Has the prehistoric ice-man contributed to the preservation of living fungal spores?

abstract：:The essential oil of German chamomile showed specific inhibition toward aflatoxin G(1) (AFG(1)) production, and (E)- and (Z)-spiroethers were isolated as the active compounds from the oil. The (E)- and (Z)-spiroethers inhibited AFG(1) production of Aspergillus parasiticus with inhibitory concentration 50% (IC(50)) val...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yoshinari T,Yaguchi A,Takahashi-Ando N,Kimura M,Takahashi H,Nakajima T,Sugita-Konishi Y,Nagasawa H,Sakuda S

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Tat machinery catalyzes the transport of folded proteins across the cytoplasmic membrane in bacteria and the thylakoid membrane in plants. Transport occurs only in the presence of an electric field (Δψ) and/or a pH (ΔpH) gradient, and thus, Tat transport is considered to be dependent on the proton motive force (pm...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hamsanathan S,Musser SM

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the results of a phylogenetic study, based on amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysis of the rDNA operon, of 37 Arthrospira ('Spirulina') cultivated clonal strains from four continents. In addition, duplicates from different culture collections or markedly different morphotypes of particular strains es...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Scheldeman P,Baurain D,Bouhy R,Scott M,Mühling M,Whitton BA,Belay A,Wilmotte A

更新日期：1999-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Research devoted to uncovering the mechanisms of adherence of Candida albicans to human tissue is reviewed. The physical aspects of adherence of the fungus to host cells and the biochemical and molecular features, as far as they are known, are discussed. Relevant pre- and post-adherence events in the pathogenesis of d...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pendrak ML,Klotz SA

更新日期：1995-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A solvent-tolerant, slightly thermophilic bacterium was isolated at 45 degrees C in the presence of toluene vapor provided as the sole carbon source. Strain T27 was identified as Deinococcus geothermalis T27. It could tolerate high concentrations of solvent provided as a nonaqueous layer (5% and 20%, v/v) to a cell su...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kongpol A,Kato J,Vangnai AS

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of Prevotella ruminicola strains B(1)4 (subsp. brevis) and D31d (subsp. ruminicola), was inhibited by protamine, a polycationic, low molecular mass protein. Results showed that protamine has a bacteriocidal effect when present in concentrations exceeding 30 micrograms ml-1. Protamine exerted its toxic effects b...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Madeira HM,Morrison M

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the impacts of bacterial DNA extraction methodology on downstream analysis of fish gut microbiota. Feces and intestine samples were taken from three sympatric freshwater fish species with varying diets. Samples were processed immediately (approximately 4 h after capture; fresh), stored at -20 °...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Larsen AM,Mohammed HH,Arias CR

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Segmented filamentous bacteria (SFB) are inhabitants of the small intestine of various animals, where they can be detected microscopically due to their specific morphology and intimate association with the intestinal epithelium. SFB colonize the distal part of the small intestine in a host-specific manner and affects ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jonsson H

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ectomycorrhizal fungus Paxillus involutus efficiently took up exogenously supplied [14C]alanine and rapidly converted it to pyruvate, citrate, succinate, fumarate and to CO2, thus providing direct evidence for the utilisation of alanine as a respiratory substrate. [14C]alanine was further actively metabolised to g...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chalot M,Brun A,Finlay RD,Söderström B

更新日期：1994-08-01 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：:Salmonella Typhimurium harbors two Salmonella pathogenicity islands (SPIs), each encoding a type three secretion system for virulence proteins. Although there is increasing evidence of postinvasion roles for SPI-1, it has been generally accepted that SPI-1 genes are downregulated following the invasion process. Here, ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Giacomodonato MN,Sarnacki SH,Llana MN,Cerquetti MC

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyanobacterium Synechocystis 6803 was tagged by chromosomal integration of the firefly luciferase gene, luc, resulting in the modified strain Synechocystis 6803-luc. The tagged cells were monitored in Baltic Sea microcosms both by detection of the luc gene by PCR amplification and by measurement of luc gene expres...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Möller A,Norrby AM,Gustafsson K,Jansson J

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-arginine has attracted a great deal of attention as an agent for refolding denatured proteins, and the mildness of its effects offer hope for a wide range of potential applications for this substance, including medicines with few side effects. We report that both L- and D-arginine inhibits Na+-driven flagellar motor...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Atsumi T,Yoshimura F,Sugiyama S

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of Listeria monocytogenes infection on the cellular level of transcription factor NF-kappa B in the human epithelia-like cell line Caco-2 was investigated. Infection with L. monocytogenes or treatment with lipoteichoic acid induced the formation of three NF-kappa B-like DNA-protein complexes C1, C2, and C3,...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hauf N,Goebel W,Fiedler F,Kuhn M

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report for the first time the cloning and characterisation of a protozoal enzyme involved in plant cell wall polysaccharide degradation. A cDNA library was constructed from the ruminal protozoan Polyplastron multivesiculatum and a stable clone expressing xylanase activity was isolated. The encoded enzyme belongs to...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Devillard E,Newbold CJ,Scott KP,Forano E,Wallace RJ,Jouany JP,Flint HJ

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronological analysis of 125 Vibrio cholerae O139 strains isolated during 1993-2005 in Kolkata revealed the prevalence of two new genotypes of cholera toxin (CT) and novel combinations of ctxB and rstR alleles resulting in variant CTX prophages. One of the new genotypes of ctxB, which first appeared in 1996 with the ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Raychoudhuri A,Mukherjee P,Ramamurthy T,Nandy RK,Takeda Y,Nair GB,Mukhopadhyay AK

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:Streptococcus intermedius is well known to produce severe infections in various areas of the body. In this study, we evaluated the ability of S. intermedius to utilise human transferrin as a source of iron and investigated the mechanism by which iron can be obtained from this plasma protein. Adding either ferrous sulf...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Brochu V,Greinier D,Mayrand D

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serum-susceptible, guinea-pig chamber-passaged, laboratory strain (BS4 (agar)) of Neisseria gonorrhoeae was converted to serum resistance by incubation with cytidine 5-monophospho-N-acetyl neuraminic acid (CMP-NANA) and examined by electron microscopy after staining with ruthenium-red. In contrast to serum susceptib...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fox AJ,Curry A,Rowland PL,Lancaster S,Jones DM,Parsons NJ,Cole JA,Smith H

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of an association of human neuroborreliosis with the development of an antibody response against an antigen in neural tissue that cross-reacts with an epitope on the flagellin protein of Borrelia burgdorferi, C3H transgenic mice were created that expressed the flagellin epitope (amino acids 213-224) as a fusio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fikrig E,Barthold SW

更新日期：1997-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we evaluated if recA species-specific PCR assays could be successfully applied to identify environmental isolates of the widespread Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) species. A total of 729 Bcc rhizosphere isolates collected in different samplings were assigned to the species B. cepacia genomovar I (61...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dalmastri C,Pirone L,Tabacchioni S,Bevivino A,Chiarini L

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fire blight, caused by plant pathogenic bacterium Erwinia amylovora, is one of the most important diseases of Rosaceae plants. Due to the lack of effective control measures, fire blight infections pose a recurrent threat on agricultural production worldwide. Recently, bacterial viruses, or bacteriophages, have been pr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Besarab NV,Akhremchuk AE,Zlatohurska MA,Romaniuk LV,Valentovich LN,Tovkach FI,Lagonenko AL,Evtushenkov AN

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella aerogenes W70 was reported previously to produce a membrane-associated tyramine oxidase (TynA) that did not act on 2-phenylethylamine. Subsequently, a gene cloned from K. aerogenes W70 produced a soluble amine oxidase (MaoA) that acted readily on 2-phenylethylamine and tyramine. This enzyme appeared to be e...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cooper RA

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gram-positive bacterium Streptococcus gordonii has been genetically engineered to allow the simultaneous expression of two heterologous proteins at the cell surface. A family of recombinant streptococci displaying two different antigens was constructed. All the strains were genetically stable and expressed both pr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Maggi T,Spinosa M,Ricci S,Medaglini D,Pozzi G,Oggioni MR

更新日期：2002-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In microbial corrinoid-dependent methyltransferase systems, adventitious Co(I)-corrinoid oxidation halts catalysis and necessitates repair by ATP-dependent reductive activases. RamA, an activase with a C-terminal ferredoxin domain with two [4Fe-4S] clusters from methanogenic archaea, has been far less studied than the...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Huening KA,Jiang R,Krzycki JA

更新日期：2020-09-01 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

abstract：:Hopanoid fingerprints allowed to differentiate bacteria formerly connected to the genus Pseudomonas. Whereas all strains related to Pseudomonas and Ralstonia were devoid of any detectable hopanoid, these pentacyclic triterpenoids were found in the Burkholderia species and in related soil isolates, which contained as m...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cvejic JH,Putra SR,El-Beltagy A,Hattori R,Hattori T,Rohmer M

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A 1.8-kb cryptic plasmid pFR18 was isolated from Leuconostoc mesenteroides ssp. mesenteroides FR52 and characterized. The identification of single-stranded DNA intermediate (ssDNA) in Leuconostoc demonstrated that the replication of pFR18 is directed by a rolling-circle mechanism (RCR). Sequence analysis revealed a si...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Biet F,Cenatiempo Y,Fremaux C

更新日期：1999-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A cordycepin-resistant mutant strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (CD-R2) was found to be deficient in adenosine kinase. This mutant accumulated S-adenosylhomocysteine during growth in the presence of exogenous adenosine and it grew in a pseudohyphal manner in the presence of this nucleotide. ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Iwashima A,Ogata M,Nosaka K,Nishimura H,Hasegawa T

更新日期：1995-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A 1.5-kb XbaI-SacII fragment containing the upstream region of the Trichoderma reesei cellobiohydrolase I gene (cbh1) has been sequenced. The 1.5-kb fragment contains eight 6-bp sites having an identical or similar sequence to the consensus sequence for binding a catabolite repressor, Aspergillus nidulans CreA. Result...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Takashima S,Iikura H,Nakamura A,Masaki H,Uozumi T

更新日期：1996-12-15 00:00:00