Synergistic Activity of Ceragenins Against Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Strains in Both Checkerboard and Dynamic Time-Kill Assays.

abstract：:Expression from the secA gene, encoding a key component of the general secretory pathway of Escherichia coli, is influenced by the secretion status of the cell, autogenous translational repression, and translational coupling to the upstream gene, X. SecA binds to its mRNA in a region overlapping its ribosome binding s...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Kiser KB,Schmidt MG

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GABA accumulation and glutamate decarboxylase (GAD) activity, the principal enzyme involved in GABA formation, was investigated in cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 wild-type (WT) and gad knockout mutant strains grown in medium containing different nitrogenous compounds. Nitrate was the best nitrogen source fo...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Kanwal S,Khetkorn W,Incharoensakdi A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With PCR products as probes, we have cloned two new cry-type genes from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. wuhanensis. The deduced amino acid sequence of the first clone is 77.3% identical to Cry1Ga1. The deduced protein sequence of the second clone is 69.8-78.7% identical to that of Cry1B group. The nomenclature assignmen...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Kuo WS,Lin JH,Tzeng CC,Kao SS,Chak KF

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica in cattle production systems may be associated with important human and animal disease issues. However, tremendous diversity exists among Salmonella recovered, and more information is needed about strains of greatest potential health concern, particularly those that are multidrug resistant (MDR). B...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Alam MJ,Renter D,Taylor E,Mina D,Moxley R,Smith D

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The esterase-encoding gene, estA, was cloned from Acinetobacter lwoffii I6C-1 genomic DNA into Escherichia coli BL21(DE3) with plasmid vector pET-22b (pEM1). pEM1 has a 4.4-kb EcoRI insert that contained the complete estA gene. A 2.4-kb AvaI- SphI DNA fragment was subcloned (pEM3) and sequenced. estA gene encodes a pr...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Kim HE,Lee IS,Kim JH,Hahn KW,Park UJ,Han HS,Park KR

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ostricacin-1 and ostricacin-2 (Osp-1 and Osp-2) were beta-defensins antimicrobial peptides that were purified from ostrich leukocytes using a cation-exchange column and a semi-prep RP-HPLC column. Both ostricacins were subjected to increased concentrations of monovalent cations (K(+) and Na(+)) and divalent cations (C...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Sugiarto H,Yu PL

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence analysis of dnaE, hlyA, and asd housekeeping genes were used to determine the genetic relatedness of our collection of Vibrio cholerae isolated from patients and surface waters over a 5-year period in Iran. The results showed 41, 17, and 9 variable sites throughout the sequenced fragments of dnaE (837 bp), hl...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Dashtbani-Roozbehani A,Bakhshi B,Pourshafie MR

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current status of Helicobacter contamination of laboratory mice, rats, gerbils, and house musk shrews from 47, 10, 4, and 3 colonies, respectively, in Japan was studied. Helicobacter was detected by reverse transcription (RT)-nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with Helicobacter genus-specific primers by using ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Goto K,Ohashi H,Takakura A,Itoh T

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microalgae are considered feedstock for biodiesel production due to their capability to accumulate triacylglycerols, which have a 99% conversion rate into biodiesel, under certain conditions. This study aims to evaluate thirty native microalgal strains as feedstock for biodiesel production based on their biomass and l...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Andeden EE,Ozturk S,Aslim B

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Two odorless, water-soluble exopolysaccharide (EPS) fractions, EPS-1 and EPS-2, were isolated from a newly isolated Bacillus amyloliquefaciens strain C-1 and purified by ion exchange and gel chromatography. The purified EPS-1 contained glucose/mannose/galactose/arabinose in a relative proportion of 15:4:2:1, and posse...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Yang H,Deng J,Yuan Y,Fan D,Zhang Y,Zhang R,Han B

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast Candida glycerinogenes produces a high yield of glycerol only in response to a medium-osmotic stress, but little is known about the relationship between osmoadaptation and glycerol metabolism. The CgTPI gene encoding triose phosphate isomerase of C. glycerinogenes was cloned and sequenced, and its functional...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Yongguang Z,Wei S,Zhiming R,Huiying F,Jian Z

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variable-number-of-tandem-repeats (VNTR) markers are increasingly being used in population genetic studies of bacteria. They were recently developed for Pasteuria ramosa, an endobacterium that infects Daphnia species. In the present study, we genotyped P. ramosa in 18 infected hosts from the United Kingdom, Belgium, a...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Mouton L,Ebert D

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic engineering of microbes for commercial metabolite production traditionally has sought to alter the levels and/or intrinsic activities of key enzymes in relevant biosynthetic pathway(s). Microorganisms exploit similar strategies for flux control, but also coordinate flux through sets of related pathways by usin...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Tatarko M,Romeo T

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A thermophilic bacterial strain GXN151 which could degrade Avicel efficiently was isolated and identified as Bacillus licheniformis. A genomic library of GXN151 was constructed and two novel endoglucanase genes designated cel9A and cel12A were isolated by screening the library on carboxylmethyl cellulase indicator pla...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Liu Y,Zhang J,Liu Q,Zhang C,Ma Q

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of linolenic acid in mycelial lipids reached 0.31 mg/ml of culture broth when Mortierella isabellina was cultivated in a medium consisting of 2% octadecanol, 1% yeast extract, and 25 mmol/L of Mg2+ at 23 degrees C for 5 days. Cultivation conditions were studied, and the results showed that (i) a suitabl...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Xian M,Kang Y,Yan J,Liu J,Bi Y,Zhen K

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel bacterial strain, designated MHJ-10JT, was isolated from a soil sample obtained from a grassland in Inner Mongolia, China. MHJ-10JT strain could grow at 4-37 °C (optimum: 30 °C) and pH 4-9 (optimum: pH 6), as well as in the presence of 0-6% NaCl (optimum: 1%). Cells of strain MHJ-10JT are Gram-negative, rod-sh...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Zhang M,Shen L,Shi J,Chen L,Luo Y,Sun J,Fan D,Hara S,Bao Z

更新日期：2021-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A Pseudomonas sp. that may be useful in bioremediation projects was isolated from soil. The strain is of potential value because it reduces selenite to elemental red selenium and is unusual in that it was resistant to high concentrations of both selenate and selenite. Exposure of the strain to 50, 100, and 150 mM sele...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Hunter WJ,Manter DK

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pigment from the endophyte Burkholderia sp. WYAT7 isolated from the medicinal plant Artemisia nilagirica (Clarke) Pamp. was extracted. The antibacterial efficacy of the crude pigment Y was assessed as a source of antibiotic against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial pathogens. The pigment Y exhibited a sig...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Ashitha A,Radhakrishnan EK,Mathew J

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulated secretory proteins are sorted via selective co-aggregation in eukaryotes. Cellobiase (C) of the filamentous fungus Termitomyces clypeatus remained co-aggregated with sucrase (S), and only one isoform of each of the enzymes was present in intra- and extracellular extracts. Kinetics of secretion of sucrase inc...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Mukherjee S,Khowala S

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With human saliva as an inoculum, microcosm dental plaques were grown on dental amalgam in a constant-depth film fermentor (CDFF) in the presence (suc +ve) and absence (suc -ve) of sucrose. The biofilms were then exposed to 0.2% chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) for 1, 5, or 60 min and the survivors enumerated. Suc +ve bi...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Wilson M,Patel H,Noar JH

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm-forming bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a common pathogen in mechanically ventilated newborns, which can cause life-threatening infections. Alginate of mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms is considered an important virulence factor which contributes to the resistance to antibiotics. Traditionally, ambrox...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Li F,Yu J,Yang H,Wan Z,Bai D

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Francisella tularensis, the causative agent of tularemia, has attained the status of one of the high priority agents that could be used in the act of bioterrorism. Currently, there is no licensed vaccine for this highly infectious intracellular pathogen. Being a listed 'Category A' agent of the U.S. Center for Disease...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Gaur R,Alam SI,Kamboj DV

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An in vitro study was conducted to examine the metabolism of histidine (His) by mixed rumen bacteria (B), mixed rumen protozoa (P), and a combination of the two (BP). Rumen microorganisms were collected from fistulated goats fed with lucerne cubes (Medicago sativa) and a concentrate mixture twice a day. Microbial susp...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Wadud S,Onodera R,Or-Rashid MM,Oshiro S

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains isolated from rabbit, chicken, and rat feces and from sewage and fermented milk products, all identified as Bifidobacterium animalis, were found to show phase variations in colony appearance and in cellular morphology. The rate of transition in a switching system from opaque to transparent colonies and vice ve...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Biavati B,Crociani F,Mattarelli P,Scardovi V

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osmotically sensitive mutants of Neurospora crassa are unable to grow on medium supplemented with 4% NaCl, have altered morphologies and cell-wall compositions, and are resistant to dicarboximide fungicides. Osmotic-1 (os-1) mutants have a unique characteristic of forming protoplasts that grow and divide in specialize...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Schumacher MM,Enderlin CS,Selitrennikoff CP

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-eight isolates resistant to at least two antibiotics were selected from 53 antibiotic-resistant enterococci from chicken and pig meat and faeces and analysed for specific resistance determinants. Of the 48 multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains, 31 were resistant to two antibiotics (29 to erythromycin and tetracyclin...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Vignaroli C,Zandri G,Aquilanti L,Pasquaroli S,Biavasco F

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 4.5-kilobase DNA fragment from Buchnera aphidicola, the endosymbiont of the aphid Schizaphis graminum, was cloned and sequenced. On the basis of homology to Escherichia coli, the following genes were found in the order listed: aroH-thrS-infC-rpmI-rplT. AroH corresponds to the E. coli tryptophan-inhibited 3-deoxy-D-a...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Kolibachuk D,Rouhbakhsh D,Baumann P

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinomycetes are a wide group of Gram positive prokaryotes, the soil being their most characteristic habitat, where they play important ecological functions. Their immense biotechnological potential as producers of bioactive molecules of great commercial and industrial interest is exemplified by most antibiotics for ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Hernández-Bolaños E,Montesdeoca-Flores D,Abreu-Yanes E,Barrios ML,Abreu-Acosta N

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dimorphic yeast Yarrowia lipolytica has become an emerging cell factory for recombinant proteins production. Expression vectors involving LIP2 promoter (pLIP2) have been developed and used successfully. However, the relationship between dimorphic transition (i.e., cell morphology) and pLIP2 regulation is still unc...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Sassi H,Delvigne F,Kallel H,Fickers P

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glucose 1-phosphate uridylyltransferase (GalU) is absolutely required for the biosynthesis of capsular polysaccharide, the sine qua non virulence factor of Streptococcus pneumoniae. The pneumococcal GalU protein was overexpressed in Escherichia coli, and purified. GalU showed a pI of 4.23, and catalyzed the revers...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Bonofiglio L,García E,Mollerach M

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00