Marine phage genomics: the tip of the iceberg.

abstract：:A Caulobacter crescentus rho::Tn5 mutant strain presenting a partially functional transcription termination factor Rho is highly sensitive to hydrogen peroxide in both exponential and stationary phases. The mutant was shown to be permanently under oxidative stress, based on fluorophore oxidation, and also to be sensit...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Italiani VC,Braz VS,Xiao H,Steinman HM,Marques MV

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contrary to its effect on rich medium, D-cycloserine showed no bactericidal effect on Zymomonas mobilis cells cultured on mineral medium. Addition of a mixture of glycine and glutamic acid to the mineral medium restored its bactericidal action. However, mutant enrichments run in these conditions were biased, with most...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pencreac'h G,Aït-Abdelkader N,Joset F,Baratti JC

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial pathogens face constant challenges from DNA-damaging agents generated by host phagocytes. Although Borrelia burgdorferi appears to have much fewer DNA repair enzymes than pathogens with larger genomes, it does contain homologues of uvrA and uvrB (subunits A and B of excinuclease ABC). As a first step to expl...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sambir M,Ivanova LB,Bryksin AV,Godfrey HP,Cabello FC

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CheY, the response regulator of the chemotaxis system in Escherichia coli, can be regulated by two covalent modifications - phosphorylation and acetylation. Both covalent modifications are involved in chemotaxis, but the mechanism and role of the acetylation are still obscure. While acetylation was shown to repress th...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Li R,Chen P,Gu J,Deng JY

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to develop a novel strategy for the isolation and identification of Burkholderia cepacia complex bacteria from the home environment of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Water and soil samples were enriched in a broth containing 0.1% l-arabinose, 0.1% l-threonine, and a mixture of selective a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Vanlaere E,Coenye T,Samyn E,Van den Plas C,Govan J,De Baets F,De Boeck K,Knoop C,Vandamme P

更新日期：2005-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We found two Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 strains isolated from humans carrying the stx(1) gene with an IS1203-like element (designated as IS1203v(1)). The IS1203v(1) was inserted into the coding region of the A subunit 7 bp upstream from the TGA termination codon, resulting in a loss of two amino ac...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Suzuki M,Kondo F,Ito Y,Matsumoto M,Hata M,Oka H,Takahashi M,Sakae K

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two clones, obtained by polymerase chain reaction from macronuclear DNA of the unicellular ciliated protist Blepharisma japonicum, were isolated and sequenced. They correspond to fragments of two different putative H4 histone genes. The existence of multiple H4 histone genes was also suggested by Southern blot hybridi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Salvini M,Bini E,Santucci A,Batistoni R

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Agona is an important zoonotic pathogen, causing serious human illness worldwide, but knowledge about its genetics and evolution, especially regarding the genomic events that might have contributed to the formation of S. Agona as an important pathogen, is lacking. As a first step toward und...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chen F,Poppe C,Liu GR,Li YG,Peng YH,Sanderson KE,Johnston RN,Liu SL

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The denitrifying bacterium Thauera aromatica strain AR-1 grows anaerobically with protocatechuate (3,4-dihydroxybenzoate (DHB)) as sole energy and carbon source. This bacterium harbors two distinct pathways for degradation of aromatic compounds, the benzoyl-coenzyme A (CoA) pathway for benzoate degradation and the hyd...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Philipp B,Kemmler D,Hellstern J,Gorny N,Caballero A,Schink B

更新日期：2002-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibacterial effects in terms of biofilm formation and swarming motility were studied using polyacrylate plates having protruding or recessed shark skin micropatterned surfaces with a shallow groove (2 μm pattern width and spacing, 0.4 μm pattern height). It was found that biofilm formation and swarming motility of P...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sakamoto A,Terui Y,Horie C,Fukui T,Masuzawa T,Sugawara S,Shigeta K,Shigeta T,Igarashi K,Kashiwagi K

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella abortus B19, an avirulent strain obtained by spontaneous mutation, is used worldwide as a vaccine for the control of bovine brucellosis. B19 differs from other B. abortus strains in its sensitivity to erythritol. We took advantage of a previously obtained erythritol sensitive Tn5 insertion mutant of B. abortu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sangari FJ,García-Lobo JM,Agüero J

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have re-examined the stringent response of Streptococcus rattus and Streptococcus pyogenes, two organisms that had originally been reported not to accumulate ppGpp following amino acid deprivation. We conclude that ppGpp does accumulate when S. rattus and S. pyogenes are deprived of isoleucine by mupirocin addition...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Whitehead KE,Webber GM,England RR

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of Trypanosoma cruzi kinetoplast DNA by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification is a potentially powerful tool for the parasitological diagnosis of Chagas' disease. We have applied this technique in a field situation in Bolivia, where 45 children from a primary school were subjected to serological ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wincker P,Bosseno MF,Britto C,Yaksic N,Cardoso MA,Morel CM,Brenière SF

更新日期：1994-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Among aerobic prokaryotes, many different terminal oxidase complexes have been described. Sequence comparison has revealed that the aa3-type cytochrome c oxidase and the bo3-type quinol oxidase are variations on the same theme: the heme-copper oxidase. A third member of this family has recently been recognized: the cb...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： van der Oost J,de Boer AP,de Gier JW,Zumft WG,Stouthamer AH,van Spanning RJ

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ecology of aerobic microorganisms is never explored in marine oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) sediments. Here we reveal aerobic bacterial communities along ∼3 m sediment-horizons of the eastern Arabian Sea OMZ. Sulfide-containing sediment-cores retrieved from 530 mbsl (meters beneath the sea-level) and 580 mbsl were exp...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bhattacharya S,Roy C,Mandal S,Sarkar J,Rameez MJ,Mondal N,Mapder T,Chatterjee S,Pyne P,Alam M,Haldar PK,Roy R,Fernandes S,Peketi A,Chakraborty R,Mazumdar A,Ghosh W

更新日期：2020-10-16 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：:An enzyme linked immune sorbent assay (ELISA) was developed to measure bacterial surface lipoteichoic acid (LTA). Numerous strains of oral streptococci belonging to the 'viridans' group were examined on three separate occasions. The results show that, under these cultural conditions, oral streptococci do not normally ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hogg SD,Manning JE

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertion sequences (ISs) are mobile genetic elements widely distributed among bacteria. Their impact on the bacterial genome is multifold, including transfer of genetic information, shuttle of adaptive traits and influence on the genomic content. As a result, ISs play an important role in the organization, plasticity...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lysnyansky I,Calcutt MJ,Ben-Barak I,Ron Y,Levisohn S,Methé BA,Yogev D

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spirochaete, Serpulina pilosicoli, is the agent of intestinal spirochaetosis, a diarrhoeal disease of humans and other species. By mechanisms as yet unknown, large numbers of these spirochaetes intimately attach to the colonic mucosa by one cell end. In some infected individuals, the spirochaetes may invade the la...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hartland EL,Mikosza AS,Robins-Browne RM,Hampson DJ

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiological role of mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALD5) was investigated by analysis of the ald5 mutant (AKD321) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. K(+)-activated ALDH activity of the ald5 mutant was about 80% of the wild-type in the mitochondrial fraction, while the respiratory activity of the ald5 mutant was...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kurita O,Nishida Y

更新日期：1999-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The enterobacterium Erwinia amylovora is the causal agent of fire blight. This study presents the analysis of the complete genome of phage PhiEaH1, isolated from the soil surrounding an E. amylovora-infected apple tree in Hungary. Its genome is 218 kb in size, containing 244 ORFs. PhiEaH1 is the second E. amylovora in...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Meczker K,Dömötör D,Vass J,Rákhely G,Schneider G,Kovács T

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, genes involved in thiamin pyrophosphate (TPP) synthesis (THI genes) and the pyruvate decarboxylase structural gene PDC5 are transcriptionally induced in response to thiamin starvation. Three positive regulatory factors (Thi2p, Thi3p, and Pdc2p) are involved in the expression of THI genes, ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nosaka K,Esaki H,Onozuka M,Konno H,Hattori Y,Akaji K

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The filamentous fungi Monascus spp., which have been used in traditional fermented food in Asia for centuries, are well-known producers of a group of bioactive metabolites that are widely used as food additives and nutraceutical supplements worldwide. However, its potential to produce the mycotoxin citrinin poses a th...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Li L,Shao Y,Li Q,Yang S,Chen F

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Pycnoporus forms a group of four species known especially for producing high redox potential laccases suitable for white biotechnology. A sample of 36 Pycnoporus strains originating from different geographical areas was studied to seek informative molecular markers for the typing of new strains in laboratory...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lesage-Meessen L,Haon M,Uzan E,Levasseur A,Piumi F,Navarro D,Taussac S,Favel A,Lomascolo A

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytochromes are red/far-red light photoreceptors found in plants, cyanobacteria and heterotrophic bacteria. Biochemical analyses have established that the genes bphO and bphP (PA4116 and PA4117) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa encode both phytochrome components: BphO, a heme oxygenase that produces the linear tetrapyrrole ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Barkovits K,Harms A,Benkartek C,Smart JL,Frankenberg-Dinkel N

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cordycepin-resistant mutant strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (CD-R2) was found to be deficient in adenosine kinase. This mutant accumulated S-adenosylhomocysteine during growth in the presence of exogenous adenosine and it grew in a pseudohyphal manner in the presence of this nucleotide. ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Iwashima A,Ogata M,Nosaka K,Nishimura H,Hasegawa T

更新日期：1995-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The RpoS sigma factor is required for the transition of Escherichia coli into stationary phase, as well as adaptation to environmental stresses and nutrient depletion. In this study, we report that under nutrient poor conditions, RpoS protein accumulation in E. coli was strongly enhanced by a secreted factor. Expressi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Holland AM,Rather PN

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of Listeria monocytogenes infection on the cellular level of transcription factor NF-kappa B in the human epithelia-like cell line Caco-2 was investigated. Infection with L. monocytogenes or treatment with lipoteichoic acid induced the formation of three NF-kappa B-like DNA-protein complexes C1, C2, and C3,...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hauf N,Goebel W,Fiedler F,Kuhn M

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface adhesin P97 mediates the adherence of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae to swine cilia. Two reiterated repeats R1 and R2 are located at the C-terminus of P97. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the immunogenicity of Montanide adjuvant IMS 1113 plus soluble subunit proteins rR1, rR1R2 and their chimeric forms...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Barate AK,Cho Y,Truong QL,Hahn TW

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mycobacterium tuberculosis murG gene, Rv2153, was expressed in Escherichia coli murG(Ts) strain OV58 on a plasmid under the control of the arabinose-inducible araBAD promoter. Mycobacterium tuberculosis murG rescued the growth of E. coli murG(Ts) at the nonpermissive temperature: transformants were only obtained i...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jha RK,Katagihallimath N,Hota SK,Das KS,de Sousa SM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00