Comparison of in vivo and in vitro properties of capsulated and noncapsulated variants of Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides strain Afadé: a potential new insight into the biology of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia.

abstract：:The 2.5-kb erythromycin resistance (EmR) plasmid pPV142 of Staphylococcus simulans 13044 was isolated and characterized. Sequence analysis identified ORF1 and ORF2 encoding a 158-residue replication protein (Rep142) and a 244-residue erythromycin resistance protein (Erm, rRNA adenine N-6-methyltransferase), respective...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Somkuti GA,Solaiman DK,Steinberg DH

更新日期：1998-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, internal size variations in the VanA gene cluster Tn1546, encoding resistance to glycopeptides, is described. Studies of previously uncharacterized size variations of an internal region, encoding the vanX and vanY genes of Tn1546, revealed that these variations were due to the presence of the IS sequenc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jensen LB

更新日期：1998-12-15 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

abstract：:The ADAMs are a family of integral membrane proteases involved in shedding and fusion events in animal tissues. Here, we report the identification of two ADAMs, ADM-A and ADM-B, in the pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus. The domain structure of metazoan ADAMs was seen in ADM-A and -B, although with some differenc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lavens SE,Rovira-Graells N,Birch M,Tuckwell D

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twitching motility is a form of bacterial translocation over solid or semi-solid surfaces mediated by the extension, tethering, and subsequent retraction of type IV pili. These pili are also known to be involved in virulence, biofilm formation, formation of fruiting bodies, horizontal gene transfer, and protein secret...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Coil DA,Anné J

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparison of sequence data is necessary in older to investigate virus origins, identify features common to virulent strains, and characterize genomic organization within virus families. A virulent caliciviral disease of rabbits recently emerged in China. We have sequenced 1100 bases from the 3' ends of two independen...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Milton ID,Vlasak R,Nowotny N,Rodak L,Carter MJ

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:High quality Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectra were acquired from living Micrasterias hardyi cells maintained in an IR transparent flow-through cell using a FTIR microscope coupled to a synchrotron light source. Spectral maps of living, nutrient-replete cells showed band intensities consistent with the known l...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Heraud P,Wood BR,Tobin MJ,Beardall J,McNaughton D

更新日期：2005-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of inducible biodegradative threonine dehydratase of Escherichia coli increased several-fold in the presence of the DNA gyrase inhibitors, nalidixic acid and coumermycin. Temperature-sensitive gyrB mutants expressed higher levels of dehydratase as compared to an isogenic gyrB+ strain. Immunoblotting expe...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sumantran VN,Tranguch AJ,Datta P

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Giardia genome project database provides an online resource for Giardia lamblia (WB strain, clone C6) genome sequence information. The database includes edited single-pass reads, the results of BLASTX searches, and details of progress towards sequencing the entire 12 million-bp Giardia genome. Pre-sorted BLASTX re...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： McArthur AG,Morrison HG,Nixon JE,Passamaneck NQ,Kim U,Hinkle G,Crocker MK,Holder ME,Farr R,Reich CI,Olsen GE,Aley SB,Adam RD,Gillin FD,Sogin ML

更新日期：2000-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this multidisciplinary study, we combined morphological, physiological, and phylogenetic approaches to identify three dominant water bloom-forming Cyanobacteria in a tropical marine mangrove in Guadeloupe (French West Indies). Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences place these marine Cyanobacteria i...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Guidi-Rontani C,Jean MR,Gonzalez-Rizzo S,Bolte-Kluge S,Gros O

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was initiated to establish whether inhibition of growth of yeasts by medium-chain fatty acids resembled that caused by weak-acid preservatives or uncouplers. Unlike sorbic acid and 2,4-dinitrophenol, decanoic acid caused rapid cell death at its inhibitory concentration. This suggested a mode of action by me...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Stratford M,Anslow PA

更新日期：1996-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Beauveria bassiana is an insect pathogenic fungus widely used as a biocontrol agent to infect and control insect pests. The conidium initiates pathogenesis and mediates disease transmission, however, little is known about genetic elements that control conidiation. Here, the cloning and characterization of a regulatory...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fang W,Scully LR,Zhang L,Pei Y,Bidochka MJ

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tn4560 (8.6 kb) was derived from Tn4556, a Tn3-like element from Streptomyces fradiae. It contains a viomycin resistance gene that has not been used previously for selection in mycobacteria. Tn4560, cloned in a Streptomyces plasmid, was introduced by electroporation into Mycobacterium smegmatis mc(2)155. Tn4560 transp...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bhatt A,Stewart GR,Kieser T

更新日期：2002-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The transport of radioactively labelled uracil into submerged mycelium of T. viride was measured by means of a membrane filtration technique. It was found to be time-dependent (up to 90 min) and concentration-dependent (up to 8 mmol l-1). Its concentration dependence was biphasic and consisted from the saturatable par...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lakatos B,Simkovic M,Betina V,Varecka L

更新日期：1999-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A critical step in the process of metagenome analysis is to screen for clones that contain specific genes among a large number of clones. To form one of the sequence-based screening tools of a metagenome library, we designed a format of microarray [metagenome microarray (MGA)] that is arrayed with fosmid library clone...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Park SJ,Kang CH,Chae JC,Rhee SK

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila, an intracellular parasite of macrophages and protozoa, requires iron for extra- and intracellular growth. In a new screen of a mutant library of L. pneumophila for strains defective for growth on agar media lacking supplemental iron, seven mutants were obtained. All of the mutants had a disrupt...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Naylor J,Cianciotto NP

更新日期：2004-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent molecular approaches for the study of microbial communities such as PCR-cloning have enabled the detection and identification of as-yet-unculturable taxa. Cloning and sequencing of multiple samples is extremely laborious and expensive to perform thoroughly due to the large diversity involved. For this purpose, ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gafan GP,Spratt DA

更新日期：2005-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to investigate the binding activity of Streptococcus suis serotype 2 to albumin. Using flow cytometry we observed a binding activity of S. suis to albumin for virulent as well as for avirulent isolates. Western immunoblots analysis revealed that a 39-kDa S. suis protein was responsible, at le...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Quessy S,Busque P,Higgins R,Jacques M,Dubreuil JD

更新日期：1997-02-15 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：:The AbGst1 gene encoding a glutathione transferase from the necrotrophic pathogen Alternaria brassicicola was cloned from a benzyl isothiocyanate-treated conidial culture using differential display reverse transcription. The deduced amino-acid sequence of AbGst1p showed a significant degree of similarity to glutathion...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sellam A,Poupard P,Simoneau P

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5-Carboxymethyl-2-hydroxymuconic semialdehyde (CHMS) dehydrogenase from Escherichia coli C and Klebsiella pneumoniae M5a1 have been purified and some of their properties studied. The apparent Km values for NAD and CHMS were 11.7 +/- 1.5 microM and 5.2 +/- 1.9 microM, respectively, for the K. pneumoniae enzyme, and 19....

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fawcett T,Garrido-Pertierra A,Cooper RA

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of this work were to characterize the 16S-23S internal spacer region of the fish pathogen Tenacibaculum soleae and to develop a PCR assay for its identification and detection. All T. soleae strains tested displayed a single internal spacer region class, containing tRNA(I) (le) and tRNA(A) ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： López JR,Hamman-Khalifa AM,Navas JI,de la Herran R

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of overexpression of the apurinic/apyrimidinic DNA endonuclease Nfo on wet and dry heat and UV-C (254 nm) resistance of Bacillus subtilis spores with or without alpha/beta-type small, acid-soluble spore proteins (SASP) were determined. Results revealed that overexpression of Nfo > or =50-fold in spores inc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Barraza-Salas M,Ibarra-Rodríguez JR,Mellado SJ,Salas-Pacheco JM,Setlow P,Pedraza-Reyes M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum is the causative agent of both the cutaneous and visceral forms of leishmaniasis in southwest Europe; the dog is the main reservoir. In order to identify the L. (L.) infantum zymodemes present in Spain, a total number of 85 Leishmania stocks isolated from dogs (31), HIV-positive patien...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jiménez M,Ferrer-Dufol M,Cañavate C,Gutiérrez-Solar B,Molina R,Laguna F,López-Vélez R,Cercenado E,Daudén E,Blázquez J

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic resistance genes might be maintained by selection pressures different from those which are responsible for initially selecting resistant bacteria. This possibility was suggested from a comparison of oral commensal streptococci isolated from healthy people not taking antibiotics. Resistance frequencies were ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Díaz-Mejía JJ,Carbajal-Saucedo A,Amábile-Cuevas CF

更新日期：2002-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on amino acid sequence similarities between the methylated elongation factor EF-Tu from Escherichia coli and the EF-Tu from Euglena gracilis chloroplast, we predicted that the latter could also be methylated in the presence of an appropriate methyltransferase. We found that, as reported for the eubacterial homol...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Toledo H,Jerez CA

更新日期：1990-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis (S. Enteritidis) possesses plasmids of different sizes and roles. Besides the serovar-specific virulence plasmid present in most field strains, S. Enteritidis can harbour plasmids of low molecular mass whose biological role is poorly understood. We therefore sequenced plasmid pC...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gregorova D,Pravcova M,Karpiskova R,Rychlik I

更新日期：2002-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain of Agromyces fucosus, designated Vs2, metabolized a range of organophosphonate compounds as sole phosphorus sources for growth and metabolized phosphonoacetate as a sole carbon, energy and phosphorus source for growth. With phosphonoacetate as the sole phosphorus source and a pyruvate carbon source, transient...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： O'Loughlin SN,Graham RL,McMullan G,Ternan NG

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dark septate endophytes (DSEs) are widely distributed worldwide and can promote plant growth. Therefore, they are considered potentially important plant allies, especially in stressful environments. Previous studies have reported that DSEs cohabit roots with other microorganisms such as ectomycorrhizal (ECM), endophyt...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Berthelot C,Leyval C,Chalot M,Blaudez D

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genomic bank was constructed in Escherichia coli HB101, consisting of DNA fragments from Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron strain 489 inserted within the vector pBR322. By screening on complex medium containing blue dextran, 10 stable dextranase-positive (Dex+) clones were isolated. Seven groups of Dex+ inserts were iden...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Joncquiert JC,Béchet M,Tierny Y,Courtois J,Dubourguier HC,Guillaume JB

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00