Bacillus cereus and its food poisoning toxins.

abstract：:The marine foodborne enteropathogen, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, has four putative catalase genes. Function of the katG-homologous genes, katG1(VPA0768) and katG2(VPA0453), was examined using gene deletion mutants, and compared with those of the katE-homologous genes, katE1(VPA1418) and katE2(VPA0305). Bacterial growth o...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yu SC,Fen SY,Chien CL,Wong HC

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, motile and slightly curved rod-shaped bacterium (BFLP-4(T)) was isolated from the faeces of wild seahorses (Hippocampus guttulatus) captured in northwest Spain (Toralla, Galicia). Strain BFLP-4(T) grew at 10-35 degrees C and pH 5-9 (optimally at 20 degrees C and pH 7.2) and at...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Balcázar JL,Pintado J,Planas M

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：:Binding of meningitis-causing Escherichia coli K1 to human brain microvascular endothelial cells (HBMEC) contributes to traversal of the blood-brain barrier, which occurs in part by the mannose-sensitive binding of FimH. In this study, we showed that FimH also binds to HBMEC, independent of mannose, and identified ATP...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Shin S,Kim KS

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:The genome of Helicobacter pylori 26695 has been sequenced and the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) O sidechain of this strain has been shown to express both Lewis x and Lewis y units. To determine the role of HP0159 and HP1416, genes recognized as rfaJ homologs and implicated in LPS synthesis, isogenic mutants of H. pylori 2...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Moran AP,Shiberu B,Ferris JA,Knirel YA,Senchenkova SN,Perepelov AV,Jansson PE,Goldberg JB

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A structural characterization of polysaccharides extracted from the aposymbiotically cultured photobiont of the lichen Ramalina gracilis was carried out in order to compare them with those previously found in the symbiotic thallus. The photobiont was isolated from thallus fragments, following the method of Yamamoto, a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cordeiro LM,Carbonero ER,Sassaki GL,Reis RA,Stocker-Wörgötter E,Gorin PA,Iacomini M

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown here by flow cytometry that Bacillus subtilis YabA negatively regulates the timing of replication initiation. When the level of YabA was reduced, replication began at a decreased cell mass and when the level was increased, initiation was delayed. Synchrony of replication initiation was also disrupted at lo...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hayashi M,Ogura Y,Harry EJ,Ogasawara N,Moriya S

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deferoxamine (DFO), an FDA-approved iron chelator used for treatment of iron poisoning, affects bacteria as iron availability is intimately connected with growth and several virulence determinants. However, little is known about the effect on oral pathogens. In this study, the effect of DFO on Porphyromonas gingivalis...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Moon JH,Herr Y,Kim SW,Lee JY

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA microarray technology was used to survey changes in gene expression in Pseudomonas fluorescens after mitomycin C treatment. As expected, genes associated with the SOS response were upregulated, such as those encoding the recombination protein RecA, DNA repair protein RecN, excinuclease ABC subunit A UvrA, and the ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jin H,Retallack DM,Stelman SJ,Hershberger CD,Ramseier T

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans is an extremely thermophilic, Gram-positive bacterium growing on carbon monoxide (CO) as single carbon and energy source and producing only H(2) and CO(2). Carbon monoxide dehydrogenase is a key enzyme for CO metabolism. The carbon monoxide dehydrogenase genes cooF and cooS from C. hy...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： González JM,Robb FT

更新日期：2000-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of Escherichia coli is inhibited by an antibiotic compound, azaserine (O-diazoacetyl-L-serine). Previous studies revealed the biochemical properties of azaserine, which involves inhibition of various enzymatic reactions as well as introduction of DNA breakage. However, genetically, nothing has been elucidat...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Koyanagi T,Katayama T,Suzuki H,Kumagai H

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-component systems are widespread in nature and constitute the most common mechanism of transmembrane signal transduction in bacteria. Recently, a functionally active two-component system consisting of malS and malR genes possibly involved in the expression of a C4-dicarboxylate transporter system (dctAB operon) wa...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Papa R,Rippa V,Duilio A

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The xylanase gene of Streptomyces flavogriseus was cloned in pUC8 plasmid and expressed in Escherichia coli lysogenic for lambda cI857. lambda-Induced lysis of E. coli at 42 degrees C allowed efficient release of cloned enzyme activity in extracellular environment. The xylanase gene was located in the 0.8-kb HindIII f...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Srivastava R,Ali SS,Srivastava BS

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protease (protease A) was successfully purified from the extracellular proteins of Vibrio parahaemolyticus no. 93, a clinical strain carrying neither tdh nor trh genes, using phenyl-Sepharose CL-4B hydrophobic interaction chromatography. The molecular mass of protease A was 43 kDa using gel filtration, which was in ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lee CY,Cheng MF,Yu MS,Pan MJ

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:mlrA is the only microcystin-degrading gene detected in Sphingomonas sp. MJ-PV. The gene has an extremely rare nucleotide sequence and homologous genes have not yet been discovered in the DNA database. We discovered the existence of a gene homologous to mlrA in new microcystin-degrading bacteria, MD-1 and Y2. These st...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Saito T,Okano K,Park HD,Itayama T,Inamori Y,Neilan BA,Burns BP,Sugiura N

更新日期：2003-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a food-borne pathogen and a leading cause of gastroenteritis in humans. Recently, we sequenced a phage-type DT108 strain (L945) and found reads with high similarity to both Salmonella typhi strain CT18 plasmid pHCM2 and bacteriophage SSU5. In this study, we completely sequenc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Octavia S,Sara J,Lan R

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative pathogen and the major cause of mortality in patients with cystic fibrosis. The mechanisms that P. aeruginosa strains use to regulate intracellular zinc have an effect on infection, antibiotic resistance and the propensity to form biofilms. However, zinc homeostasis in P. aeru...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Davies CB,Harrison MD,Huygens F

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Salmonella enteritidis expressed a novel porin with a subunit size of 35.5 kDa as shown by SDS-PAGE. This protein was expressed as a major outer membrane protein (MOMP) when grown on nutrient agar, McConkey agar or blood agar, or in Tris-succinate medium; but was only produced in trace amounts when strains ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chart H,Frost JA,Rowe B

更新日期：1993-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A cytosolic chitinase (20 kDa by SDS-PAGE) was partially purified from Neurospora crassa. Linear kinetics for enzyme activity were obtained using the substrate [3H]-labelled regenerated chitin, the preparation yielding an apparent Km of 0.965 mg ml-1 and a Vmax of 3.83 micrograms GlcNAc min-1 (mg protein)-1. The enzym...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： McNab R,Glover LA

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current studies, we used Lineweaver-Burke analysis to examine the role of 1-hydroxybenzotriazole (HBT) in the oxidation of various compounds by laccase from Trametes versicolor. At low concentrations, HBT was a competitive inhibitor of the oxidation, but at high concentrations, it was a noncompetitive inhibitor...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hirai H,Shibata H,Kawai S,Nishida T

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile, a Gram-positive spore-forming anaerobe, causes infections in humans ranging from mild diarrhoeal to potentially life-threatening pseudomembranous colitis. The availability of genomic information for a range of C. difficile strains affords researchers the opportunity to better understand not only...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jain S,Graham RL,McMullan G,Ternan NG

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphologically similar species such as Chinese black truffles and Tuber melanosporum were typed by restriction length polymorphism of internal transcribed spacers. This analysis together with sequence comparison revealed the presence of high genetic variability among fruit bodies collected in China. Selection of prim...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Paolocci F,Rubini A,Granetti B,Arcioni S

更新日期：1997-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding Aquifex aeolicus (Aae) DNA polymerase was expressed under the control of the trp promoter on a high-copy plasmid, pTRPNS, in Escherichia coli. The expressed enzyme was purified 11-fold with a 13.8% yield and a specific activity of 2268.3 U mg(-1). The optimum pH of the enzyme was 6.8-7.2. The optimal...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chang JR,Choi JJ,Kim HK,Kwon ST

更新日期：2001-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:IS1(SB) and its two variants were identified as the major and minor IS1 elements in Shigella boydii. The nucleotide sequences of IS1(SB), IS1(O157:H7) from Escherichia coli O157:H7 and IS1F from E. coli K12 suggest that these IS1 elements had been horizontally transferred among S. boydii and E. coli O157:H7 and K12. T...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hsu WB,Chen JH

更新日期：2003-05-28 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：:Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) belong to phylum Glomeromycota, an early divergent fungal lineage forming symbiosis with plant roots. Many reports have documented that bacteria are intimately associated with AMF mycelia in the soil. However, the role of these bacteria remains unclear and their diversity within intr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Iffis B,St-Arnaud M,Hijri M

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of nutritional and physical stress on sporulation, conidial germination and vegetative biomass of Ophiocordyceps sinensis, one of the most important medicinal fungi in China and now globally, was evaluated using a two-stage culture method. All the treatments, except nutrient deprivation, enhanced conidia...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ren SY,Yao YJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Falcipain-2A, the cysteine protease of Plasmodium falciparum has been proposed as a good drug target. This study evaluated the suitability of Plasmodium berghei as the animal model and reports the first functional expression and characterization of the falcipain-2A orthologue, berghepain-2. Comparative studies reveale...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chan C,Goh LL,Sim TS

更新日期：2005-08-15 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