. tuberculosis-alkaline phosphatase fusions, were screened for immunogenicity in a murine T-cell model. Five of t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Moran AJ,Doran JL,Wu J,Treit JD,Ekpo P,Kerr VJ,Roberts AD,Orme IM,Galant S,Ress SR,Nano FE

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent reports have indicated that cholesterol plays a crucial role during the uptake of mycobacteria by macrophages. However, the significance of cholesterol modification enzymes encoded by Mycobacterium tuberculosis for bacterial pathogenicity remains unknown. Here, the authors explored whether the well-known choles...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Brzostek A,Dziadek B,Rumijowska-Galewicz A,Pawelczyk J,Dziadek J

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The RpoS sigma factor is required for the transition of Escherichia coli into stationary phase, as well as adaptation to environmental stresses and nutrient depletion. In this study, we report that under nutrient poor conditions, RpoS protein accumulation in E. coli was strongly enhanced by a secreted factor. Expressi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Holland AM,Rather PN

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Correct identification of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli isolates to the species or subspecies level is a cumbersome but nevertheless important task for a routine diagnostic laboratory. The widely used biochemical tests might be often misleading while more sophisticated phenotypic or genotypic methods are...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Steinbrueckner B,Haerter G,Pelz K,Kist M

更新日期：1999-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipid etherlipid (PLEL) derived isoprenoids and phospholipid fatty acids (PLFA) were determined in eight Euryarchaeotal monocultures for taxonomic profiling. For the first time significant amounts of fatty acids in the PLFA of Euryarchaeota were determined. The PLFA proportion varied between 11.3 and 35.5% of t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gattinger A,Schloter M,Munch JC

更新日期：2002-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:When challenged by stresses such as starvation, the soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis produces an endospore surrounded by a proteinaceous coat composed of >70 proteins that are organized into three main layers: an amorphous undercoat, lightly staining lamellar inner coat and electron-dense outer coat. This coat protect...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Müllerová D,Krajčíková D,Barák I

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5-Carboxymethyl-2-hydroxymuconic semialdehyde (CHMS) dehydrogenase from Escherichia coli C and Klebsiella pneumoniae M5a1 have been purified and some of their properties studied. The apparent Km values for NAD and CHMS were 11.7 +/- 1.5 microM and 5.2 +/- 1.9 microM, respectively, for the K. pneumoniae enzyme, and 19....

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fawcett T,Garrido-Pertierra A,Cooper RA

更新日期：1989-02-01 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：:Escherichia coli has been used widely in laboratory and the biotech industry. However, the genetic and metabolic characteristics remain inadequately studied, particularly for those strains with extensive genetic manipulations that might have resulted in unknown mutations. Here, we demonstrate a comparative proteomics ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Xia XX,Qian ZG,Lee SY

更新日期：2011-01-01 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

abstract：:The sepsis caused by Vibrio vulnificus is characterized by an average incubation period of 26 h and a high mortality rate exceeding 50%. The fast growth and dissemination of V. vulnificus in vivo lead to poor clinical outcomes in patients. Therefore, elucidation of the proliferation mechanisms of this organism in vivo...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kado T,Kashimoto T,Yamazaki K,Ueno S

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An iterative position-specific score matrix (PSSM)-based approach was used to predict sigma(28) promoters in 11 Shewanella genomes. The Shewanella Correlation Browser was used to distinguish true-positive predictions from false-positive predictions in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 by generating a sigma(28)-regulated tran...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Song W,Juhn FS,Naiman DQ,Konstantinidis KT,Gardner TS,Ward MJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the possibility of nonconjugative lateral DNA transfer in a colony biofilm of mixed Escherichia coli strains. By simply coculturing a plasmid-free F(-) strain and another F(-) strain harboring a nonconjugative plasmid in a colony biofilm on antibiotic-free agar media, transformed cells were produced within 2...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Maeda S,Ito M,Ando T,Ishimoto Y,Fujisawa Y,Takahashi H,Matsuda A,Sawamura A,Kato S

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A unique genomic DNA fragment was isolated from Nitrosomonas europaea ATCC 19718. Based on the sequence of this fragment, oligonucleotide primers for polymerase chain reaction amplification were prepared which amplify sequences of 775 and 658 bp. The predicted DNA fragments were both amplified from the genome of N. eu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nejidat A,Abeliovich A

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) strain Ec2173, causing post weaning diarrhoea in swine, harbours six plasmids ranging from 13 to 200 kb in size. The heat stable toxin genes sta, stb and a tetracycline resistance gene were located on a self conjugative 120-kb plasmid, called pTC. In the cloned ColE1 type or...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Olasz F,Fekete PZ,Blum-Oehler G,Boldogkoi Z,Nagy B

更新日期：2005-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We adapted PCR-based signature-tagged mutagenesis (STM) to Pseudomonas aeruginosa. A collection of 1056 mutants was screened in a chronic lung infection rat model. Thirteen mutants were confirmed to be attenuated. Analysis revealed that these STM mutants represented transposon insertions into eight genes previously de...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lehoux DE,Sanschagrin F,Levesque RC

更新日期：2002-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of ancient microbial DNA offers a new approach for the study of infectious diseases, their occurrence, frequency and host-pathogen interaction in historic times and populations. Moreover, data obtained from skeletal and mummified tissue may represent an important completion of contemporary phylogenetic a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zink AR,Reischl U,Wolf H,Nerlich AG

更新日期：2002-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Astaxanthin possesses higher antioxidant activity than other carotenoids and, for this and other reasons, has great commercial potential for use in the aquaculture, pharmaceutical, and food industries. The basidiomycetous yeast Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous is one of the best natural producers of astaxanthin, but wild...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ukibe K,Katsuragi T,Tani Y,Takagi H

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel bacterial strain, PM2, capable of growing on methanol, was isolated in alkaline conditions from a soil inoculum. This bacterium was characterized at the physiological, biochemical and molecular level. Based on biochemical and molecular data strain PM2 was classified as a novel member of the group of fluorescen...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pacheco CC,Passos JF,Moradas-Ferreira P,De Marco P

更新日期：2003-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on second generation sequencing (MiSeq platform, Illumina), we determined the genetic diversity of T4-like bacteriophages of the family Myoviridae by analysing fragments of the major capsid protein gene g23 in the plankton of Lake Baikal. The sampling depth in our study was significantly higher than in those obt...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Potapov S,Belykh O,Krasnopeev A,Gladkikh A,Kabilov M,Tupikin A,Butina T

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spores of Bacillus species have novel properties, which allow them to lie dormant for years and then germinate under favourable conditions. In the current work, the role of a key metabolic integrator, coenzyme A (CoA), in redox regulation of growing cells and during spore formation in Bacillus megaterium and Bacillus ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhyvoloup A,Yu BYK,Baković J,Davis-Lunn M,Tossounian MA,Thomas N,Tsuchiya Y,Peak-Chew SY,Wigneshweraraj S,Filonenko V,Skehel M,Setlow P,Gout I

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans is an extremely thermophilic, Gram-positive bacterium growing on carbon monoxide (CO) as single carbon and energy source and producing only H(2) and CO(2). Carbon monoxide dehydrogenase is a key enzyme for CO metabolism. The carbon monoxide dehydrogenase genes cooF and cooS from C. hy...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： González JM,Robb FT

更新日期：2000-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:IS1(SB) and its two variants were identified as the major and minor IS1 elements in Shigella boydii. The nucleotide sequences of IS1(SB), IS1(O157:H7) from Escherichia coli O157:H7 and IS1F from E. coli K12 suggest that these IS1 elements had been horizontally transferred among S. boydii and E. coli O157:H7 and K12. T...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hsu WB,Chen JH

更新日期：2003-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The mercury (II) ion is toxic and is usually detoxified in Bacteria by reduction to elemental mercury, which is less toxic. This is catalysed by an NAD(P)H-dependent mercuric reductase (EC 1.16.1.1). Here, we present strong evidence that Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath) - a methanotrophic member of the Gammaproteobacte...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Boden R,Murrell JC

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella melitensis possesses an operon with two components: the response regulator OtpR and a putative cAMP-dependent protein kinase regulatory subunit encoded by the BMEI0067 gene. In the previous study, the function of OtpR has been studied, while little is known about the function of the BMEI0067 gene. Using a bio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Liu WJ,Dong H,Peng XW,Wu QM

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mild alkaline solutions (beta-elimination), after removing the non-covalently bonded wall materials by hot SDS, released 13% and 26% of remaining wall proteins from mycelial and yeast cells of Candida albicans, respectively. When the beta-elimination was carried out after digestion of the walls with chitinase, four-fo...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mormeneo S,Marcilla A,Iranzo M,Sentandreu R

更新日期：1994-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixed-substrate conversions are an under-regarded option to fix carbon dioxide in significant amounts. In such a conversion, carbon dioxide together with one other carbon source such as glucose is converted to a single carbon product. With mixed-substrate conversions, it is possible to incorporate carbon dioxide into ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Steiger MG,Mattanovich D,Sauer M

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00