Cloning and characterization of the Neisseria meningitidis rfaC gene encoding alpha-1,5 heptosyltransferase I.

abstract：:An isolation procedure was developed to provide within one day microcystin-LR, a cyclic heptapeptide toxin from Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806. After ODS (octadecylsilyl) solid phase extraction, the crude toxin fraction was chromatographed using a strong anion exchange column. The toxin was eluted with 0.02 M ammoniu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Martin C,Sivonen K,Matern U,Dierstein R,Weckesser J

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aecA and aecB loci map at 250 and 290 degrees, respectively, on the Bacillus subtilis chromosomal genetic map. The aecB locus has been proposed as the structural gene for aspartokinase II. From DNA sequence analyses and comparisons to the sequence of the aspartokinase II gene, it can be concluded that the structur...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Petricek M,Rutberg L,Hederstedt L

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-allo-Threonine aldolase (L-allo-threonine acetaldehyde-lyase), which exhibited specificity for L-allo-threonine but not for L-threonine, was purified from a cell-free extract of Aeromonas jandaei DK-39. The purified enzyme catalyzed the aldol cleavage reaction of L-allo-threonine (K(m) = 1.45 mM, Vmax = 45.2 mumol m...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kataoka M,Wada M,Nishi K,Yamada H,Shimizu S

更新日期：1997-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequences of two Piromyces cDNAs (manB and manC) encoding functional mannanases, defined as mannanase B (MANB) and mannanase C (MANC), revealed that both the cDNAs, and the encoded enzymes, exhibited extensive sequence identity with each other and with a previously described Piromyces mannanase. MANB and MANC, whi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Millward-Sadler SJ,Hall J,Black GW,Hazlewood GP,Gilbert HJ

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two plasmids, pEM4 (IncFI) determining virulence and pEM6 (IncI) determining colicine I production and resistance to tetracycline, have been found in a pathogenic strain of Citrobacter freundii. Even though pEM4 and pEM6 plasmids are conjugative and transfer themselves very efficiently during conjugation, a high cotra...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Morzejko E,Panek E,Cebrat S

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A CO-reactive hemoprotein was purified from the mitochondrial membrane fraction of Tetrahymena pyriformis. It showed absorption peaks at 615 and 455 nm in the reduced form and an alpha peak at 565 nm in the pyridine ferrohemochrome spectrum. Although the spectral properties were apparently similar to those of 'cytochr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Inokuchi A,Fukumori Y

更新日期：1993-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A [Fe]-hydrogenase gene (hydA) was cloned from Clostridium paraputrificum M-21 in Escherichia coli using a conserved DNA sequence of clostridial hydrogenase genes amplified by PCR as the probe. The hydA gene consisted of an open reading frame of 1749 bp encoding 582 amino acids with an estimated molecular mass of 64,5...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Morimoto K,Kimura T,Sakka K,Ohmiya K

更新日期：2005-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma fermentans has been reported to be pathogenic for man. All fourteen strains tested contain an insertion sequence-like element (ISLE) which may be present in multiple copies. To determine whether ISLE copies are similarly distributed in different strains of M. fermentans, restriction enzyme digest fragments ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pitcher D,Hilbocus J

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus faecium has emerged as an important cause of nosocomial infections over the last two decades. We recently demonstrated collagen type I (CI) as a common adherence target for some E. faecium isolates and a significant correlation was found to exist between acm-mediated CI adherence and clinical origin. Here...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhao M,Sillanpää J,Nallapareddy SR,Murray BE

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferric uptake regulator (Fur) proteins are widely recognized as repressors that in many prokaryotes regulate a large number of genes involved in iron homeostasis and oxidative stress response. In our study, we were able to identify the complete sequence of the fur gene from Microcystis aeruginosa using inverse-polymer...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Martin-Luna B,Hernandez JA,Bes MT,Fillat MF,Peleato ML

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzymatic activity of salivary amylase bound to the surface of several species of oral streptococci was determined by the production of acid from starch and by the degradation of maltotetraose to glucose in a coupled, spectrophotometric assay. Most strains able to bind amylase exhibited functional enzyme on their ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Douglas CW,Heath J,Gwynn JP

更新日期：1992-04-15 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：:Marine ammonia oxidising bacteria were enriched by incubation of sea water, amended with ammonium sulphate, and subsequent subculture in liquid inorganic medium. PCR primers were designed to be specific for rDNA sequences from ammonia oxidisers belonging to the beta-sub-group of the proteobacteria. These primers were ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： McCaig AE,Embley TM,Prosser JI

更新日期：1994-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous study [DeVault et al. (1991) Mol. Microbiol. 5, 2503-2509] suggested that growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in glucose-containing medium represses algD gene transcription. In this study, growth of P. aeruginosa in rich medium containing glucose or gluconate increased alginate production and algD transcriptio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ma JF,Phibbs PV,Hassett DJ

更新日期：1997-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the regulatory mechanism governing antifungal metabolite biosynthesis, two kinds of global regulator genes in Pseudomonas sp. M18, an rpoS and an rsmA gene, were cloned and mutated by inserting with an aacC1 cassette, respectively. Two mutants showed the same regulatory mode with repression of phenazine...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ge Y,Yang S,Fang Y,Yang R,Mou D,Cui J,Wen L

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phyCg gene encoding a new phytase from Citrobacter gillenii was optimized, synthesized, cloned and expressed in Pichia pastoris. Analysis of the amino acid sequence of the enzyme showed that it belongs to the histidine acid phosphatase family. The amino acid sequence of the PhyCg phytase has the highest homology (...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tkachenko AA,Kalinina AN,Borshchevskaya LN,Sineoky SP,Gordeeva TL

更新日期：2020-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The Chaetomium globosum strain F0142, which was isolated from barnyard grass, showed potent disease control efficacy against rice blast (Magnaporthe grisea) and wheat leaf rust (Puccinia recondita). Two antifungal substances were purified from broth from this organism and identified as chaetoviridins A and B. Chaetovi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Park JH,Choi GJ,Jang KS,Lim HK,Kim HT,Cho KY,Kim JC

更新日期：2005-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The RcsCDB (Rcs) phosphorelay system regulates capsule synthesis, flagella production and other cellular activities in several enteric bacteria. This system consists of three proteins: the sensor RcsC, the cognate response regulator RcsB and the histidine-containing phosphotransfer protein RcsD (YojN), which is hypoth...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pescaretti Mde L,Morero R,Delgado MA

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystalline 3-methylaspartase (EC 4.3.1.2) from Escherichia coli strain YG1002 that had been isolated from soil was characterized. The enzyme activity was induced when the organism was grown statically on medium containing (S)-glutamic acid. Its molecular mass is about 84 kDa, and it may be composed of two identical s...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Asano Y,Kato Y

更新日期：1994-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This review describes the factors which are currently recognized as being central to the virulence of the human pathogen, Vibrio vulnificus. This estuarine/marine bacterium occurs in high numbers in molluscan shellfish, primarily oysters, and its ingestion in raw oysters results in a ca. 60% mortality in those persons...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Linkous DA,Oliver JD

更新日期：1999-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Trehalase was studied in Schizosaccharomyces pombe cells growing vegetatively on minimal medium and in sporulating cultures. Acid trehalase activity, measured at pH 4.2, was absent in vegetative cells and occurred only in asci, indicating that this activity represented the sporulation-specific trehalase reported previ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： De Virgilio C,Müller J,Boller T,Wiemken A

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high-pathogenicity island (Yen HPI) of Yersinia enterocolitica biogroup (BG) 1B strains is associated with mouse virulence. Three repeated sequences are clustered on the A+T-rich part of the Yen HPI downstream of the fyuA yersiniabactin receptor gene in Y. enterocolitica O:8 strains WA-314 and 8081. In addition to...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Rakin A,Schubert S,Guilvout I,Carniel E,Heesemann J

更新日期：2000-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bradyrhizobium japonicum has two types of flagella. One has thin filaments consisting of the 33-kDa flagellins FliCI and FliCII (FliCI-II) and the other has thick filaments consisting of the 65-kDa flagellins FliC1, FliC2, FliC3, and FliC4 (FliC1-4). To investigate the roles of each flagellum in competition for nodula...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Althabegoiti MJ,Covelli JM,Pérez-Giménez J,Quelas JI,Mongiardini EJ,López MF,López-García SL,Lodeiro AR

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2918 bp sequence coding for the orotidine-5'-monophosphate decarboxylase enzyme (OMPD) was isolated from the genome of Myrothecium gramineum. This sequence was analysed and, remarkably, it is the first OMPD gene of a Sordariomycete that has an intron. The gene codes for an enzyme of 282 amino acids. The nucleotide s...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： De Maeseneire SL,De Groeve MR,Dauvrin T,De Mey M,Soetaert W,Vandamme EJ

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella pertussis is the causative agent of whooping cough. Traditional vaccines against this disease are inherently reactogenic, thus research is currently focussed on the production of less reactive, acellular vaccines. Expression of candidate antigens for these vaccines in Escherichia coli would be preferable, h...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Smith AM,Yan H,Groves N,Dalla Pozza T,Walker MJ

更新日期：2000-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An internal segment of the penicillin-binding protein gene, pbpA, of Streptomyces griseus was amplified from genomic DNA using the polymerase chain reaction and used as a hybridization probe to isolate the complete gene from a cosmid library. pbpA encodes a 485 amino acid sequence that conserves three motifs of PBPs, ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jiang H,Kendrick KE

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrating short DNA fragments at the correct leader-repeat junction is key to successful CRISPR-Cas memory formation. The Cas1-2 proteins are responsible to carry out this process. However, the CRISPR adaptation process additionally requires a DNA element adjacent to the CRISPR array, called leader, to facilitate ef...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kieper SN,Almendros C,Brouns SJJ

更新日期：2019-06-01 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：:For the establishment of a diagnostic tool for mycobacterial species, a part of the dnaA gene was amplified and sequenced from clinically relevant 27 mycobacterial species as well as 49 clinical isolates. Sequence variability in the amplified segment of the dnaA gene allowed the differentiation of all species except f...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mukai T,Miyamoto Y,Yamazaki T,Makino M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type IV secretion systems are employed by a wide variety of Gram-negative microorganisms for the translocation of macromolecules across the cell envelope. The translocated substrates (proteins, protein-DNA complexes and DNA) are as diverse as the organisms on the donor and recipient side of the translocation process. ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Baron C

更新日期：2005-12-15 00:00:00