The NarE protein of Neisseria gonorrhoeae catalyzes ADP-ribosylation of several ADP-ribose acceptors despite an N-terminal deletion.

abstract：:We have investigated the mechanisms used by Trichomonas vaginalis to damage cellular membranes, using human erythrocytes as target cells. Haemolysis is a contact- and temperature-dependent phenomenon, and is inhibited in 4 mM EGTA. Osmotic protection experiments using carbohydrates with different molecular diameters a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fiori PL,Rappelli P,Rocchigiani AM,Cappuccinelli P

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus equi ssp. equi is the causative agent of strangles, a highly contagious and serious disease in the upper respiratory tract of horses. The present study describes the characterization of IdeE, a homolog of the secreted IgG-specific protease IdeS/Mac of Streptococcus pyogenes. The activity of IdeE is compa...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lannergård J,Guss B

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New Delhi Metallo beta-lactamase (NDM) is of significant public health concern due to its enormous potential to hydrolyse all major beta-lactams including carbapenems. Amino acid substitutions outside the active site reportedly affect NDM beta-lactamase activities. Here, the effect of amino acid substitutions in the p...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kumar G,Issa B,Kar D,Biswal S,Ghosh AS

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CRISPR-Cas adaptive immune systems protect bacteria from phage predation, and other foreign genetic elements such as plasmids. Significant advances have been made regarding how CRISPR-Cas systems elicit immunity; however, comparatively little is known about their regulation. To study CRISPR-Cas regulation, we describe...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hampton HG,Patterson AG,Chang JT,Taylor C,Fineran PC

更新日期：2019-06-01 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：:Bacillus subtilis cells must have cytochromes for growth and can synthesize cytochromes of a-, b-, c-, d-, and o-types. After a long lag, our knowledge of the structure, genetics and specific role for these cytochromes is now growing exponentially as the result of recent research. This progress is reviewed here and in...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： von Wachenfeldt C,Hederstedt L

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The degradation of a series of nitroaromatic compounds by the lignin-degrading fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium was examined. From 4-nitrotoluene (4-NT), several metabolic intermediates were identified. Initially, 4-NT was converted to 4-nitrobenzyl alcohol (4-NBA), followed by the oxidation reactions to form 4-nitr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Teramoto H,Tanaka H,Wariishi H

更新日期：2004-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported that the macrophage-like cell line J774.1, when infected with the periodontopathic bacterium Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, undergoes apoptosis. In this study, we examined whether stimulation of J774.1 cells with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) before the infection affects the subsequent apoptosis. Cy...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Muro M,Nakashima K,Tomioka J,Kato S,Nonaka K,Yoshida T,Inoue M,Nishihara T,Kowashi Y

更新日期：1999-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal DNA from 62 strains of 'Campylobacter upsaliensis' from blood and faecal specimens of patients in Australia, Belgium, South Africa and England, and seven dog isolates from England and Sweden were examined. DNA base compositions of 21 strains were 35 +/- 1 mol% G + C. Electrophoresis of HaeIII DNA digests g...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Owen RJ,Hernandez J

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of bacterial strains formerly known as CDC group M-5 are opportunistic pathogens to humans. In 1993, a name, Neisseria weaveri, was proposed by two independent studies to harbor CDC group M-5 strains, namely N. weaveri Holmes et al. 1993 and N. weaveri Andersen et al. 1993, with two different 'type' strains. H...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yi H,Cho YJ,Yoon SH,Park SC,Chun J

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodococcus rhodochrous NCIMB13064 can dehalogenate and utilise a number of halogenated aliphatic compounds as sole carbon and energy source. Mutants of NCIMB13064 can be easily isolated with an enlarged range of 1-chloroalkane utilising ability. Dehalogenation of 1-chlorononane, 1-chlorodecane and short-chain 1-chlor...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kulakova AN,Reid KA,Larkin MJ,Allen CC,Kulakov LA

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified phosphatidylethanolamine as one of the major phospholipids of Clostridium perfringens by two dimensional thin layer chromatography of the intact lipids and of their deacylation products and by liquid chromatography followed by mass spectrometry of the intact neutral phospholipid fraction. The princi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Johnston NC,Baker JK,Goldfine H

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The virulence of Salmonella typhimurium for mice is dependent on a plasmid-borne gene cluster termed spv. We previously determined that both S. typhimurium and Escherichia coli bacteria grown in a rich medium preferentially express the spv genes during the stationary phase of growth. In this study we evaluated the rol...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Norel F,Robbe-Saule V,Popoff MY,Coynault C

更新日期：1992-12-01 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：:One hundred and ninety-eight clinical isolates of Mycobacterium kansasii collected between 2003 and 2004 in Japan were genotyped by PCR and restriction enzyme analysis (PRA) and 16S-23S internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequencing. The results demonstrated that clinical isolates of M. kansasii in Japan are almost excl...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Iwamoto T,Saito H

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is often claimed that Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was secretive about his methods. However, closer examination of his letters suggests that this reputation was not always deserved. Some letters were not published in the Royal Society Proceedings, and others were edited. This paper describes the repetition of his experim...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Robertson LA

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In microbial corrinoid-dependent methyltransferase systems, adventitious Co(I)-corrinoid oxidation halts catalysis and necessitates repair by ATP-dependent reductive activases. RamA, an activase with a C-terminal ferredoxin domain with two [4Fe-4S] clusters from methanogenic archaea, has been far less studied than the...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Huening KA,Jiang R,Krzycki JA

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella flexneri, which causes shigellosis in humans, evolved from Escherichia coli. The sequencing of Shigella genomes has revealed that a large number of insertion sequence (IS) elements (over 200 elements) reside in the genome. Although the presence of these elements has been noted previously and summarized, more ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zaghloul L,Tang C,Chin HY,Bek EJ,Lan R,Tanaka MM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This communication presents experimental evidence that intact fragile (osmotic sensitive) yeasts can be electrofused and give viable hybrids. The yield increases with one order of magnitude for electrofusion of intact fragile yeasts with protoplasts of non-fragile ones. The yield of viable hybrids, obtained by electro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tsoneva I,Doinov P,Dimitrov DS

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the complete nucleotide sequence of the 16341 bp plasmid pHH205 of the extremely halophilic archaeon Halobacterium salinarum J7. The plasmid has a G+C content of 61.1%. A number of direct and inverted repeat sequences were found in pHH205, while no insertion sequences were found. Thirty-eight large open ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ye X,Ou J,Ni L,Shi W,Shen P

更新日期：2003-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The ectomycorrhizal fungus Paxillus involutus efficiently took up exogenously supplied [14C]alanine and rapidly converted it to pyruvate, citrate, succinate, fumarate and to CO2, thus providing direct evidence for the utilisation of alanine as a respiratory substrate. [14C]alanine was further actively metabolised to g...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chalot M,Brun A,Finlay RD,Söderström B

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis NCTC10234 possesses five srtA homologs: srtA encodes sortase, which anchors surface proteins with an LPXTG motif to the cell wall, while the functions of the other four homologs (the srtBCD cluster and srtE) remain unknown. The genetic organization of the srtA region was found to be conserved in the...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Osaki M,Takamatsu D,Shimoji Y,Sekizaki T

更新日期：2003-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The porin-associated protein of Rhodospirillum rubrum FR1 was found to contain a peptidoglycan binding motif. A partial fragment of 179 amino acids, obtained by cleavage of PAP with trypsin, Asp-N protease, and CNBr, was sequenced. Substantial sequence homology was found of the C-terminal part (residues 126-179) of po...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Neumann U,Schiltz E,Stahl B,Hillenkamp F,Weckesser J

更新日期：1996-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M smegmatis cells with the sugar components of their surface-exposed glycans demonstrated that D-arabinose but not alpha-D-glucose or D-mannose, led to the dispersion of the large clumps formed by the bacilli in stationary liquid cultures. These results confirm the presence...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Anton V,Rougé P,Daffé M

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enteritidis isolated from poultry infections generated a convoluted colonial morphology after 48 h growth on colonisation factor antigen (CFA) agar at 25 degrees C. A mutant S. enteritidis defective for the elaboration of the SEF17 fimbrial antigen, in which the agf gene cluster was inactivated by insertion...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Allen-Vercoe E,Dibb-Fuller M,Thorns CJ,Woodward MJ

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-arginine has attracted a great deal of attention as an agent for refolding denatured proteins, and the mildness of its effects offer hope for a wide range of potential applications for this substance, including medicines with few side effects. We report that both L- and D-arginine inhibits Na+-driven flagellar motor...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Atsumi T,Yoshimura F,Sugiyama S

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cry4Ba is a delta-endotoxin produced by Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis and Cyt2Aa2 is a cytolytic delta-endotoxin produced by B. thuringiensis subsp. darmstadiensis. Cry4Ba produced in Escherichia coli was toxic to Aedes aegypti larvae (LC(50)=140 ng ml(-1)) but virtually inactive to Culex quinquefasciatus ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Promdonkoy B,Promdonkoy P,Panyim S

更新日期：2005-11-01 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：:The diversity of a collection of 49 Lactococcus garvieae strains, including isolates of dairy, fish, meat, vegetable and cereal origin, was explored using a molecular polyphasic approach comprising PCR-ribotyping, REP and RAPD-PCR analyses and a multilocus restriction typing (MLRT) carried out on six partial genes (at...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ferrario C,Ricci G,Borgo F,Rollando A,Fortina MG

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) dominated discussions of online learning and higher education in the news media and in universities between 2012 and 2015. However, fashions pass, needs change and technology evolves. This Commentary looks back, pauses on the present, and then looks forward. Whilst MOOCs are a signi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Daniel J

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00