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abstract：:Hydrogenotrophic methanogens live in a synthrophic relationship with the human gut microbiota as the terminal part of the anaerobic food chain. Methanobrevibacter smithii of the Methanobacteriales is the prevailing archaeal species. Recently, methylotrophic archaea of the novel order Methanomassiliicoccales were isola...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Vanderhaeghen S,Lacroix C,Schwab C

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the dimethylsulfoxide respiratory (dor) operon of Rhodobacter is regulated by oxygen, light intensity and availability of substrate. Since dimethylsulfoxide reductase contains a pterin molybdenum cofactor, the role of molybdate in the regulation of dor operon expression was investigated. In this report w...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Solomon PS,Shaw AL,Young MD,Leimkuhler S,Hanson GR,Klipp W,McEwan AG

更新日期：2000-09-15 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：:ZnO-Nanoparticle-Chitosan (ZnO-NP-CH) composite has potential biomedical and food applications due to its better antimicrobial activity. However, the presence of nano-metal-oxide in the composite makes the material unsuitable for any food applications. Moreover, the cost involved in the preparation of Zinc Oxide-Nano-...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Visnuvinayagam S,Murthy LN,Parvathy U,Jeyakumari A,Sivaraman GK,Karthikeyan D

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A cytosolic chitinase (20 kDa by SDS-PAGE) was partially purified from Neurospora crassa. Linear kinetics for enzyme activity were obtained using the substrate [3H]-labelled regenerated chitin, the preparation yielding an apparent Km of 0.965 mg ml-1 and a Vmax of 3.83 micrograms GlcNAc min-1 (mg protein)-1. The enzym...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： McNab R,Glover LA

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The bovine enteric calici-like virus, Newbury agent 1 (NA1) was characterised to determine if it is a member of the Caliciviridae and to establish its antigenic relationship to the established bovine enteric calicivirus Newbury agent 2 (NA2). Solid phase immune electron microscopy (SPIEM) allowed quantification of NA1...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dastjerdi AM,Snodgrass DR,Bridger JC

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of a methodology to identify the origin of fecal pollution is important both for assessing the degree of risk posed to public health and for developing strategies to mitigate the environmental loading of pathogens associated with waterborne disease transmission. Five rep-PCR genomic fingerprinting meth...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mohapatra BR,Broersma K,Mazumder A

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli mutant MM52 (secA(ts)) was transformed with a cosmid library from Staphylococcus carnosus, and a recombinant cosmid (pBO23) allowing growth at the non-permissive temperature (42 degrees C) was isolated. pBO23 also restored the growth defects of E. coli mutants IQ85 (secY(ts)) and IT41 (lep(ts)). Nucle...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Overhoff-Freundlieb B,Freudl R

更新日期：1991-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of low concentrations of cyanide on dissimilatory perchlorate and chlorate reduction and aerobic respiration was examined using pure cultures of Azospira sp. KJ. Cyanide at a concentration of 38 microM inhibited cell growth on perchlorate, chlorate and molecular oxygen, but it did not inhibit the activity o...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Song Y,Logan BE

更新日期：2004-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed gel electrophoretic banding patterns of penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) of 16 type strains of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS). S. epidermidis, S. haemolyticus, S. saprophyticus, S. hominis, S. xylosus, S. simulans, S. warneri, S. capitis, S. saccharolyticus, S. auricularis, S. caseolyticus, S. ga...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kanda K,Hiramatsu K,Yokota T

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A suite of six sterols, lanosterol, lanost-8(9)-en-3beta-ol, 4, 4-dimethylcholesta-8(14),24-dien-3beta-ol, 4, 4-dimethylcholest-8(14)-en-3beta-ol, 4-methylcholesta-8(14), 24-dien-3beta-ol and 4-methylcholest-8(14)-en-3beta-ol, were identified in the psychrophilic methanotrophic bacterium, Methylosphaera hansonii. Thei...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Schouten S,Bowman JP,Rijpstra WI,Sinninghe Damsté JS

更新日期：2000-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The rhl quorum sensing (QS) circuit of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is known to regulate the expression of a number of virulence factors. This study investigates the regulation of rhlI, encoding the auto-inducer synthase RhlI responsible for the synthesis of N-butryl-L-homoserine lactone (BHL). A putative RpoN binding site ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Thompson LS,Webb JS,Rice SA,Kjelleberg S

更新日期：2003-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene nfxB is one of the genes which affect the cell membrane permeability of quinolones in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO. Both wild-type nfxB and a mutant nfxB (nfx13E) were cloned and the DNA sequences were determined. The wild-type gene was dominant in PAO strains. The nfxB mutation was a point mutation (cytosine--...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Okazaki T,Hirai K

更新日期：1992-10-01 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：:Giardia lamblia is a binucleated, flagellated protozoan parasite that inhabits the upper small intestine of its vertebrate hosts. The entire life cycle, which can be completed in vitro, is simple with cycling between a vegetative trophozoite and a highly resistant cystic form. The parasite is one of the earliest diver...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Svärd SG,Hagblom P,Palm JE

更新日期：2003-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been widely reported that pH mediates cadmium toxicity to bacteria. We used a tripartite approach to investigate mechanisms by which pH affects cadmium toxicity that included analyses of: (1) growth kinetics, (2) global gene expression, and (3) cadmium speciation. Cadmium extended the lag phase at pH 7, but not...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Worden CR,Kovac WK,Dorn LA,Sandrin TR

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay detected Salmonella within 60 min. The 220 strains of 39 serotypes of Salmonella subsp. enterica and 7 strains of Salmonella enterica subsp. arizonae were amplified, but not 62 strains of 23 bacterial species other than Salmonella. The sensitivity of the LAMP assay w...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hara-Kudo Y,Yoshino M,Kojima T,Ikedo M

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large cellulosomal gene cluster was identified in the recently sequenced genome of Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824. Sequence analysis revealed that this cluster contains the genes for the scaffolding protein CipA, the processive endocellulase Cel48A, several endoglucanases of families 5 and 9, the mannanase Man5...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sabathé F,Bélaïch A,Soucaille P

更新日期：2002-11-19 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：: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：:Prebiotics are non-digestible feed ingredients that are metabolized by specific members of intestinal microbiota and provide health benefits for the host. Fermentable oligosaccharides are best known prebiotics that have received increasing attention in poultry production. They act through diverse mechanisms, such as p...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pourabedin M,Zhao X

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nocardia asteroides complex organisms derived from human specimens between 1979 and 1992 were identified to the species level. Of 117 N. asteroides complex organisms, 34 (29%) were N. farcinica, 28 (24%) were N. nova, and 55 (47%) were N. asteroides sensu stricto. An analysis of the specimen sites from which the organ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Desmond EP,Flores M

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the Streptococcus bovis group are frequent colonizers of the intestinal tract, which can also cause endocarditis. However, their ability to adhere to and colonize host tissues and the factors associated with pathogenicity are largely unknown. Here, we assessed 17 endocarditis-derived human isolates [identif...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sillanpää J,Nallapareddy SR,Singh KV,Ferraro MJ,Murray BE

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mathematical modeling is an important tool in biological research, allowing for the synthesis of results from many studies into an understanding of a system. Despite this, the need for extensive subject matter knowledge and complex mathematics often leaves modeling as an esoteric subspecialty. A 2-fold approach can be...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lofgren ET

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have established an improved large deletion method in Escherichia coli genome using a combination of two different recombination systems, lambda Red and Cre/loxP. The loxP site could be rapidly and efficiently integrated in the genome by lambda Red and large deletions of both 117- and 165-kbp regions could be gener...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fukiya S,Mizoguchi H,Mori H

更新日期：2004-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The DnaK chaperone system is involved in various cellular processes such as the control of the folded and oligomeric state of proteins under stress and non-stress conditions. In this study we functionally characterised the homologues of the DnaK system from Clostridium acetobutylicum DnaK, DnaJ, GrpE and OrfA were het...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Rüngeling E,Laufen T,Bahl H

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A search of the complete genome sequence of the halophilic archaeon Halobacterium salinarum failed to identify a gene homologous to the thymidylate synthase (thyA) gene present in the closely related Haloferax volcanii. To understand the source of thymidine synthesis in Hbt. salinarum, a genomic library of Hbt. salina...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Giladi M,Bitan-Banin G,Mevarech M,Ortenberg R

更新日期：2002-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparisons of growth and surface colonisation of Enterococcus faecium L-forms and their cell-walled forms were undertaken to produce information about their ability to form sessile cells. The growth of L-forms in liquid culture was slower than that of the parent. This was reflected in their longer lag phase and slowe...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jass J,Phillips LE,Allan EJ,Costerton JW,Lappin-Scott HM

更新日期：1994-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Surrogate methods for detecting lateral gene transfer are those that do not require inference of phylogenetic trees. Herein I apply four such methods to identify open reading frames (ORFs) in the genome of Escherichia coli K12 that may have arisen by lateral gene transfer. Only two of these methods detect the same ORF...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ragan MA

更新日期：2001-07-24 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