Regulation of the yeast vacuolar aminopeptidase Y gene (APY1) expression.

abstract：:The sepsis caused by Vibrio vulnificus is characterized by an average incubation period of 26 h and a high mortality rate exceeding 50%. The fast growth and dissemination of V. vulnificus in vivo lead to poor clinical outcomes in patients. Therefore, elucidation of the proliferation mechanisms of this organism in vivo...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kado T,Kashimoto T,Yamazaki K,Ueno S

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:Isolated membranes of the extreme haloalkaliphilic archaeon Natronococcus occultus were able to hydrolyze ATP via an ATPase, which required the presence of Mg(2+), high concentrations of NaCl, and a pH value of 9. The native molecular mass of the purified ATPase was 130 kDa and was composed of 74- and 61-kDa subunits....

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Eddy ML,Jablonski PE

更新日期：2000-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, the homology relationships among fragments amplified by ERIC (Enterobacterial Repetitive Intergenic Consensus) and REP (Repetitive Extragenic Palindromic) primers in Drechslera avenae and Stemphylium solani causing leaf blotch and black spot of oats and leaf blight of cotton, respectively, were i...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mehta A,Mehta YR,Rosato YB

更新日期：2002-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the Streptococcus bovis group are frequent colonizers of the intestinal tract, which can also cause endocarditis. However, their ability to adhere to and colonize host tissues and the factors associated with pathogenicity are largely unknown. Here, we assessed 17 endocarditis-derived human isolates [identif...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sillanpää J,Nallapareddy SR,Singh KV,Ferraro MJ,Murray BE

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homologs of the Escherichia coli oxyR gene were identified in several Erwinia species, using a combination of PCR and Southern hybridization analysis. The oxyR gene from Erwinia carotovora was isolated on a cosmid clone and characterized. The gene and deduced gene product shared high level sequence identity with their...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Calcutt MJ,Lewis MS,Eisenstark A

更新日期：1998-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of an educational board game developed to teach the pharmacology of antimicrobial drugs to medical students was compared with the lecture-based seminar as a supplemental tool to improve short- and long-term knowledge retention and the perception of the learning method by students. A group of 124 stud...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Karbownik MS,Wiktorowska-Owczarek A,Kowalczyk E,Kwarta P,Mokros Ł,Pietras T

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mini-Tn10luxABcam/Ptac-ATS was constructed in order to develop a luciferase-transducing bacteriophage for detecting Escherichia coli O157:H7. The transposon was designed to deliver a 3.6-kb insertion that confers n-decanal-dependent bioluminescence and resistance to chloramphenicol and was constructed using mini-Tn10c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Waddell TE,Poppe C

更新日期：2000-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Six clinical isolates of Enterobacter cloacae isolated in a Portuguese hospital, between April 1999 and November 2000, demonstrated resistance to almost all broad-spectrum cephalosporins, except to cefepime. These isolates were susceptible to quinolones and to aminoglycosides. Isoelectric focusing demonstrated product...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Conceição T,Faria N,Lito L,Melo Cristino J,Salgado MJ,Duarte A

更新日期：2004-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Both ThyA and ThyX proteins catalyze the transfer of the methyl group from methylenetetrahydrofolate (CH(2) H(4) -folate) to dUMP, forming dTMP. To estimate the relative steady state expression levels of ThyA and ThyX, Western blot analysis was performed using ThyA or ThyX antiserum on total protein from the wild-type...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cho S,Yang S,Rhie H

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The filamentous fungus Fusarium lateritium is cyanide tolerant, due partly to the induction of the enzyme cyanide hydratase in the presence of cyanide. This enzyme catalyses the hydration of cyanide to formamide. The expression in Escherichia coli of a cDNA clone encoding cyanide hydratase is described. The cDNA clone...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Brown DT,Turner PD,O'Reilly C

更新日期：1995-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Phytomonas is responsible for many diseases in different crop plant species. The finding that chitin is an exposed cell surface polysaccharide in Phytomonas françai and the observation that chitinases can inhibit fungal growth raises expectations about the potential effect of plant chitinases on the P. franç...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gomes Rocha GC,Nicolich R,Romeiro A,Margis-Pinheiro M,Attias M,Alves-Ferreira M

更新日期：2003-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine viruses are the most abundant biological entity in the oceans, the majority of which infect bacteria and are known as bacteriophages. Yet, the bulk of bacteriophages form part of the vast uncultured dark matter of the microbial biosphere. In spite of the paucity of cultured marine bacteriophages, it is known th...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Perez Sepulveda B,Redgwell T,Rihtman B,Pitt F,Scanlan DJ,Millard A

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis is a worldwide cause of various swine infections and is also an important agent of zoonosis. Strains of S. suis are classified according to their serotype, and currently, 35 serotypes are recognized. The aim of this study was to characterize nontypeable isolates of S. suis with regard to their cell ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bonifait L,Gottschalk M,Grenier D

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella uses type III secretion systems (TTSS) to deliver pathogenic proteins into the host cells. These translocated effectors induce bacterial internalization and intracellular proliferation by targeting important cellular processes that are conserved among eukaryotes. Here, we assessed the feasibility of perform...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Alemán A,Fernández-Piñar P,Pérez-Núñez D,Rotger R,Martín H,Molina M

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A broad distribution of the lactococcal IS elements ISS1 [1] and IS904 [2] in several lactococcal plasmids and chromosomal DNA was observed. Hybridization of the ISS1 and IS904 oligonucleotide gene probes with DNA of lactococcal phages showed that none of these tested bacteriophages contained one of the IS elements. O...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Schäfer A,Jahns A,Geis A,Teuber M

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT) is a key enzyme in cellular one-carbon pathway and has been studied in many living organisms from bacteria to higher plants and mammals. However, biochemical and molecular characterization of SHMT from photoautotrophic microorganisms remains a challenge. Here, we isolated the SHM...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Waditee-Sirisattha R,Sittipol D,Tanaka Y,Takabe T

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of specific inhibitors of glycoprotein trimming reactions on Junin virus (JV) replication were investigated. Bromoconduritol, an inhibitor of glucosidase II, significantly reduced infective virus production (DE50: 1.1 mM) and viral protein expression. Neither 1-deoxynojirimycin, an inhibitor of both glucos...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Silber AM,Candurra NA,Damonte EB

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the large number of techniques available for the transformation of bacteria, several species are still resistant to the introduction of foreign DNA. Oenococcus oeni are among the organisms that are particularly refractory to transformation. However, conjugal experiments from Lactococcus lactis to O. oeni with ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Beltramo C,Oraby M,Bourel G,Garmyn D,Guzzo J

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus cereus strains involved in food poisoning cases of the diarrheal type may produce two different enterotoxin complexes. To facilitate the identification of hemolysin BL-enterotoxin complex (HBL) and/or the nonhemolytic enterotoxin (NHE) producing colonies a colony immunoblot procedure was developed, which allo...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Moravek M,Wegscheider M,Schulz A,Dietrich R,Bürk C,Märtlbauer E

更新日期：2004-09-01 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：:The electron transfer pathway to Fe(III) reduction in Geobacter sulfurreducens has been hypothesized to consist of a series of c-type cytochromes. Previous genetic studies suggested that the inner membrane-associated, c-type cytochrome, MacA, was a component of the electron transfer chain leading to Fe(III) reduction ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kim BC,Lovley DR

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ADP-ribosylation factor (ARF) family of GTPases are highly conserved from yeast to human and regulate vesicle budding. Sec7 domain containing proteins stimulate the guanine nucleotide exchange on Arf proteins, while ARF-GTPase activating proteins stimulate the hydrolysis of GTP. Since vesicle trafficking is import...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Oscarsson T,Walther A,Lengeler KB,Wendland J

更新日期：2017-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinobacteria are known by their ability to produce several antimicrobial compounds of biotechnological interest. Thus, in this study, we isolated and identified by partial 16S RNA sequencing ∼100 actinobacteria isolates from guarana (Paullinia cupana) bulk soil. Besides, we isolated from the actinobacteria Streptomy...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Vicente Dos Reis G,Abraham WR,Grigoletto DF,de Campos JB,Marcon J,da Silva JA,Quecine MC,de Azevedo JL,Ferreira AG,de Lira SP

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis of the 2 kb nucleotide sequence including the 5'-flanking region of a cell-adhesion protein-encoding gene (mfbA) isolated from the basidiomycete Lentinus edodes revealed that the promoter region contains a TATA box, a GC box, a CAAT box, a CT-rich sequence element, a TATA box, two CT-rich sequences, and a ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kondoh O,Shishido K

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoplasmic precursors of the peptidoglycan biosynthetic pathway were purified from vancomycin-treated, glycopeptide-sensitive and -resistant strains of Enterococcus faecium. Resistance was due to production of a modified precursor, UDP-MurNAc-L-Ala-D-Glu-L-Lys-D-Ala-D-lactate, where lactate was identified on the basi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Messer J,Reynolds PE

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A purification scheme was devised for a 69-kDa outer membrane protein of Bordetella pertussis, a virulence-associated protein which may play a role in the pathogenesis of the organism. The protein was purified to apparent homogeneity by heating B. pertussis cells for 1 h at 60 degrees C followed by DEAE-Sepharose and ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gould-Kostka JL,Burns DL,Brennan MJ,Manclark CR

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactococcus lactis MG5267 is a plasmid-free strain in which the lactose operon is integrated in the bacterial chromosome. The chromosomal lacG gene which encodes phospho-beta-galactosidase was inactivated by a double cross-over integration event. Unexpectedly, the resultant mutant was shown to retain a Lac-positive ph...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Payne J,MacCormick CA,Griffin HG,Gasson MJ

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A metagenomic approach was taken to investigate the genetic basis for the ability of an anaerobic consortium to grow on either 4-chlorobenzoate or 4-bromobenzoate under denitrifying conditions. Degenerate PCR primers were designed for the family of 4-chlorobenzoyl-CoA dehalogenase genes. The primers were utilized to s...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chae JC,Song B,Zylstra GJ

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections caused by Streptococcus suis, a major swine pathogen, include meningitis, arthritis, pneumonia and septicaemia. In this study, we investigated interactions that may occur between human brain microvascular endothelial cells (HBMEC), the main constituent of the blood-brain barrier, and S. suis. We show that S...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jobin MC,Fortin J,Willson PJ,Gottschalk M,Grenier D

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00