Bioavailability and biodegradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soils.

abstract：:The objective of this work was to analyze the effects of thermosonication (TS) on induction of a viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state in Salmonella Typhimurium and to examine incubation factors affecting subsequent resuscitation of cells. A TS treatment of 380 W at 53°C for 30 min induced the VBNC state in S. Typhim...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Liao H,Jiang L,Zhang R

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rainbow trout gastroenteritis has been related to the accumulation of segmented filamentous bacteria in the digestive tract of fish, which presents lethargy, reduced appetite and accumulation of mucoid faeces. Some authors associate the comparison of illness with the presence of viable filaments, which produce and rel...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Manzano M,Giusto C,Iacumin L,Patthey C,Cecchini F,Fontanillas R,Comi G

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new Volvariella volvacea gene encoding a carbohydrate esterase (CE) family 4 acetyl xylan esterase (AXE) (designated as VvaxeII) was cloned and characterized. The coded polypeptide had 253 amino acid residues, with the first 19 serving as a secretion signal peptide. The VvaxeII transcript levels were high when the f...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Liu X,Ding S

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A suite of six sterols, lanosterol, lanost-8(9)-en-3beta-ol, 4, 4-dimethylcholesta-8(14),24-dien-3beta-ol, 4, 4-dimethylcholest-8(14)-en-3beta-ol, 4-methylcholesta-8(14), 24-dien-3beta-ol and 4-methylcholest-8(14)-en-3beta-ol, were identified in the psychrophilic methanotrophic bacterium, Methylosphaera hansonii. Thei...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Schouten S,Bowman JP,Rijpstra WI,Sinninghe Damsté JS

更新日期：2000-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to illustrate the relative pervasiveness of Borderline Oxacillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (BORSA) and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in community and food of animal origin and their relationship with other genetic determinants. Staphylococcus aureus isolates were su...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zehra A,Gulzar M,Singh R,Kaur S,Gill JPS

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymerase chain reaction was used to search for hepatitis B virus (HBV)-DNA sequences in the sera of HBsAg-negative Senegalese patients suffering from liver cirrhosis or liver cancer. Amplified HBV-DNA sequences were detected by hybridization with a digoxigenin-labelled HBV-DNA probe. HBV-DNA was detected in 17% ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Coursaget P,Le Cann P,Leboulleux D,Diop MT,Bao O,Coll AM

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Endopolygalacturonases (endoPGs) of some phytopathogens are virulent factors for dicots. To investigate the function of the endoPG of Magnaporthe oryzae, a disruption mutant of MGG_08938, the homolog of endoPG found in the genome database of this fungus, was generated. The pathogenicity, mycelial growth, and appressor...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mori T,Jung HY,Maejima K,Hirata H,Himeno M,Hamamoto H,Namba S

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:Multidrug resistance plasmids carrying the bla(CMY-2) gene have been identified in Salmonella enterica serovars Typhimurium and Newport from the United States. This gene confers decreased susceptibility to ceftriaxone, and is most often found in strains with concomitant resistance to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, strep...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Doublet B,Carattoli A,Whichard JM,White DG,Baucheron S,Chaslus-Dancla E,Cloeckaert A

更新日期：2004-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of Trypanosoma cruzi kinetoplast DNA by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification is a potentially powerful tool for the parasitological diagnosis of Chagas' disease. We have applied this technique in a field situation in Bolivia, where 45 children from a primary school were subjected to serological ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wincker P,Bosseno MF,Britto C,Yaksic N,Cardoso MA,Morel CM,Brenière SF

更新日期：1994-12-15 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：:Bacteria communicate with one another and with their host using chemical signalling molecules. This phenomenon is generally described as quorum sensing. A set of primers for PCR detection of Salmonella spp. has been designed using as target the sdiA gene which encodes a signal receptor of the LuxR family. The PCR prod...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Halatsi K,Oikonomou I,Lambiri M,Mandilara G,Vatopoulos A,Kyriacou A

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The agp gene encoding the ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase is involved in cyanobacterial glycogen synthesis and glucosylglycerol formation. By in vitro DNA recombination technology, a mutant with partial deletion of agp gene in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 was constructed. This mutant could not synthesiz...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Miao X,Wu Q,Wu G,Zhao N

更新日期：2003-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Researchers studying both cellular and viral disease agents in the laboratory have become infected since the early days of microbiology 150 years ago. However, in the early 21st century, new concerns about bioweapons being used to generate terror and also with a series of newly emerging or newly understood disease-cau...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Silver S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was speculated that the increase of the UDP-GlcNAc pool observed with chloramphenicol can modulate the residual PEP:UDP-GlcNAc-enolpyruvate activity of fosfomycin-treated cells. This provided an explanation on how chloramphenicol can insure the formation of enough UDP-MurNAc-pentapeptide to sustain peptidoglycan sy...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mengin-Lecreulx D,van Heijenoort J

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the iron-dependent regulation of the psbA gene, encoding the enzyme L-ornithine N(5)-oxygenase in the rhizobacterium Pseudomonas B10. We have cloned and characterized a Pseudomonas B10 gene, designated psbS, required for psbA expression. PsbS is endowed with structural and functional features of e...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Leoni L,Ambrosi C,Petrucca A,Visca P

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) have a long history in industrial processes as food starters and biocontrol agents, and also as producers of high-value compounds. Lactic acid, their main product, is among the most requested chemicals because of its multiple applications, including the synthesis of biodegradable plastic pol...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tarraran L,Mazzoli R

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Great Salt Plains is a 65-km(2) hypersaline habitat of geological origin located in north-central Oklahoma. Contamination of such ecosystems by petroleum compounds is expected from non-point sources and due to increased human activities. Little information exists about the ability of halophilic and halotolerant ba...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nicholson CA,Fathepure BZ

更新日期：2005-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of the pel1 mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were found to contain an extremely low content of cardiolipin, a decreased level of phosphatidylcholine and an increased level of phosphatidylinositol. Disruption of the PEL1 gene in cells containing a null mutation in the CHO1 gene was lethal. Despite its putative ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Janitor M,Obernauerová M,Kohlwein SD,Subík J

更新日期：1996-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Several beta-galactosidase fusion proteins have been constructed containing the entire VP1 protein from foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) [Corchero et al. (1996) J. Biotechnol. in press]. The antigenicity of the major immunodominant site A (13 amino acids in length) within the VP1 protein has been studied in competi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Corchero JL,Villaverde A

更新日期：1996-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial populations produce persister cells that neither grow nor die in the presence of microbicidal antibiotics. Persisters are largely responsible for high levels of biofilm tolerance to antimicrobials, but virtually nothing was known about their biology. Tolerance of Escherichia coli to ampicillin and ofloxacin ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Keren I,Kaldalu N,Spoering A,Wang Y,Lewis K

更新日期：2004-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The mating response of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe is mediated by mating pheromones, M-factor and P-factor, produced by h- and h+ cells, respectively. When the M-factor receptor (Map3) was ectopically expressed in h- cells lacking the P-factor receptor (Mam2), they acquired mating competence in respons...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kitamura K,Nakamura T,Miki F,Shimoda C

更新日期：1996-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia was induced in rats by chronic corticosteroid immunosuppression. The parasite was separated from virtually all contaminating host cells using the technique of unit gravity sedimentation. Cellular contamination was routinely below 0.02%. The same technique allowed partial separation of th...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Taylor MB,Easmon CS

更新日期：1990-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the auto-ecology of a strain of Gigaspora margarita in a commercial inoculum, we found a pair of PCR primers amplifying a sequence of 235 bp diagnostic of the isolate. We designed an oligonucleotide probe based on the DNA sequence. The combination of PCR and the probing successfully detected the diagnos...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yokoyama K,Tateishi T,Marumoto T,Saito M

更新日期：2002-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria carry a number of genes that cause cell growth arrest or cell lysis upon expression. Notably, defective prophages retain many lysis proteins. Here, we identified a novel lytic gene, ydfD, on the Qin prophage segment of the Escherichia coli genome. YdfD lyses 99.9% of cells within 2 h of its induction. The co-...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Masuda H,Awano N,Inouye M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two variants have been isolated from the wild-type Azospirillum lipoferum strain 4B. The first variant, 4V(I), spontaneously emerged from the wild-type at frequencies in the order of 10(-4) to 10(-3) per cell generation. Compared to the wild-type, the 4V(I) variant gained (production of a carotenoid-like pigment, assi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Alexandre G,Bally R

更新日期：1999-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A microorganism which reduces Fe(III) during the fermentation of glucose was isolated from freshwater sediment. The Fe(III) was supplied to enrichment cultures as a soluble complex with the bidentate ligand maltol (3-hydroxy-2-methyl-4-pyrone). Advantages that were afforded by the use of Fe(III)(maltol)3 over previous...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dobbin PS,Carter JP,Garcia-Salamanca San Juan C,von Hobe M,Powell AK,Richardson DJ

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia mallei, the etiologic agent of the disease known as glanders, is primarily a disease affecting horses and is transmitted to humans by direct contact with infected animals. The use of B. mallei as a biological weapon has been reported and currently, there is no vaccine available for either humans or animal...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Whitlock GC,Estes DM,Torres AG

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on second generation sequencing (MiSeq platform, Illumina), we determined the genetic diversity of T4-like bacteriophages of the family Myoviridae by analysing fragments of the major capsid protein gene g23 in the plankton of Lake Baikal. The sampling depth in our study was significantly higher than in those obt...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Potapov S,Belykh O,Krasnopeev A,Gladkikh A,Kabilov M,Tupikin A,Butina T

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To rapidly identify natural isolates of marine bioluminescent bacteria, we developed amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysis (ARDRA) methods. ARDRA, which is based on the restriction patterns of 16S rRNA gene digested with five enzymes (EcoRI, DdeI, HhaI, HinfI, RsaI), clearly distinguished the 14 species of mari...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kita-Tsukamoto K,Wada M,Yao K,Kamiya A,Yoshizawa S,Uchiyama N,Kogure K

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00