Hydrogen peroxide-producing pyruvate oxidase from Lactobacillus delbrueckii is catalytically activated by phosphotidylethanolamine.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most living cells uptake phosphate, an indispensable nutrient for growth from their natural environment. In Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, the cells lack phosphate-inorganic transport (Pit) system but contain two phosphate-specific transport (Pst) systems, Pst1 and Pst2. We investigated the kinetics of Pi uptak...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Burut-Archanai S,Eaton-Rye JJ,Incharoensakdi A

更新日期：2011-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dispersal from Candida albicans biofilms that colonize catheters is implicated as a primary factor in the link between contaminated catheters and life threatening blood stream infections (BSI). Appropriate in vitro C. albicans biofilm models are needed to probe factors that induce detachment events. RESULTS...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Sellam A,Al-Niemi T,McInnerney K,Brumfield S,Nantel A,Suci PA

更新日期：2009-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mannheimia haemolytica strains isolated from North American cattle have been classified into two genotypes (1 and 2). Although members of both genotypes have been isolated from the upper and lower respiratory tracts of cattle with or without bovine respiratory disease (BRD), genotype 2 strains are much more ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Clawson ML,Schuller G,Dickey AM,Bono JL,Murray RW,Sweeney MT,Apley MD,DeDonder KD,Capik SF,Larson RL,Lubbers BV,White BJ,Blom J,Chitko-McKown CG,Brichta-Harhay DM,Smith TPL

更新日期：2020-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacillus mycoides Flügge, a Gram-positive, non-motile soil bacterium assigned to Bacillus cereus group, grows on agar as chains of cells linked end to end, forming radial filaments curving clock- or counter-clockwise (SIN or DX morphotypes). The molecular mechanism causing asymmetric curving is not known: ou...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Di Franco C,Beccari E,Santini T,Pisaneschi G,Tecce G

更新日期：2002-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ochrobactrum anthropi is a versatile bacterial species with strains living in very diverse habitats. It is increasingly recognized as opportunistic pathogen in hospitalized patients. The population biology of the species particularly with regard to the characteristics of the human isolates is being investiga...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Romano S,Aujoulat F,Jumas-Bilak E,Masnou A,Jeannot JL,Falsen E,Marchandin H,Teyssier C

更新日期：2009-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neisseria meningitidis serogroups W and Y are the most common serogroups causing invasive meningococcal disease in Sweden. The majority of cases are caused by the serogroup W UK 2013 strain of clonal complex (cc) 11, and subtype 1 of the serogroup Y, YI strain of cc23. In this study, virulence factors of sev...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Eriksson L,Stenmark B,Deghmane AE,Thulin Hedberg S,Säll O,Fredlund H,Mölling P,Taha MK

更新日期：2020-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) core protein and nonstructural protein 4B (NS4B) are potentially oncogenic. Aberrant activation of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway is closely associated with hepatocarcinogenesis. We investigated the effects of HCV type 1b core protein and NS4B on Wnt/β-catenin signaling in variou...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Jiang XH,Xie YT,Cai YP,Ren J,Ma T

更新日期：2017-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accumulation of gyrase cleavage complex in Escherichia coli from the action of quinolone antibiotics induces an oxidative damage cell death pathway. The oxidative cell death pathway has also been shown to be involved in the lethality following accumulation of cleavage complex formed by bacterial topoisomeras...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Liu IF,Aedo S,Tse-Dinh YC

更新日期：2011-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is used as an intracellular energy source by all living organisms. It plays a central role in the respiration and metabolism, and is the most important energy supplier in many enzymatic reactions. Its critical role as the energy storage molecule makes it extremely valuable to all...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Mempin R,Tran H,Chen C,Gong H,Kim Ho K,Lu S

更新日期：2013-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clostridium thermocellum is a Gram-positive thermophilic anaerobic bacterium with the unusual capacity to convert cellulosic biomass into ethanol and hydrogen. Identification and characterization of protein complexes in C. thermocellum are important toward understanding its metabolism and physiology. RESULT...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Peng Y,Luo Y,Yu T,Xu X,Fan K,Zhao Y,Yang K

更新日期：2011-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Predicting antibiotic resistance before it emerges at clinical settings constitutes a novel approach for preventing and fighting resistance of bacterial pathogens. To analyse the possibility that novel plasmid-encoded quinolone resistance determinants (Qnr) can emerge and disseminate among bacterial pathogen...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Sánchez MB,Hernández A,Rodríguez-Martínez JM,Martínez-Martínez L,Martínez JL

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The naked mole-rat (NMR, Heterocephalus glaber) is being bred as a novel laboratory animal due to its unique biological characteristics, including longevity, cancer resistance, hypoxia tolerance, and pain insensitivity. It is expected that differences exist between the microbiota of wild NMRs and that of NMR...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Cong W,Xing J,Feng Y,Wang J,Fu R,Yue B,He Z,Lin L,Yang W,Cheng J,Sun W,Cui S

更新日期：2018-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-ribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) enzymes govern the assembly of amino acids and related monomers into peptide-like natural products. A key goal of the field is to develop methods to effective recombine NRPS domains or modules, and thereby generate modified or entirely novel products. We previously sho...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Calcott MJ,Ackerley DF

更新日期：2015-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The resurgence of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and HIV associated tuberculosis (TB) are of serious global concern. To contain this situation, new anti-tuberculosis drugs and reduced treatment regimens are imperative. Recently, a nitroimidazole, PA-824, has been shown to be active against both r...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Somasundaram S,Anand RS,Venkatesan P,Paramasivan CN

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Klebsiella pneumoniae displaying the hypermucoviscosity (HV) phenotype are considered more virulent than HV-negative strains. Nevertheless, the emergence of tissue-abscesses-associated HV-negative isolates motivated us to re-evaluate the role of HV-phenotype. RESULTS:Instead of genetically manipulating the ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Lin YC,Lu MC,Tang HL,Liu HC,Chen CH,Liu KS,Lin C,Chiou CS,Chiang MK,Chen CM,Lai YC

更新日期：2011-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pneumococcus is exposed to a variety of temperature and oxygen levels in the upper respiratory tract and as it invades the lung, tissues, and blood. We sought to determine the effect of environmental variability on growth in vitro and to assess variability between strains. We evaluated the effect of temperat...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Tóthpál A,Desobry K,Joshi SS,Wyllie AL,Weinberger DM

更新日期：2019-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is a major cause of infectious morbidity and mortality in immune compromised patients. Studies on the pathogenesis of IA have been limited by the difficulty to monitor disease progression in real-time. For real-time monitoring of the infection, we recently engineered a bioluminesc...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Ibrahim-Granet O,Jouvion G,Hohl TM,Droin-Bergère S,Philippart F,Kim OY,Adib-Conquy M,Schwendener R,Cavaillon JM,Brock M

更新日期：2010-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Extracellular aspartic proteinase (MCAP) produced by Mucor circinelloides in solid state fermentations has been shown to possess milk clotting activity and represents a potential replacement for bovine chymosin in cheese manufacturing. Despite its prospects in the dairy industry, the molecular characteristic...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Gama Salgado JA,Kangwa M,Fernandez-Lahore M

更新日期：2013-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Next-generation sequencing platforms have revolutionised our ability to investigate the microbiota composition of complex environments, frequently through 16S rRNA gene sequencing of the bacterial component of the community. Numerous factors, including DNA extraction method, primer sequences and sequencing p...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Fouhy F,Clooney AG,Stanton C,Claesson MJ,Cotter PD

更新日期：2016-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since bacteria embedded in biofilms are far more difficult to eradicate than planktonic infections, it would be useful to know whether certain Staphylococcus aureus lineages are especially involved in strong biofilm formation. For this reason, in vitro biofilm formation of 228 clinical S. aureus isolates of ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Croes S,Deurenberg RH,Boumans ML,Beisser PS,Neef C,Stobberingh EE

更新日期：2009-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bordetella dermonecrotic toxin (DNT) causes the turbinate atrophy in swine atrophic rhinitis, caused by a Bordetella bronchiseptica infection of pigs, by inhibiting osteoblastic differentiation. The toxin is not actively secreted from the bacteria, and is presumed to be present in only small amounts in infec...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Fukui-Miyazaki A,Kamitani S,Miyake M,Horiguchi Y

更新日期：2010-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Salmonella enterica is a facultative intracellular pathogen that replicates within a membrane-bound compartment termed Salmonella containing vacuole (SCV). The biogenesis of SCV requires Salmonella type III protein secretion/translocation system and their effector proteins which are translocated into host ce...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Wang X,Li D,Qu D,Zhou D

更新日期：2010-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antimicrobial helper-compounds may reverse antimicrobial resistance. Sertraline, a antidepressant drug, has been suggested as a tetracycline helper-compound. Tetracycline is the preferred antimicrobial for treatment of enteric diseases in pigs. This study is the first to evaluate the potency of sertraline as...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Kromann S,Hvidtfeldt A,Boye M,Sørensen DB,Jørgensen S,Nielsen JP,Olsen RH

更新日期：2019-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tetrahymena thermophila is one of the best characterized unicellular eukaryotes and its genome is sequenced in its entirety. However, the AT-richness of the genome and an unusual codon usage cause problems in cloning and expression of the ciliate DNA. To overcome these technical hiatuses we developed a Cre-d...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Weide T,Bockau U,Rave A,Herrmann L,Hartmann MW

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We performed a 12-month cohort study of the stability and resilience of the intestinal microbiota of healthy children in daycare in Denmark in relation to diarrheal events and exposure to known risk factors for gastrointestinal health such as travelling and antibiotic use. In addition, we analyzed how gut mi...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Mortensen MS,Hebbelstrup Jensen B,Williams J,Brejnrod AD,O'Brien Andersen L,Röser D,Andreassen BU,Petersen AM,Stensvold CR,Sørensen SJ,Krogfelt KA

更新日期：2018-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a high tuberculosis (TB) burden country of the WHO Western Pacific Region, but so far research on drug resistance (DR) and genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) was only conducted in few provinces in the country. The aim of the present study was to obtain baselin...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Ley SD,Harino P,Vanuga K,Kamus R,Carter R,Coulter C,Pandey S,Feldmann J,Ballif M,Siba PM,Phuanukoonnon S,Gagneux S,Beck HP

更新日期：2014-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:GeoChip 3.0, a microbial functional gene array, containing ~28,000 oligonucleotide probes and targeting ~57,000 sequences from 292 functional gene families, provided a powerful tool for researching microbial community structure in natural environments. The alpine meadow is a dominant plant community in the Q...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Zhang Y,Lu Z,Liu S,Yang Y,He Z,Ren Z,Zhou J,Li D

更新日期：2013-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cell tropism of Brucella abortus, a causative agent of brucellosis and facultative intracellular pathogen, in the placenta is thought to be a key event of infectious abortion, although the molecular mechanism for this is largely unknown. There is a higher degree of bacterial colonization in the placenta ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Watanabe K,Tachibana M,Tanaka S,Furuoka H,Horiuchi M,Suzuki H,Watarai M

更新日期：2008-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Gifsy-I phage integrates into the Salmonella Typhimurium chromosome via an integrase mediated, site-specific recombination mechanism. Excision of the Gifsy-I phage requires three proteins, the Gifsy-I integrase (Int), the Gifsy-I excisionase (Xis) protein, and host encoded Integration Host Factor (IHF). ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Flanigan A,Gardner J

更新日期：2008-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：ERRATUM:Upon publication of the original article (1) it was highlighted by the authors that a grant awarded to support the research work of the study was missed in the acknowledgements. It should also be acknowledged that the grant titled "Genotyping and Molecular Epidemiological Characteristic of Bacillus anthracis in...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Li S,Ma Q,Chen H,Wang D,Liu Y,Wei X,You L,Yao G,Tian K,Tang G

更新日期：2018-04-12 00:00:00