Bacterial Diversity in Bohai Bay Solar Saltworks, China.

abstract：:An autolysis chitinase was purified from the cultural medium of the anaerobic fungus Piromyces communis OTS1 by ammonium sulfate precipitation, affinity chromatography with regenerated chitin, chromato-focusing, gel filtration, and chromato-focusing again. The optimal pH and temperature were 6.0 and 50 degrees C, resp...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Sakurada M,Morgavi DP,Komatani K,Tomita Y,Onodera R

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trioxacarcin A is a polyoxygenated, structurally complex antibiotic produced by Streptomyces spp., which possesses high anti-bacterial, anti-malaria, and anti-tumor activities. The trioxacarcin biosynthetic pathway involves type II polyketide synthases (PKSs) with L-isoleucine as a unique starter unit, as well as many...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Yang K,Qi LH,Zhang M,Hou XF,Pan HX,Tang GL,Wang W,Yuan H

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present work, Aspergillus fumigatus is described as a higher producer of hydrolytic enzymes secreted in response to the presence of the Callosobruchus maculatus bruchid pest. This fungus was able to grow over cowpea weevil shells as a unique carbon source, secreting alkaline proteolytic and chitinolytic enzymes...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Pereira JL,Franco OL,Noronha EF

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To optimize the cell lysis step for DNA extraction from activated sludge samples, two floc dispersion methods (sonication versus stirring with a cation exchange resin), and three cell lysis treatments (lysozyme + SDS, sonication in a water bath, and thermal shock) were tested. For dispersion, stirring with cation exch...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Bourrain M,Achouak W,Urbain V,Heulin T

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Gram-negative, motile, aerobic and coccoid rod-shaped bacterium, designated strain YIM132180T, was isolated from a Lepraria sp. lichen collected from Pu'er, Yunnan Province, China. The strain grew at 15-35 °C (optimum, 25-28 °C), at 0-2% (w/v) NaCl (optimum, 0-1%) and at pH 6.0-9.0 (optimum, pH 7.0). The 16S rRNA ge...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Zhang K,Jiang LQ,Wang LS,An DF,Lang L,Li GD,Wang XY,Shi SB,Li QY,Jiang CL,Jiang Y

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus thermophilus (ST) chromosomal DNA fragments generated by partial Sau3A digestion were cloned into the unique BamHI site upstream from the promoterless chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (cat) gene of the Escherichia coli (EC)promoter-probe vector pKK520-3. Recombinant plasmids containing ST sequences with...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Solaiman DK,Somkuti GA

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel isolate of a bacterium, capable of degrading trichloroethylene (TCE) and growing on this as the sole carbon source is reported. The test strain was isolated by an enrichment technique with trichloroethylene as the substrate. The isolated strain belongs to the genus Bacillus. The practical utility of cleaning u...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Dey K,Roy P

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Helicobacter pylori extra gastric reservoir is probably the oral cavity. In order to evaluate the presence of this bacterium in patients with periodontitis and suspicious microbial cultures, saliva was collected from these and non-periodontitis subjects. PCRs targeting 16S rRNA gene and a 860 bp specific region we...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Mesquita B,Gonçalves MJ,Pacheco P,Lopes J,Salazar F,Relvas M,Coelho C,Pacheco JJ,Velazco C

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An exopolysaccharide (EPS-I) having the molecular weight ~ 2.6 × 105 Da, was isolated from a Zinc resistant strain of Enterococcus faecalis from costal area. The exopolysaccharide consists of D-mannose, D-glucose, and L-fucose in molar ratio of 9:4:1. The monosaccharide units in the EPS-1 were determined through chemi...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Choudhuri I,Khanra K,Pariya P,Maity GN,Mondal S,Pati BR,Bhattacharyya N

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofouling leads to water quality deterioration and higher maintenance cost for cleaning of membranes. The present study has demonstrated the application of a biomolecule (vanillin) in scrubbing and destabilizing biofilms of drinking water reverse osmosis (RO) membrane module in lab scale reactor set-up. Reverse osmos...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Pal S,Qureshi A,Purohit HJ

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial FtsE gene codes for the ATP-binding protein, FtsE, which in complex with the transmembrane protein, FtsX, participates in diverse cellular processes. Therefore, regulated expression of FtsE and FtsX might be critical to the human pathogen, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, under stress conditions. Although ftsX ge...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Roy S,Vijay S,Arumugam M,Anand D,Mir M,Ajitkumar P

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyclomaltodextrinase gene from Bacillus subtilis high-temperature growth transformant H-17 was cloned on separate PstI, BamHI, and EcoRI fragments into the plasmid vector pUC18, but was expressed in an inactive form in the host, Escherichia coli DH5 alpha. High level constitutive expression of the gene product was...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Krohn BM,Lindsay JA

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae represent a global public health concern. K. pneumoniae strains isolated during 2010 and 2014-2016 within a single hospital of Molise Region, Central Italy, were analyzed testing antimicrobial susceptibility, clonality by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and random ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Ripabelli G,Tamburro M,Guerrizio G,Fanelli I,Flocco R,Scutellà M,Sammarco ML

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia cepacia is an opportunistic pathogen that causes serious pulmonary infections in cystic fibrosis patients. Although several potential virulence factors-a protease, lipase, and two phospholipases C (one hemolytic and one nonhemolytic)-have been identified, only two, the protease and the lipase, have been d...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Weingart CL,Hooke AM

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is responsible for nosocomial and community-acquired infections. Hence, rapid and accurate laboratory diagnosis of MRSA is a vital constituent of control measures. The present study evaluated five different methods for the identification of MRSA. A to...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Al-Talib H,Yean CY,Al-khateeb A,Singh KK,Hasan H,Al-Jashamy K,Ravichandran M

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed recombinant phage particles displaying the Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ba4 active toxin using the pfUSE5 and pComb3X phagemid vectors. The recombinant phage particles were screened and evaluated for displayed biologically active Cry1Ba4 toxin against the target insect larvae. Concurrent expression of Cry...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Nathan S,Aziz DH,Mahadi NM

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate (APS) reductase is a key enzyme involved in the pathways of sulfate reduction and sulfide oxidation in the biological sulfur cycle. In this study, the gene of APS reductase from Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli, the soluble protein was purified by ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Zheng C,Zhang Y,Liu Y,Wu A,Xia L,Zeng J,Liu J,Qiu G

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer membrane protein of Photobacterium damsela (OMP-PD) and the gene encoding for this porin protein were isolated and characterized. The deduced amino acid sequence of the OMP-PD monomer has 338 amino acids and a calculated molecular weight of 36,951 Da. This sequence includes a 22-amino acid signal peptide at ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Gribun A,Katcoff DJ,Hershkovits G,Pechatnikov I,Nitzan Y

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus produces levan from sucrose by a secreted levansucrase (LsdA). A levanase-encoding gene ( lsdB), starting 51 bp downstream of the lsdA gene, was cloned from strain SRT4. The lsdB gene (1605 bp) encodes a protein (calculated molecular mass 58.4 kDa) containing a putative 36-amino-acid s...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Menéndez C,Hernández L,Selman G,Mendoza MF,Hevia P,Sotolongo M,Arrieta JG

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three aerobic bacterial consortia, AC, BC, and DC, developed from pesticide-contaminated soils of Punjab were able to degrade chlorpyrifos after 21 days of incubation in basal medium by 54, 46, and 61% and chlorpyrifos (50 mg/L) in soil after 30 days by 50, 56, and 64%. Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Bacillus cereus, Klebsie...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Lakshmi CV,Kumar M,Khanna S

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two strains of the well-known insect pathogen and biopesticide, Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), belonging to subspecies alesti (strain Bt5) and kurstaki (strain Bt213), were chosen for genetic characterization. The two strains belong to different serotypes and are currently classified into different subspecies, although ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Lövgren A,Carlson CR,Kang D,Eskils K,Kolstø AB

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the species of the yeast-like symbionts (YLS) in the brown planthoppers (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens, YLS were first isolated and purified by ultracentrifugation from the fat bodies of BPH, and then 18S rDNA and internal transcribed spacer (ITS)-5.8S rDNA sequences of YLS were amplified with the different ge...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Dong S,Pang K,Bai X,Yu X,Hao P

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel actinomycete, designated strain LAM7112T, was isolated from soil sample collected from a birch forest in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. The new isolate was found to be able to grow at 20-45 °C (optimum: 35 °C), pH 5.0-10.0 (optimum: 7.0) and in the presence of 0-10.0% (optimum: 3.0%) (w/v) NaCl. The ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Ma Q,Zhang Q,Jiang X,Kong D,Han X,Xue H,Zhou Y,Zhang Y,Zhang W,Ruan Z

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An aerobic, gram-reaction-negative, rod-shaped bacterium, designated strain Z6(T), was isolated from sediment collected at Mohe Basin, China. And its taxonomic position was investigated by applying a polyphasic approach. Growth occurs at 10-45 °C (optimum, 30 °C), at pH 6.0-11.0 (optimum, pH 7.0) and in the presence o...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Han L,Teng YW,Feng QQ,Zhang RG,Zhao XM,Lv J,Xie B

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rates of urinary tract infection with multidrug-resistant (MDR) Escherichia coli have dramatically increased and the treatment of these infections with single and double antibiotic combinations became limited or ineffective. The present study aimed at finding effective antibiotic combinations against MDR uropathog...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： El-Wafa WMA,Ibrahim YM

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:pH affected significantly the growth and the glucose fermentation pattern of Propionibacterium microaerophilum. In neutral conditions (pH 6.5-7.5), growth and glucose fermentation rate (qs) were optimum producing propionate, acetate, CO(2), and formate [which together represented 90% (wt/wt) of the end products], and ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Koussémon M,Combet-Blanc Y,Ollivier B

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Favre and coworkers (Favre et al., Biochimie 73:235-244, 1991) previously reported that the Bordetella pertussis recA gene present at high copy number could promote a low frequency of recombination, but not bacteriophage induction in Escherichia coli RecA- mutants. Reexamination of these phenotypes demonstrated that, ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Kuhl SA

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strain NHI-24(T) was isolated from forest soil by a polycarbonate membrane transwell plate. It is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped, non-motile, non-spore-forming bacterium. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequence data indicated that strain NHI-24(T) is closely related to members of the genus Niabella: N. dril...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Pham VH,Kim J

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamine synthetase (GS) fromBeneckea alginolytica strain 90 was purified to homogeneity as indicated by sodium dodecyl sulface polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The purified enzyme was injected into rabbits, and the antiserum, as well as previously prepared antiserum against the GS fromEscherichia coli, was used i...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Baumann L,Baumann P

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus sp. B25 is an effective biocontrol agent against the maize pathogenic fungus Fusarium verticillioides (Fv). Previous in vitro assays have shown that B25 has protease, glucanase, and chitinase activities and siderophores production; however, specific mechanisms by which B25 controls Fv are still unknown. To de...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Douriet-Gámez NR,Maldonado-Mendoza IE,Ibarra-Laclette E,Blom J,Calderón-Vázquez CL

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00