The Salmonella typhimurium flgM gene, which encodes a negative regulator of flagella synthesis and is involved in virulence, is present and functional in other Salmonella species.

abstract：:The sequence of 1383 nucleotides of the DNA encoding 16S rDNA was determined for strains of human intestinal spirochaetes, comprising an unnamed isolate and "Brachyspira aalborgi" NCTC 11492. A phylogenetic tree was inferred from aligned sequence comparisons between the intestinal spirochaetes, representatives of the ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hookey JV,Barrett SP,Reed CS,Barber P

更新日期：1994-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate whether the iron acquisition mechanisms of Staphylococcus aureus are induced by iron restriction in vitro, we examined S. aureus ATCC 6538 for production of siderophore and expression of transferrin-binding protein (SA-tbp) in normal or deferrated brain heart infusion broth (BHI). Siderophore p...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lim Y,Shin SH,Lee SI,Kim IS,Rhee JH

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In haloarchaea, a cluster of three genes is localized directly adjacent to the major replication origin, and, hence, the encoded proteins were annotated as 'origin-associated proteins' (Oap). However, prior to this study, no experimental data were available for these conserved hypothetical proteins. Bioinformatic anal...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wolters M,Borst A,Pfeiffer F,Soppa J

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levan fructotransferase (LFTase) from Arthrobacter ureafaciens K2032 was expressed with N-terminal fusion of a LacZ-derived secretion motif (TMITNSSSVP) using the lac promoter system in recombinant Escherichia coli JM109 [pUDF-A81]. In flask cultures, recombinant enzyme activity was detected in culture media, and sequ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lee J,Saraswat V,Koh I,Song KB,Park YH,Rhee SK

更新日期：2001-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis strains BS49 and BS34A, both derived from a common ancestor, carry one or more copies of Tn916, an extremely common mobile genetic element capable of transfer to and from a broad range of microorganisms. Here, we report the complete genome sequence of BS49 and the draft genome sequence of BS34A, whic...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Browne HP,Anvar SY,Frank J,Lawley TD,Roberts AP,Smits WK

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) are a group of microorganisms that have the ability to synthesize intracellular magnetic crystals (magnetosomes). They prefer microaerobic or anaerobic aquatic sediments. Thus, there is growing interest in their ecological roles in various habitats. In this study we found co-occurrence of ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pan H,Dong Y,Teng Z,Li J,Zhang W,Xiao T,Wu LF

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the existence of an acid stress response in Helicobacter pylori the global changes in the proteins synthesized by the bacterium when subjected to an acid stress were studied. H. pylori ATCC43504 previously adapted to pH 7 did not show an acid stress response as detected by the two-dimensional electrophore...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Toledo H,Valenzuela M,Rivas A,Jerez CA

更新日期：2002-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodopirellula baltica (strain SH 1T) is a free-living marine representative of the phylogenetically independent and environmentally relevant phylum Planctomycetes. Little is known about the regulatory strategies of free-living bacteria with large (7.15 Mb) genomes. Therefore, a consistent, quantitative and qualitativ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lombardot T,Bauer M,Teeling H,Amann R,Glöckner FO

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multiple antibiotic resistance operon (marRAB) is a member of the multidrug resistance (mdr) systems. Similar to other mdr systems, this operon when induced encodes resistance to structurally and functionally unrelated antibiotics. marRAB has been shown to be conserved in the family Enterobacteriaceae, but within ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kunonga NI,Sobieski RJ,Crupper SS

更新日期：2000-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus sp. strain CS93, which was previously isolated from Pozol, was previously shown to produce iturin A, bacilysin and chlorotetaine. To investigate the biosynthetic mechanism of chlorotetaine production, the bac genes were amplified from genomic DNA of Bacillus sp. CS93 by PCR and sequenced. The genes bacABCDE w...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Moran S,Robertson K,Paradisi F,Rai DK,Murphy CD

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocystis is a parasitic fungus causing pneumonia in immunosuppressed mammals and S-adenosylmethionine a key intermediary metabolite for all cells. Other than a species of Rickettsia bacteria and an aberrant strain of the protozoan Amoeba proteus, Pneumocystis is the only cell known unable to synthesize AdoMet; it ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Merali S,Clarkson AB Jr

更新日期：2004-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Type II toxin-antitoxin systems (TAs) are small autoregulated bicistronic operons that encode a toxin protein with the potential to inhibit metabolic processes and an antitoxin protein to neutralize the toxin. Most of the bacterial genomes encode multiple TAs. However, the diversity and accumulation of TAs on bacteria...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ramisetty BC,Santhosh RS

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A transformation system for Moorella thermoacetica ATCC39073 was developed using thermostable kanamycin resistant gene (kanR) derived from the plasmid pJH1 that Streptococcus faecalis harbored. When kanR with its native promoter was introduced into uracil auxotrophic mutant of M. thermoacetica ATCC39073 together with ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Iwasaki Y,Kita A,Sakai S,Takaoka K,Yano S,Tajima T,Kato J,Nishio N,Murakami K,Nakashimada Y

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed a Thermus promoter probe vector pPP11 containing the promoterless heat-stable kanamycin resistance (Kmr) gene. Total DNA of T. thermophilus HB27 was randomly sheared into 100-200 bp fragments and inserted into the EcoRI site of pPP11. About 1000 clones which showed Kmr were obtained, and they were ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Maseda H,Hoshino T

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovine footrot is a debilitating and highly infectious disease that is primarily caused by the Gram-negative, anaerobic bacterium Dichelobacter nodosus. The major antigens implicated in virulence are the type IV fimbriae and extracellular proteases. The fimbriae show sequence and structural similarity to other type IV ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Billington SJ,Johnston JL,Rood JI

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the draft genome sequence from Aeromonas salmonicida sp. strain CBA100, which was characterized as an antibiotic-resistant bacterium isolated from infected rainbow trout. The total size of the genome is 4,788,109 bp, with a G + C content of 60.55%. Comparison of its open reading frames shows that the closest...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Valdes N,Espinoza C,Sanhueza L,Gonzalez A,Corsini G,Tello M

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the discriminatory power of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) for detecting subtle differences in isogenic isolates, we tested isogenic strains of Staphylococcus aureus differing in their expression of resistance to methicillin or teicoplanin. More i...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Majcherczyk PA,McKenna T,Moreillon P,Vaudaux P

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A red-pigmented, Gram-negative, motile, strictly aerobic, mesophilic, oval- or short rod-shaped bacterium (TDMA-17(T)) was isolated from fresh water collected at Misasa, a radioactive site in Japan. TDMA-17(T) was slightly tolerant against gamma-ray irradiation, and effectively produced carotenoids (2.8 mg g(-1) dry c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Asker D,Beppu T,Ueda K

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A particular property of Clostridium difficile strain C34 is an insertion of approximately 2 kb in the tcdA-C34 gene that does not hinder expression of a fully active TcdA-C34 molecule. Intoxication with TcdA-C34 induced an arborized appearance in eukaryotic cells (D-type cytopathic effect); intoxication with TcdB-C34...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mehlig M,Moos M,Braun V,Kalt B,Mahony DE,von Eichel-Streiber C

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori, a type 1 carcinogen, accounts for numerous gastric cancer-related deaths worldwide. Repurposing existing drugs or developing new ones for a combinatorial approach against increasing antimicrobial resistance is the need of the hour. This study highlights the efficacy of acriflavine hydrochloride (A...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tehlan A,Karmakar BC,Paul S,Kumar R,Kaur I,Ghosh A,Mukhopadhyay AK,Dhar SK

更新日期：2020-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of short chain S-methyl thioesters was investigated in Geotrichum candidum strain GcG. The results indicated the involvement of an enzymatic reaction in this microorganism that led to the synthesis of S-methyl thioacetate (MTA) when methanethiol and acetyl-CoA were used as substrates. MTA was generated f...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Helinck S,Spinnler HE,Parayre S,Dame-Cahagne M,Bonnarme P

更新日期：2000-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus equi ssp. equi is the causative agent of strangles, a highly contagious and serious disease in the upper respiratory tract of horses. The present study describes the characterization of IdeE, a homolog of the secreted IgG-specific protease IdeS/Mac of Streptococcus pyogenes. The activity of IdeE is compa...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lannergård J,Guss B

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CheY, the response regulator of the chemotaxis system in Escherichia coli, can be regulated by two covalent modifications - phosphorylation and acetylation. Both covalent modifications are involved in chemotaxis, but the mechanism and role of the acetylation are still obscure. While acetylation was shown to repress th...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Li R,Chen P,Gu J,Deng JY

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of Helminthosporium solani, the cause of silver scurf in potato tubers, has been impaired by selection of benzimidazole-resistant strains as a result of repeated use of the fungicide thiabendazole. Identification of thiabendazole-resistant strains of H. solani by conventional techniques takes several weeks. Pr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： McKay GJ,Cooke LR

更新日期：1997-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella abortus B19, an avirulent strain obtained by spontaneous mutation, is used worldwide as a vaccine for the control of bovine brucellosis. B19 differs from other B. abortus strains in its sensitivity to erythritol. We took advantage of a previously obtained erythritol sensitive Tn5 insertion mutant of B. abortu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sangari FJ,García-Lobo JM,Agüero J

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA polymerase from the archaeon Pyrococcus abyssi strain Orsay was expressed in Escherichia coli. The recombinant DNA polymerase (Pab) was purified to homogeneity by heat treatment followed by 5 steps of chromatography and characterized for PCR applications. Buffer optimization experiments indicated that Pab PCR perf...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dietrich J,Schmitt P,Zieger M,Preve B,Rolland JL,Chaabihi H,Gueguen Y

更新日期：2002-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A collection of 45 epidemiologically unrelated Streptococcus agalactiae strains (group B Streptococcus, GBS), belonging to different serotypes, isolated from pregnant women in China and Russia was studied. Strains were characterized by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) employing hybridization with nine genes pot...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dmitriev A,Hu YY,Shen AD,Suvorov A,Yang YH

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoplasmic inclusions surrounded by a bilayer membrane were seen in thin sections. negatively stained and freeze-fractured preparations of Shewanella putrefaciens. Cells harvested from the late exponential and early stationary phase showed a higher number of these vesicles than bacteria isolated from early exponentia...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Krause B,Beveridge TJ,Remsen CC,Nealson KH

更新日期：1996-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We characterized Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis insertion sequences related to insertion sequence 1541, recently identified in Yersinia pestis. For each of the two species, two insertion sequence copies were cloned and sequenced. Genetic elements from Y. pseudotuberculosis were almost identica...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Devalckenaere A,Odaert M,Trieu-Cuot P,Simonet M

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00