Phage vB_BsuP-Goe1: the smallest identified lytic phage of Bacillus subtilis.

abstract：:The NH(2)-terminal amino acid sequence of L-threo-3-hydroxyaspartate dehydratase from Pseudomonas sp. T62 showed significant similarity to that of the SRY1 gene product of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (serine racemase in yeast). SRY1 was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli, and the gene product was purified and parti...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wada M,Nakamori S,Takagi H

更新日期：2003-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a method to directly characterize the yeast diversity present in wine fermentations by employing denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) of polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-amplified 26S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes. PCR-DGGE of a portion of the 26S rRNA gene was shown to distinguish most yeast genera a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cocolin L,Bisson LF,Mills DA

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we show that berberine chloride (BBR) has antimicrobial activities against all 43 tested strains of Staphylococcus aureus, an important human and animal pathogen. However, the response mechanisms of S. aureus to BBR are still poorly understood. Affymetrix GeneChips were used to determine the global tran...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wang D,Yu L,Xiang H,Fan J,He L,Guo N,Feng H,Deng X

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of landomycin A or one of its derivatives (5,6-anhydrolandomycin A) in a heterologous strain has never been achieved. It has now been made possible by the coexpression of a cosmid containing all biosynthetic genes necessary to produce landomycin A together with a pathway-specific regulatory gene. As host...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： von Mulert U,Luzhetskyy A,Hofmann C,Mayer A,Bechthold A

更新日期：2004-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pythium drechsleri Paul was described as a new species from soil samples taken in a salt-marsh of Arzew, Algeria [Paul, B. (1988) Une nouvelle espèce de Pythium isolée d'une saline de l'ouest Algérien. Cryptogam. Mycol. 9, 325-333]. The name of the fungus, P. drechsleri, is a nomen invalidum, as it is a later homonym ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Paul B

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of candidate affinity proteins in a soluble form, for downstream characterization, is often a time-consuming step in combinatorial protein engineering methods. Here, a novel approach for efficient production of candidate clones is described based on direct cleavage of the affinity protein from the surfa...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kronqvist N,Löfblom J,Severa D,Ståhl S,Wernérus H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity of temperate bacteriophages was examined in 32 Mannheimia haemolytica, six Mannheimia glucosida and four Pasteurella trehalosi isolates. Phage particles were induced and identified by electron microscopy in 24 (75%) M. haemolytica isolates, but in only one (17%) M. glucosida and one (25%) P. trehalosi is...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Davies RL,Lee I

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review describes the factors which are currently recognized as being central to the virulence of the human pathogen, Vibrio vulnificus. This estuarine/marine bacterium occurs in high numbers in molluscan shellfish, primarily oysters, and its ingestion in raw oysters results in a ca. 60% mortality in those persons...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Linkous DA,Oliver JD

更新日期：1999-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Endophytic fungi from Paeonia lactiflora Pallas, which is mainly distributed in China, were characterized and screened to identify those capable of producing paeoniflorin. A total of 101 isolates obtained from the roots, stems and leaves of P. lactiflora were grouped into 16 fungal taxa based on morphological traits a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cheng X,Wei Z,Pu S,Xiang M,Yan A,Zhang Y,Wang X

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a putative N-acetylmuramyl-l-alanine amidase gene (bb0666) was identified in the genome of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. This protein shares c. 30% identity with its counterparts from other bacteria. Reverse transcriptase-PCR analysis showed that bb0666 along with two other genes (bb...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yang Y,Li C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this work was to analyze the effects of thermosonication (TS) on induction of a viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state in Salmonella Typhimurium and to examine incubation factors affecting subsequent resuscitation of cells. A TS treatment of 380 W at 53°C for 30 min induced the VBNC state in S. Typhim...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Liao H,Jiang L,Zhang R

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clonal relationship of thirty E. coli strains of 0 antigen serotype 06 isolated from human, dog, pig or cow infections were investigated. Two main clones with serotypes 06 : H1 or 06 : H31, H- were identified. Isolates from humans, dogs, pigs and cows were found in both clones, indicating that animals are a possib...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cherifi A,Contrepois M,Picard B,Goullet P,Orskov I,Orskov F,De Rycke J

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A bacterial strain, designated as TSB-6, was isolated from the sediments of a Tantloi (India) hot spring at 65 °C. The strain showed 98% 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with Anoxybacillus kualawohkensis strain KW12 and was found to grow optimally at 37 °C. However, growing cells, cell suspensions, and cell-free extr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Paul SC,Jain P,Mitra J,Dutta S,Bhattacharya P,Bal B,Bhattacharyya D,Das Gupta S,Pal S

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acquisition of tolerance to high hydrostatic pressure of 220 MPa (HHP) in response to a 0.4 mM hydrogen peroxide, 6% ethanol and cold-shock (10 degrees C) pretreatment for different lengths of times was studied in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The protection conferred by these different treatments was simila...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Palhano FL,Orlando MT,Fernandes PM

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of synthetic sex pheromone on pheromone-inducible conjugation between the isogenic Enterococcus faecalis strains OG1RF and OG1SS was investigated in (i) Todd-Hewitt broth medium and (ii) intestinal mucus isolated from germ-free rats. In broth, the presence of synthetic pheromone cCF10 had no detectable effe...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Licht TR,Hammerum AM,Jensen LB,Jacobsen BL

更新日期：2001-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In Bacillus subtilis, utilisation of xylose, arabinose and ribose is controlled by the transcriptional factors XylR, AraR and RbsR, respectively. Here we apply the comparative approach to the analysis of these regulons in the Bacillus/Clostridium group. Evolutionary variability of operon structures is demonstrated and...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Rodionov DA,Mironov AA,Gelfand MS

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of cholesteryl glucosides and high levels of lysophospholipids are elements making the cell wall of Helicobacter pylori unique. In this study, we have investigated the relationship between lysophospholipid content and cholesteryl glucoside composition of variants of 6 clinical isolates. The samples were c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tannaes T,Bukholm G

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the hypothesis that actA allelic variation contributes to virulence differences among Listeria monocytogenes strains, cell-to-cell spread and intracellular ActA phosphorylation patterns were characterized for 14 wild-type isolates and selected isogenic mutants. Our data show that (i) while actA allelic variati...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Roberts AJ,Wiedmann M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) belong to phylum Glomeromycota, an early divergent fungal lineage forming symbiosis with plant roots. Many reports have documented that bacteria are intimately associated with AMF mycelia in the soil. However, the role of these bacteria remains unclear and their diversity within intr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Iffis B,St-Arnaud M,Hijri M

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas spp., in particular Pseudomonas fragi, are dominant in aerobically stored chilled meats. This work isolated P. fragi isolates from spoiled chicken and investigated the effect of modified atmosphere packaging (MAP, CO2/N2 30%/70%) on physicochemical properties of P. fragi isolates compared to the correspond...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wang GY,Li M,Ma F,Wang HH,Xu XL,Zhou GH

更新日期：2017-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Three (0140J, C197C and EF20) out of four strains of Streptococcus uberis exhibited high levels of bound plasmin activity following growth in the presence of bovine plasminogen. The remaining strain (C197) bound considerably less plasmin following growth in the same medium. In contrast to the others, this strain was u...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Leigh JA,Lincoln RA

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacteria belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex have the ability to invade and replicate in non-phagocytic cells, an event that requires the presence of bacterial surface components capable of triggering a cell response and the subsequent internalization of the microorganism. In this study, we report ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Flesselles B,Anand NN,Remani J,Loosmore SM,Klein MH

更新日期：1999-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The ascomycete Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a plant pathogen with a very broad host range. In order to identify and characterize genes involved in S. sclerotiorum infection of Brassica napus (canola), expressed sequence tags (ESTs) were examined from libraries prepared from three tissues: complex appressorium (infectio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sexton AC,Cozijnsen AJ,Keniry A,Jewell E,Love CG,Batley J,Edwards D,Howlett BJ

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The technique based on fluorescein-linked lectins used to determine the cell wall structure of anaerobic rumen fungi belonging to genera: Neocallimastix, Piromonas and Sphaeromonas, appears to be an interesting tool for distinguishing between strains. Furthermore this technique shows differences of cell wall compositi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Guillot J,Breton A,Damez M,Dusser M,Gaillard-Martinie B,Millet L

更新日期：1990-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus mutans and certain other oral lactic-acid bacteria were found to have the ability to carry out malolactic fermentation involving decarboxylation of L-malate to yield L-lactic acid and concomitant reduction in acidity. The activity was inducible by L-malate in S. mutans UA159 growing in suspensions or bio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sheng J,Marquis RE

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT) is a key enzyme in cellular one-carbon pathway and has been studied in many living organisms from bacteria to higher plants and mammals. However, biochemical and molecular characterization of SHMT from photoautotrophic microorganisms remains a challenge. Here, we isolated the SHM...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Waditee-Sirisattha R,Sittipol D,Tanaka Y,Takabe T

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the specificity of six different lysozymes for peptidoglycan substrates obtained by extraction of a number of gram-negative bacteria and Micrococcus lysodeikticus with chloroform/Tris-HCl buffer (chloroform/buffer). The lysozymes included two that are commercially available (hen egg white lysozyme...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nakimbugwe D,Masschalck B,Deckers D,Callewaert L,Aertsen A,Michiels CW

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the diversity and roles of Gram-positive and pigmented bacteria in Antarctic environments, especially those associated with marine macroorganisms. This work is the first study about the diversity and antimicrobial activity of culturable pigmented Gram-positive bacteria associated with marine Anta...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Leiva S,Alvarado P,Huang Y,Wang J,Garrido I

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus represents the most prevalent cause of food-borne intoxications worldwide. While being repressed by competing bacteria in most matrices, this pathogen exhibits crucial competitive advantages during growth at high salt concentrations or low pH, conditions frequently encountered in food production ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sihto HM,Tasara T,Stephan R,Johler S

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the establishment of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection, its capacity to adhere to host intestinal epithelial cells is the critical first step in pathogenesis. It also has the capability to form biofilms, and because both are surface activities, we sought to gain insight into a potential linkage between biofilm...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Puttamreddy S,Minion FC

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00