Isolation of insertion elements from gram-positive Brevibacterium, Corynebacterium and Rhodococcus strains using the Bacillus subtilis sacB gene as a positive selection marker.

abstract：:An identification method by PCR, specific to the Carnobacterium genus, was optimised by testing it on 28 bacterial strains. Primers from the literature were tested to differentiate Carnobacterium strains present among various bacterial species. The DNA of Carnobacterium species (C. alterfunditum, C. divergens, C. fund...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cailliez-Grimal C,Miguindou-Mabiala R,Leseine M,Revol-Junelles AM,Millière JB

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current studies, we used Lineweaver-Burke analysis to examine the role of 1-hydroxybenzotriazole (HBT) in the oxidation of various compounds by laccase from Trametes versicolor. At low concentrations, HBT was a competitive inhibitor of the oxidation, but at high concentrations, it was a noncompetitive inhibitor...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hirai H,Shibata H,Kawai S,Nishida T

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight-day-old embryonated hen's eggs were used as a model to study Mycobacterium avium virulence. Strains isolated from human patients caused 20-90% mortality when eggs were infected by injection of bacterial suspensions into the amniotic sac. Virulence of examined strains subsequently decreased with passage through e...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Long EG,Ewing EP Jr,Bartlett JH,Horsburgh CR Jr,Birkness KA,Yakrus MA,Newman GW,Quinn FD

更新日期：2000-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody to Escherichia coli O157 lipopolysaccharide was detected in the sera of healthy individuals more frequently in Southern Thailand than in Japan. The result suggested possible exposure of Thai people to E. coli O157. E. coli O157:H7 or O157:H(-) was isolated from four of 95 retail beef and one of 55 bovine fece...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Vuddhakul V,Patararungrong N,Pungrasamee P,Jitsurong S,Morigaki T,Asai N,Nishibuchi M

更新日期：2000-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-six strains of S. thermophilus were examined for their plasmid content. Thirteen strains were found to contain one or two plasmids ranging in size from 2.1 to 7.4 kb. DNA-DNA hybridization analysis revealed the presence of five distinct groups of DNA homology. The complete nucleotide sequence of plasmid pST1 (A...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Janzen T,Kleinschmidt J,Neve H,Geis A

更新日期：1992-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcystins produced by cyanobacteria are potent and specific hepatotoxins; however, the mechanisms of microcystin-induced hepatotoxicity have not been fully elucidated. The induction of free radical formation and mitochondrial alterations are two major events found in microcystin-treated cultured rat hepatocytes. Th...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ding WX,Nam Ong C

更新日期：2003-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Dissimilatory metal-reducing bacteria (DMRB), such as Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, are of great interest for their importance in the biogeochemical cycling of metals and utility in biotechnological processes, such as bioremediation and microbial fuel cells. To identify genes necessary for metal reduction, this study co...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kouzuma A,Hashimoto K,Watanabe K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corynebacterium diphtheriae, generally considered an extracellular coloniser, was evaluated for its ability to enter and survive within HEp-2 monolayers by gentamicin protection assay. Intracellular viability of HC01 strain, isolated from endocarditis, was more expressive (2.59%) than observed in 241 (0.21%) and CDC-E...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hirata R,Napoleão F,Monteiro-Leal LH,Andrade AF,Nagao PE,Formiga LC,Fonseca LS,Mattos-Guaraldi AL

更新日期：2002-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia mallei, the etiologic agent of the disease known as glanders, is primarily a disease affecting horses and is transmitted to humans by direct contact with infected animals. The use of B. mallei as a biological weapon has been reported and currently, there is no vaccine available for either humans or animal...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Whitlock GC,Estes DM,Torres AG

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A phage typing system using a group of 11 closely related phage (as judged by Southern analysis and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis) was able to distinguish at least six phage types in Salmonella heidelberg of human and animal origin. Restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis using cosmid pro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Harvey D,Harrington C,Heuzenroeder MW,Murray C

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:During the establishment of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection, its capacity to adhere to host intestinal epithelial cells is the critical first step in pathogenesis. It also has the capability to form biofilms, and because both are surface activities, we sought to gain insight into a potential linkage between biofilm...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Puttamreddy S,Minion FC

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae was engineered for assembly of minicellulosomes by heterologous expression of a recombinant scaffolding protein from Clostridium cellulovorans and a chimeric endoglucanase E from Clostridium thermocellum. The chimeric endoglucanase E fused with the dockerin domain of endoglucanase B from C. ce...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hyeon JE,Yu KO,Suh DJ,Suh YW,Lee SE,Lee J,Han SO

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：:The identification of virulence factors in Rhodococcus equi has been severely hampered by the lack of a method for in vivo random insertion mutagenesis. This study reports the use of transposomes to generate random insertions of a gene conferring kanamycin resistance into the genome of R. equi ATCC 33701. Southern hyb...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mangan MW,Meijer WG

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleoside diphosphate kinase (NDK) is a housekeeping enzyme localized in cellular organelles and distributed in various organs in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. In Neurospora crassa, NDK-1 is suggested to control catalases in response to heat, oxidative stress and light. In this study, we identified the presence of NDK-...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yoshida Y,Hasunuma K

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma fermentans has been reported to be pathogenic for man. All fourteen strains tested contain an insertion sequence-like element (ISLE) which may be present in multiple copies. To determine whether ISLE copies are similarly distributed in different strains of M. fermentans, restriction enzyme digest fragments ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pitcher D,Hilbocus J

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A smooth colony strain, resistant to phages lambda and P22, was isolated from sewage and identified as Escherichia coli (strain H). Four temperate phages plaquing on strain H were isolated from sewage. The archetype, HK620, does not plaque on strains C and K12 of E. coli nor on the LT2 strain of Salmonella enterica. B...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dhillon TS,Poon AP,Chan D,Clark AJ

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant-growth promoting rhizobacterium Azospirillum lipoferum strain 4B generates in vitro a stable phase variant designated 4VI at frequencies of 10(-4) to 10(-3) per cell per generation. Variant 4VI displays pleitropic modifications, such as the loss of swimming motility and the inability to assimilate certain su...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Vial L,Pothier JF,Normand P,Moënne-Loccoz Y,Bally R,Wisniewski-Dyé F

更新日期：2004-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene (open reading frame (ORF) Tm1469, glk) encoding ATP-dependent ROK (repressors, ORFs, sugar kinases) glucokinase (ATP-GLK, EC 2.7.1.2) of the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima was cloned and functionally expressed in Escherichia coli. The purified recombinant enzyme is a homodimer with an apparen...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hansen T,Schönheit P

更新日期：2003-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria have the exquisite ability to maintain a precise diameter, cell length, and shape. The dimensions of bacteria size and shape are a classical metric in the distinction of bacterial species. Much of what we know about the particular morphology of any given species is the result of investigations of planktonic c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Justice SS,Harrison A,Becknell B,Mason KM

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular proteases of Yarrowia lipolytica have been scarcely studied. These enzymes may play an important role in nitrogen metabolism, posttranslational processing, nutritional stress, dimorphism, etc.; biochemical and genetic control of these enzymes can help in obtaining high-level expression of recombinant pro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hernández-Montañez Z,Araujo-Osorio J,Noriega-Reyes Y,Chávez-Camarillo G,Villa-Tanaca L

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated and characterized nodA genes from photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic rhizobia nodulating the legume genus Aeschynomene, and found that the nodA sequence from photosynthetic stem-nodulating bacteria was phylogenetically distant from the other already described nodA genes. Characterization of the photosyn...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chaintreuil C,Boivin C,Dreyfus B,Giraud E

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence and distribution of isoprenoid glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs), lipids that constitute the membranes of Archaea, have been investigated in a 50-cm long core from a Swedish peat bog. In the acrotelm, the periodically water saturated and thus oxic upper layer of the peat bog, only minor amount...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Weijers JW,Schouten S,van der Linden M,van Geel B,Damsté JS

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemin (iron protoporphyrin IX) is an essential growth factor for the periodontal pathogen. Porphyromonas gingivalis. Iron protoporphyrin IX (IPP IX) binding to the avirulent P. gingivalis beige variant (W50/BE1) and the black-pigmenting parent wild-type strain W50 was quantified. W50/BE1 grown in a chemostat under ha...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Smalley JW,Birss AJ,McKee AS,Marsh PD

更新日期：1996-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The photoinduced bactericidal capacity of TiO(2) based films was evaluated, using as model organism Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Thin films were obtained by spray pyrolysis; they included undoped, Cu doped, and Al doped TiO(2). Scanning electron microscopy was used to observe the final effect of the irradiated films upon t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Amézaga-Madrid P,Nevárez-Moorillón GV,Orrantia-Borunda E,Miki-Yoshida M

更新日期：2002-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraterrestrial life has been found at depths of several thousand metres in deep sub-sea floor sediments and in the basement crust beneath the sediments. It has also been found at up to 2800-m depth in continental sedimentary rocks, 5300-m depth in igneous rock aquifers and in fluid inclusions in ancient salt deposit...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pedersen K

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cea-kil operon of the ColE1 plasmid is negatively regulated by the LexA-repressor and therefore, it is under the control of SOS regulation. We constructed a gene fusion between the cea and lacZ genes. Expression of the translational fusion can be easily detected by monitoring the levels of beta-galactosidase. Sinc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Schumann W,Songür N,Miltenburger HG

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of low concentrations of cyanide on dissimilatory perchlorate and chlorate reduction and aerobic respiration was examined using pure cultures of Azospira sp. KJ. Cyanide at a concentration of 38 microM inhibited cell growth on perchlorate, chlorate and molecular oxygen, but it did not inhibit the activity o...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Song Y,Logan BE

更新日期：2004-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli mutant MM52 (secA(ts)) was transformed with a cosmid library from Staphylococcus carnosus, and a recombinant cosmid (pBO23) allowing growth at the non-permissive temperature (42 degrees C) was isolated. pBO23 also restored the growth defects of E. coli mutants IQ85 (secY(ts)) and IT41 (lep(ts)). Nucle...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Overhoff-Freundlieb B,Freudl R

更新日期：1991-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene disruption experiments play an important role in the functional characterization of genes in mycobacteria and rely mostly on the use of one or two antibiotic resistance markers. We have developed a system for mycobacteria which features both the advantages of the use of antibiotic resistance markers for gene disr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Malaga W,Perez E,Guilhot C

更新日期：2003-02-28 00:00:00