The IS1111 insertion sequence used for detection of Coxiella burnetii is widespread in Coxiella-like endosymbionts of ticks.

abstract：:Marine snow aggregates are microbial hotspots that support high bacterial abundance and activities. We conducted laboratory experiments to compare cell-specific bacterial protein production (BPP) and protease activity between free-living and attached bacteria. Natural bacterial assemblages attached to model aggregates...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Grossart HP,Tang KW,Kiørboe T,Ploug H

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:This study investigated the impacts of bacterial DNA extraction methodology on downstream analysis of fish gut microbiota. Feces and intestine samples were taken from three sympatric freshwater fish species with varying diets. Samples were processed immediately (approximately 4 h after capture; fresh), stored at -20 °...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Larsen AM,Mohammed HH,Arias CR

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：:Protein interactions among RNA polymerase small subunits from the archaeon Methanococcus jannaschii were investigated using affinity pulldown assays in pairwise and higher-order combinations. In the most extensive study of archaeal RNA polymerase subunit interactions to date, including 37 pairs of proteins, 10 ternary...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Best AA,Olsen GJ

更新日期：2001-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Two fungal isolates, formerly classified as Verticillium alboatrum and proposed as forming the basis of a new sub-group ('Group 2') within the species, have been shown to be non-pathogenic to known hosts of V. alboatrum and, on the basis of molecular evidence, to be closely related to Verticillium psalliotae and Verti...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Carder JH,Barbara DJ

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fe(III) reductase activity was studied in the South African Fe(III)-reducing bacterium, Thermus scotoductus (SA-01). Fractionation studies revealed that the membrane as well as the soluble fraction contained NAD(P)H-dependent Fe(III) reductase activity. The membrane-associated enzyme was solubilized by KCl treatme...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Möller C,van Heerden E

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumanii, which may be found in water, is an important emerging hospital-acquired pathogen. Free-living amoebae can be recovered from the same water networks, and it has been shown that these protozoa may support the growth of other bacteria. In this paper, we have studied potential relationships between...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cateau E,Verdon J,Fernandez B,Hechard Y,Rodier MH

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous work, only one culture (strain TA12) from a pristine site was reported to utilize the xenobiotic compound p-toluenesulfonate (TSA) as a sole source of carbon and energy for aerobic growth. 'Strain TA12' has now been recognized as a community of three bacteria: Achromobacter xylosoxidans TA12-A, Ensifer adh...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tralau T,Yang EC,Tralau C,Cook AM,Küpper FC

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of Helminthosporium solani, the cause of silver scurf in potato tubers, has been impaired by selection of benzimidazole-resistant strains as a result of repeated use of the fungicide thiabendazole. Identification of thiabendazole-resistant strains of H. solani by conventional techniques takes several weeks. Pr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： McKay GJ,Cooke LR

更新日期：1997-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel strain of Rhizopus oryzae WPG secretes a noninduced lipase (ROLw) in the culture medium; purified ROLw is a protein of 29 kDa, the 45 N-terminal amino acid residues were sequenced, this sequence is very homologous to Rhizopus delemar lipase (RDL), Rhizopus niveus lipase (RNL) and R. oryzae lipase (ROL29) seque...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Salah RB,Mosbah H,Fendri A,Gargouri A,Gargouri Y,Mejdoub H

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dissimilatory metal-reducing bacteria (DMRB), such as Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, are of great interest for their importance in the biogeochemical cycling of metals and utility in biotechnological processes, such as bioremediation and microbial fuel cells. To identify genes necessary for metal reduction, this study co...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kouzuma A,Hashimoto K,Watanabe K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scrA gene coding for sucrose EnzymeII of the phosphoenolpyruvate dependent phosphotransferase system previously isolated from Streptococcus mutans was fused in vitro to the promoterless lacZ' gene to monitor the expression of the scrA gene. The scrA::lacZ gene fusion was introduced back into S. mutans GS-5IS3 by t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sato Y,Yamamoto Y,Suzuki R,Kizaki H,Kuramitsu HK

更新日期：1991-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports the development and characterization of 151 sequence characterized amplified region (SCAR) markers for the seven Eimeria species that infect the domestic fowl. From this set, 84 markers are species-specific and 67 present partial specificity. The complete nucleotide sequence was derived for all mark...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fernandez S,Katsuyama AM,Kashiwabara AY,Madeira AM,Durham AM,Gruber A

更新日期：2004-09-01 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：:This commentary describes an assessment exercise known as the TRIPSE (Tri-Partite Problem Solving Exercise) that mimics science in operation. Students frame hypotheses based on limited data, design experiments to test them, which they later revise with new information. It is emphasised that there are no single correct...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nastos S,Rangachari PK

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the flagellum and chemotactic motility of Vibrio anguillarum for phagocytosis by and intracellular survival in fish macrophages was determined using a wild-type strain, a mutant without the flagellum, a mutant with a truncated flagellum and a non-chemotactic mutant. For all strains, the numbers of intracel...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Larsen MH,Boesen HT

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Brettanomyces/Dekkera yeasts have been identified as part of the grape yeast flora. They are well known for colonizing the cellar environmental and spoiling wines, causing haze, turbidity and strong off-flavours in wines and enhancing the volatile acidity. As the general practices applied to combat Brettanomyces/Dekke...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Comitini F,Ciani M

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present evidence that glycine betaine (betaine) which was synthesized from choline was excreted and reaccumulated in osmoregulating cells of Escherichia coli. Choline which was accumulated in bet mutants defective in betaine synthesis was shown to be excreted in response to betaine uptake. Our data suggest that E. ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lamark T,Styrvold OB,Strøm AR

更新日期：1992-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The electron transfer pathway to Fe(III) reduction in Geobacter sulfurreducens has been hypothesized to consist of a series of c-type cytochromes. Previous genetic studies suggested that the inner membrane-associated, c-type cytochrome, MacA, was a component of the electron transfer chain leading to Fe(III) reduction ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kim BC,Lovley DR

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen solvent-sensitive transposon mutants were generated from the solvent-tolerant Pseudomonas putida strain S12 by applying the TnMod-KmO mutagenesis system. These mutants were unable to grow in the presence of octanol and toluene. By cloning the region flanking the transposon insertion point a partial sequence o...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kieboom J,Bruinenberg R,Keizer-Gunnink I,de Bont JA

更新日期：2001-05-01 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：:Microbial competition for carbon sources is a primary determinant of rhizosphere ecology. We employed the PCR to examine the population fluctuations of a symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacterium (Rhizobium etli) during the first 11 days following inoculation of Phaseolus vulgaris seedlings grown in the presence or absence ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Petersen DJ,Srinivasan M,Chanway CP

更新日期：1996-09-01 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：:We investigated the hemolytic activity of Escherichia coli strain EC901 carrying plasmid pBJN406 containing genes draA-E involved in expression of the mannose-resistant Dr hemagglutinin, and in its isogenic insertion mutants devised with Tn5, Tn3, and TnphoA. While E. coli BN406 displayed rapid hemolytic activity agai...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Goluszko P,Nowicki S,Kaul AK,Pham T,Nowicki BJ

更新日期：1995-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of pili on cells of Arthrobacter photogonimos is induced by photo-oxidative conditions. The nucleotide sequence was determined of a light-inducible gene (lipA) that encodes the precursor of a light-inducible pilin (designated LIP), a polypeptide of 212 amino acids. The N-terminal leader peptide includes a ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yang HS,Hoober JK

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A native collection of Bacillus thuringiensis strains was screened, once a reliable bioassay technique to assess the toxicity against the coffee berry borer (CBB) first-instar larvae was developed. A first round of bioassays with 170 strains indicated that the great majority of them showed no or very little insecticid...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Méndez-López I,Basurto-Ríos R,Ibarra JE

更新日期：2003-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The study compared images of mature Streptococcus mutans biofilms captured at increasing magnification to determine which microscopy method is most acceptable for imaging the biofilm topography and the extracellular polymeric substance (EPS). In vitro S. mutans biofilms were imaged using (1) scanning electron microsco...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Weber K,Delben J,Bromage TG,Duarte S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several beta-galactosidase fusion proteins have been constructed containing the entire VP1 protein from foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) [Corchero et al. (1996) J. Biotechnol. in press]. The antigenicity of the major immunodominant site A (13 amino acids in length) within the VP1 protein has been studied in competi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Corchero JL,Villaverde A

更新日期：1996-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The SbmA protein is involved in the transport of MccB17-, MccJ25-, bleomycin- and proline-rich peptides into the Escherichia coli cytoplasm. sbmA gene homologues were found in a variety of bacteria. However, the physiological role of this protein still remains unknown. Previously, we found that a combination of sbmA a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Corbalán NS,Adler C,de Cristóbal RE,Pomares MF,Delgado MA,Vincent PA

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00