Evidence for xylooligosaccharide utilization in Weissella strains isolated from Indian fermented foods and vegetables.

abstract：:The agp gene encoding the ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase is involved in cyanobacterial glycogen synthesis and glucosylglycerol formation. By in vitro DNA recombination technology, a mutant with partial deletion of agp gene in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 was constructed. This mutant could not synthesiz...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Miao X,Wu Q,Wu G,Zhao N

更新日期：2003-01-21 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：:Culture medium from an isolate of the fungus Aspergillus candidus was extracted, fractionated and examined to discover compounds antagonistic to plant-parasitic nematodes that are important pathogens of agricultural crops. Column, thin layer and preparative chromatographies and spectral and elemental analyses, were us...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Shemshura ON,Bekmakhanova NE,Mazunina MN,Meyer SL,Rice CP,Masler EP

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is often claimed that Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was secretive about his methods. However, closer examination of his letters suggests that this reputation was not always deserved. Some letters were not published in the Royal Society Proceedings, and others were edited. This paper describes the repetition of his experim...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Robertson LA

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A phage typing system using a group of 11 closely related phage (as judged by Southern analysis and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis) was able to distinguish at least six phage types in Salmonella heidelberg of human and animal origin. Restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis using cosmid pro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Harvey D,Harrington C,Heuzenroeder MW,Murray C

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Some microorganisms found in the soil are able to produce substances which regulate plant growth. In this study, we show the presence of a substance associated with auxin activity, identified as indole-3-butyric acid (IBA), in Azospirillum brasilense UAP 154 growth medium. A. brasilense was grown and indolic compounds...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Martínez-Morales LJ,Soto-Urzúa L,Baca BE,Sánchez-Ahédo JA

更新日期：2003-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A broad range of different chemical and pharmaceutical compounds have been produced in microbial cell factories. To compete with traditional crude oil based production processes, the use of complex alternative raw materials such as lignocellulosic biomass, waste streams and utilization of CO2 in gas fermentations has ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Novak K,Pflügl S

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis of the 2 kb nucleotide sequence including the 5'-flanking region of a cell-adhesion protein-encoding gene (mfbA) isolated from the basidiomycete Lentinus edodes revealed that the promoter region contains a TATA box, a GC box, a CAAT box, a CT-rich sequence element, a TATA box, two CT-rich sequences, and a ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kondoh O,Shishido K

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The large intestine of dogs contains a complex microbial ecosystem with predominance of streptococci, bifidobacteria, lactobacilli, Bacteroides and Clostridium. Generally, this predominant microbiota in dogs is relatively stable in time but much less is known about its taxonomic composition. Moreover, almost no studie...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Vanhoutte T,Huys G,De Brandt E,Fahey GC Jr,Swings J

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 18-kDa protein that occurs in Vibrio cholerae has been described as an in vivo and low-iron regulated outer membrane antigen. Monoclonal antibodies which recognized this antigen were protective as passive vaccines in the infant rabbit model of cholera disease. In this study, those monoclonal antibodies were used in...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sciortino CV Jr

更新日期：1993-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The stable carbon isotopic compositions of the inorganic carbon source, bulk cell material, and isoprenoid lipids of the hyperthermophilic crenarchaeon Metallosphaera sedula, which uses a 3-hydroxypropionate-like pathway for autotrophic carbon fixation, have been measured. Bulk cell material was approximately 3 per th...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： van der Meer MT,Schouten S,Rijpstra WI,Fuchs G,Sinninghe Damsté JS

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capsular polysaccharide released from the bacterial surface by cell wall turnover during growth exhibited less size heterogeneity and a higher average molecular mass than the polysaccharide extracted from the cell by treatment with lysostaphin or low pH. Treatment of turnover polysaccharide, radiolabelled by growt...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Havaei SA,Hancock IC

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) is an oncogenic retrovirus that was isolated in 1980 from a patient with adult T-cell leukemia. From the numerous experiments using infected patient T-cells, transgenic mice and tissue culture transformation assays, the Tax protein has been determined to be the transforming ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ressler S,Connor LM,Marriott SJ

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus mutans and certain other oral lactic-acid bacteria were found to have the ability to carry out malolactic fermentation involving decarboxylation of L-malate to yield L-lactic acid and concomitant reduction in acidity. The activity was inducible by L-malate in S. mutans UA159 growing in suspensions or bio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sheng J,Marquis RE

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A successful Staphylococcus aureus vaccine should elicit a long-term antibody response that prevents establishment of the infection. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the functional role of antibodies raised against different S. aureus CP5 vaccines in invasion to bovine mammary epithelial cells (MAC-T) and ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Renna MS,Pereyra EA,Baravalle C,Camussone CM,Dallard BE,Marcipar IS,Calvinho LF

更新日期：2014-11-01 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：:Two-component systems are widespread in nature and constitute the most common mechanism of transmembrane signal transduction in bacteria. Recently, a functionally active two-component system consisting of malS and malR genes possibly involved in the expression of a C4-dicarboxylate transporter system (dctAB operon) wa...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Papa R,Rippa V,Duilio A

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Na(+)/H(+) antiporter gene was isolated from alkaliphilic Bacillus sp. G1. The full-length sequence of the Na(+)/H(+) antiporter gene was obtained using a genome walking method, and designated as g1-nhaC. An ORF preceded by a promoter-like sequence and a Shine-Dalgarno sequence, and followed by a terminator-like seq...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Liew CW,Illias RM,Mahadi NM,Najimudin N

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the genetic basis of minocycline resistance in a strain of Streptococcus infantis isolated from a healthy human oral cavity. We demonstrate that tet(S), identical to tet(S) found on the enterococcal conjugative transposon Tn6000, is responsible for the observed resistance. The gene is located on a s...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ciric L,Brouwer MS,Mullany P,Roberts AP

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A range of Bacillus strains were examined for their ability to accumulate poly-D(-)-3-hydroxyalkanoates (poly-HAKs) which are naturally occurring materials that are optically active, biodegradable thermoplastics. The organisms could produce poly-D(-)-3-hydroxybutyrate (poly-HB) up to 50% of cell dry weight. The conten...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chen GQ,König KH,Lafferty RM

更新日期：1991-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mini-Tn10luxABcam/Ptac-ATS was constructed in order to develop a luciferase-transducing bacteriophage for detecting Escherichia coli O157:H7. The transposon was designed to deliver a 3.6-kb insertion that confers n-decanal-dependent bioluminescence and resistance to chloramphenicol and was constructed using mini-Tn10c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Waddell TE,Poppe C

更新日期：2000-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A metagenomic approach was taken to investigate the genetic basis for the ability of an anaerobic consortium to grow on either 4-chlorobenzoate or 4-bromobenzoate under denitrifying conditions. Degenerate PCR primers were designed for the family of 4-chlorobenzoyl-CoA dehalogenase genes. The primers were utilized to s...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chae JC,Song B,Zylstra GJ

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the regulatory mechanism governing antifungal metabolite biosynthesis, two kinds of global regulator genes in Pseudomonas sp. M18, an rpoS and an rsmA gene, were cloned and mutated by inserting with an aacC1 cassette, respectively. Two mutants showed the same regulatory mode with repression of phenazine...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ge Y,Yang S,Fang Y,Yang R,Mou D,Cui J,Wen L

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome analysis by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis shows a high level of genetic heterogeneity between the two subspecies of the green sulfur bacteria Chlorobium limicola analysed: C. limicola and C. limicola f. s. thiosulfatophilum. Currently, they are differentiated only by the ability to utilize thiosulfate as...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Méndez-Alvarez S,Pavoń V,Esteve I,Guerrero R,Gaju N

更新日期：1995-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas spp., in particular Pseudomonas fragi, are dominant in aerobically stored chilled meats. This work isolated P. fragi isolates from spoiled chicken and investigated the effect of modified atmosphere packaging (MAP, CO2/N2 30%/70%) on physicochemical properties of P. fragi isolates compared to the correspond...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wang GY,Li M,Ma F,Wang HH,Xu XL,Zhou GH

更新日期：2017-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcaligenes sp. strain PPH degrades phenanthrene via 1-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid (1-H2NA), 1,2-dihydroxynaphthalene (1,2-DHN), salicylic acid and catechol. Enzyme activity versus growth profile and heat stability studies suggested the presence of two distinct hydroxylases, namely 1-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid hydroxylase ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Deveryshetty J,Phale PS

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the phylum Bacteroidetes, the gyrB gene, encoding for the B subunit of the DNA gyrase, has been used as a phylogenetic marker for several genera closely related to Flavobacterium. The phylogenies of the complete 16S rRNA gene and the gyrB gene were compared for 33 Antarctic Flavobacterium isolates and 23 type s...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Peeters K,Willems A

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic version of the ligA gene encoding the NAD-dependent DNA ligase from the Arctic bacterium Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis was substituted for its homolog in the chromosome of Mycobacterium smegmatis. The resulting recombinant strain grew identically to the parent strain at permissive temperatures but failed ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pinto CT,Nano FE

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally occurring antimicrobial cationic polypeptides play a major role in innate and adaptive immunity. These polypeptides are found to be either linear and unstructured or structured through disulfide bonds. Among the structured antimicrobial polypeptides, defensins comprise a family of cysteine-rich cationic poly...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Raj PA,Dentino AR

更新日期：2002-01-02 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