Spreading the message of antimicrobial resistance: a detailed account of a successful public engagement event.

abstract：:Two interlinked quorum sensing circuits, las and rhl, which control pathogenesis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa are further modulated by numerous regulators, including VqsR (virulence and quorum sensing regulator). High-density oligonucleotide microarrays were used to compare the global expression profile of a wild-type an...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Juhas M,Wiehlmann L,Salunkhe P,Lauber J,Buer J,Tümmler B

更新日期：2005-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus lipase (SAL) is known to possess broad substrate specificity for triacylglycerides. We found that a sub-minimum inhibitory concentration of farnesol (1000 mg L(-1)) inhibits this lipase activity on a Mueller-Hinton agar containing 1% Tween substrates. A quantitative lipase assay using p-nitrophen...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kuroda M,Nagasaki S,Ito R,Ohta T

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defects in the acd gene (which may be allelic to ubiH) result in the inactivation of the coenzyme A-linked acetaldehyde dehydrogenase activity of the multifunctional AdhE protein of Escherichia coli. This activity is restored by addition of ubiquinone-0 to cell extracts. However, the alcohol dehydrogenase activity of ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gupta S,Mat-Jan F,Latifi M,Clark DP

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:A murine monoclonal antibody, designated MA-2G9, directed against outer surface protein A (OspA) of the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, has been produced. Antibody MA-2G9, IgG1 subclass, was purified by affinity chromatography on protein G Sepharose column and used for purification of OspA antigen from ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Abolhassani M,Pavia CS,Dunn JJ,Chiao JW

更新日期：1993-05-15 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：:The streptokinase gene of Streptococcus equisimilis H46 was inactivated by plasmid insertion mutagenesis to study the relationship between elaboration of streptokinase and acquisition of cell-associated plasmin activity after incubation of wild-type and mutant cells in media containing plasminogen or plasmin. The resu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Malke H,Mechold U,Gase K,Gerlach D

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of isogenic mutants lacking either the O1 (O-:K66) or K66 (O1:K-) antigens or both (O-:K-), some of which had additional defects in their LPS core polysaccharide was used to examine the interaction between polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMNLs) and K. pneumoniae serotype O1:K66. In the absence of serum compleme...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Williams P,Ciurana B,Camprubi S,Tomas JM

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium thermocellum, a Gram-positive, thermophilic anaerobe produces a highly active cellulase system. This system, termed the cellulosome, is a complex composed of at least 14-18 different types of components organized around a large, cellulose-binding protein. Combining recombinant DNA technology and protein bi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Béguin P,Millet J,Aubert JP

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent molecular approaches for the study of microbial communities such as PCR-cloning have enabled the detection and identification of as-yet-unculturable taxa. Cloning and sequencing of multiple samples is extremely laborious and expensive to perform thoroughly due to the large diversity involved. For this purpose, ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gafan GP,Spratt DA

更新日期：2005-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequences of the epidermolytic toxins and V8 serine proteinase share about 25% identity, including the catalytic triad at the proteinase active centre. Here we have altered the putative ETA active-site serine-195 to glycine by site-directed mutagenesis. No epidermolytic activity was detected when up to 100-fold gr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Redpath MB,Foster TJ,Bailey CJ

更新日期：1991-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of adaptation of bacteria to survive at elevated temperature in the human host and the expression of heat-shock proteins in response to stress was examined by labelling with [35S]methionine. An increase in culture temperature from 26 degrees C to 37 degrees C induced expression of certain bacterial prote...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Salotra P,Singh DK,Seal KP,Krishna N,Jaffe H,Bhatnagar R

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:When bacterial cells are subjected to stress, cellular and population characteristics can change significantly. Rapid acquisition of these properties of cells in their native physiological state is necessary in order to precisely interpret their survival modes. The multiparametric analytical capability of flow cytomet...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sachidanandham R,Gin KY

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacterial natural products offer new possibilities for drugs and lead compounds but many factors can inhibit the production of sufficient yields for pharmaceutical processes. While Escherichia coli and Streptomyces sp. have been used as heterologous expression hosts to produce cyanobacterial natural products, the...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wells KN,Videau P,Nelson D,Eiting JE,Philmus B

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-linear dielectric spectroscopy is a novel technique for determining the activity of (predominantly) membranous enzymes as their ability to generate harmonics when excited with a sinusoidal electrical field. In washed suspensions of yeast cells, the ability to generate harmonics is inhibited by low concentrations o...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Woodward AM,Kell DB

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcriptional repressor Rex has been implicated in the regulation of energy metabolism and fermentative growth in response to redox potential. Streptococcus mutans, the primary causative agent of human dental caries, possesses a gene that encodes a protein with high similarity to members of the Rex family of pro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bitoun JP,Nguyen AH,Fan Y,Burne RA,Wen ZT

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene (open reading frame (ORF) Tm1469, glk) encoding ATP-dependent ROK (repressors, ORFs, sugar kinases) glucokinase (ATP-GLK, EC 2.7.1.2) of the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima was cloned and functionally expressed in Escherichia coli. The purified recombinant enzyme is a homodimer with an apparen...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hansen T,Schönheit P

更新日期：2003-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Subtilin is an antimicrobial peptide of the lantibiotic family that is produced by Gram-positive Bacillus subtilis, and its biosynthesis involves expression of presubtilin which consists of a leader segment and a mature segment. The leader segment is unlike a typical sec-type general secretion signal, and its ability ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Paul LK,Izaguirre G,Hansen JN

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The locus of enterocyte effacement pathogenicity island confers the attaching and effacing histopathology on epithelial cells infected with enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli. We investigated the site of insertion of the locus of enterocyte effacement in E. coli strains in relation to their evolut...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wieler LH,McDaniel TK,Whittam TS,Kaper JB

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Competition assays measure differences between populations of bacteria after stress adaptation, populations of different bacteria and mutations in antibiotic resistance genes. We have developed a competition-based assay to evaluate if genes upregulated under starvation are important for bacterial survival. Stress resp...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Havis S,Rangel J,Mali S,Bodunrin A,Housammy Z,Zimmerer R,Murphy J,Widger WR,Bark SJ

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of Escherichia coli is inhibited by an antibiotic compound, azaserine (O-diazoacetyl-L-serine). Previous studies revealed the biochemical properties of azaserine, which involves inhibition of various enzymatic reactions as well as introduction of DNA breakage. However, genetically, nothing has been elucidat...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Koyanagi T,Katayama T,Suzuki H,Kumagai H

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The devR-devS two-component system of Mycobacterium tuberculosis was identified earlier and partially characterized in our laboratory. A devR::kan mutant of M. tuberculosis was constructed by allelic exchange. The devR mutant strain showed reduced cell-to-cell adherence in comparison to the parental strain in laborato...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Malhotra V,Sharma D,Ramanathan VD,Shakila H,Saini DK,Chakravorty S,Das TK,Li Q,Silver RF,Narayanan PR,Tyagi JS

更新日期：2004-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic therapies are known to disrupt gastrointestinal (GI) bacterial communities. HIV and pathogenic simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infections have also been associated with disrupted GI bacterial communities. We administered a combination antibiotic therapy to six SIV-infected rhesus macaques and collected ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zevin AS,Hensley-McBain T,Miller C,Smith E,Langevin S,Klatt NR

更新日期：2017-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tn4560 (8.6 kb) was derived from Tn4556, a Tn3-like element from Streptomyces fradiae. It contains a viomycin resistance gene that has not been used previously for selection in mycobacteria. Tn4560, cloned in a Streptomyces plasmid, was introduced by electroporation into Mycobacterium smegmatis mc(2)155. Tn4560 transp...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bhatt A,Stewart GR,Kieser T

更新日期：2002-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In several bacterial species that show natural transformation, dprA has been described as a competence gene. The DprA protein has been suggested to be involved in the protection of incoming DNA. However, members of the dprA gene family (also called smf) can be detected in virtually all bacterial species, which suggest...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Smeets LC,Becker SC,Barcak GJ,Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM,Bitter W,Goosen N

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces tendae Tü901 produces nikkomycins belonging to the nucleoside peptide antibiotics. Mutants defective in histidine catabolism were isolated and characterized with regard to their histidine ammonium-lyase activity and antibiotic synthesis. In the histidine ammonialyase-negative mutant hut-11 which was unimp...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Roos U,Mattern S,Schrempf H,Bormann C

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ADP-ribosylation factor (ARF) family of GTPases are highly conserved from yeast to human and regulate vesicle budding. Sec7 domain containing proteins stimulate the guanine nucleotide exchange on Arf proteins, while ARF-GTPase activating proteins stimulate the hydrolysis of GTP. Since vesicle trafficking is import...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Oscarsson T,Walther A,Lengeler KB,Wendland J

更新日期：2017-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:An iterative position-specific score matrix (PSSM)-based approach was used to predict sigma(28) promoters in 11 Shewanella genomes. The Shewanella Correlation Browser was used to distinguish true-positive predictions from false-positive predictions in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 by generating a sigma(28)-regulated tran...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Song W,Juhn FS,Naiman DQ,Konstantinidis KT,Gardner TS,Ward MJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tagging of two cell wall mannoproteins, Cwp1p and Cwp2p, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae with the green fluorescent protein from Aequorea victoria resulted in incorporation of fluorescent fusion proteins into the cell wall. Both living cells and isolated cell walls became brightly labeled. Intriguingly, the incorporation ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ram AF,Van den Ende H,Klis FM

更新日期：1998-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-free protein synthesis has emerged in recent years as a powerful tool that can potentially transform the production of recombinant proteins. Cell-free protein synthesis harnesses the synthetic power of living cells while eliminating many of the constraints of traditional cell-based gene expression methods. Due to...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lee KH,Kim DM

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00