Unlocking the black box: teaching mathematical modeling with popular culture.

abstract：:The response regulator DegU and its cognate histidine kinase DegS constitute a two-component system in the Gram-positive soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis. The phosphorylated form of DegU is known to activate transcription of more than 120 genes in B. subtilis, including the bpr gene encoding bacillopeptidase F. To cha...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tsukahara K,Ogura M

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biogenic amines have undesirable physiological effects when absorbed at too high a concentration. Several kinds of food and beverages contain biogenic amines. Lactic acid bacteria can decarboxylate amino acids. Since winemaking involves the growth of lactic acid bacteria for malolactic fermentation, biogenic amines ma...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lonvaud-Funel A

更新日期：2001-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Biology education is undergoing a transformation toward a more student-centered, inquiry-driven classroom. Many educators have designed engaging assignments that are designed to help undergraduate students gain exposure to the scientific process and data analysis. One of these types of assignments is use of a grant pr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sparks-Thissen RL

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：:Molecular studies of the rumen bacterium Ruminococcus flavefaciens are constrained by the lack of stable gene transfer systems. We report here on the characterization of RflFII, a restriction endonuclease isolated from R. flavefaciens FD-1. The enzyme is an isoschizomer of ScaI, and cleavage of the DNA is blunt-ended,...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Morrison M,Mackie RI,White BA

更新日期：1994-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A solvent-tolerant, slightly thermophilic bacterium was isolated at 45 degrees C in the presence of toluene vapor provided as the sole carbon source. Strain T27 was identified as Deinococcus geothermalis T27. It could tolerate high concentrations of solvent provided as a nonaqueous layer (5% and 20%, v/v) to a cell su...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kongpol A,Kato J,Vangnai AS

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Bacillus subtilis, the yoxA and dacC genes were proposed to form an operon. The yoxA gene was overexpressed in Escherichia coli and its product fused to a polyhistidine tag was purified. An aldose-1-epimerase or mutarotase activity was measured with the YoxA protein that we propose to rename as GalM by analogy with...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Duez C,Zervosen A,Teller N,Melkonian R,Banzubazé E,Bouillenne F,Luxen A,Frère JM

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MHYT, a new conserved protein domain with a likely signaling function, is described. This domain consists of six transmembrane segments, three of which contain conserved methionine, histidine, and tyrosine residues that are projected to lie near the outer face of the cytoplasmic membrane. In Synechocystis sp. PCC6803,...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Galperin MY,Gaidenko TA,Mulkidjanian AY,Nakano M,Price CW

更新日期：2001-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein-D2 porin of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is lacking in carbapenem or fluoroquinolone-resistant strains and hence was thought to facilitate the diffusion of these antibiotics. We examined the effect of several antibiotics on the single channel conductivity of protein-D2 in planar lipid bilayers and found that flu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ishii J,Nakae T

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraterrestrial life has been found at depths of several thousand metres in deep sub-sea floor sediments and in the basement crust beneath the sediments. It has also been found at up to 2800-m depth in continental sedimentary rocks, 5300-m depth in igneous rock aquifers and in fluid inclusions in ancient salt deposit...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pedersen K

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：:Wood-rotting fungi possess remarkably diverse extracellular oxidation mechanisms, including enzymes, such as laccase and peroxidases, and Fenton chemistry. The ability to biologically drive Fenton chemistry by the redox cycling of quinones has previously been reported to be present in both ecologically diverging main ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Krueger MC,Bergmann M,Schlosser D

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) on bacterial cell adhesion onto solid surfaces was investigated using 27 heterotrophic bacterial strains isolated from a wastewater treatment reactor. Cell adhesion onto glass beads was carried out by the packed-bed method and the results were discussed in term...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tsuneda S,Aikawa H,Hayashi H,Yuasa A,Hirata A

更新日期：2003-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa are known to have a wide physiological potential allowing them to constantly populate diverse environments leading to severe infections of humans such as septicemia, leg ulcers, and burn wounds. We set out to probe physiological characteristics of P. aeruginosa isolates from diabetic leg ulcers ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Buivydas A,Pasanen T,Senčilo A,Daugelavičius R,Vaara M,Bamford DH

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protease (protease A) was successfully purified from the extracellular proteins of Vibrio parahaemolyticus no. 93, a clinical strain carrying neither tdh nor trh genes, using phenyl-Sepharose CL-4B hydrophobic interaction chromatography. The molecular mass of protease A was 43 kDa using gel filtration, which was in ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lee CY,Cheng MF,Yu MS,Pan MJ

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In the transition to the post-petroleum economy, there is a growing demand for novel enzymes with high process performances to replace traditional chemistry with a more 'green' approach. To date, microorganisms encompass the richest source of industrial biocatalysts, but the Earth-living microbiota remains largely unt...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Berini F,Casciello C,Marcone GL,Marinelli F

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, 52 Streptococcus suis isolates from pigs in southern China were divided into four known sequence types (STs) and six new STs, using multilocus sequence typing. Ten representative isolates were selected from 10 STs for the analysis of whole genome sequences. Virulence was assessed in 10 isolates, which w...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Peng L,Lin M,Huang Z,Guo S,Sun H,Yang X

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetically diverse rhizobial strains endemic to Tunisia were isolated from symbiotic nodules of Lotus creticus, growing in different arid extremophile geographical regions of Tunisia, and speciated using multiloci-phylogenetic analysis as Neorhizobium huautlense (LCK33, LCK35, LCO42 and LCO49), Ensifer numidicus...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Rejili M,BenAbderrahim MA,Mars M,Sherrier JD

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to characterize the metabolites produced in vivo by biphenyl-2,3-dioxygenase and biphenyl-2,3-dihydrodiol-2,3-dehydrogenase, the first two enzymes of the (polychloro)biphenyl catabolic pathway encoded by the bph locus of Pseudomonas sp. LB400, recombinant E. coli strains expressing the respective genes were c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Seeger M,Timmis KN,Hofer B

更新日期：1995-11-15 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：:The riboflavin kinase encoding gene ribR is situated within a 12 genes locus ytmI-ytnM of the Bacillus subtilis chromosome. Here we demonstrate that ribR is transcribed as part of a 10 kb ytmI-ytnM operon. The riboflavin overproduction phenotype of B. subtilis ribC mutant strains, which is a result of the strongly red...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Solovieva IM,Kreneva RA,Errais Lopes L,Perumov DA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have tested the expression of alkaline phosphatases in a mutant strain of Escherichia coli deficient in dipZ, a gene coding for a protein involved in cytochrome c biogenesis, and the isogenic wild-type strain. The yield of soluble and active human placental alkaline phosphatase was significantly reduced in the muta...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Beck R,Crooke H,Jarsch M,Cole J,Burtscher H

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia was induced in rats by chronic corticosteroid immunosuppression. The parasite was separated from virtually all contaminating host cells using the technique of unit gravity sedimentation. Cellular contamination was routinely below 0.02%. The same technique allowed partial separation of th...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Taylor MB,Easmon CS

更新日期：1990-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In a large-scale gene disruption screen of Magnaporthe oryzae, a gene MoST1 encoding a protein belonging to the hexose transporter family was identified as a gene required for conidiation and culture pigmentation. The gene MoST1 located on chromosome V of the M. oryzae genome was predicted to be 1892 bp in length with...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Saitoh H,Hirabuchi A,Fujisawa S,Mitsuoka C,Terauchi R,Takano Y

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Gram-negative, nonmotile and rod-shaped bacterial strain was isolated from the rhizosphere of Platycodon grandiflorum in a study of bacterial diversity, and its taxonomic position was investigated by a genotypic and phenotypic analysis. This isolate, designated as DR-f4, grew at 4-30 degrees C (optimally at 20-25 de...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kim BC,Lee KH,Kim MN,Lee J,Shin KS

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of a Mycobacterium avium complex serotype 20 rough-colony variant in 1.0% Tween 80 resulted in a smooth-colony morphological conversion that was reversible upon removal of Tween and was not associated with the presence of serotype-specific glycopeptidolipid antigens. Electron microscopic examination suggested t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wright EL,Pourshafie M,Barrow WW

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cryptic plasmid from Arthrobacter rhombi PRH1, designated as pPRH, was sequenced and characterized. It was 5000 bp in length with a G+C content of 66 mol%. The plasmid pPRH was predicted to encode six putative open reading frames (ORFs), in which ORF2 and ORF3 formed the minimal replicon of plasmid pPRH and shared 5...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Stanislauskiene R,Gasparaviciute R,Vaitekunas J,Meskiene R,Rutkiene R,Casaite V,Meskys R

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：:The signal peptidase (SPase) SipS of Bacillus subtilis is responsible for the processing of precursors of secreted proteins. It differs from the SPases of Gram-negative bacteria in structure and specificity. To assay the activity of SipS in vitro, two efficient transcription-translation systems for the synthesis of ra...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Vehmaanperä J,Görner A,Venema G,Bron S,van Dijl JM

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the purple sulphur bacterium Allochromatium vinosum, the prosthetic group of dissimilatory sulphite reductase (DsrAB) was identified as siroamide, an amidated form of the classical sirohaem. The genes dsrAB are the first two of a large cluster of genes necessary for the oxidation of sulphur globules stored intracel...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lübbe YJ,Youn HS,Timkovich R,Dahl C

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00