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abstract：:This communication presents experimental evidence that intact fragile (osmotic sensitive) yeasts can be electrofused and give viable hybrids. The yield increases with one order of magnitude for electrofusion of intact fragile yeasts with protoplasts of non-fragile ones. The yield of viable hybrids, obtained by electro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tsoneva I,Doinov P,Dimitrov DS

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogenetic interrelationships of the genera Pediococcus and Aerococcus were investigated using reverse transcriptase sequencing of 16S rRNA. The genus Pediococcus was found to be phylogenetically heterogeneous. The four species P. acidilactici, P. damnosus, P. parvulus and P. pentosaceus formed a phylogeneticall...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Collins MD,Williams AM,Wallbanks S

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the alpha-subunit of methanol dehydrogenase (mxaF) and its flanking region was isolated from a methylotrophic bacterium, Hyphomicrobium methylovorum GM2. The deduced amino acid sequence of MxaF showed 80, 80, 74 and 66% identity with those of Methylobacterium extorquens AM1, M. organophilum XX, Parac...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tanaka Y,Yoshida T,Watanabe K,Izumi Y,Mitsunaga T

更新日期：1997-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium has been reported to play an important role in regulating the intestinal electrolyte transport via Ca2+/calmodulin (CaM) and/or protein kinase C (PKC) systems. The role of Ca2+, CaM and PKC in the pathogenesis of Campylobacter jejuni-induced fluid accumulation was studied in vivo in ligated rat ileal loops. Ca...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kaur R,Ganguly NK,Kumar L,Walia BN

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA uptake in competent Streptococcus pneumoniae was strongly dependent on intracellular pH. Ionophore treatments that either acidified or alkalinized the cytoplasm reduced DNA transport. This indicates that the optimum pH for DNA uptake corresponds to the intracellular pH of competent bacteria which is 8.3 +/- 0.2. I...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Clavé C,Trombe MC

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used error-prone PCR to generate mutations in a subtilisin protease-encoding gene, and screened for recombinants that expressed temperature-sensitive (TS) variants. From the dozens of mutations that we detected in the recombinant genes we found that those mutations that affected aspartate-75 had the most profound e...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Thompson VC,McGuire BE,Frier MS,Legg MSG,Dyer TW,Gudavicius G,Potter S,Nano FE

更新日期：2020-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:L-allo-Threonine aldolase (L-allo-threonine acetaldehyde-lyase), which exhibited specificity for L-allo-threonine but not for L-threonine, was purified from a cell-free extract of Aeromonas jandaei DK-39. The purified enzyme catalyzed the aldol cleavage reaction of L-allo-threonine (K(m) = 1.45 mM, Vmax = 45.2 mumol m...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kataoka M,Wada M,Nishi K,Yamada H,Shimizu S

更新日期：1997-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus bovis HC5 cultures released a broad spectrum lantibiotic, bovicin HC5, into the cell-fee culture supernatant after they reached stationary phase, but most of the antibacterial activity remained cell-associated. Cell-associated bovicin HC5 was more resistant to degradation by Pronase E than the cell-free ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Xavier BM,Houlihan AJ,Russell JB

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genomic bank was constructed in Escherichia coli HB101, consisting of DNA fragments from Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron strain 489 inserted within the vector pBR322. By screening on complex medium containing blue dextran, 10 stable dextranase-positive (Dex+) clones were isolated. Seven groups of Dex+ inserts were iden...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Joncquiert JC,Béchet M,Tierny Y,Courtois J,Dubourguier HC,Guillaume JB

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT) is a key enzyme in cellular one-carbon pathway and has been studied in many living organisms from bacteria to higher plants and mammals. However, biochemical and molecular characterization of SHMT from photoautotrophic microorganisms remains a challenge. Here, we isolated the SHM...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Waditee-Sirisattha R,Sittipol D,Tanaka Y,Takabe T

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We adapted PCR-based signature-tagged mutagenesis (STM) to Pseudomonas aeruginosa. A collection of 1056 mutants was screened in a chronic lung infection rat model. Thirteen mutants were confirmed to be attenuated. Analysis revealed that these STM mutants represented transposon insertions into eight genes previously de...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lehoux DE,Sanschagrin F,Levesque RC

更新日期：2002-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The mol% G + C of DNA extracted from seven different isolates of Renibacterium salmoninarum was determined. Organisms studied were from selected geographical areas (U.S.A., Canada, England and France) and were isolated from five different species of salmonid fish. The mol% G + C was determined to be 55.5, higher than ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Banner CR,Rohovec JS,Fryer JL

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic oligonucleotide primers were used in a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) protocol to target a specific sequence in the gene coding for the A subunit of Escherichia coli verotoxin (VTe-variant, VTev). This PCR protocol permits the VTe-variant target sequence to be distinguished from closely related sequences in...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Johnson WM,Tyler SD,Wang G,Lior H

更新日期：1991-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrobacterium tumefaciens is the causal agent of crown gall disease and is a vector for DNA transfer in transgenic plants. The transformation process by A. tumefaciens has been widely studied, but the attachment stage has not been well characterized. Most measurements of attachment have used microscopy and colony coun...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Petrovicheva A,Joyner J,Muth TR

更新日期：2017-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The choline-containing teichoic and lipoteichoic acids play an important part in cell wall metabolism of Streptococcus pneumoniae. We propose that a choline kinase enzyme has a role in the synthesis of these antigens. The presence of this enzyme was demonstrated in cell free extracts of S. pneumoniae by measuring the ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Whiting GC,Gillespie SH

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biotype, genome, protein and plasmid profile diversity amongst 40 epidemiologically unrelated strains of Helicobacter pylori was studied. Strains were API Zym biotypes II, III and IV but most (87%) were biotype II. Four subsets of strains were defined on a combination of motility (56% positive) and cytotoxin productio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Owen RJ,Bickley J,Moreno M,Costas M,Morgan DR

更新日期：1991-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding and hemagglutinating activities of the B subunit(s) of the heat-labile enterotoxin (LTh-B) isolated from human enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli were investigated. The binding of 125I-labeled LTh-B to neuraminidase-treated human type B erythrocytes was most effectively inhibited by ganglioside GM1. A number...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sugii S,Tsuji T

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A peptide from human parotid secretion which inhibited hemagglutination of Bacteroides gingivalis 381 was purified by ultrafiltration followed by DEAE-Sephadex A-25 column chromatography and by gel filtration on Sephadex G-25, and then by reversed-phase HPLC. The complete amino acid sequence of the peptide, determined...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Murakami Y,Amano A,Takagaki M,Shizukuishi S,Tsunemitsu A,Aimoto S

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA from Penicillium minioluteum HI-4 encoding a dextranase (1,6-alpha-glucan hydrolase, EC 3.2.1.11) was isolated and characterized. cDNA clones corresponding to genes expressed in dextran-induced cultures were identified by differential hybridization. Southern hybridization and restriction mapping analysis of sel...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Garcia B,Margolles E,Roca H,Mateu D,Raices M,Gonzales ME,Herrera L,Delgado J

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A broad range of different chemical and pharmaceutical compounds have been produced in microbial cell factories. To compete with traditional crude oil based production processes, the use of complex alternative raw materials such as lignocellulosic biomass, waste streams and utilization of CO2 in gas fermentations has ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Novak K,Pflügl S

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chromosomal DNA fragment from Streptomyces antibioticus ATCC11891 was isolated by its ability to stimulate actinorhodin and undecylprodigiosin biosynthesis in Streptomyces lividans TK21. This fragment includes two open reading frames, whose deduced translated products resemble enzymes involved in sulfur metabolism (...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Scheu AK,Martínez E,Soliveri J,Malpartida F

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast two-hybrid and Far Western analyses were used to detect interactions between Bacillus subtilis spores' nutrient germinant receptor proteins and proteins encoded by the spoVA operon, all of which are involved in spore germination and located in the spores' inner membrane. These analyses indicated that two subunit...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Vepachedu VR,Setlow P

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa uses quorum-sensing systems to regulate collective behaviour in response to the environment, by linking the expression of particular genes to population density. The quorum-sensing transcription factors LasR and RhlR and their cognate N-acyl-homoserine lactone (HSL) si...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Miklavič Š,Kogovšek P,Hodnik V,Korošec J,Kladnik A,Anderluh G,Gutierrez-Aguirre I,Maček P,Butala M

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Giardia genome project database provides an online resource for Giardia lamblia (WB strain, clone C6) genome sequence information. The database includes edited single-pass reads, the results of BLASTX searches, and details of progress towards sequencing the entire 12 million-bp Giardia genome. Pre-sorted BLASTX re...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： McArthur AG,Morrison HG,Nixon JE,Passamaneck NQ,Kim U,Hinkle G,Crocker MK,Holder ME,Farr R,Reich CI,Olsen GE,Aley SB,Adam RD,Gillin FD,Sogin ML

更新日期：2000-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now well established that physicochemical properties of exopolysaccharides (EPS) can vary between strains of a given species and according to growth conditions. The EPS production of four strains of Lactobacillus bulgaricus was monitored during growth in milk and in a chemically defined media. All strains, inclu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Petry S,Furlan S,Waghorne E,Saulnier L,Cerning dagger J,Maguin E

更新日期：2003-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether the luxA-luxB reporter system is suitable as a sensitive reporter for rapid real-time measurements of alpha-toxin gene (cpa) expression in Clostridium perfringens, and to widen the range of alpha-toxin-producing C. perfringens strains examined with respect to cpa expression during growth, the repo...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Phillips-Jones MK

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Salmonella enteritidis expressed a novel porin with a subunit size of 35.5 kDa as shown by SDS-PAGE. This protein was expressed as a major outer membrane protein (MOMP) when grown on nutrient agar, McConkey agar or blood agar, or in Tris-succinate medium; but was only produced in trace amounts when strains ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chart H,Frost JA,Rowe B

更新日期：1993-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparison of sequence data is necessary in older to investigate virus origins, identify features common to virulent strains, and characterize genomic organization within virus families. A virulent caliciviral disease of rabbits recently emerged in China. We have sequenced 1100 bases from the 3' ends of two independen...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Milton ID,Vlasak R,Nowotny N,Rodak L,Carter MJ

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of enteric pathogens, including enteropathogenic (EPEC) and enterohemorrhagic (EHEC) Escherichia coli, Hafnia alvei, a strain of Citrobacter freundii, and rabbit EPEC strain RDEC-1 cause attaching-effacing (AE) lesions in the gut mucosa. These bacteria have a pathogenicity cassette (locus of enterocyte efface...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Agin TS,Cantey JR,Boedeker EC,Wolf MK

更新日期：1996-11-01 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