Cloning and sequencing of a dextranase-encoding cDNA from Penicillium minioluteum.

abstract：:Photorhabdus (Enterobacteriaceae) bacteria are pathogenic to insects and mutualistic with entomopathogenic Heterorhabditis nematodes. Photorhabdus luminescens subsp. akhurstii LN2, associated with Heterorhabditis indica LN2, shows nematicidal activity against H. bacteriophora H06 infective juveniles (IJs). In the pres...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Qiu X,Wu C,Cao L,Ehlers RU,Han R

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tn10 transposon mutagenesis of Escherichia coli producing K99 fimbriae was carried out to identify host factors involved in regulation of biosynthesis of fimbriae. Two chromosomal mutants were obtained that showed a strongly reduced cell surface expression of K99 fimbriae upon colony blotting and ELISA. Analysis by in...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pilipcinec E,Huisman TT,Willemsen PT,Appelmelk BJ,de Graaf FK,Oudega B

更新日期：1994-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene nfxB is one of the genes which affect the cell membrane permeability of quinolones in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO. Both wild-type nfxB and a mutant nfxB (nfx13E) were cloned and the DNA sequences were determined. The wild-type gene was dominant in PAO strains. The nfxB mutation was a point mutation (cytosine--...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Okazaki T,Hirai K

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes how bkaR, a highly conserved mycobacterial TetR-like transcriptional repressor, regulates a number of nearby genes that have associations with branched-chain keto-acid metabolism. bkaR (MSMEG_4718) was deleted from the nonpathogenic species Mycobacterium smegmatis, and changes in global gene expre...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Balhana RJ,Swanston SN,Coade S,Withers M,Sikder MH,Stoker NG,Kendall SL

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a rapid and reliable two-step multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay to identify the 10 Bacteroides fragilis group species - Bacteroides caccae, B. distasonis, B. eggerthii, B. fragilis, B. merdae, B. ovatus, B. stercoris, B. thetaiotaomicron, B. uniformis and B. vulgatus. These 10 species were firs...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Liu C,Song Y,McTeague M,Vu AW,Wexler H,Finegold SM

更新日期：2003-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The technique based on fluorescein-linked lectins used to determine the cell wall structure of anaerobic rumen fungi belonging to genera: Neocallimastix, Piromonas and Sphaeromonas, appears to be an interesting tool for distinguishing between strains. Furthermore this technique shows differences of cell wall compositi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Guillot J,Breton A,Damez M,Dusser M,Gaillard-Martinie B,Millet L

更新日期：1990-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We transformed a clinical Staphylococcus epidermidis isolate with the Enterococcus faecalis transposon Tn917-carrying plasmid pTV1. Loss of plasmid replication was observed at 47 degrees C. Tn917 transposes efficiently and apparently randomly. The transposition frequency could be stimulated by erythromycin. Transposon...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Grueter L,Koenig O,Laufs R

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

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：:The binding and hemagglutinating activities of the B subunit(s) of the heat-labile enterotoxin (LTh-B) isolated from human enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli were investigated. The binding of 125I-labeled LTh-B to neuraminidase-treated human type B erythrocytes was most effectively inhibited by ganglioside GM1. A number...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sugii S,Tsuji T

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of diatoms in victim's internal organs has been regarded as a gold biological evidence of drowning. The idea becomes true at the advent of DNA metabarcoding. Unfortunately, the DNA barcode of diatoms are far from being applicable due to neither consensus on the barcode and nor reliable reference library.I...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Liu M,Zhao Y,Sun Y,Wu P,Zhou S,Ren L

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Pycnoporus forms a group of four species known especially for producing high redox potential laccases suitable for white biotechnology. A sample of 36 Pycnoporus strains originating from different geographical areas was studied to seek informative molecular markers for the typing of new strains in laboratory...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lesage-Meessen L,Haon M,Uzan E,Levasseur A,Piumi F,Navarro D,Taussac S,Favel A,Lomascolo A

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient type-III secretion depends on cytosolic molecular chaperones, which bind specifically to the translocators and effectors. In the past there has been a tendency to shoe-horn all type-III-secretion chaperones into a single structural and functional class. However, we have shown that the LcrH/SycD-like chaperon...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pallen MJ,Francis MS,Fütterer K

更新日期：2003-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural gene, adhA, for a thermostable primary alcohol dehydrogenase was cloned from Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus JW200. Constitutive expression from its own promoter was observed in Escherichia coli. The nucleotide sequence of adhA corresponded to an open reading frame of 1197 bp, encoding a polypeptide of 3...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Holt PJ,Williams RE,Jordan KN,Lowe CR,Bruce NC

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus mutans and certain other oral lactic-acid bacteria were found to have the ability to carry out malolactic fermentation involving decarboxylation of L-malate to yield L-lactic acid and concomitant reduction in acidity. The activity was inducible by L-malate in S. mutans UA159 growing in suspensions or bio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sheng J,Marquis RE

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：: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：:Environmental plasmids often expand the metabolic repertoire of bacteria that carry them, but they also interfere with the biochemical and genetic network of the host. The pWW0 plasmid born by Pseudomonas putida mt-2 encodes the TOL pathway for degradation of toluene/m-xylene through production of intermediate compoun...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Silva-Rocha R,de Lorenzo V

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta-barrel outer membrane protease Pla from Yersinia pestis is an important virulence factor in plague and enables initiation of the bubonic plague. Pla is a multifunctional protease whose expression also enhances bacterial adherence to extracellular matrix. It has remained uncertain whether the increase in cellu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lobo LA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have observed significant cell lysis upon temperature up-shift of recombinant Escherichia coli cultures harboring CI857-repressed lambda-based expression vectors. This event, that becomes evident about 30-40 min after the heat shock, takes place when using the lambda promoter system in Ind- lysogenic strains, but n...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hoffmann F,Arís A,Carbonell X,Rohde M,Corchero JL,Rinas U,Villaverde A

更新日期：1999-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the validation and application of a simple flask-based (14)C-respirometer system designed to assess mineralisation of (14)C-labelled substrates under defined conditions. Validation of this respirometer system indicated stoichiometric CO(2) trapping up to a maximum of 400 micromol of CO(2) (in a si...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Reid BJ,MacLeod CJ,Lee PH,Morriss AW,Stokes JD,Semple KT

更新日期：2001-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Five transposon mutants of Francisella novicida were isolated that are compromised in their ability to grow in mouse macrophages in vitro. Sequence analysis of the DNA flanking the transposon insertions identified the genes that were interrupted in these mutants. One of the inactivated loci corresponds to the Francise...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gray CG,Cowley SC,Cheung KK,Nano FE

更新日期：2002-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we describe and characterize two oligomer probes that are broadly homologous to conserved eubacterial 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) sequences not present in human 18 rRNA or human mitochondrial 12S rRNA. One or both of the probes can detect all of 23 phylogenetically diverse eubacterial nucleic acids against...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chen K,Neimark H,Rumore P,Steinman CR

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CotSA protein, encoded by cotSA (ytxN) of Bacillus subtilis, was detected from the cells at 5 h after the onset of sporulation (T5) and in the spore coat of wild-type cells, but not in cotE, cotS, gerE, or cotSA mutant spores. CotSA was also detected in the sporangium at T5 to T7 but not in the sporangium at T18 o...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Takamatsu H,Kodama T,Watabe K

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of 16S rDNA was developed to identify spirochaetes recovered from cases of intestinal spirochaetosis in humans and pigs; these bacteria belong to a distinct genetic group of spirochaetes, with the proposed name 'Anguillina coli'. The PCR incorporated a universal eubacter...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Park NY,Chung CY,McLaren AJ,Atyeo RF,Hampson DJ

更新日期：1995-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bananas contain large quantities of neurochemicals. Extracts from the peel and pulp of bananas in increasing stages of ripening were prepared and evaluated for their ability to modulate the growth of non-pathogenic and pathogenic bacteria. Extracts from the peel, and to a much lesser degree the pulp, increased the gro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lyte M

更新日期：1997-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-associated hemagglutination (cHA) activity with human erythrocytes was examined for 468 clinical and 71 environmental strains of Vibrio parahaemolyticus. Approximately 95% of the strains tested were cHA positive irrespective of source or Kanagawa phenomenon. 75% of clinical strains showed relatively strong mannos...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nagayama K,Oguchi T,Arita M,Honda T

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role in virulence of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae urease activity was investigated. A urease-negative mutant was isolated following transposon mutagenesis with a mini-Tn10 derivative. Both the parent strain and the urease-negative mutant exhibited identical LD50 values in a murine infection model. Pig challenge...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tascón Cabrero RI,Vázquez-Boland JA,Gutiérrez CB,Rodríguez-Barbosa JI,Rodríguez-Ferri EF

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-directed mutagenesis of the lamB gene was used to introduce individual cysteine substitutions at 20 sites in two regions (surface loops L7 and L8) of LamB protein significant in antibody recognition. Characterisation of cysteine mutants involved immunoblotting with three surface-specific monoclonal antibodies (mA...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Notley L,Hillier C,Ferenci T

更新日期：1994-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The degradation of a series of nitroaromatic compounds by the lignin-degrading fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium was examined. From 4-nitrotoluene (4-NT), several metabolic intermediates were identified. Initially, 4-NT was converted to 4-nitrobenzyl alcohol (4-NBA), followed by the oxidation reactions to form 4-nitr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Teramoto H,Tanaka H,Wariishi H

更新日期：2004-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The branched-chain amino acid permease Bap2p is a transport system for leucine, isoleucine, and valine in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and its synthesis is regulated transcriptionally. However, the downregulation mechanisms of Bap2p have not been established. Here we demonstrate that the C-terminal region of Bap2p plays ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Omura F,Kodama Y,Ashikari T

更新日期：2001-01-15 00:00:00