Degradation of chlorobiphenyls catalyzed by the bph-encoded biphenyl-2,3-dioxygenase and biphenyl-2,3-dihydrodiol-2,3-dehydrogenase of Pseudomonas sp. LB400.

abstract：:Isolates of anaerobic fungi obtained from the rumen, duodenum and faeces of sheep were identified as Piromyces mae based on their morphological characteristics observed using light microscopy. There was no significant morphological variation among the isolates of P. mae from the rumen, duodenum and faeces. Isozymes of...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wong MV,Ho YW,Tan SG,Abdullah N,Jalaludin S

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The filamentous ascomycete Botrytis cinerea is one of the most studied models for understanding the necrotrophic behaviour of phytopathogenic fungi. The genomes of two strains of B. cinerea have been sequenced (B05.10 and T4), which may contribute to elucidating the virulence polymorphism in this fungus. In this study...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Choquer M,Robin G,Le Pêcheur P,Giraud C,Levis C,Viaud M

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：:Mapping of the plasmid-encoded RNA of the intracellular parasite, Chlamydia trachomatis revealed that the upstream control elements are different from those of other Gram-negative bacteria. A tetranucleotide, AYAA was found near the -10 position, in 5 out of 8 upstream sequences described so far. The plasmid also has ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sriprakash KS,Pearce BJ

更新日期：1990-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:mlrA is the only microcystin-degrading gene detected in Sphingomonas sp. MJ-PV. The gene has an extremely rare nucleotide sequence and homologous genes have not yet been discovered in the DNA database. We discovered the existence of a gene homologous to mlrA in new microcystin-degrading bacteria, MD-1 and Y2. These st...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Saito T,Okano K,Park HD,Itayama T,Inamori Y,Neilan BA,Burns BP,Sugiura N

更新日期：2003-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Crithidia oncopelti, Crithidia deanei and Crithidia desouzai are flagellates of the Trypanosomatidae family that present bacterium-like endosymbionts in their cytoplasm. Gelatin-SDS-PAGE analysis was used to characterize cell-associated and extracellular proteinases in these organisms. Our survey indicates that the pr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： d'Avila-Levy CM,Melo AC,Vermelho AB,Branquinha MH

更新日期：2001-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Amanita exitialis Zhu L. Yang and T.H. Li is a lethal mushroom species recently isolated in Guangdong Province, China. In this report, a pure culture of this species was obtained for the first time. To confirm the identity of the pure culture, the internal transcribed spacer regions of the nuclear ribosomal DNA of the...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhang P,Chen Z,Hu J,Wei B,Zhang Z,Hu W

更新日期：2005-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Corynebacterium diphtheriae strains express non-fimbrial surface proteins able to recognize and bind to specific host cells receptors. Protein extracts were obtained from bacterial cells by mechanical process and ammonium sulfate precipitation at 25 and 45% (w/v) saturation. SDS-PAGE analysis of the extracts detected ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Colombo AV,Hirata R Jr,de Souza CM,Monteiro-Leal LH,Previato JO,Formiga LC,Andrade AF,Mattos-Guaraldi AL

更新日期：2001-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:micF RNA, whose sequence is highly complementary to a 5'-portion of ompF mRNA, has been implicated in the osmoregulation and thermoregulation of the ompF porin gene in Escherichia coli. To define and characterize cis-acting regulatory regions upstream of the micF promoter, a series of deletions of the micF promoter fu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Takayanagi K,Maeda S,Mizuno T

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown here by flow cytometry that Bacillus subtilis YabA negatively regulates the timing of replication initiation. When the level of YabA was reduced, replication began at a decreased cell mass and when the level was increased, initiation was delayed. Synchrony of replication initiation was also disrupted at lo...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hayashi M,Ogura Y,Harry EJ,Ogasawara N,Moriya S

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both form I and II ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO) genes were detected in Thiobacillus intermedius by heterologous hybridization using specific probes from Anacystis nidulans and Rhodobacter sphaeroides, respectively. However, only the previously reported form I enzyme could be demonstrated i...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Stoner MT,Shively JM

更新日期：1993-03-01 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 phosphatidylcholine (PC) content of Aspergillus nidulans choC was varied by growing the auxotroph in medium containing various concentrations of choline chloride. Direct linear correlations were observed between PC content and in vivo chitin synthase activity, between in vivo chitin synthase activity and mean hyph...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Binks PR,Robson GD,Goosey MW,Trinci AP

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome analysis by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis shows a high level of genetic heterogeneity between the two subspecies of the green sulfur bacteria Chlorobium limicola analysed: C. limicola and C. limicola f. s. thiosulfatophilum. Currently, they are differentiated only by the ability to utilize thiosulfate as...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Méndez-Alvarez S,Pavoń V,Esteve I,Guerrero R,Gaju N

更新日期：1995-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Small plasmids were found in two clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae from Spain (strains 671 and 678) and in one strain (SpR) isolated in Germany. All three strains contained one plasmid (2.75 to 3.1 kb) which is related to the only previously described pneumococcal plasmid, pDP1. Strains 678 and SpR carried...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sibold C,Markiewicz Z,Latorre C,Hakenbeck R

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa are known to have a wide physiological potential allowing them to constantly populate diverse environments leading to severe infections of humans such as septicemia, leg ulcers, and burn wounds. We set out to probe physiological characteristics of P. aeruginosa isolates from diabetic leg ulcers ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Buivydas A,Pasanen T,Senčilo A,Daugelavičius R,Vaara M,Bamford DH

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapidly growing industrial complex including oil refineries and chemical industries has developed around the coastal area of Haldia port in the district of Midnapore, West Bengal, India. The coastal water is highly polluted with industrial wastes along with petroleum hydrocarbons. The bacteria isolated from the diff...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bhattacharya M,Roy SS,Biswas D,Kumar R

更新日期：2000-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The copZ gene of Bacillus subtilis encodes a copper chaperon CopZ that donates copper to the copper transporter CopA. Both genes copZ and copA are clustered to an operon and its promoter is regulated by Cu ions and CueR, a Mer-like transcriptional activator. Here we show that cadmium ions activate copZA expression as ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Solovieva IM,Entian KD

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To increase knowledge on haem biosynthesis in filamentous fungi like Aspergillus niger, pathway-specific gene expression in response to haem and haem intermediates was analysed. This analysis showed that iron, 5'-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) and possibly haem control haem biosynthesis mostly via modulating expression of ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Franken AC,Lokman BC,Ram AF,van den Hondel CA,de Weert S,Punt PJ

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have devised a reliable procedure for the separation of three beta-lactamases of isoelectric focusing points (pI), 5.4, 6.5, and 7.9 by Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography (FPLC System). All of these enzymes were transferable and originated from a ceftazidime and cefotaxime resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated i...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Payne DJ,Hood J,Marriott MS,Amyes SG

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growing demand to replace fossil fuels with renewable alternatives has generated an urgent and imminent global need to find new non-fossil sources. Sweet sorghum is widely recognized as a highly promising biomass energy crop with the particular potential to complement sugarcane for ethanol production. Our aim in t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Durán MA,Dantur K,Ruiz RM,Romero ER,Zossi S,Gusils C

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary structure of a bacteriocin produced by Enterococcus hirae DCH5 was determined by combined amino acid and DNA sequencing. Nucleotide analysis of a 2838-bp DNA fragment of E. hirae DCH5 revealed five putative ORFs. The first orf (hirJM79) encodes a 74-amino-acid peptide containing an N-terminal signal peptid...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sánchez J,Diep DB,Herranz C,Nes IF,Cintas LM,Hernández PE

更新日期：2007-05-01 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

abstract：:The replication region of plasmid pRA2 from Pseudomonas alcaligenes NCIB 9867 (strain P25X) was localized within a 5.9-kbp DNA fragment and its sequence was determined. An interesting feature of the sequence is the presence of a 1.3-kbp region containing seven, highly conserved, direct repeats of 72 bp in length. The ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kwong SM,Yeo CC,Chuah D,Poh CL

更新日期：1998-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mild alkaline solutions (beta-elimination), after removing the non-covalently bonded wall materials by hot SDS, released 13% and 26% of remaining wall proteins from mycelial and yeast cells of Candida albicans, respectively. When the beta-elimination was carried out after digestion of the walls with chitinase, four-fo...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mormeneo S,Marcilla A,Iranzo M,Sentandreu R

更新日期：1994-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug efflux pumps contribute to multiple antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Pump expression usually has been quantified by Western blotting. Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction has been developed to measure mRNA expression for genes of interest. Whether this method correlates with pump ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yoneda K,Chikumi H,Murata T,Gotoh N,Yamamoto H,Fujiwara H,Nishino T,Shimizu E

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochemical staining and microscopy were used to study the trophic structures and cellular morphotypes that are produced during the colonization of oil-water interfaces by oil-degrading yeasts and bacteria. Among the microorganisms studied here, the yeasts (Schwanniomyces occidentalis, Torulopsis candida, Candida tro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dmitriev VV,Crowley D,Rogachevsky VV,Negri CM,Rusakova TG,Kolesnikova SA,Akhmetov LI

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, 52 Streptococcus suis isolates from pigs in southern China were divided into four known sequence types (STs) and six new STs, using multilocus sequence typing. Ten representative isolates were selected from 10 STs for the analysis of whole genome sequences. Virulence was assessed in 10 isolates, which w...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Peng L,Lin M,Huang Z,Guo S,Sun H,Yang X

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the cause of the supersusceptibility of Branhamella catarrhalis to macrolide antibiotics, which are well-known to be inactive to most Gram-negative bacteria, we determined its cell surface hydrophobicity by the partition experiment between water and hydrocarbons. Its cell surface was found to be markedly mo...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gotoh N,Tanaka S,Nishino T

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An Escherichia coli mutant defective in high-affinity D-ribose transport is able to utilize the sugar as a sole carbon source, suggesting that other transport systems for D-ribose exist. In order to search for such transporters, transposon mutagenesis was carried out in an rbsB-negative strain containing ribokinase (r...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Song S,Park C

更新日期：1998-06-15 00:00:00