Analysis of the role of the Aspergillus niger aminolevulinic acid synthase (hemA) gene illustrates the difference between regulation of yeast and fungal haem- and sirohaem-dependent pathways.

abstract：:We present the results of a phylogenetic study, based on amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysis of the rDNA operon, of 37 Arthrospira ('Spirulina') cultivated clonal strains from four continents. In addition, duplicates from different culture collections or markedly different morphotypes of particular strains es...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Scheldeman P,Baurain D,Bouhy R,Scott M,Mühling M,Whitton BA,Belay A,Wilmotte A

更新日期：1999-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of highly variable penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) in penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae suggested that transfer of homologous genes from related species may be involved in resistance development. Antiserum and monoclonal antibodies raised against PBPs 1a and 2b from the susceptible S. pne...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chalkley L,Schuster C,Potgieter E,Hakenbeck R

更新日期：1991-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies had shown that Mycoplasma pulmonis contained a bovine serum albumin-dependent, membrane-associated hemolysin. Biochemical analyses were performed to further characterize this activity. The membrane-associated hemolytic activity could be activated by dithiothreitol and beta-mercaptoethanol, and inactiv...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jarvill-Taylor KJ,Minion FC

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the Streptococcus bovis group are frequent colonizers of the intestinal tract, which can also cause endocarditis. However, their ability to adhere to and colonize host tissues and the factors associated with pathogenicity are largely unknown. Here, we assessed 17 endocarditis-derived human isolates [identif...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sillanpää J,Nallapareddy SR,Singh KV,Ferraro MJ,Murray BE

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of the gene transfer agent of Rhodobacter capsulatus, RcGTA, is dependent upon several cellular regulatory systems, including a putative phosphorelay involving the CtrA and CckA proteins. These proteins are also involved in flagellar motility in R. capsulatus. The interactions of proteins in this system are...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mercer RG,Quinlan M,Rose AR,Noll S,Beatty JT,Lang AS

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium sp. PYR-1 was previously isolated in our laboratory and was shown to be able to mineralize high molecular mass polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) [Heitkamp and Cerniglia, (1988) Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 54, 1612-1614]. In this research, the 16S rRNA gene (rDNA) of this strain was amplified by polym...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wang RF,Cao WW,Cerniglia CE

更新日期：1995-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The enteric conjugative transposon-like IncJ elements R391, R392, R705, R706 and pMERPH, all demonstrated increased conjugative transfer upon UV irradiation. The transfer frequency increased on average from its basal rate of 10(-5) to 10(-3) per recipient, upon pre-exposure to UV irradiation. However, the transfer fre...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： McGrath BM,O'Halloran JA,Pembroke JT

更新日期：2005-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tn10 transposon mutagenesis of Escherichia coli producing K99 fimbriae was carried out to identify host factors involved in regulation of biosynthesis of fimbriae. Two chromosomal mutants were obtained that showed a strongly reduced cell surface expression of K99 fimbriae upon colony blotting and ELISA. Analysis by in...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pilipcinec E,Huisman TT,Willemsen PT,Appelmelk BJ,de Graaf FK,Oudega B

更新日期：1994-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological halogenation of aromatic compounds implies the generation of reducing equivalents in the form of e.g. NADH. Thermodynamic calculations show that coupling the halogenation step to a step in which the reducing equivalents are oxidized with a potent oxidant such as O2 or N2O makes the halogenation reaction the...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dolfing J

更新日期：1998-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The clonal relationship of thirty E. coli strains of 0 antigen serotype 06 isolated from human, dog, pig or cow infections were investigated. Two main clones with serotypes 06 : H1 or 06 : H31, H- were identified. Isolates from humans, dogs, pigs and cows were found in both clones, indicating that animals are a possib...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cherifi A,Contrepois M,Picard B,Goullet P,Orskov I,Orskov F,De Rycke J

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus carnosus 833, inoculated into sausage meat, increased the level of methyl ketones, which contributed to the cured aroma. These ketones can arise from incomplete beta-oxidation followed by two enzymatic activities: a thioesterase and a decarboxylase. In this study we identified the beta-oxidative pathway...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Engelvin G,Feron G,Perrin C,Mollé D,Talon R

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to clarify the enteropathogenicity of Plesiomonas shigelloides, we investigated a cytotoxin produced by the P-1 strain isolated from patients suffering from diarrhea. The cytotoxicity of the culture filtrate of the strain reached a maximum in culture at 37 degrees C after 12 h shaken in BHI medium. The cytoto...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Okawa Y,Ohtomo Y,Tsugawa H,Matsuda Y,Kobayashi H,Tsukamoto T

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence and genetic content of integrons was investigated in eight Salmonella enteritica Typhimurium DT104 isolates from different pig herds in Denmark. Two different integrons were identified using PCR and sequencing. Each of the integrons carried a single resistance cassette in addition to the sull and qacE del...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sandvang D,Aarestrup FM,Jensen LB

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA microarray technology was used to survey changes in gene expression in Pseudomonas fluorescens after mitomycin C treatment. As expected, genes associated with the SOS response were upregulated, such as those encoding the recombination protein RecA, DNA repair protein RecN, excinuclease ABC subunit A UvrA, and the ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jin H,Retallack DM,Stelman SJ,Hershberger CD,Ramseier T

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：:Helicobacter pylori genomes contain about 30 hop genes that encode outer membrane proteins. Helicobacter pylori hopQ alleles exhibit a high level of genetic diversity, and two families of hopQ alleles have been described. Type I hopQ alleles are found more commonly in cag-positive H. pylori strains from patients with ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Loh JT,Torres VJ,Algood HM,McClain MS,Cover TL

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：:Transfer of DNA by conjugation has been the method generally used for genetic manipulation of Edwardsiella ictaluri because, previously, attempts to transform E. ictaluri by the uptake of naked DNA have apparently failed. We report here the successful transformation of seven strains of E. ictaluri using electroporatio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Russo R,Panangala VS,Wood RR,Klesius PH

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five mutations in ccpA of Bacillus megaterium with impaired functions were analysed for carbon catabolite repression. The phenotypes support the hypothesis that CcpA assumes a PurR/LacI fold. The completely inactive mutants CcpA119GE and CcpA326am cause alterations which are incompatible with that fold. A mutation wit...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kraus A,Hillen W

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyclonal antibodies were prepared against the major antenna chlorophyll (Chl) a/b-binding protein from the prokaryote Prochlorothrix hollandica (Burger-Wiersma et al. (1986) Nature (Lond.) 320, 262-264). Immunoblotting experiments on Triton X-114 phase-partitioned P. hollandica thylakoids revealed that the antibody ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bullerjahn GS,Jensen TC,Sherman DM,Sherman LA

更新日期：1990-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:TraJ is an activator of the transfer (tra) operon in the F plasmid that counteracts H-NS silencing at the main transfer promoter (P(Y)). TraJ contains 226 aa (26 670 kDa), not 229 aa as reported previously, and forms homodimers. TraJ binds DNA containing P(Y)in vivo as demonstrated using a chromatin-immunoprecipitatio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Rodriguez-Maillard JM,Arutyunov D,Frost LS

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recombinant lipase, CWB-LipB, localized on the Bacillus subtilis cell surface and retaining lipase activity was unstable and not accumulated in a high yield. To improve the accumulation, we examined cell wall binding protease (wprA)- and/or sigma D (sigD)-deficient mutants, and also a NprE and AprA protease-deficien...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kobayashi G,Toida J,Akamatsu T,Yamamoto H,Shida T,Sekiguchi J

更新日期：2000-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas fragi is a meat and milk spoilage bacterium with high iron requirements; however, mechanisms of iron acquisition remain largely unknown. The aim of this work was to investigate siderophore production as an iron acquisition system for P. fragi. A vibrioferrin siderophore gene cluster was identified in 13 P....

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Stanborough T,Fegan N,Powell SM,Tamplin M,Chandry PS

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The precise molecular mechanism of Staphylococcus aureus beta-toxin inactivation by the serotype F triple-converting phage phi 42, phi A1 and phi A3 was investigated. Sequence analysis of the phi 42 (attP) and Staphylococcus aureus (attB) attachment sites and the left (attL) and right (attR) chromosomal/bacteriophage ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Carroll JD,Cafferkey MT,Coleman DC

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of cephalosporins involving a thiozolidine ring expansion is catalyzed by deacetoxycephalosporin C synthase (DAOCS). In this study, three DAOCS isozymes were cloned and expressed as active enzymes together with Streptomyces jumonjinensis DAOCS that was newly isolated and partially characterized. The e...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chin HS,Sim J,Seah KI,Sim TS

更新日期：2003-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Five independent collections, comprising a total of 34 clones encoding cellulases, hemicellulases and cell surface proteins of Clostridium thermocellum, were searched for overlapping or contiguous DNA fragments. The clones were hybridized to large genomic restriction fragments separated by pulse-field electrophoresis....

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Guglielmi G,Béguin P

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Corynebacterium glutamicum the promoter of the araBAD Escherichia coli gene is positively regulated by both arabinose and the araC gene product, as it is the case in the natural host. If the L-arabinose inducer and an active araC gene are present, significant amounts of araBAD promoter expression take place in the ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ben-Samoun K,Leblon G,Reyes O

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blocking glycolytic breakdown of glucose by inactivation of phosphoglucose isomerase (Pgi) in Escherichia coli led to a greatly reduced maximum specific growth rate. Examination of the operational catabolic pathways and their flux ratios using [U-(13)C(6)]glucose-labeling experiments and metabolic flux ratio analysis ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Canonaco F,Hess TA,Heri S,Wang T,Szyperski T,Sauer U

更新日期：2001-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A Gram-negative sporulating thermophilic anaerobe, designated AB11Ad, was isolated from the heated waters of the Great Artesian Basin of Australia. It grew on a variety of carbohydrates including glucose, starch, and dextran and produced a thermostable and thermoactive extracellular endo-dextranase. The enzyme was pro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wynter C,Patel BK,Bain P,de Jersey J,Hamilton S,Inkerman PA

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During bacterial infection, professional phagocytes are attracted to the site of infection, where they constitute a first line of host cell defense. Their function is to engulf and destroy the pathogens. Thus, bacteria must withstand the bactericidal activity of professional phagocytes, including macrophages to counte...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tran SL,Ramarao N

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00