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abstract：:Rainbow trout gastroenteritis has been related to the accumulation of segmented filamentous bacteria in the digestive tract of fish, which presents lethargy, reduced appetite and accumulation of mucoid faeces. Some authors associate the comparison of illness with the presence of viable filaments, which produce and rel...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Manzano M,Giusto C,Iacumin L,Patthey C,Cecchini F,Fontanillas R,Comi G

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) is an important diarrhoeal pathogen causing diseases in multiple epidemiological and clinical settings. In developing countries like India, diarrhoeal diseases are one of the major killers among paediatric population and oddly, few studies are available from Indian paediatric ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gupta D,Sharma M,Sarkar S,Thapa BR,Chakraborti A

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibacterial effects in terms of biofilm formation and swarming motility were studied using polyacrylate plates having protruding or recessed shark skin micropatterned surfaces with a shallow groove (2 μm pattern width and spacing, 0.4 μm pattern height). It was found that biofilm formation and swarming motility of P...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sakamoto A,Terui Y,Horie C,Fukui T,Masuzawa T,Sugawara S,Shigeta K,Shigeta T,Igarashi K,Kashiwagi K

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the discriminatory power of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) for detecting subtle differences in isogenic isolates, we tested isogenic strains of Staphylococcus aureus differing in their expression of resistance to methicillin or teicoplanin. More i...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Majcherczyk PA,McKenna T,Moreillon P,Vaudaux P

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We transformed a clinical Staphylococcus epidermidis isolate with the Enterococcus faecalis transposon Tn917-carrying plasmid pTV1. Loss of plasmid replication was observed at 47 degrees C. Tn917 transposes efficiently and apparently randomly. The transposition frequency could be stimulated by erythromycin. Transposon...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Grueter L,Koenig O,Laufs R

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four distinct bands of cysteine proteinase activity were detected when stationary-phase populations of Leishmania mexicana mexicana were subjected to gelatin-SDS-PAGE. The highest mobility band contained at least three isoforms separable by mono Q anion exchange chromatography. These high mobility activities were dist...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Robertson CD,Coombs GH

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of strains of Salmonella enteritidis and Salmonella pullorum on Hektoen agar has been reported to influence the expression of long-chain lipopolysaccharide and motility respectively. In this study we used a panel of strains of S. enteritidis and S. pullorum to investigate these phenomena. Culture on Hektoen aga...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chart H,Rowe B

更新日期：1998-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The clonal relationship of thirty E. coli strains of 0 antigen serotype 06 isolated from human, dog, pig or cow infections were investigated. Two main clones with serotypes 06 : H1 or 06 : H31, H- were identified. Isolates from humans, dogs, pigs and cows were found in both clones, indicating that animals are a possib...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cherifi A,Contrepois M,Picard B,Goullet P,Orskov I,Orskov F,De Rycke J

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the etiological agents of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto strains carry a 16 kb plasmid, which did not hybridize to plasmids of B. garinii and B. afzelii strains. A 1271 bp DNA fragment of the 16 kb plasmid was cloned. It hybridized to several plasmids of this species (16, 27 and 55 kb). Sequenc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Misonne MC,Schuttler M,Dernelle JM,De Kesel M,Hoet PP

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes how bkaR, a highly conserved mycobacterial TetR-like transcriptional repressor, regulates a number of nearby genes that have associations with branched-chain keto-acid metabolism. bkaR (MSMEG_4718) was deleted from the nonpathogenic species Mycobacterium smegmatis, and changes in global gene expre...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Balhana RJ,Swanston SN,Coade S,Withers M,Sikder MH,Stoker NG,Kendall SL

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial production of acetone and butanol was one of the first large-scale industrial fermentation processes of global importance. During the first part of the 20th century, it was indeed the second largest fermentation process, superseded in importance only by the ethanol fermentation. After a rapid decline after t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sauer M

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The filamentous ascomycete Botrytis cinerea is one of the most studied models for understanding the necrotrophic behaviour of phytopathogenic fungi. The genomes of two strains of B. cinerea have been sequenced (B05.10 and T4), which may contribute to elucidating the virulence polymorphism in this fungus. In this study...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Choquer M,Robin G,Le Pêcheur P,Giraud C,Levis C,Viaud M

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports the development and characterization of 151 sequence characterized amplified region (SCAR) markers for the seven Eimeria species that infect the domestic fowl. From this set, 84 markers are species-specific and 67 present partial specificity. The complete nucleotide sequence was derived for all mark...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fernandez S,Katsuyama AM,Kashiwabara AY,Madeira AM,Durham AM,Gruber A

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type III secretion system (T3SS) is a specialized apparatus evolved by Gram-negative bacteria to deliver effector proteins into host cells, thus facilitating the establishment of an infection. Effector translocation across the target cell plasma membrane is believed to occur via pores formed by at least two secret...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bröms JE,Edqvist PJ,Forsberg A,Francis MS

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of the pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) cofactor on the activity and stability of the psychrophilic alanine racemase, having a high catalytic activity at low temperature, from Bacillus psychrosaccharolyticus at high temperatures. The decrease in the enzyme activity at incubation temperatures over 40...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Okubo Y,Yokoigawa K,Esaki N,Soda K,Misono H

更新日期：2000-11-15 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：:Hyphae of the human pathogenic fungus Candida albicans exhibit thigmotropic behaviour in vitro, in common with phytopathogenic and saprotrophic fungi. An examination of the literature on C. albicans hyphal penetration of epithelial and endothelial membranes does not support the premise that hyphal thigmotropism plays ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Davies JM,Stacey AJ,Gilligan CA

更新日期：1999-02-15 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：:Burkholderia pseudomallei, a Gram-negative bacterium is found in the soil and water, mainly in Southeast Asia and Northern Australia. It is responsible for melioidosis in human and animals. The bacteria produce several potential virulent factors such as extracellular protease, hemolysin, lipase and lecithinase. The is...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lee MA,Liu Y

更新日期：2000-11-01 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：:The genome of Helicobacter pylori 26695 has been sequenced and the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) O sidechain of this strain has been shown to express both Lewis x and Lewis y units. To determine the role of HP0159 and HP1416, genes recognized as rfaJ homologs and implicated in LPS synthesis, isogenic mutants of H. pylori 2...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Moran AP,Shiberu B,Ferris JA,Knirel YA,Senchenkova SN,Perepelov AV,Jansson PE,Goldberg JB

更新日期：2004-12-01 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

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the mechanisms of Sch9 regulating the localization and phosphorylation of Bcy1. Our research indicated that Sch9 regulated localization of Bcy1 via Zds1 for the following reasons: (1) deletions of SCH9 or ZDS1 both caused nuclear localization of Bcy1; (2) Sch9 and Zds1 interacted physica...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhang A,Gao W

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pasteurella multocida, a Gram-negative nonmotile coccobacillus, is the causative agent of fowl cholera in poultry, hemorrhagic septicemia in cattle, atropic rhinitis in swine, and snuffles in rabbits. The differentially expressed gene profile of P. multocida in infected rabbit livers was identified and compared with t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Guo D,Lu Y,Zhang A,Liu J,Yuan D,Jiang Q,Lin H,Si C,Qu L

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic relationships between Tuber pseudoexcavatum and other Tuber species were investigated by studying the sequences of four genes: 5.8S-ITS2, beta-tubulin, protein kinase C and elongation factor 1alpha. The four phylogenetic trees allowed to differentiate the black truffle clade, composed of two subclades, on...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wang Y,Tan ZM,Zhang DC,Murat C,Jeandroz S,Le Tacon F

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many antibiotic-producing actinomycetes possess at least one ABC (ATP-binding cassette) transporter which forms part of the antibiotic biosynthetic pathway and in most cases confers resistance to the drug in an heterologous host. Three types of antibiotic ABC transporters have been so far described in producer organis...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Méndez C,Salas JA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of nitrogen assimilation was investigated in the Gram-positive actinomycete Corynebacterium glutamicum. Biochemical studies and site-directed mutagenesis revealed that glutamine synthetase activity is regulated via adenylylation in this organism. The genes encoding the central signal transduction protei...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jakoby M,Krämer R,Burkovski A

更新日期：1999-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The flagellins of Methanospirillum hungatei strains JF1 and GP1, Methanococcus deltae, and Methanothermus fervidus are glycosylated. Isolated flagellar filaments from these organisms are dissociated by low concentrations (0.5% (v/v)) of Triton X-100. Flagellar filaments from other methanogens (Methanococcus voltae, Me...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Faguy DM,Koval SF,Jarrell KF

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using oligonucleotides derived from the N-terminal sequence of a triazine hydrolase from Nocardioides sp. strain C190, two DNA fragments containing trzN were cloned into Escherichia coli and their nucleotide sequences were determined. The 456-amino acid polypeptide predicted from the 1356-bp trzN ORF displayed signifi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mulbry WW,Zhu H,Nour SM,Topp E

更新日期：2002-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify antigens that would improve the accuracy of serological diagnosis of active tuberculosis, we cloned the genes encoding nine potentially immunogenic secreted or surface-associated proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Recombinant proteins were reacted with sera from HIV-negative individuals with extrapulm...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Moran AJ,Treit JD,Whitney JL,Abomoelak B,Houghton R,Skeiky YA,Sampaio DP,Badaró R,Nano FE

更新日期：2001-04-20 00:00:00