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

abstract：:Staphylococcus simulans biovar staphylolyticus secreted two bacteriolytic peptidoglycan hydrolases as proproteins that were activated as they were processed by an extracellular sulphydryl protease. This processing resulted in the production of multiple molecular-mass forms of each enzyme. Cells from early exponential ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Neumann VC,Heath HE,LeBlanc PA,Sloan GL

更新日期：1993-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The chrysene-degrading bacterium Pseudoxanthomonas sp. PNK-04 was isolated from a coal sample. Three novel metabolites, hydroxyphenanthroic acid, 1-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid and salicylic acid, were identified by TLC, HPLC and MS. Key enzyme activities, namely 1-hydroxy-2-naphthoate hydroxylase, 1,2-dihydroxynaphthalen...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nayak AS,Sanjeev Kumar S,Santosh Kumar M,Anjaneya O,Karegoudar TB

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is common among intracellular bacterial pathogens to use eukaryotic-like proteins that mimic and manipulate host cellular processes to promote colonization and intracellular survival. Eukaryotic-like proteins are bacterial proteins with domains that are rare in bacteria, and known to function in the context of a eu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Frank AC

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Gram-negative, nonmotile and rod-shaped bacterial strain was isolated from the rhizosphere of Platycodon grandiflorum in a study of bacterial diversity, and its taxonomic position was investigated by a genotypic and phenotypic analysis. This isolate, designated as DR-f4, grew at 4-30 degrees C (optimally at 20-25 de...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kim BC,Lee KH,Kim MN,Lee J,Shin KS

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for improved rapid diagnostic tests for tuberculosis disease has prompted interest in the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted by Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex bacteria. We have investigated VOCs emitted by Mycobacterium bovis BCG grown on Lowenstein-Jensen media using selected ion flow tube mass sp...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： McNerney R,Mallard K,Okolo PI,Turner C

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A characteristic feature of fungal hypha is the presence of large number of nuclei in a common cytoplasmic environment. Where it has been examined, the coenocytic mycelium is commonly heterokaryotic. The nuclei cooperate, compete or combat. It is proposed that in addition to their classical role in heredity, supernume...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Maheshwari R

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Himalaya hosts a unique environment for microbial ecology. The present study aimed to explore the bioplastic producing bacterial communities along altitude gradient of Pangi-Chamba trans-Himalayan region. A total of 411 bacteria were isolated and 70 characterized at the molecular level for potential polyhydroxyalkanoa...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kumar V,Thakur V,Ambika,Kumar S,Singh D

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria carry a number of genes that cause cell growth arrest or cell lysis upon expression. Notably, defective prophages retain many lysis proteins. Here, we identified a novel lytic gene, ydfD, on the Qin prophage segment of the Escherichia coli genome. YdfD lyses 99.9% of cells within 2 h of its induction. The co-...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Masuda H,Awano N,Inouye M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corynebacterium diphtheriae, generally considered an extracellular coloniser, was evaluated for its ability to enter and survive within HEp-2 monolayers by gentamicin protection assay. Intracellular viability of HC01 strain, isolated from endocarditis, was more expressive (2.59%) than observed in 241 (0.21%) and CDC-E...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hirata R,Napoleão F,Monteiro-Leal LH,Andrade AF,Nagao PE,Formiga LC,Fonseca LS,Mattos-Guaraldi AL

更新日期：2002-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in composition of the principal low molecular mass thiols of Leishmania donovani were monitored during the transformation of promastigotes, first to stationary phase metacyclic forms and then to amastigotes. No consistent variation in the thiol composition of the parasite which could account for the known incr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Weldrick DP,Chodacka B,Vogt R,Steenkamp DJ

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poultry is one of the most consumed meats worldwide and there are many different types of poultry products available on the market for consumers. Many poultry producers provide a variety of labeled meats based on rearing system such as organic, free-range and antibiotic-free. However, these labels often can be mislead...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lee SI,Choi J,Daeschel DZ,Park SH

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of nutritional and physical stress on sporulation, conidial germination and vegetative biomass of Ophiocordyceps sinensis, one of the most important medicinal fungi in China and now globally, was evaluated using a two-stage culture method. All the treatments, except nutrient deprivation, enhanced conidia...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ren SY,Yao YJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteus mirabilis strain MAG1, a clinical isolate that is resistant to broad-spectrum penicillins and co-amoxiclav, produces inhibitor-resistant TEM (IRT)-21, a novel mutant of TEM beta-lactamase. This enzyme has a pI of 5.2 and is derived from the bla(TEM-1a) gene ancestor. It contains two major amino acid substituti...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mammeri H,Gilly L,Laurans G,Vedel G,Eb F,Paul G

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum opacity factor (SOF) is produced by group A streptococci belonging to certain M types. SOF cleaves the apolipoprotein component of the high density lipoprotein fraction of serum rendering it insoluble which in turn leads to serum opacity. SfbII protein, a fibronectin binding surface protein cloned from group A s...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kreikemeyer B,Martin DR,Chhatwal GS

更新日期：1999-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The argH gene encoding argininosuccinate lyase (ASL) of Methanococcus maripaludis was cloned on a 4.7-kb HindIII genomic fragment. The gene is preceded by a short open reading frame (ORF149), which encodes a polypeptide with an unknown function. The two genes are co-transcribed. The ASL of M. maripaludis shares a high...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cohen-Kupiec R,Kupiec M,Sandbeck K,Leigh JA

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoplasmic precursors of the peptidoglycan biosynthetic pathway were purified from vancomycin-treated, glycopeptide-sensitive and -resistant strains of Enterococcus faecium. Resistance was due to production of a modified precursor, UDP-MurNAc-L-Ala-D-Glu-L-Lys-D-Ala-D-lactate, where lactate was identified on the basi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Messer J,Reynolds PE

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multiplex-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay based on one-step amplification and detection of two different mycobacterial genomic fragments was designed for differentiation of Mycobacterium bovis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The oligonucleotide primers were chosen from a 500-bp genomic fragment which is well c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Shah DH,Verma R,Bakshi CS,Singh RK

更新日期：2002-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Several beta-galactosidase fusion proteins have been constructed containing the entire VP1 protein from foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) [Corchero et al. (1996) J. Biotechnol. in press]. The antigenicity of the major immunodominant site A (13 amino acids in length) within the VP1 protein has been studied in competi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Corchero JL,Villaverde A

更新日期：1996-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The coiled-coil protein DivIVA is a determinant of apical growth and hyphal branching in Streptomyces coelicolor. We have investigated the properties of this protein and the involvement of different domains in its essential function and subcellular targeting. In S. coelicolor cell extracts, DivIVA was present as large...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wang SB,Cantlay S,Nordberg N,Letek M,Gil JA,Flärdh K

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stimulatory effect of heme on growth of Bacteroides fragilis, an anaerobic human pathogen, was strongly inhibited by hemopexin, an avid (Kd<1 pM) heme-binding plasma protein. Both rabbit and human hemopexins were bacteriostatic for a limited period of time, suggesting an adaptation by B. fragilis to heme-limited g...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Rocha ER,Smith A,Smith CJ,Brock JH

更新日期：2001-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple restriction fragments, homologous to the previously described Mycoplasma bovis vspA gene, were identified in the chromosome of Mycoplasma agalactiae. The vspA, a representative variable surface lipoprotein gene of the vsp gene family, and four synthetic oligonucleotides, representing sequences complementary t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Flitman-Tene R,Levisohn S,Rosenbusch R,Rapoport E,Yogev D

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two plasmids, pEM4 (IncFI) determining virulence and pEM6 (IncI) determining colicine I production and resistance to tetracycline, have been found in a pathogenic strain of Citrobacter freundii. Even though pEM4 and pEM6 plasmids are conjugative and transfer themselves very efficiently during conjugation, a high cotra...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Morzejko E,Panek E,Cebrat S

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera, from 17 patients with diarrhoea or haemolytic uraemic syndrome, and six healthy adults, were tested for neutralisation of Vero cytotoxins (VT). For all 17 patients there was evidence of infection with Escherichia coli O157. Sera from two controls but from none of the patients neutralised VT1, although two patien...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Scotland SM,Said B,Thomas A,Rowe B

更新日期：1994-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the industrialized world, functional foods have become a part of an everyday diet and are demonstrated to offer potential health benefits beyond the widely accepted nutritional effects. Currently, the most important and frequently used functional food compounds are probiotics and prebiotics, or they are collectivel...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nagpal R,Kumar A,Kumar M,Behare PV,Jain S,Yadav H

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A structural characterization of polysaccharides extracted from the aposymbiotically cultured photobiont of the lichen Ramalina gracilis was carried out in order to compare them with those previously found in the symbiotic thallus. The photobiont was isolated from thallus fragments, following the method of Yamamoto, a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cordeiro LM,Carbonero ER,Sassaki GL,Reis RA,Stocker-Wörgötter E,Gorin PA,Iacomini M

更新日期：2005-03-01 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：:Aceticlastic methanogens metabolize acetate to methane and carbon dioxide. The central metabolism and the electron transport chains of these organisms have already been investigated. However, no particular attention has been paid to the mechanism by which acetate enters the archaeal cell. In our study we investigated ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Welte C,Kröninger L,Deppenmeier U

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae exponentially growing in basic or 0.7 M NaCl medium were isotopically labelled with 35S-methionine, followed by protein separation and quantification by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2D-PAGE) combined with computerised image analysis. The electrophoretic separation resolv...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Norbeck J,Blomberg A

更新日期：1996-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug efflux pumps contribute to multiple antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Pump expression usually has been quantified by Western blotting. Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction has been developed to measure mRNA expression for genes of interest. Whether this method correlates with pump ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yoneda K,Chikumi H,Murata T,Gotoh N,Yamamoto H,Fujiwara H,Nishino T,Shimizu E

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis serotype 2 (S. suis 2 or SS2) is the causative agent of several diseases in both pigs and humans. 6-Phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6PGD) is a cell surface protein in SS2. In this study, the immunogenicity and protective efficacy of recombinant 6PGD (r6PGD) from SS2 was evaluated in piglets. Immuniz...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tan C,Liu M,Liu J,Yuan F,Fu S,Liu Y,Jin M,Bei W,Chen H

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00