An improved method for detecting cytostatic toxin (emetic toxin) of Bacillus cereus and its application to food samples.

abstract：:The enterobacterium Erwinia amylovora is the causal agent of fire blight. This study presents the analysis of the complete genome of phage PhiEaH1, isolated from the soil surrounding an E. amylovora-infected apple tree in Hungary. Its genome is 218 kb in size, containing 244 ORFs. PhiEaH1 is the second E. amylovora in...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Meczker K,Dömötör D,Vass J,Rákhely G,Schneider G,Kovács T

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the nisZ gene sequence, a non-radioactive digoxigenin-labeled DNA probe, was tested for detection of nisin-producing strains using polymerase chain reaction amplification. The digoxigenin-labeled DNA probe clearly discriminated between nisin-producing and non-producing strains with a high degree of sensitivity an...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Meghrous J,Fliss I,Bouksaim M,Lacroix C

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific non-typhoid Salmonella serovars carry large virulence plasmids that promote sustained extra-intestinal infections. These plasmids all share a highly conserved 8-kb region containing the spv operon, consisting of the regulatory spvR locus and the four structural spvABCD genes. The SpvR protein belongs to the L...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Guiney DG,Fang FC,Krause M,Libby S

更新日期：1994-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumanii, which may be found in water, is an important emerging hospital-acquired pathogen. Free-living amoebae can be recovered from the same water networks, and it has been shown that these protozoa may support the growth of other bacteria. In this paper, we have studied potential relationships between...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cateau E,Verdon J,Fernandez B,Hechard Y,Rodier MH

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PhoP was previously shown to be important for Yersinia pestis survival in macrophage and under macrophage-induced stresses. In this work, a phoP disruptant of Y. pestis 201 was generated using the Red cloning procedure. The transcription profile of the wild-type Y. pestis was then compared with that of the phoP mutant...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhou D,Han Y,Qin L,Chen Z,Qiu J,Song Y,Li B,Wang J,Guo Z,Du Z,Wang X,Yang R

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of nitrate reductase in the unicellular cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942 took place at a slow rate when the cells were incubated without a supply of inorganic carbon, but addition to these cells of CO(2)/bicarbonate or, in a Synechococcus strain transformed with a gene encoding a 2-oxoglutara...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Vázquez-Bermúdez MF,Herrero A,Flores E

更新日期：2003-04-25 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：:Helicobacter pylori genomes contain about 30 hop genes that encode outer membrane proteins. Helicobacter pylori hopQ alleles exhibit a high level of genetic diversity, and two families of hopQ alleles have been described. Type I hopQ alleles are found more commonly in cag-positive H. pylori strains from patients with ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Loh JT,Torres VJ,Algood HM,McClain MS,Cover TL

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacilli occupy specific ecological niches, where they represent a major component of foods, human and animal microbial communities. Employing these bacteria in industrial fermentations or for human health benefits exposes them to certain life-threatening conditions where their ability to adapt plays a key role in...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hussain MA,Hosseini Nezhad M,Sheng Y,Amoafo O

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In several bacterial species that show natural transformation, dprA has been described as a competence gene. The DprA protein has been suggested to be involved in the protection of incoming DNA. However, members of the dprA gene family (also called smf) can be detected in virtually all bacterial species, which suggest...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Smeets LC,Becker SC,Barcak GJ,Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM,Bitter W,Goosen N

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, interest in phage science is on the rise again as this subject remains largely unexplored, and its potential diversity mainly untapped. Here, we present phage vB_BsuP-Goe1, a new isolate that infects Bacillus subtilis The phage forms round plaques with a matt outline on agar plates containing a B. subtilis ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Willms IM,Hertel R

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group B streptococci (GBS) represent a very important group of human pathogens. So far little is known about the mechanisms by which these bacteria can cause disease and the bacterial factors involved. One putative virulence factor is the beta antigen of the C protein complex (Bac), which can bind to the Fc region of ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kreikemeyer B,Jerlström PG

更新日期：1999-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-linear dielectric spectroscopy is a novel technique for determining the activity of (predominantly) membranous enzymes as their ability to generate harmonics when excited with a sinusoidal electrical field. In washed suspensions of yeast cells, the ability to generate harmonics is inhibited by low concentrations o...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Woodward AM,Kell DB

更新日期：1991-11-01 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：:Three different whole cell biosensor constructs were made by fusing the mercury inducible promoter, P(mer), and its regulatory gene, merR, from transposon Tn21 with reporter genes luxCDABE, lacZYA, or gfp. In Escherichia coli these biosensor constructs responded to low levels of mercury by producing light, beta-galact...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hansen LH,Sørensen SJ

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer membrane protein (OMP) profiles of four different strains of Bacteroides fragilis, as determined by Coomassie blue stained polyacrylamide gels, were compared after growth in broth culture and in the mouse peritoneal cavity. There was no induction of the expression of large quantities of novel OMP after growt...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Patrick S,Lutton DA

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolate NJ-101 obtained from agricultural soil was characterized and presumptively identified as Pseudomonas sp. The isolate exhibited efficient degradation of the insecticide carbofuran with a rate constant of 0.035 day(-1), following first-order rate kinetics. The ability of performing multifarious biological ac...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bano N,Musarrat J

更新日期：2004-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of isogenic mutants lacking either the O1 (O-:K66) or K66 (O1:K-) antigens or both (O-:K-), some of which had additional defects in their LPS core polysaccharide was used to examine the interaction between polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMNLs) and K. pneumoniae serotype O1:K66. In the absence of serum compleme...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Williams P,Ciurana B,Camprubi S,Tomas JM

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, motile and slightly curved rod-shaped bacterium (BFLP-4(T)) was isolated from the faeces of wild seahorses (Hippocampus guttulatus) captured in northwest Spain (Toralla, Galicia). Strain BFLP-4(T) grew at 10-35 degrees C and pH 5-9 (optimally at 20 degrees C and pH 7.2) and at...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Balcázar JL,Pintado J,Planas M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of exopolysaccharide production by heterofermentative sourdough lactic acid bacteria has shown that Weissella strains isolated from sourdoughs produce linear dextrans containing α-(1→6) glucose residues with few α-(1→3) linkages from sucrose. In this study, several dextran-producing strains, Weissella cibari...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bounaix MS,Robert H,Gabriel V,Morel S,Remaud-Siméon M,Gabriel B,Fontagné-Faucher C

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzymatic activity of salivary amylase bound to the surface of several species of oral streptococci was determined by the production of acid from starch and by the degradation of maltotetraose to glucose in a coupled, spectrophotometric assay. Most strains able to bind amylase exhibited functional enzyme on their ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Douglas CW,Heath J,Gwynn JP

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphologically similar species such as Chinese black truffles and Tuber melanosporum were typed by restriction length polymorphism of internal transcribed spacers. This analysis together with sequence comparison revealed the presence of high genetic variability among fruit bodies collected in China. Selection of prim...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Paolocci F,Rubini A,Granetti B,Arcioni S

更新日期：1997-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetobacter spp. are used for industrial vinegar production because of their high ability to oxidize ethanol to acetic acid and high resistance to acetic acid. Two-dimensional gel electrophoretic analysis of a soluble fraction of Acetobacter aceti revealed the presence of several proteins whose production was enhanced...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nakano S,Fukaya M,Horinouchi S

更新日期：2004-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The spirochaete, Serpulina pilosicoli, is the agent of intestinal spirochaetosis, a diarrhoeal disease of humans and other species. By mechanisms as yet unknown, large numbers of these spirochaetes intimately attach to the colonic mucosa by one cell end. In some infected individuals, the spirochaetes may invade the la...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hartland EL,Mikosza AS,Robins-Browne RM,Hampson DJ

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three tri-substituted spermidines, di-p-coumaroyl-caffeoylspermidine, tri-caffeoylspermidine and tri-p-coumaroylspermidine, isolated from pollen of Quercus alba, were examined for antifungal activity. Both di-p-coumaroyl-caffeoylspermidine and tri-p-coumaroylspermidine reduced mycelial growth of the oat leaf stripe pa...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Walters D,Meurer-Grimes B,Rovira I

更新日期：2001-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:High resistance to class IIa bacteriocins in Listeria monocytogenes has been clearly linked to lack of expression of the mptACD operon, encoding the EIIt Man mannose PTS permease. Also, intermediate resistance has been associated with membrane phospholipid modifications in the spontaneous mutants L. monocytogenes B73-...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Arous S,Dalet K,Héchard Y

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphogluconate, the key intermediate of the Entner-Doudoroff pathway, has long been thought to inhibit growth of bacteria, but careful measurements of 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphogluconate accumulation by growing cells and the correlation of intracellular 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphogluc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fuhrman LK,Wanken A,Nickerson KW,Conway T

更新日期：1998-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes for fructosyltransferase (ftf) and glucan-binding protein (gbp) of Streptococcus mutans strain Ingbritt have been cloned in E. coli using bacteriophage and plasmid vectors. A single ftf gene appears to be responsible for the appearance of several FTF of different electrophoretic mobilities. Despite the fact ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Aduse-Opoku J,Gilpin ML,Russell RR

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High quality Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectra were acquired from living Micrasterias hardyi cells maintained in an IR transparent flow-through cell using a FTIR microscope coupled to a synchrotron light source. Spectral maps of living, nutrient-replete cells showed band intensities consistent with the known l...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Heraud P,Wood BR,Tobin MJ,Beardall J,McNaughton D

更新日期：2005-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and ninety-eight clinical isolates of Mycobacterium kansasii collected between 2003 and 2004 in Japan were genotyped by PCR and restriction enzyme analysis (PRA) and 16S-23S internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequencing. The results demonstrated that clinical isolates of M. kansasii in Japan are almost excl...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Iwamoto T,Saito H

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00