Five putative nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase genes are expressed in Trichomonas vaginalis.

abstract：:Sixty-four breast-fed infants and 23 calves were investigated for bacteria and enzymatic activity in their faecal samples. The bacteria were measured using cultivation and fluorescence in situ hybridization. Enzymatic activity was also examined. Forty-seven (64%) infants and all the calves had high numbers of bifidoba...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Rada V,Vlková E,Nevoral J,Trojanová I

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Phytomonas is responsible for many diseases in different crop plant species. The finding that chitin is an exposed cell surface polysaccharide in Phytomonas françai and the observation that chitinases can inhibit fungal growth raises expectations about the potential effect of plant chitinases on the P. franç...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gomes Rocha GC,Nicolich R,Romeiro A,Margis-Pinheiro M,Attias M,Alves-Ferreira M

更新日期：2003-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:For the dissemination of microbiology and science in general, social media is an underutilized but increasingly powerful tool, and one that transcends traditional avenues for scientific outputs. In order to reach and potentially inspire a deeply interested and general public, scientists should engage with platforms su...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hines HN

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using natural rubber latex as the sole source of carbon and energy 50 rubber-degrading bacteria were isolated. Out of those 50 isolates, 33 were identified as Streptomyces species and 8 as Micromonospora species. Screening of 1220 bacteria obtained from different culture collections revealed 46 additional rubber-degra...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jendrossek D,Tomasi G,Kroppenstedt RM

更新日期：1997-05-15 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：: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：:Polyclonal antibodies were prepared against the major antenna chlorophyll (Chl) a/b-binding protein from the prokaryote Prochlorothrix hollandica (Burger-Wiersma et al. (1986) Nature (Lond.) 320, 262-264). Immunoblotting experiments on Triton X-114 phase-partitioned P. hollandica thylakoids revealed that the antibody ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bullerjahn GS,Jensen TC,Sherman DM,Sherman LA

更新日期：1990-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial swarming motility is a flagella-dependent translocation on the surface environment. It has received extensive attention as a population behavior involving numerous genes. Here, we report that Citrobacter freundii, an opportunistic pathogen, exhibits swarming movement on a solid medium surface with appropriat...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cong Y,Wang J,Chen Z,Xiong K,Xu Q,Hu F

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of an educational board game developed to teach the pharmacology of antimicrobial drugs to medical students was compared with the lecture-based seminar as a supplemental tool to improve short- and long-term knowledge retention and the perception of the learning method by students. A group of 124 stud...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Karbownik MS,Wiktorowska-Owczarek A,Kowalczyk E,Kwarta P,Mokros Ł,Pietras T

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) of Aequorea victoria as a reporter for protein and DNA localization has provided sensitive, new approaches for studying the organization of the bacterial cell, leading to new insights into diverse cellular processes. GFP has many characteristics that make it useful for locali...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Phillips GJ

更新日期：2001-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed a DNA library from a virulent Salmonella typhimurium strain, in an avirulent strain. The process of selecting the components of interest from the library involved iterative growth in liquid culture. This resulted, after four cycles, in the culture becoming homogeneous for a single plasmid, which wa...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lodge JM,Robey M,Stephen J,Brown NL

更新日期：1999-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile, a Gram-positive spore-forming anaerobe, causes infections in humans ranging from mild diarrhoeal to potentially life-threatening pseudomembranous colitis. The availability of genomic information for a range of C. difficile strains affords researchers the opportunity to better understand not only...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jain S,Graham RL,McMullan G,Ternan NG

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding of meningitis-causing Escherichia coli K1 to human brain microvascular endothelial cells (HBMEC) contributes to traversal of the blood-brain barrier, which occurs in part by the mannose-sensitive binding of FimH. In this study, we showed that FimH also binds to HBMEC, independent of mannose, and identified ATP...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Shin S,Kim KS

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of RNase P RNA from anammox bacteria 'Candidatus Brocadia anammoxidans' and 'Candidatus Kuenenia stuttgartiensis' with that from other Planctomycetes was investigated. Newly identified rnpB gene sequences were aligned against existing planctomycete RNase P RNA sequences and secondary structures deduce...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Butler MK,Op den Camp HJ,Harhangi HR,Lafi FF,Strous M,Fuerst JA

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：:We have devised a reliable procedure for the separation of three beta-lactamases of isoelectric focusing points (pI), 5.4, 6.5, and 7.9 by Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography (FPLC System). All of these enzymes were transferable and originated from a ceftazidime and cefotaxime resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated i...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Payne DJ,Hood J,Marriott MS,Amyes SG

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed a Thermus promoter probe vector pPP11 containing the promoterless heat-stable kanamycin resistance (Kmr) gene. Total DNA of T. thermophilus HB27 was randomly sheared into 100-200 bp fragments and inserted into the EcoRI site of pPP11. About 1000 clones which showed Kmr were obtained, and they were ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Maseda H,Hoshino T

更新日期：1995-05-01 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 regulatory mechanism governing antifungal metabolite biosynthesis, two kinds of global regulator genes in Pseudomonas sp. M18, an rpoS and an rsmA gene, were cloned and mutated by inserting with an aacC1 cassette, respectively. Two mutants showed the same regulatory mode with repression of phenazine...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ge Y,Yang S,Fang Y,Yang R,Mou D,Cui J,Wen L

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of the ongoing sequencing of the complete Salmonella typhimurium LT2 genome, a partly ordered set of 416 lambda clones has been developed, representing over 90% of the genome. The average insert size is 17 kb. Sequences were obtained from both ends of each clone in this set. A total of over 600 kb of sequence ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wong RM,Wong KK,Benson NR,McClelland M

更新日期：1999-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella melitensis possesses an operon with two components: the response regulator OtpR and a putative cAMP-dependent protein kinase regulatory subunit encoded by the BMEI0067 gene. In the previous study, the function of OtpR has been studied, while little is known about the function of the BMEI0067 gene. Using a bio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Liu WJ,Dong H,Peng XW,Wu QM

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quorum quenching (QQ) activity of endophytic bacteria associated with medicinal plants was explored. Extracts of the Gram-negative Enterobacter sp. CS66 possessed potent N-acylhomoserine lactone (AHL) hydrolytic activity in vitro. Using degenerate primers, we PCR-amplified an open reading frame (denoted aiiE) from...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Shastry RP,Dolan SK,Abdelhamid Y,Vittal RR,Welch M

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed a fungal subtractive suppressive library enriched in genes expressed during appressorium maturation in Magnaporthe grisea. Sequencing of 250 clones from the subtracted appressorium cDNA library revealed 142 unique genes, represented by 155 non-redundant ESTs (expressed sequence tags). Of these ESTs...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lu JP,Liu TB,Lin FC

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we describe and characterize two oligomer probes that are broadly homologous to conserved eubacterial 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) sequences not present in human 18 rRNA or human mitochondrial 12S rRNA. One or both of the probes can detect all of 23 phylogenetically diverse eubacterial nucleic acids against...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chen K,Neimark H,Rumore P,Steinman CR

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-associated hemagglutination (cHA) activity with human erythrocytes was examined for 468 clinical and 71 environmental strains of Vibrio parahaemolyticus. Approximately 95% of the strains tested were cHA positive irrespective of source or Kanagawa phenomenon. 75% of clinical strains showed relatively strong mannos...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nagayama K,Oguchi T,Arita M,Honda T

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The FIS protein (factor for inversion stimulation) is known to activate the transcription of rRNA and tRNA operons in Escherichia coli. In this report the growth behaviour of a fis bacterium was studied under steady-state conditions and in competition experiments with a wild-type bacterium in a chemostat. The growth r...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nilsson L,Verbeek H,Hoffmann U,Haupt M,Bosch L

更新日期：1992-11-15 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：:A previous study [DeVault et al. (1991) Mol. Microbiol. 5, 2503-2509] suggested that growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in glucose-containing medium represses algD gene transcription. In this study, growth of P. aeruginosa in rich medium containing glucose or gluconate increased alginate production and algD transcriptio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ma JF,Phibbs PV,Hassett DJ

更新日期：1997-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic susceptibility, plasmid profiles and random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD) were used to study strains of Vibrio vulnificus isolated from cockles (Anadara granosa). Thirty-six isolates were analyzed. The prevalent biotypes were 1 (72.2% of the isolates) and 2 (27.8%). Among these, 21 strains of biot...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Radu S,Elhadi N,Hassan Z,Rusul G,Lihan S,Fifadara N,Yuherman,Purwati E

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA segment located immediately upstream of the eaeA gene of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 strain HA1 was cloned and sequenced. This segment contained an open reading frame encoding a predicted protein of 156 amino acids. A database search identified similar open reading frames upstream of the eaeA gene...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhao S,Mitchell SE,Meng J,Doyle MP,Kresovich S

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00