The Pseudomonas aeruginosa RhlR-controlled aegerolysin RahU is a low-affinity rhamnolipid-binding protein.

abstract：:The existence in our laboratory of over 10000 Salmonella typhimurium LT2 cultures sealed in agar stab vials for 33-46 years offers an opportunity for evolutionary and mutational studies. In each of 77 vials examined, 10(3)-10(5) colony forming units per vial were recovered (less than 0.01% of the original population) ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Edwards K,Linetsky I,Hueser C,Eisenstark A

更新日期：2001-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:An investigation of mortality of piglets through clinical signs, post-mortem, histopathology and bacteriological analyses revealed the causal organism to be Escherichia coli, mainly O149:K91:K88 which belongs to the enterotoxigenic biotypes. Molecular characterization and epidemiologic analysis elucidated it as shiga-...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kanengoni AT,Thomas R,Gelaw AK,Madoroba E

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mercury (II) ion is toxic and is usually detoxified in Bacteria by reduction to elemental mercury, which is less toxic. This is catalysed by an NAD(P)H-dependent mercuric reductase (EC 1.16.1.1). Here, we present strong evidence that Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath) - a methanotrophic member of the Gammaproteobacte...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Boden R,Murrell JC

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cytosolic chitinase (20 kDa by SDS-PAGE) was partially purified from Neurospora crassa. Linear kinetics for enzyme activity were obtained using the substrate [3H]-labelled regenerated chitin, the preparation yielding an apparent Km of 0.965 mg ml-1 and a Vmax of 3.83 micrograms GlcNAc min-1 (mg protein)-1. The enzym...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： McNab R,Glover LA

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella uses type III secretion systems (TTSS) to deliver pathogenic proteins into the host cells. These translocated effectors induce bacterial internalization and intracellular proliferation by targeting important cellular processes that are conserved among eukaryotes. Here, we assessed the feasibility of perform...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Alemán A,Fernández-Piñar P,Pérez-Núñez D,Rotger R,Martín H,Molina M

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactococcus lactis MG5267 is a plasmid-free strain in which the lactose operon is integrated in the bacterial chromosome. The chromosomal lacG gene which encodes phospho-beta-galactosidase was inactivated by a double cross-over integration event. Unexpectedly, the resultant mutant was shown to retain a Lac-positive ph...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Payne J,MacCormick CA,Griffin HG,Gasson MJ

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rifampicin is a principal drug used to combat infections by mycobacteria and related organisms. Most strains of Mycobacterium are able to inactivate this antibiotic by ribosylation via an ADP-ribosylated intermediate. We found that this inactivation was inhibited by light at levels similar to those prevailing in labor...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dabbs ER,Quan S

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present evidence that the anthrax toxin lethal factor binds multiple zinc atoms. Results from atomic adsorption spectroscopy indicate that lethal factor contains approximately three zinc atoms per toxin molecule. Lethal factor treated with EDTA and o-phenanthroline contained a similar number of zinc atoms, indicati...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kochi SK,Schiavo G,Mock M,Montecucco C

更新日期：1994-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequence analysis of the nadA gene of Ehrlichia chaffeensis revealed a 942 bp open reading frame with the capacity to encode 314 amino acids. The amino acid sequence of the E. chaffeensis quinolinate synthetase A (NAD/A) has 53.6% identity and 82% similarity to the NAD A of the cyanelle of Cyanophora paradoxa. Por...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yu XJ,Walker DH

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the existence of an acid stress response in Helicobacter pylori the global changes in the proteins synthesized by the bacterium when subjected to an acid stress were studied. H. pylori ATCC43504 previously adapted to pH 7 did not show an acid stress response as detected by the two-dimensional electrophore...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Toledo H,Valenzuela M,Rivas A,Jerez CA

更新日期：2002-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In sausage, Staphylococcus carnosus increases the levels of methyl ketones which could arise from incomplete beta-oxidation of fatty acids followed by a decarboxylation. The objective of this work was to characterize the beta-decarboxylase activities in cell-free extract. By using different substrates, at least two ki...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fadda S,Leroy-Sétrin S,Talon R

更新日期：2003-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome size of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae was determined by pulsed field gel electrophoresis of AscI and ApaI digested chromosomal DNA. The genome size of the type strain 4074T (serotype 1) was determined to be 2404 +/- 40 kb. The chromosome sizes for the reference strains of the other serotypes range between...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chevallier B,Dugourd D,Tarasiuk K,Harel J,Gottschalk M,Kobisch M,Frey J

更新日期：1998-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are a key soil functional group, with an important potential to increase crop productivity and sustainable agriculture including food security. However, there is clear evidence that land uses, crop rotations and soil features affect the AMF diversity and their community functioning i...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ontivero RE,Voyron S,Allione LVR,Bianco P,Bianciotto V,Iriarte HJ,Lugo MA,Lumini E

更新日期：2020-07-01 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：:Defects in the acd gene (which may be allelic to ubiH) result in the inactivation of the coenzyme A-linked acetaldehyde dehydrogenase activity of the multifunctional AdhE protein of Escherichia coli. This activity is restored by addition of ubiquinone-0 to cell extracts. However, the alcohol dehydrogenase activity of ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gupta S,Mat-Jan F,Latifi M,Clark DP

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes prfA, encoding positive regulatory factor A, is transcribed from three promoters (prfAP1, prfAP2, and PplcA). The prfAP2 promoter was previously proposed to be sigma B (sigma(B))-dependent. This hypothesis was tested by creating prfA promoter-gus transcriptional fusions in both L. monocytogenes ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Schwab U,Bowen B,Nadon C,Wiedmann M,Boor KJ

更新日期：2005-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel bacterial strain, PM2, capable of growing on methanol, was isolated in alkaline conditions from a soil inoculum. This bacterium was characterized at the physiological, biochemical and molecular level. Based on biochemical and molecular data strain PM2 was classified as a novel member of the group of fluorescen...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pacheco CC,Passos JF,Moradas-Ferreira P,De Marco P

更新日期：2003-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhizobium sp. SIN-1, isolated in India from root nodules on the tropical legume Sesbania aculeata, also induces nitrogen-fixing nodules on roots of S. macrocarpa, S. speciosa, S. procumbens, S. punicea, S. rostrata, and Vigna unguiculata. Unlike Azorhizobium caulinodans, SIN-1 does not induce stem nodules on S. rostra...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Rana D,Krishnan HB

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces tendae Tü901 produces nikkomycins belonging to the nucleoside peptide antibiotics. Mutants defective in histidine catabolism were isolated and characterized with regard to their histidine ammonium-lyase activity and antibiotic synthesis. In the histidine ammonialyase-negative mutant hut-11 which was unimp...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Roos U,Mattern S,Schrempf H,Bormann C

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously-developed PCR protocols specific for the 16S rRNA gene of the intestinal spirochaetes Brachyspira aalborgi and Brachyspira pilosicoli were adapted for the detection of these species in human faeces, following DNA extraction and purification using mini-prep columns. The limits of detection in seeded faeces f...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mikosza AS,La T,Margawani KR,Brooke CJ,Hampson DJ

更新日期：2001-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Because probiotic effects are strain dependent, genomic explanations of these differences will contribute to understanding their mechanisms of action. The genomic sequence of the Bifidobacterium longum probiotic strain NCC2705 was determined, but little is known about the genetic diversity between strains of this spec...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Delcenserie V,Lessard MH,LaPointe G,Roy D

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The locus of enterocyte effacement pathogenicity island confers the attaching and effacing histopathology on epithelial cells infected with enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli. We investigated the site of insertion of the locus of enterocyte effacement in E. coli strains in relation to their evolut...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wieler LH,McDaniel TK,Whittam TS,Kaper JB

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the dimethylsulfoxide respiratory (dor) operon of Rhodobacter is regulated by oxygen, light intensity and availability of substrate. Since dimethylsulfoxide reductase contains a pterin molybdenum cofactor, the role of molybdate in the regulation of dor operon expression was investigated. In this report w...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Solomon PS,Shaw AL,Young MD,Leimkuhler S,Hanson GR,Klipp W,McEwan AG

更新日期：2000-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Triclosan is the active ingredient in a multitude of health care and consumer products with germicidal properties, which have flooded the market in recent years in response to the public's fear of communicable bacteria. Although originally thought to kill bacteria by attacking multiple cellular targets, triclosan was ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Schweizer HP

更新日期：2001-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoic acid is an essential cofactor for a variety of mitochondrial enzymes. We have characterised a gene from Saccharomyces cerevisiae which appears to encode a protein involved in the attachment of lipoic acid groups to the pyruvate dehydrogenase and glycine decarboxylase complexes. The predicted protein product of ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Marvin ME,Williams PH,Cashmore AM

更新日期：2001-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the generality of efficient double-strand break repair and damage-induced mutagenesis in hyperthermophilic archaea, we systematically measured the effects of five DNA-damaging agents on Sulfolobus acidocaldarius and compared the results to those obtained for Escherichia coli under corresponding conditio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Reilly MS,Grogan DW

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene (open reading frame Tm1155, g6pd) encoding glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD, EC 1.1.1.49) of the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima was cloned and functionally expressed in Escherichia coli. The purified recombinant enzyme is a homodimer with an apparent molecular mass of 95 kDa composed o...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hansen T,Schlichting B,Schönheit P

更新日期：2002-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Astaxanthin possesses higher antioxidant activity than other carotenoids and, for this and other reasons, has great commercial potential for use in the aquaculture, pharmaceutical, and food industries. The basidiomycetous yeast Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous is one of the best natural producers of astaxanthin, but wild...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ukibe K,Katsuragi T,Tani Y,Takagi H

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of series of high intensity electric pulses to a yeast suspension provoked a considerable release of some cytoplasmic proteins, glutathione reductase, 3-phosphoglycerate kinase and alcohol dehydrogenase. A maximal yield was achieved 3-8 h after pulsation. The electro-induced protein efflux was accelera...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ganeva V,Galutzov B

更新日期：1999-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of coumarin (1,2 benzopyrone) on glucose utilisation by the anaerobic rumen fungi Neocallimastix frontalis and N. patriciarum has been compared with the effect of p-coumaric acid. Both compounds largely inhibited glucose utilisation by N. patriciarum strain Cx when present in the medium at a concentration o...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cansunar E,Richardson AJ,Wallace G,Stewart CS

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00