Industrial production of acetone and butanol by fermentation-100 years later.

abstract：:We isolated nickel-resistant bacterium from soil in order to identify a novel nickel resistance determinant. Using 16S rRNA gene sequencing, an isolate was identified as Enterobacter sp. Ni15. This species showed a medium-level (resistant to up to 10 mM) nickel resistance in nutrient-rich media. Enterobacter sp. Ni15 ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lee YK,Chang HH,Lee HJ,Park H,Lee KH,Joe MH

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual isolates of Escherichia coli synthesize one of more than 70 chemically distinct polysaccharides which form the capsule. In this article we review the genetics of capsule production in E. coli and highlight what this is beginning to reveal in terms of the genetic basis of the structural diversity of polysacc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Boulnois G,Drake R,Pearce R,Roberts I

更新日期：1992-12-15 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：:Ferric uptake regulator (Fur) proteins are widely recognized as repressors that in many prokaryotes regulate a large number of genes involved in iron homeostasis and oxidative stress response. In our study, we were able to identify the complete sequence of the fur gene from Microcystis aeruginosa using inverse-polymer...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Martin-Luna B,Hernandez JA,Bes MT,Fillat MF,Peleato ML

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter sp. strain 20B was isolated based on the ability to utilize dimethyl sulfide as the sole sulfur source. Since strain 20B oxidized indole as well as dimethyl sulfide, indigo production by recombinant Escherichia coli clones carrying Acinetobacter DNA was used as a selection for cloning genes encoding dime...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Horinouchi M,Kasuga K,Nojiri H,Yamane H,Omori T

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-six strains of S. thermophilus were examined for their plasmid content. Thirteen strains were found to contain one or two plasmids ranging in size from 2.1 to 7.4 kb. DNA-DNA hybridization analysis revealed the presence of five distinct groups of DNA homology. The complete nucleotide sequence of plasmid pST1 (A...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Janzen T,Kleinschmidt J,Neve H,Geis A

更新日期：1992-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Eikenella corrodens 33EK(L), a clinical isolate, was assayed for its ability to utilise amino acids as substrates in the reduction of nitrate to nitrite. The metabolism of proline, glutamate, serine and glutamine was found to result in relatively high rates of nitrate reduction. The ability of cells to metabolise thes...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gully NJ,Rogers AH

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nocardia asteroides complex organisms derived from human specimens between 1979 and 1992 were identified to the species level. Of 117 N. asteroides complex organisms, 34 (29%) were N. farcinica, 28 (24%) were N. nova, and 55 (47%) were N. asteroides sensu stricto. An analysis of the specimen sites from which the organ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Desmond EP,Flores M

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage M102 is a virulent siphophage that propagates in some serotype c Streptococcus mutans strains, but not in S. mutans of serotype e, f or k. The serotype of S. mutans is determined by the glucose side chain of rhamnose-glucose polysaccharide (RGP). Because the first step in the bacteriophage infection proc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Shibata Y,Yamashita Y,van der Ploeg JR

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Piscirickettsia salmonis is the etiological agent of Salmonid Rickettsial Septicemia, a disease affecting salmon aquaculture industry. We analyzed the 16S-23S rDNA spacer region (internal transcribed spacer, ITS) of Chilean P. salmonis isolates LF-89 and EM-90. Two main ITS amplification products were obtained by PCR ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Casanova A,Obreque J,Sandino AM,Jashés M

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple restriction fragments, homologous to the previously described Mycoplasma bovis vspA gene, were identified in the chromosome of Mycoplasma agalactiae. The vspA, a representative variable surface lipoprotein gene of the vsp gene family, and four synthetic oligonucleotides, representing sequences complementary t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Flitman-Tene R,Levisohn S,Rosenbusch R,Rapoport E,Yogev D

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel Toxoplasma gondii interspersed repeat element (TgIRE), present in most of the tachyzoite chromosomes, was characterised. Two regions on the TgIRE sequence showed high identity to two different T. gondii expressed sequence tag cDNAs of unknown function, which seems to be TgIRE pseudogenes. Two set of primers we...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Echeverria PC,Rojas PA,Martin V,Guarnera EA,Pszenny V,Angel SO

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A smooth colony strain, resistant to phages lambda and P22, was isolated from sewage and identified as Escherichia coli (strain H). Four temperate phages plaquing on strain H were isolated from sewage. The archetype, HK620, does not plaque on strains C and K12 of E. coli nor on the LT2 strain of Salmonella enterica. B...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dhillon TS,Poon AP,Chan D,Clark AJ

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronological analysis of 125 Vibrio cholerae O139 strains isolated during 1993-2005 in Kolkata revealed the prevalence of two new genotypes of cholera toxin (CT) and novel combinations of ctxB and rstR alleles resulting in variant CTX prophages. One of the new genotypes of ctxB, which first appeared in 1996 with the ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Raychoudhuri A,Mukherjee P,Ramamurthy T,Nandy RK,Takeda Y,Nair GB,Mukhopadhyay AK

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Testosterone and 4-androstene-3,17-dione (androstenedione) binding proteins were found in the cytosol of Cochliobolus lunatus, a filamentous fungus. The maximal androgen binding occurred by 120 min at 0 degrees C. Androgen binding proteins were degraded by protease treatment and at high temperature. The mean Kd determ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kastelic-Suhadolc T,Lenasi H

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of maintaining prokaryotic RNA in Synechococcus and Pseudomonas cells, fixed in 96% ethanol, 4% paraformaldehyde, or suspended in RNAlater, and held in cold storage for 3 months was compared. Fluorometric determination of the RNA extracted from Synechococcus and Pseudomonas cells indicated that the c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bachoon DS,Chen F,Hodson RE

更新日期：2001-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical and molecular taxonomic studies were performed on a representative strain of some lactic acid bacteria of unknown taxonomic position isolated from salmonid fish. The results demonstrate that the fish bacterium represents a new species of the genus Lactococcus for which the name Lactococcus piscium sp. nov. is...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Williams AM,Fryer JL,Collins MD

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pythium glomeratum sp. nov. is described here. It was isolated from soil samples taken in the northern France in 1992, was wrongly identified as Pythium heterothallicum and was kept aside. Recently, the ITS region of the rDNA of this oomycete was amplified and sequenced. The differences between the sequence and a more...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Paul B

更新日期：2003-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the commercial strains of Flammulina velutipes was analyzed for the presence of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) elements to examine the underlying mechanism of strain degeneration. As a result, two dsRNA elements sized 1.9 and 1.8 kb were detected in mycelium derived from spontaneously brown-colored fruit body. The...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Magae Y,Hayashi N

更新日期：1999-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori genomes contain about 30 hop genes that encode outer membrane proteins. Helicobacter pylori hopQ alleles exhibit a high level of genetic diversity, and two families of hopQ alleles have been described. Type I hopQ alleles are found more commonly in cag-positive H. pylori strains from patients with ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Loh JT,Torres VJ,Algood HM,McClain MS,Cover TL

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Xanthomonas is composed of several species that cause severe crop losses around the world. In Latin America, one of the most relevant species is Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris, which is responsible for black rot in cruciferous plants. This pathogen causes yield losses in several cultures, including ca...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Andrade AE,Silva LP,Pereira JL,Noronha EF,Reis FB Jr,Bloch C Jr,dos Santos MF,Domont GB,Franco OL,Mehta A

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Halobacillus trueperi accumulates glycine betaine under condition of high osmolarity. A fragment of the glycine betaine transporter betH gene was obtained from the genome of H. trueperi with degenerate primers. Through Southern blot hybridization and inverse PCR, a 5.1 kb EcoRI fragment containing the complete betH ge...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lu W,Zhao B,Feng D,Yang S

更新日期：2004-06-15 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 assessment of scientific research is essentially based on several metric parameters, the so-termed Impact Factor perhaps being the predominant one. Despite well-founded criticisms and the wide opposition of reputed scientists, this procedure has become a tool of scientific policy, and is applied in editorial proce...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Argüelles JC,Argüelles-Prieto R

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Chaetomium globosum strain F0142, which was isolated from barnyard grass, showed potent disease control efficacy against rice blast (Magnaporthe grisea) and wheat leaf rust (Puccinia recondita). Two antifungal substances were purified from broth from this organism and identified as chaetoviridins A and B. Chaetovi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Park JH,Choi GJ,Jang KS,Lim HK,Kim HT,Cho KY,Kim JC

更新日期：2005-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Amylosucrase produces an insoluble alpha-1,4-linked glucan from sucrose, releasing fructose. In addition to polymerisation, in the presence of sucrose as sole substrate, amylosucrase catalyses sucrose hydrolysis and oligosaccharide synthesis in significant proportions. The effects of both glycogen acceptor and sucrose...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Potocki de Montalk G,Remaud-Simeon M,Willemot RM,Monsan P

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 401 enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 isolates from two experimentally infected calves were analyzed using molecular biological methods. Genetic differences detected by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis were observed between the inoculated and recovered strains as early as 1 day post inoculat...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Akiba M,Sameshima T,Nakazawa M

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of dormant endospores is a complex morphological process that permits long-term survival in inhospitable environments for many Gram-positive bacteria. Sporulation for the anaerobic gastrointestinal pathogen Clostridium difficile is necessary for survival outside of the gastrointestinal tract of its host....

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Edwards AN,McBride SM

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：:Multidrug resistance plasmids carrying the bla(CMY-2) gene have been identified in Salmonella enterica serovars Typhimurium and Newport from the United States. This gene confers decreased susceptibility to ceftriaxone, and is most often found in strains with concomitant resistance to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, strep...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Doublet B,Carattoli A,Whichard JM,White DG,Baucheron S,Chaslus-Dancla E,Cloeckaert A

更新日期：2004-04-15 00:00:00