Effect of the clarification pH of sorghum juice on the composition of essential nutrients for fermentation.

abstract：:The agp gene encoding the ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase is involved in cyanobacterial glycogen synthesis and glucosylglycerol formation. By in vitro DNA recombination technology, a mutant with partial deletion of agp gene in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 was constructed. This mutant could not synthesiz...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Miao X,Wu Q,Wu G,Zhao N

更新日期：2003-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferric uptake regulator (Fur) proteins are widely recognized as repressors that in many prokaryotes regulate a large number of genes involved in iron homeostasis and oxidative stress response. In our study, we were able to identify the complete sequence of the fur gene from Microcystis aeruginosa using inverse-polymer...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Martin-Luna B,Hernandez JA,Bes MT,Fillat MF,Peleato ML

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three tri-substituted spermidines, di-p-coumaroyl-caffeoylspermidine, tri-caffeoylspermidine and tri-p-coumaroylspermidine, isolated from pollen of Quercus alba, were examined for antifungal activity. Both di-p-coumaroyl-caffeoylspermidine and tri-p-coumaroylspermidine reduced mycelial growth of the oat leaf stripe pa...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Walters D,Meurer-Grimes B,Rovira I

更新日期：2001-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystalline 3-methylaspartase (EC 4.3.1.2) from Escherichia coli strain YG1002 that had been isolated from soil was characterized. The enzyme activity was induced when the organism was grown statically on medium containing (S)-glutamic acid. Its molecular mass is about 84 kDa, and it may be composed of two identical s...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Asano Y,Kato Y

更新日期：1994-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of virulence factors in Rhodococcus equi has been severely hampered by the lack of a method for in vivo random insertion mutagenesis. This study reports the use of transposomes to generate random insertions of a gene conferring kanamycin resistance into the genome of R. equi ATCC 33701. Southern hyb...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mangan MW,Meijer WG

更新日期：2001-12-18 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：:The gacA gene of the biocontrol strain Pseudomonas fluorescens CHA0 codes for a response regulator which, together with the sensor kinase GacS (=LemA), is required for the production of exoenzymes and secondary metabolites involved in biocontrol, including hydrogen cyanide (HCN). A gacA multicopy suppressor was isolat...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Blumer C,Haas D

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cDNAs encoding feedback inhibition-insensitive serine acetyltransferases of Arabidopsis thaliana were expressed in the chromosomal serine acetyltransferase-deficient and L-cysteine non-utilizing Escherichia coli strain JM39-8. The transformants produced 1600 to 1700 mg l(-1) of L-cysteine and L-cystine from glucos...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Takagi H,Awano N,Kobayashi S,Noji M,Saito K,Nakamori S

更新日期：1999-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the industrialized world, functional foods have become a part of an everyday diet and are demonstrated to offer potential health benefits beyond the widely accepted nutritional effects. Currently, the most important and frequently used functional food compounds are probiotics and prebiotics, or they are collectivel...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nagpal R,Kumar A,Kumar M,Behare PV,Jain S,Yadav H

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：:Hemerythrins are oxygen-binding proteins found in the body fluids and tissues of certain invertebrates. Oxygen is bound at a nonheme iron centre consisting of two oxo-bridged iron atoms bound to a characteristic set of conserved histidine: aspartate and glutamate residues with the motifs H-HxxxE-HxxxH-HxxxxD. It has r...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： French CE,Bell JM,Ward FB

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：:Halobacillus trueperi accumulates glycine betaine under condition of high osmolarity. A fragment of the glycine betaine transporter betH gene was obtained from the genome of H. trueperi with degenerate primers. Through Southern blot hybridization and inverse PCR, a 5.1 kb EcoRI fragment containing the complete betH ge...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lu W,Zhao B,Feng D,Yang S

更新日期：2004-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the flagellum and chemotactic motility of Vibrio anguillarum for phagocytosis by and intracellular survival in fish macrophages was determined using a wild-type strain, a mutant without the flagellum, a mutant with a truncated flagellum and a non-chemotactic mutant. For all strains, the numbers of intracel...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Larsen MH,Boesen HT

更新日期：2001-09-25 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：:We developed a multiplex PCR to detect the presence of methicillin- (mecA), cadmium/zinc-(czrC) and antiseptic-resistant (qacA/B) staphylococci and to identify Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL)-positive and -negative Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) from infected and healthy eyes. The ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Panda S,Kar S,Choudhury R,Sharma S,Singh DV

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA from Aspergillus sp. has been reported not to contain 5-methylcytosine. However, it has been found that Aspergillus nidulans responds to 5-azacytidine, a drug that is a strong inhibitor of DNA methyltransferases. Therefore, we have re-examined the occurrence of 5-methylcytosine in DNA from Aspergillus flavus by us...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gowher H,Ehrlich KC,Jeltsch A

更新日期：2001-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequence analysis of the nadA gene of Ehrlichia chaffeensis revealed a 942 bp open reading frame with the capacity to encode 314 amino acids. The amino acid sequence of the E. chaffeensis quinolinate synthetase A (NAD/A) has 53.6% identity and 82% similarity to the NAD A of the cyanelle of Cyanophora paradoxa. Por...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yu XJ,Walker DH

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, strains of 17 reference Acinetobacter genospecies were investigated by using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). We used primers to amplify spacer regions between the 16S and 23S genes in the prokaryotic rRNA genetic loci. When the spacer amplification products were resolved by electrophoresis, ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nowak A,Burkiewicz A,Kur J

更新日期：1995-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The marine foodborne enteropathogen, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, has four putative catalase genes. Function of the katG-homologous genes, katG1(VPA0768) and katG2(VPA0453), was examined using gene deletion mutants, and compared with those of the katE-homologous genes, katE1(VPA1418) and katE2(VPA0305). Bacterial growth o...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yu SC,Fen SY,Chien CL,Wong HC

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A plasmid-based food-grade vector system was developed for Lactococcus lactis by exploiting the genes for lactose metabolism. L. lactis MG5267 is a plasmid-free strain containing the entire lactose operon as a chromosomal insertion. The lacF gene was deleted from this strain by a double cross-over homologous recombina...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： MacCormick CA,Griffin HG,Gasson MJ

更新日期：1995-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcystins produced by cyanobacteria are potent and specific hepatotoxins; however, the mechanisms of microcystin-induced hepatotoxicity have not been fully elucidated. The induction of free radical formation and mitochondrial alterations are two major events found in microcystin-treated cultured rat hepatocytes. Th...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ding WX,Nam Ong C

更新日期：2003-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria have the exquisite ability to maintain a precise diameter, cell length, and shape. The dimensions of bacteria size and shape are a classical metric in the distinction of bacterial species. Much of what we know about the particular morphology of any given species is the result of investigations of planktonic c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Justice SS,Harrison A,Becknell B,Mason KM

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-five geographically different strains of Fusarium poae were assayed for the presence of extrachromosomal nucleic acid elements. All strains were found to harbour double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) elements and encapsidated virus-like particles (VLP). There were great individual differences in dsRNA patterns of the vari...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fekete C,Giczey G,Papp I,Szabó L,Hornok L

更新日期：1995-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of nutritional and physical stress on sporulation, conidial germination and vegetative biomass of Ophiocordyceps sinensis, one of the most important medicinal fungi in China and now globally, was evaluated using a two-stage culture method. All the treatments, except nutrient deprivation, enhanced conidia...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ren SY,Yao YJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two Pseudomonas aeruginosa genes, termed phaJ1(Pa) and phaJ2(Pa), homologous to the Aeromonas caviae (R)-specific enoyl-CoA hydratase gene (phaJ(Ac)) were cloned using a PCR technique to investigate the monomer-supplying ability for polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) synthesis from beta-oxidation cycle. Two expression plasmid...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tsuge T,Fukui T,Matsusaki H,Taguchi S,Kobayashi G,Ishizaki A,Doi Y

更新日期：2000-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed mutant genes of Caldococcus noboribetus isocitrate dehydrogenase containing ancestral amino acid residues that were inferred using the maximal likelihood method and a composite phylogenetic tree of isocitrate dehydrogenase and 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase. The mutant genes were expressed in Escherich...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Iwabata H,Watanabe K,Ohkuri T,Yokobori S,Yamagishi A

更新日期：2005-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Both ThyA and ThyX proteins catalyze the transfer of the methyl group from methylenetetrahydrofolate (CH(2) H(4) -folate) to dUMP, forming dTMP. To estimate the relative steady state expression levels of ThyA and ThyX, Western blot analysis was performed using ThyA or ThyX antiserum on total protein from the wild-type...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cho S,Yang S,Rhie H

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homologs of the Escherichia coli oxyR gene were identified in several Erwinia species, using a combination of PCR and Southern hybridization analysis. The oxyR gene from Erwinia carotovora was isolated on a cosmid clone and characterized. The gene and deduced gene product shared high level sequence identity with their...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Calcutt MJ,Lewis MS,Eisenstark A

更新日期：1998-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We report for the first time the production of acyl homoserine lactones (AHLs) by Erwina amylovora, an important quarantine bacterial pathogen that causes fire blight in plants. E. amylovora produces one N-acyl homoserine lactone [a N-(3-oxo-hexanoyl)-homoserine lactone or a N-(3-hydroxy-hexanoyl)-homoserine lactone] ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Venturi V,Venuti C,Devescovi G,Lucchese C,Friscina A,Degrassi G,Aguilar C,Mazzucchi U

更新日期：2004-12-15 00:00:00