Purification and partial characterization of an antigen specific to Lactobacillus brevis strains with beer spoilage activity.

abstract：:To understand their mechanism of antimicrobial activity against Gram-negative bacteria, ostrich beta-defensins, ostricacins-1 and 2 (Osp-1 and Osp-2), were compared with those of sheep myeloid antimicrobial peptide (SMAP)-29 and human neutrophil peptide (HNP)-1, well-characterized sheep alpha-helical and human alpha-d...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sugiarto H,Yu PL

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SPC(3) is a multiple antigen peptide derived from the V(3) loop of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) envelope (Env). It exerts a potent anti-HIV activity whereas it alters neither Env expression nor binding to CD(4). Here, SPC(3) binding characteristics, its subsequent intracellular fate and the fact that it inhibite...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Barbouche R,Papandréou MJ,Miquelis R,Guieu R,Fenouillet E

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Burkholderia comprises over 28 species and species-specific, recA-based polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests are available for several species, but not for some soil-inhabiting species including B. fungorum. Previous analysis of several novel rhizospheric, environmental isolates belonging to the B. cepacia ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chan CH,Stead DE,Coutts RH

更新日期：2003-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The precise molecular mechanism of Staphylococcus aureus beta-toxin inactivation by the serotype F triple-converting phage phi 42, phi A1 and phi A3 was investigated. Sequence analysis of the phi 42 (attP) and Staphylococcus aureus (attB) attachment sites and the left (attL) and right (attR) chromosomal/bacteriophage ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Carroll JD,Cafferkey MT,Coleman DC

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogenotrophic methanogens live in a synthrophic relationship with the human gut microbiota as the terminal part of the anaerobic food chain. Methanobrevibacter smithii of the Methanobacteriales is the prevailing archaeal species. Recently, methylotrophic archaea of the novel order Methanomassiliicoccales were isola...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Vanderhaeghen S,Lacroix C,Schwab C

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence and dissemination of colistin resistance among Gram-negative bacteria is a global problem. We initiated a surveillance of colistin-resistant and -susceptible Escherichia coli in raw meats from chicken in Nepal. A total of 180 meat samples were collected; from these, 60 E. coli strains were isolated (33.3...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Joshi PR,Thummeepak R,Leungtongkam U,Pooarlai R,Paudel S,Acharya M,Dhital S,Sitthisak S

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：:The molecular mechanisms controlling expression of the long polar fimbriae 2 (Lpf2) of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 were evaluated. Primer extension was used to locate the lpfA2 transcriptional start site in EHEC strain EDL933 at 171 bp upstream of the lpfA2 start codon. Semi-quantitative RT-PCR d...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Arenas-Hernández MM,Rojas-López M,Medrano-López A,Nuñez-Reza KJ,Puente JL,Martínez-Laguna Y,Torres AG

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Bacillus subtilis, carbon catabolite control is mediated by the regulatory protein CcpA. In addition to loss of catabolite repression, ccpA mutants exhibit a severe growth defect. They are not able to grow with glucose and ammonium as single sources of carbon and nitrogen, respectively. Only ccpA mutant strains car...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ludwig H,Stülke J

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal DNA from 62 strains of 'Campylobacter upsaliensis' from blood and faecal specimens of patients in Australia, Belgium, South Africa and England, and seven dog isolates from England and Sweden were examined. DNA base compositions of 21 strains were 35 +/- 1 mol% G + C. Electrophoresis of HaeIII DNA digests g...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Owen RJ,Hernandez J

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen of the 18 Vibrio cholerae rough strains isolated from hospitalised diarrhoea patients were found to contain O1 serotype-specific (wbe) genes and all currently known virulence genes. Expression of the regulatory element ToxR was evident in these strains. Cholera toxin production ability of the rough strains was...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： De K,Ramamurthy T,Faruque SM,Yamasaki S,Takeda Y,Nair GB,Nandy RK

更新日期：2004-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A physical map of the Enterococcus faecium ATCC19434 chromosome was constructed by NotI, I-CeuI and Sse8387I. The chromosome was a circular DNA of 2600 kb in size, and contained six rRNA operons (rrn). The locations and orientations of the six rrn operons and 24 different determinants were mapped. Genomes of three add...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Oana K,Okimura Y,Kawakami Y,Hayashida N,Shimosaka M,Okazaki M,Hayashi T,Ohnishi M

更新日期：2002-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes encoding transferrin-binding proteins (TBPs) 1 and 2 of Neisseria meningitidis and N. gonorrhoeae were used as model loci in a novel method of cloning (twin N-terminal polymerase chain reaction; TNT-PCR) involving amplification between the 5' ends of two genes. Primers were based on N-terminal amino-acid seq...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wilton J,Ala'Aldeen D,Palmer HM,Borriello SP

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The fatty acid composition during the transformation of Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigotes into metacyclic trypomastigotes (metacyclogenesis) was analysed by gas-liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry. Significant qualitative and quantitative changes in the fatty acid composition occurred during incubation of epimas...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Esteves MG,Gonzales-Perdomo M,Alviano CS,Angluster J,Goldenberg S

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Siderophore production by entomo- and phytopathogens, plus the cross-utilization of these siderophores and expression of outer membrane receptor proteins (OMRPs) by Diamondback moth (DBM) gut bacterial strains, were all examined. All the tested strains grew in the presence of 2, 2'-dipyridyl, and the Brachybacterium s...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Indiragandhi P,Anandham R,Madhaiyan M,Kim GH,Sa T

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A compound with siderophore activity was purified by successive column and thin layer chromatographic procedures from Dowex 1 x 8 extracts of culture supernatants of Vibrio parahaemolyticus AQ 3354. The strain synthesized the compound in culture media containing less than 2 microM added FeCl3. Hydrolysis of the compou...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yamamoto S,Fujita Y,Okujo N,Minami C,Matsuura S,Shinoda S

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipid modification and processing of truncated mutants of the colicin A lysis protein were observed after overproduction by Escherichia coli bacteria, but at a rate far slower than that of the wild-type. The unmodified precursor form of the mutants was stable over hour(s). The truncated mutants provoked lethality,...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cavard D

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a putative N-acetylmuramyl-l-alanine amidase gene (bb0666) was identified in the genome of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. This protein shares c. 30% identity with its counterparts from other bacteria. Reverse transcriptase-PCR analysis showed that bb0666 along with two other genes (bb...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yang Y,Li C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin B subunit (EtxB) has been proposed as a potential protein carrier for the delivery of heterologous peptides to target cells, particularly for the oral delivery of epitopes to the mucosal immune system. In this study, two extensions to the C-terminus of EtxB were genetically eng...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Marcello A,Loregian A,Palù G,Hirst TR

更新日期：1994-03-15 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：:Matrix proteins are the driving force of assembly of enveloped viruses. Their main function is to interact with and polymerize at cellular membranes and link other viral components to the matrix-membrane complex resulting in individual particle shapes and ensuring the integrity of the viral particle. Although matrix p...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Timmins J,Ruigrok RW,Weissenhorn W

更新日期：2004-04-15 00:00:00

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：:Strains of the filamentous gliding bacterium Vitreoscilla, LB13 and C1, are shown to be highly sensitive to UV-A (320-400 nm), with an LD50 of less than 20 kJ m(-2). Vitreoscilla LB13 can be protected from UV-A by including superoxide dismutase and catalase, separately or in combination, during the exposure, indicatin...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Biggs LF,Moody AJ

更新日期：2003-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A relatively simple, rapid sample preparation method has been developed for analysis of low-molecular mass compounds present in soluble coal products generated by microbial coal solubilizing agents. Acidification of the sample followed by direct extraction into hexanes is coupled with gas chromatography/mass spectrome...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Toth-Allen J,Torzilli AP,Isbister JD

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid composition and structure of the peptidoglycan from Heliobacillus mobilis was determined by one- and two-dimensional thin-layer chromatography of completely and partially hydrolysed cell wall preparations. The structure was found to be of the A3 gamma type, with L,L-diaminopimelate in position 3, D-alan...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pickett MW,Weiss N,Kelly DJ

更新日期：1994-09-15 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：:Changes in composition of the principal low molecular mass thiols of Leishmania donovani were monitored during the transformation of promastigotes, first to stationary phase metacyclic forms and then to amastigotes. No consistent variation in the thiol composition of the parasite which could account for the known incr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Weldrick DP,Chodacka B,Vogt R,Steenkamp DJ

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the generality of efficient double-strand break repair and damage-induced mutagenesis in hyperthermophilic archaea, we systematically measured the effects of five DNA-damaging agents on Sulfolobus acidocaldarius and compared the results to those obtained for Escherichia coli under corresponding conditio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Reilly MS,Grogan DW

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In the transition to the post-petroleum economy, there is a growing demand for novel enzymes with high process performances to replace traditional chemistry with a more 'green' approach. To date, microorganisms encompass the richest source of industrial biocatalysts, but the Earth-living microbiota remains largely unt...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Berini F,Casciello C,Marcone GL,Marinelli F

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel vip3-type gene named vip3LB has been isolated from Bacillus thuringiensis strain BUPM95. The corresponding secreted vegetative insecticidal protein was active against the lepidopteran insect Ephestia kuehniella. The vip3LB gene was shown, for the first time, to be carried by the large plasmid containing the cr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mesrati LA,Tounsi S,Jaoua S

更新日期：2005-03-15 00:00:00