Characterization of ISR region and development of a PCR assay for rapid detection of the fish pathogen Tenacibaculum soleae.

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes is a Gram positive pathogen that is ubiquitous in the environment. It is a facultative anaerobic rod that causes listeriosis, a disease with potentially lethal consequences for susceptible individuals. During infection, the pathogen is capable of sequestering metal ions to act as vital biocataly...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dowd GC,Casey PG,Begley M,Hill C,Gahan CG

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：:Burkholderia pseudomallei, a Gram-negative bacterium is found in the soil and water, mainly in Southeast Asia and Northern Australia. It is responsible for melioidosis in human and animals. The bacteria produce several potential virulent factors such as extracellular protease, hemolysin, lipase and lecithinase. The is...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lee MA,Liu Y

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cold shock domain (CSD)-containing protein, CspD, of molecular mass ~7.28 kDa in a psychrotolerant Antarctic Janthinobacterium sp. Ant5-2 (ATCC BAA-2154) exhibited constitutive expression at 37, 22, 15, 4 and -1°C. The cspD gene encoding the CspD protein of Ant5-2 was cloned, sequenced and analyzed. The deduced prot...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mojib N,Andersen DT,Bej AK

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of isogenic mutants lacking either the O1 (O-:K66) or K66 (O1:K-) antigens or both (O-:K-), some of which had additional defects in their LPS core polysaccharide was used to examine the interaction between polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMNLs) and K. pneumoniae serotype O1:K66. In the absence of serum compleme...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Williams P,Ciurana B,Camprubi S,Tomas JM

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silkworm larva has recently been recognized as an alternative model animal for higher mammals to evaluate the effects of antibiotics. In this study, we examined the efficacy of the bacteriophage (phage) therapy, which harnesses phages as antibacterial agents, against Staphylococcus aureus infections, using the silkwor...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Takemura-Uchiyama I,Uchiyama J,Kato S,Inoue T,Ujihara T,Ohara N,Daibata M,Matsuzaki S

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription of the sigA and sigB genes of Brevibacterium lactofermentum, encoding the principal sigma factors of RNA polymerase, has been investigated by Northern blot and primer extension analysis. Northern hybridizations revealed that sigA is transcribed as a monocistronic mRNA of 1.7 kb and sigB gives two transcr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Oguiza JA,Marcos AT,Martín JF

更新日期：1997-08-01 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：:Growth of a Mycobacterium avium complex serotype 20 rough-colony variant in 1.0% Tween 80 resulted in a smooth-colony morphological conversion that was reversible upon removal of Tween and was not associated with the presence of serotype-specific glycopeptidolipid antigens. Electron microscopic examination suggested t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wright EL,Pourshafie M,Barrow WW

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase gene (gabD) was identified to be disrupted in a transposon-induced mutant of Ralstonia eutropha exhibiting the phenotype 4-hydroxybutyric acid-leaky. The native gabD gene was cloned by colony hybridization using a homologous gabD-specific DNA probe. DNA sequencing revealed an 145...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lütke-Eversloh T,Steinbüchel A

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy, a eukaryotic cellular activity leading to the degradation of cellular components, serves as a defense mechanism against facultative intracellular bacteria as well as a growth niche for the obligate intracellular bacterium Coxiella burnetii. We here demonstrate that the obligate intracellular bacterial patho...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pachikara N,Zhang H,Pan Z,Jin S,Fan H

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pFL10 plasmid vector for translational fusions was constructed. pFL10 is based in the promiscuous pLS1 replicon and contains the pC194 cat gene deprived of its transcriptional promoter and Shine-Dalgarno (SD) sequence. Three promoters (Pcit, PpolA and PtetL) from Gram-positive bacteria, inserted in pFL10, were tes...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： López de Felipe F,Corrales MA,López P

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To increase knowledge on haem biosynthesis in filamentous fungi like Aspergillus niger, pathway-specific gene expression in response to haem and haem intermediates was analysed. This analysis showed that iron, 5'-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) and possibly haem control haem biosynthesis mostly via modulating expression of ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Franken AC,Lokman BC,Ram AF,van den Hondel CA,de Weert S,Punt PJ

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The riboflavin kinase encoding gene ribR is situated within a 12 genes locus ytmI-ytnM of the Bacillus subtilis chromosome. Here we demonstrate that ribR is transcribed as part of a 10 kb ytmI-ytnM operon. The riboflavin overproduction phenotype of B. subtilis ribC mutant strains, which is a result of the strongly red...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Solovieva IM,Kreneva RA,Errais Lopes L,Perumov DA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinobacteria are known by their ability to produce several antimicrobial compounds of biotechnological interest. Thus, in this study, we isolated and identified by partial 16S RNA sequencing ∼100 actinobacteria isolates from guarana (Paullinia cupana) bulk soil. Besides, we isolated from the actinobacteria Streptomy...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Vicente Dos Reis G,Abraham WR,Grigoletto DF,de Campos JB,Marcon J,da Silva JA,Quecine MC,de Azevedo JL,Ferreira AG,de Lira SP

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biotype, genome, protein and plasmid profile diversity amongst 40 epidemiologically unrelated strains of Helicobacter pylori was studied. Strains were API Zym biotypes II, III and IV but most (87%) were biotype II. Four subsets of strains were defined on a combination of motility (56% positive) and cytotoxin productio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Owen RJ,Bickley J,Moreno M,Costas M,Morgan DR

更新日期：1991-04-15 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

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：:Pythium drechsleri Paul was described as a new species from soil samples taken in a salt-marsh of Arzew, Algeria [Paul, B. (1988) Une nouvelle espèce de Pythium isolée d'une saline de l'ouest Algérien. Cryptogam. Mycol. 9, 325-333]. The name of the fungus, P. drechsleri, is a nomen invalidum, as it is a later homonym ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Paul B

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify antigens that would improve the accuracy of serological diagnosis of active tuberculosis, we cloned the genes encoding nine potentially immunogenic secreted or surface-associated proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Recombinant proteins were reacted with sera from HIV-negative individuals with extrapulm...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Moran AJ,Treit JD,Whitney JL,Abomoelak B,Houghton R,Skeiky YA,Sampaio DP,Badaró R,Nano FE

更新日期：2001-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis is a worldwide cause of various swine infections and is also an important agent of zoonosis. Strains of S. suis are classified according to their serotype, and currently, 35 serotypes are recognized. The aim of this study was to characterize nontypeable isolates of S. suis with regard to their cell ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bonifait L,Gottschalk M,Grenier D

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The RS1 element associated with Vibrio cholerae CTX phi prophage was cloned from an E1 Tor biotype Vibrio cholerae strain. We used the recA- vaccine strain Peru-15, that lacks the target for RS-mediated site-specific integration, to show that RS1 promotes autonomous replication of a suicide vector. A linker insertion ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Campos J,Fando R,Silva A,Rodriguez BL,Benitez JA

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coxiella is a genus of obligate intracellular bacteria engaged in a variety of interactions with eukaryotes. The type species, Coxiella burnetii, infects several vertebrate species, including humans, and is the causative agent of Q fever. Multiple copies of a specific transposable element, the insertion sequence IS111...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Duron O

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimethylphthalate (DMP), one of the phthalate esters, is used in the manufacture of plasticizers, insect repellents, and synthetic fibers, and contributes to environmental pollution. In the present study, we report a novel bacterium belonging to the Bacillus sp., which has the ability to utilize DMP as the sole source...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Niazi JH,Prasad DT,Karegoudar TB

更新日期：2001-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcriptional repressor Rex has been implicated in the regulation of energy metabolism and fermentative growth in response to redox potential. Streptococcus mutans, the primary causative agent of human dental caries, possesses a gene that encodes a protein with high similarity to members of the Rex family of pro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bitoun JP,Nguyen AH,Fan Y,Burne RA,Wen ZT

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：:Intact nuclei were isolated from the protoplasts of the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans. The large amounts of protoplasts required for such nuclear preparations were produced from young mycelia grown in liquid culture. For final purification of the crude nuclear fraction, a Nycodenz density-gradient centrifuga...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Vágvölgyi C,Ferenczy L

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we evaluated if recA species-specific PCR assays could be successfully applied to identify environmental isolates of the widespread Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) species. A total of 729 Bcc rhizosphere isolates collected in different samplings were assigned to the species B. cepacia genomovar I (61...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dalmastri C,Pirone L,Tabacchioni S,Bevivino A,Chiarini L

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacteria belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex have the ability to invade and replicate in non-phagocytic cells, an event that requires the presence of bacterial surface components capable of triggering a cell response and the subsequent internalization of the microorganism. In this study, we report ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Flesselles B,Anand NN,Remani J,Loosmore SM,Klein MH

更新日期：1999-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms present complex assemblies of micro-organisms attached to surfaces. they are dynamic structures in which various metabolic activities and interactions between the component cells occur. When phage come in contact with biofilms, further interactions occur dependent on the susceptibility of the biofilm bacteria...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sutherland IW,Hughes KA,Skillman LC,Tait K

更新日期：2004-03-12 00:00:00