TsdC, a unique lipoprotein from Wolinella succinogenes that enhances tetrathionate reductase activity of TsdA.

abstract：:A DNA microarray was used to analyze the distribution of plasmid and chromosomal genes among strains of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) isolated from a prospective diarrhoea surveillance study in the United Kingdom. Target genes were extracted from existing databases and from the genome sequence of prototype...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jenkins C,van Ijperen C,Dudley EG,Chart H,Willshaw GA,Cheasty T,Smith HR,Nataro JP

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial specific primers were used to amplify 23S rRNA genes from a representative strain from each of the 23 serogroups of the pathogenic Leptospira interrogans and 8 strains from 6 serogroups of the non-pathogenic Leptospira biflexa. Only regions of extreme variability, which had been identified on the basis of ho...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Woo TH,Smythe LD,Symonds ML,Norris MA,Dohnt MF,Patel BK

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A selection of influential FEMS publications to celebrate the 40th anniversary of FEMS. ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Prosser JI,Cole JA,Nielsen J,Bavoil PM,Häggblom MM

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A phage typing system using a group of 11 closely related phage (as judged by Southern analysis and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis) was able to distinguish at least six phage types in Salmonella heidelberg of human and animal origin. Restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis using cosmid pro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Harvey D,Harrington C,Heuzenroeder MW,Murray C

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The glnAntrBC operon of Proteus vulgaris was cloned and heterologously expressed in Escherichia coli. The nucleotide sequence was determined. An open reading frame of 1407 bp was identified as the glnA gene and the deduced amino acid sequence showed 82% identity with the E. coli glutamine synthetase protein. Heterolog...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Steglitz-Mörsdorf U,Mörsdorf G,Kaltwasser H

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus simulans biovar staphylolyticus secreted two bacteriolytic peptidoglycan hydrolases as proproteins that were activated as they were processed by an extracellular sulphydryl protease. This processing resulted in the production of multiple molecular-mass forms of each enzyme. Cells from early exponential ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Neumann VC,Heath HE,LeBlanc PA,Sloan GL

更新日期：1993-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The 0104 antigen (lipopolysaccharide, LPS) of Escherichia coli has an acidic O specific polysaccharide. From the aqueous phase of a phenol water extraction of E. coli O104: K-, a fraction was obtained by ultracentrifugation and Cetavlon precipitation of the supernatant, which was enriched in long-chain LPS. Compositio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kogan G,Jann B,Jann K

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symbioses between phototrophs and heterotrophs (a.k.a 'photosymbioses') are extremely common, and range from loose and temporary associations to obligate and highly specialized forms. In the history of life, the most transformative was the 'primary endosymbiosis,' wherein a cyanobacterium was engulfed by a eukaryote a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gavelis GS,Gile GH

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence and distribution of isoprenoid glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs), lipids that constitute the membranes of Archaea, have been investigated in a 50-cm long core from a Swedish peat bog. In the acrotelm, the periodically water saturated and thus oxic upper layer of the peat bog, only minor amount...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Weijers JW,Schouten S,van der Linden M,van Geel B,Damsté JS

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for improved rapid diagnostic tests for tuberculosis disease has prompted interest in the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted by Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex bacteria. We have investigated VOCs emitted by Mycobacterium bovis BCG grown on Lowenstein-Jensen media using selected ion flow tube mass sp...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： McNerney R,Mallard K,Okolo PI,Turner C

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：:This study was initiated to establish whether inhibition of growth of yeasts by medium-chain fatty acids resembled that caused by weak-acid preservatives or uncouplers. Unlike sorbic acid and 2,4-dinitrophenol, decanoic acid caused rapid cell death at its inhibitory concentration. This suggested a mode of action by me...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Stratford M,Anslow PA

更新日期：1996-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction, energy gain, effect on growth, and interaction of nitrate and nitrite reduction of Bradyrhizobium sp. (Lupinus) USDA 3045 were characterized. Both nitrate and nitrite were reduced in air, although nitrite reduction was insensitive to ammonium inhibition. Anaerobic reduction of both ions was shown to be link...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Polcyn W,Luciński R

更新日期：2003-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand their mechanism of antimicrobial activity against Gram-negative bacteria, ostrich beta-defensins, ostricacins-1 and 2 (Osp-1 and Osp-2), were compared with those of sheep myeloid antimicrobial peptide (SMAP)-29 and human neutrophil peptide (HNP)-1, well-characterized sheep alpha-helical and human alpha-d...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sugiarto H,Yu PL

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene product with an apparent molecular mass of approximately 39,000 Da can be identified in the cytoplasmic membrane of Escherichia coli upon expression of cloned envC. In this communication we report that the product was labelled with [3H]glycerol and [3H]palmitic acid, and a precursor molecule of increased molecu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Seiffer D,Klein JR,Plapp R

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural gene, adhA, for a thermostable primary alcohol dehydrogenase was cloned from Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus JW200. Constitutive expression from its own promoter was observed in Escherichia coli. The nucleotide sequence of adhA corresponded to an open reading frame of 1197 bp, encoding a polypeptide of 3...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Holt PJ,Williams RE,Jordan KN,Lowe CR,Bruce NC

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria communicate with one another and with their host using chemical signalling molecules. This phenomenon is generally described as quorum sensing. A set of primers for PCR detection of Salmonella spp. has been designed using as target the sdiA gene which encodes a signal receptor of the LuxR family. The PCR prod...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Halatsi K,Oikonomou I,Lambiri M,Mandilara G,Vatopoulos A,Kyriacou A

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To rapidly identify natural isolates of marine bioluminescent bacteria, we developed amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysis (ARDRA) methods. ARDRA, which is based on the restriction patterns of 16S rRNA gene digested with five enzymes (EcoRI, DdeI, HhaI, HinfI, RsaI), clearly distinguished the 14 species of mari...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kita-Tsukamoto K,Wada M,Yao K,Kamiya A,Yoshizawa S,Uchiyama N,Kogure K

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glt operon of Escherichia coli comprises the structural genes for the glutamate synthase subunits (gltB and gltD) and gltF, whose product was previously suggested to have regulatory functions. The A/T-rich region between gltD and gltF contains a weak promoter and a translation initiation site for gltF. The GltF pr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Grassl G,Bufe B,Müller B,Rösel M,Kleiner D

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein kinase from Dictyostelium discoideum which phosphorylates the synthetic peptide, calmodulin-dependent protein kinase substrate (CDPKS, amino acid sequence: PLRRTLSVAA) and is stimulated by Ca2+/calmodulin is described. This is the first report of a protein kinase with these characteristics in D. discoideum. ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dunbar AJ,Wheldrake JF

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of the alcohol dehydrogenase gene (adh) among different Archaea was investigated by Southern blot analysis revealing the potentiality of the adh gene as a specific marker for the genus Sulfolobus. Moreover, the in vivo expression of the adh gene from a new isolate of Sulfolobus solfataricus, G theta, ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cannio R,Fiorentino G,Rossi M,Bartolucci S

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the intraperoxisomal location of catalase in peroxisomes of methanol-grown Hansenula polymorpha by (immuno)cytochemical means. In completely crystalline peroxisomes, in which the crystalline matrix is composed of octameric alcohol oxidase (AO) molecules, most of the catalase protein is located in a nar...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Keizer I,Roggenkamp R,Harder W,Veenhuis M

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae strain JNR.7/87 is a highly virulent, type 4 encapsulated Gram-positive bacterium whose transformability has not been tested previously, and whose genome is currently being sequenced. The strain was transformed at very low efficiency by addition of exogenous competence-stimulating peptide: How...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bricker AL,Camilli A

更新日期：1999-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of overexpression of the apurinic/apyrimidinic DNA endonuclease Nfo on wet and dry heat and UV-C (254 nm) resistance of Bacillus subtilis spores with or without alpha/beta-type small, acid-soluble spore proteins (SASP) were determined. Results revealed that overexpression of Nfo > or =50-fold in spores inc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Barraza-Salas M,Ibarra-Rodríguez JR,Mellado SJ,Salas-Pacheco JM,Setlow P,Pedraza-Reyes M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This commentary describes an assessment exercise known as the TRIPSE (Tri-Partite Problem Solving Exercise) that mimics science in operation. Students frame hypotheses based on limited data, design experiments to test them, which they later revise with new information. It is emphasised that there are no single correct...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nastos S,Rangachari PK

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimethylphthalate (DMP), one of the phthalate esters, is used in the manufacture of plasticizers, insect repellents, and synthetic fibers, and contributes to environmental pollution. In the present study, we report a novel bacterium belonging to the Bacillus sp., which has the ability to utilize DMP as the sole source...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Niazi JH,Prasad DT,Karegoudar TB

更新日期：2001-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A cloning cassette, carrying a modified amino-glycoside resistance gene (neo) from transposon Tn5 was constructed. Three restriction sites internal to the neo gene were eliminated by in vitro mutagenesis, allowing their use in designing new cloning vectors. The original, suboptimal transcription promoter was replaced ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Denis F,Brzezinski R

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 1.8-kb cryptic plasmid pFR18 was isolated from Leuconostoc mesenteroides ssp. mesenteroides FR52 and characterized. The identification of single-stranded DNA intermediate (ssDNA) in Leuconostoc demonstrated that the replication of pFR18 is directed by a rolling-circle mechanism (RCR). Sequence analysis revealed a si...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Biet F,Cenatiempo Y,Fremaux C

更新日期：1999-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally occurring antimicrobial cationic polypeptides play a major role in innate and adaptive immunity. These polypeptides are found to be either linear and unstructured or structured through disulfide bonds. Among the structured antimicrobial polypeptides, defensins comprise a family of cysteine-rich cationic poly...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Raj PA,Dentino AR

更新日期：2002-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii is an important nosocomial pathogen that displays high antibiotic resistance. It causes a variety of infections including pneumonias and sepsis which may result in disseminated intravascular coagulation. In this work, we identify and characterize a novel secreted, zinc-dependent, metallo-endope...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tilley D,Law R,Warren S,Samis JA,Kumar A

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00