Addiction systems antagonize bacterial adaptive immunity.

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：:Acylated homoserine lactone (AHL)-based quorum sensing (QS) has been reported to be present only in Gram-negative microorganisms. Isolation of a novel Gram-positive microorganism from sea water, capable of producing AHL, is reported here. The isolate (GenBank: JF915892, designated as MPO) belonging to the Exiguobacter...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Biswa P,Doble M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusobacterium nucleatum is a common oral anaerobe associated with gingivitis, periodontal disease and preterm deliveries. Coaggregation among oral bacteria is considered to be a significant factor in dental plaque development. Adhesion to host cells was suggested to be important for the F. nucleatum virulence associat...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bachrach G,Ianculovici C,Naor R,Weiss EI

更新日期：2005-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Viable counts and activities of sulfate-reducing bacteria were determined in the oral cavities of 12 healthy volunteers. Of these, 10 harboured viable sulfate-reducing bacteria populations. Six separate sites were sampled: the posterior tongue, anterior tongue, mid buccal mucosa, vestibular mucosa, supragingival plaqu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Willis CL,Gibson GR,Allison C,Macfarlane S,Holt JS

更新日期：1995-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:L-arginine has attracted a great deal of attention as an agent for refolding denatured proteins, and the mildness of its effects offer hope for a wide range of potential applications for this substance, including medicines with few side effects. We report that both L- and D-arginine inhibits Na+-driven flagellar motor...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Atsumi T,Yoshimura F,Sugiyama S

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ammonia-induced injury was investigated in pure cultures of Escherichia coli and Enterobacter aerogenes, and in natural coliform populations obtained from the oligotrophic Luxapallila and the eutrophic Sunflower Rivers in northern Mississippi. Pure cultures were affected by ammonia exposure as indicated by changes in ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Naundorf G,Aumen NG

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new rapid and simple method was developed for the detection of Escherichia coli by constructing a recombinant T4 phage carrying the cytochrome c peroxidase gene derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae (T4ccp) using which, the colorimetric detection of E. coli K12 was examined. The oxidation activity toward the chromog...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hoang HA,Abe M,Nakasaki K

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated a fungal strain HS-1 utilizing either ethylene glycol dibenzoate or ethyl benzoate as sole source of carbon and energy, and identified it as Aspergillus nomius, based on morphological and rDNA analyses. An enzyme hydrolyzing the esters was purified from the culture supernatant of the strain to an electroph...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Uchida H,Kurakata Y,Sawamura H,Inamura N,Kotani T,Uwajima T

更新日期：2003-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme linked immune sorbent assay (ELISA) was developed to measure bacterial surface lipoteichoic acid (LTA). Numerous strains of oral streptococci belonging to the 'viridans' group were examined on three separate occasions. The results show that, under these cultural conditions, oral streptococci do not normally ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hogg SD,Manning JE

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a novel verocytotoxin named VT2y was described which belongs to the STx family and is produced by Escherichia coli isolated from domestic poultry with swollen head syndrome (SHS). The VT2y toxin induced apoptosis in Vero, HeLa, CHO, CEF (primary chicken embryo fibroblast) and PCK (primary chicken kidney) cel...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Salvadori MR,Yamada AT,Yano T

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagemid vectors for display of protein/peptides on the surface of filamentous phage utilize a plasmid genome carrying the phage origin of replication, along with the gene fused to a fragment of gene III. Generation of phage particles displaying the fusion protein also requires superinfection of the host bacterium wit...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dueñas M,Borrebaeck CA

更新日期：1995-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug resistance plasmids carrying the bla(CMY-2) gene have been identified in Salmonella enterica serovars Typhimurium and Newport from the United States. This gene confers decreased susceptibility to ceftriaxone, and is most often found in strains with concomitant resistance to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, strep...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Doublet B,Carattoli A,Whichard JM,White DG,Baucheron S,Chaslus-Dancla E,Cloeckaert A

更新日期：2004-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence in our laboratory of over 10000 Salmonella typhimurium LT2 cultures sealed in agar stab vials for 33-46 years offers an opportunity for evolutionary and mutational studies. In each of 77 vials examined, 10(3)-10(5) colony forming units per vial were recovered (less than 0.01% of the original population) ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Edwards K,Linetsky I,Hueser C,Eisenstark A

更新日期：2001-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium smegmatis was used to study the relationship between DNA repair processes involving RecA and nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ). The effect of gene deletions in recA and/or in two genes involved in NHEJ (ku and ligD) was tested on the ability of bacteria to join breaks in plasmids transformed into them and...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Korycka-Machala M,Brzostek A,Rozalska S,Rumijowska-Galewicz A,Dziedzic R,Bowater R,Dziadek J

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The small heat shock protein (smHsp) Lo18 from lactic acid bacteria Oenococcus oeni reduces in vitro thermal aggregation of proteins and modulates the membrane fluidity of native liposomes. An absence of information relating to the way in which the smHsp demonstrates a stabilizing effect for both proteins and membrane...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Weidmann S,Rieu A,Rega M,Coucheney F,Guzzo J

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on second generation sequencing (MiSeq platform, Illumina), we determined the genetic diversity of T4-like bacteriophages of the family Myoviridae by analysing fragments of the major capsid protein gene g23 in the plankton of Lake Baikal. The sampling depth in our study was significantly higher than in those obt...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Potapov S,Belykh O,Krasnopeev A,Gladkikh A,Kabilov M,Tupikin A,Butina T

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain Lactobacillus brevis strains are resistant to hop-derived compounds such as isohumulone and are able to grow in beer. In this study, we raised an antiserum against our beer spoilage laboratory strain L. brevis 578 which reacted with 23 of 24 beer spoilers and two of 13 non-spoilers in precipitation reactions u...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yasui T,Yoda K

更新日期：1997-06-15 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：:Lactococcus lactis MG5267 is a plasmid-free strain in which the lactose operon is integrated in the bacterial chromosome. The chromosomal lacG gene which encodes phospho-beta-galactosidase was inactivated by a double cross-over integration event. Unexpectedly, the resultant mutant was shown to retain a Lac-positive ph...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Payne J,MacCormick CA,Griffin HG,Gasson MJ

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanobacterium barkeri was found to catalyze the reductive dehalogenation of trichlorofluoromethane (CFC-11), also known as FREON 11. Products detected were CHFCl2, CH2FCl, CO and fluoride. ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Krone UE,Thauer RK

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Siderophore production by entomo- and phytopathogens, plus the cross-utilization of these siderophores and expression of outer membrane receptor proteins (OMRPs) by Diamondback moth (DBM) gut bacterial strains, were all examined. All the tested strains grew in the presence of 2, 2'-dipyridyl, and the Brachybacterium s...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Indiragandhi P,Anandham R,Madhaiyan M,Kim GH,Sa T

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How proteins reach their native conformation and location has been a major question of biology during the last 50 years. To counterbalance protein misfolding and the accumulation of aggregation products, a complex network of chaperones and proteases takes care of protein quality control in the cell. Such a chaperone n...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mas G,Hiller S

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the specificity of six different lysozymes for peptidoglycan substrates obtained by extraction of a number of gram-negative bacteria and Micrococcus lysodeikticus with chloroform/Tris-HCl buffer (chloroform/buffer). The lysozymes included two that are commercially available (hen egg white lysozyme...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nakimbugwe D,Masschalck B,Deckers D,Callewaert L,Aertsen A,Michiels CW

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichomonas vaginalis is a protozoan that parasitizes the human urogenital tract causing trichomoniasis, the most common non-viral sexually transmitted disease. The parasite has unique genomic characteristics such as a large genome size and expanded gene families. Ectonucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase (E-NTPD...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Frasson AP,Dos Santos O,Meirelles LC,Macedo AJ,Tasca T

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of insertion sequence IS1 in 70 multiple-antibiotic resistant clinical strains was determined. This 70-strain collection comprised 46 Escherichia coli, 18 Salmonella and 6 Shigella strains. The presence of IS1 was detected in the chromosome and plasmids of 73% and 63% of the strains, respectively, and 51%...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ramirez-Santos J,Alvarez G,Cisneros E,Gomez-Eichelmann MC

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In our recent screen for soil-induced genes, the expression of andA operon (andAcAdAbAa) for anthranilate catabolism in Burkholderia multivorans ATCC 17616 was found to increase dramatically in a soil sample (Nishiyama et al., Environ Microbiol 12: 2539, 2010). The operon was preceded by andR encoding a putative trans...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nishiyama E,Ohtsubo Y,Yamamoto Y,Nagata Y,Tsuda M

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：:Silkworm larva has recently been recognized as an alternative model animal for higher mammals to evaluate the effects of antibiotics. In this study, we examined the efficacy of the bacteriophage (phage) therapy, which harnesses phages as antibacterial agents, against Staphylococcus aureus infections, using the silkwor...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Takemura-Uchiyama I,Uchiyama J,Kato S,Inoue T,Ujihara T,Ohara N,Daibata M,Matsuzaki S

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to develop a novel strategy for the isolation and identification of Burkholderia cepacia complex bacteria from the home environment of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Water and soil samples were enriched in a broth containing 0.1% l-arabinose, 0.1% l-threonine, and a mixture of selective a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Vanlaere E,Coenye T,Samyn E,Van den Plas C,Govan J,De Baets F,De Boeck K,Knoop C,Vandamme P

更新日期：2005-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The wine yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is central in the production of aroma compounds during fermentation. Some of the most important yeast-derived aroma compounds produced are esters. The esters ethyl acetate and isoamyl acetate are formed from alcohols and acetyl-CoA in a reaction catalysed by alcohol acetyltransf...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cordente AG,Swiegers JH,Hegardt FG,Pretorius IS

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00