In situ identification of the synthrophic protein fermentative Coprothermobacter spp. involved in the thermophilic anaerobic digestion process.

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：:Streptococcus bovis HC5 cultures released a broad spectrum lantibiotic, bovicin HC5, into the cell-fee culture supernatant after they reached stationary phase, but most of the antibacterial activity remained cell-associated. Cell-associated bovicin HC5 was more resistant to degradation by Pronase E than the cell-free ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Xavier BM,Houlihan AJ,Russell JB

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two conservative gene clusters, the S10 ribosomal protein region and one (of the two) set of rRNA genes, were split in a genome crossover rearrangement event in Mycoplasma gallisepticum. As a result of the rearrangement the major part of the S10 ribosomal protein cluster is located upstream of genes for 23S-5S rRNA (r...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Skamrov A,Feoktistova E,Goldman M,Beabealashvilli R

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mycobacterium marinum G13 promoter is a sigma 70-like promoter that is more active by green fluorescent protein (gfp) differential fluorescence induction (DFI) assays when M. marium resides in an intracellular compartment as compared with growth in media. In assays using DFI, we found that the mycobacterial G13 pr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gall K,Barker LP

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A different mutation (SMR1B) to SMR1-410 (ilv2), which determines resistance to sulfometuron methyl in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, was cloned by PCR. Sequence analysis indicated a C to T change at position 575 of the ILV2 coding sequence, which results in a proline transition to leucine at position 192. Similarly to SMR...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Xie Q,Jiménez A

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prodrug activation system formed by the E. coli codA gene encoding cytosine deaminase (CD) and 5-fluorocytosine (5-FC) developed for selective cancer chemotherapy suffers from a sensitivity limitation in many tumour cells. In an attempt to improve the CD/5-FC suicide association, we combined the E. coli upp gene e...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tiraby M,Cazaux C,Baron M,Drocourt D,Reynes JP,Tiraby G

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface antigen one (Sao) is a newly identified protein from the major zoonotic pathogen, Streptococcus suis. In search of functional proteins related to the pathogenesis of Chinese S. suis 2 (SS2), unexpectedly, a variant of Sao protein was obtained. To test its prevalence in S. suis, PCR assay was adopted to address...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Feng Y,Zheng F,Pan X,Sun W,Wang C,Dong Y,Ju AP,Ge J,Liu D,Liu C,Yan J,Tang J,Gao GF

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new type II restriction endonuclease, SshAI, was purified from Salmonella shikmonah TK139 of kangaroo origin. The recognition and cleavage specificity of Ssh AI was determined to be 5'-CC/TNAGG-3', identical to that of SauI from Streptomyces aureofaciens and Bsu36I from Bacillus subtilis. Based on closely related an...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Miyahara M,Nakajima K,Kawanishi T,Mise K

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are no published methods on plasmid isolation from Peptostreptococcus spp., therefore two methods of plasmid isolation from this genera were analysed: the boiling and alkaline-SDS methods. Plasmid DNA was not recovered by the boiling method, however, with the alkaline-SDS method, cryptic plasmid DNA was detected...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ng LK,Dillon JA

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alternative sigma factor sigmaH has been shown to play an important role in stress response and morphological differentiation in Streptomyces coelicolor. Its gene, sigH, is located in an operon with the gene encoding proposed anti-sigma factor UshX, and one of the promoters directing expression of the operon is de...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sevcikova B,Kormanec J

更新日期：2002-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We found the presence of DNA sequence which shows sequence similarity to the class IV chitin synthase gene (CHS3) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in the genome of 14 Rhizopus species which belong to zygomycetes. We cloned a gene (chs3), which might correspond to one of these homologous sequences, from Rhizopus oligosporus...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Motoyama T,Horiuchi H,Ohta A,Yamaguchi I,Takagi M

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the draft genome sequence from Aeromonas salmonicida sp. strain CBA100, which was characterized as an antibiotic-resistant bacterium isolated from infected rainbow trout. The total size of the genome is 4,788,109 bp, with a G + C content of 60.55%. Comparison of its open reading frames shows that the closest...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Valdes N,Espinoza C,Sanhueza L,Gonzalez A,Corsini G,Tello M

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferric uptake regulator (Fur) proteins are widely recognized as repressors that in many prokaryotes regulate a large number of genes involved in iron homeostasis and oxidative stress response. In our study, we were able to identify the complete sequence of the fur gene from Microcystis aeruginosa using inverse-polymer...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Martin-Luna B,Hernandez JA,Bes MT,Fillat MF,Peleato ML

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:Three (0140J, C197C and EF20) out of four strains of Streptococcus uberis exhibited high levels of bound plasmin activity following growth in the presence of bovine plasminogen. The remaining strain (C197) bound considerably less plasmin following growth in the same medium. In contrast to the others, this strain was u...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Leigh JA,Lincoln RA

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two variants have been isolated from the wild-type Azospirillum lipoferum strain 4B. The first variant, 4V(I), spontaneously emerged from the wild-type at frequencies in the order of 10(-4) to 10(-3) per cell generation. Compared to the wild-type, the 4V(I) variant gained (production of a carotenoid-like pigment, assi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Alexandre G,Bally R

更新日期：1999-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hybridoma cell lines producing monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against a hemagglutinin/protease (HA/P) from Vibrio cholerae non-01 were produced and characterized. The two MAbs contained the kappa light chain and were IgG1 type. They similarly neutralized HA/P protease activity derived from both V. cholerae non-01 an...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Honda T,Hata-Naka A,Lertpocasombat K,Miwatani T

更新日期：1991-03-01 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：:Interest in endophytes as natural sources for new medicines was inspired by the discovery of paclitaxel-producing endophytic fungi. This study investigated the anti-cancer activity of extracts of endophytes isolated from two Australian plants, Eremophila longifolia (EL) and Eremophila maculata (EM). Endophytes were is...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zaferanloo B,Pepper SA,Coulthard SA,Redfern CPF,Palombo EA

更新日期：2018-05-01 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：:We isolated a fungal strain HS-1 utilizing either ethylene glycol dibenzoate or ethyl benzoate as sole source of carbon and energy, and identified it as Aspergillus nomius, based on morphological and rDNA analyses. An enzyme hydrolyzing the esters was purified from the culture supernatant of the strain to an electroph...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Uchida H,Kurakata Y,Sawamura H,Inamura N,Kotani T,Uwajima T

更新日期：2003-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods for in vivo monitoring of redox changes in different cellular compartments have been developed in recent years, and are mostly based on redox-sensitive variants of the green fluorescent protein (GFP). However, due to the thermodynamic stability of the introduced reactive disulfide bond, these sensors are limit...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Delic M,Mattanovich D,Gasser B

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assessment of scientific research is essentially based on several metric parameters, the so-termed Impact Factor perhaps being the predominant one. Despite well-founded criticisms and the wide opposition of reputed scientists, this procedure has become a tool of scientific policy, and is applied in editorial proce...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Argüelles JC,Argüelles-Prieto R

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus intermedius is well known to produce severe infections in various areas of the body. In this study, we evaluated the ability of S. intermedius to utilise human transferrin as a source of iron and investigated the mechanism by which iron can be obtained from this plasma protein. Adding either ferrous sulf...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Brochu V,Greinier D,Mayrand D

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：:Biogenic amines have undesirable physiological effects when absorbed at too high a concentration. Several kinds of food and beverages contain biogenic amines. Lactic acid bacteria can decarboxylate amino acids. Since winemaking involves the growth of lactic acid bacteria for malolactic fermentation, biogenic amines ma...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lonvaud-Funel A

更新日期：2001-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Leflunomide (LFM) is a novel anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive drug, and inhibits the growth of cytokine-stimulated lymphoid cells in vitro. The effect of LFM on haploid and diploid cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was investigated to elucidate the molecular mechanism of action of the drug. Using a halo assay, ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fujimura H

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atypical psychrophilic Aeromonas salmonicida isolates were obtained from farmed and wild fish in Northeastern North America. These bacteria were isolated between 1992 and 2001 and carried tetracycline resistance (Tc(r)) plasmids of approximately 58 kb. The nine isolates had plasmids which could be divided into four gr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Casas C,Anderson EC,Ojo KK,Keith I,Whelan D,Rainnie D,Roberts MC

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The small heat shock protein (smHsp) Lo18 from lactic acid bacteria Oenococcus oeni reduces in vitro thermal aggregation of proteins and modulates the membrane fluidity of native liposomes. An absence of information relating to the way in which the smHsp demonstrates a stabilizing effect for both proteins and membrane...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Weidmann S,Rieu A,Rega M,Coucheney F,Guzzo J

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This communication presents experimental evidence that intact fragile (osmotic sensitive) yeasts can be electrofused and give viable hybrids. The yield increases with one order of magnitude for electrofusion of intact fragile yeasts with protoplasts of non-fragile ones. The yield of viable hybrids, obtained by electro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tsoneva I,Doinov P,Dimitrov DS

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00