Anthrax lethal toxin-induced mitogenic response of human T-cells.

abstract：:The 181 251 bp accessory plasmid pSmeSM11b of Sinorhizobium meliloti strain SM11, belonging to a dominant indigenous S. meliloti subpopulation identified during a long-term field release experiment, was sequenced. This plasmid has 166 coding sequences (CDSs), 42% of which encode proteins with homology to proteins of k...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Stiens M,Schneiker S,Pühler A,Schlüter A

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Halobacillus trueperi accumulates glycine betaine under condition of high osmolarity. A fragment of the glycine betaine transporter betH gene was obtained from the genome of H. trueperi with degenerate primers. Through Southern blot hybridization and inverse PCR, a 5.1 kb EcoRI fragment containing the complete betH ge...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lu W,Zhao B,Feng D,Yang S

更新日期：2004-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of cholesteryl glucosides and high levels of lysophospholipids are elements making the cell wall of Helicobacter pylori unique. In this study, we have investigated the relationship between lysophospholipid content and cholesteryl glucoside composition of variants of 6 clinical isolates. The samples were c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tannaes T,Bukholm G

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hybridized DNA fragment was cloned as a 7.6-kb fragment from Streptomyces lavendulae KCCS0263 using a 1.9-kb SacI-XbaI DNA fragment from S. cellulosae as a probe. The latter fragment encoded a beta-lactamase which can bind blue dextran. The hybridized region was reduced to a 2.8-kb KpnI-BclI fragment and the nucleot...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sendouda A,Urabe H,Ogawara H

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A serum-susceptible, guinea-pig chamber-passaged, laboratory strain (BS4 (agar)) of Neisseria gonorrhoeae was converted to serum resistance by incubation with cytidine 5-monophospho-N-acetyl neuraminic acid (CMP-NANA) and examined by electron microscopy after staining with ruthenium-red. In contrast to serum susceptib...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fox AJ,Curry A,Rowland PL,Lancaster S,Jones DM,Parsons NJ,Cole JA,Smith H

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified, cloned and characterized a formerly unknown protein from Streptomyces lividans spores. The deduced protein belongs to a novel member of the metallophosphatase superfamily and contains a phosphatase domain and predicted binding sites for divalent ions. Very close relatives are encoded in the genomic...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lamp J,Weber M,Cingöz G,Ortiz de Orué Lucana D,Schrempf H

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recombinant lipase, CWB-LipB, localized on the Bacillus subtilis cell surface and retaining lipase activity was unstable and not accumulated in a high yield. To improve the accumulation, we examined cell wall binding protease (wprA)- and/or sigma D (sigD)-deficient mutants, and also a NprE and AprA protease-deficien...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kobayashi G,Toida J,Akamatsu T,Yamamoto H,Shida T,Sekiguchi J

更新日期：2000-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mini-Tn10luxABcam/Ptac-ATS was constructed in order to develop a luciferase-transducing bacteriophage for detecting Escherichia coli O157:H7. The transposon was designed to deliver a 3.6-kb insertion that confers n-decanal-dependent bioluminescence and resistance to chloramphenicol and was constructed using mini-Tn10c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Waddell TE,Poppe C

更新日期：2000-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a glnII (encoding glutamine synthetase II) PCR selective screening, a Frankia ACN14a gene library clone was isolated. A derived glnII-hybridising 2.7-kb HindIII subclone was characterised. Identities of 95% and 93% were observed, respectively, with the corresponding Frankia CpI1 glnI and glnII regions. A variabl...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cournoyer B,Lavire C

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic resistance genes might be maintained by selection pressures different from those which are responsible for initially selecting resistant bacteria. This possibility was suggested from a comparison of oral commensal streptococci isolated from healthy people not taking antibiotics. Resistance frequencies were ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Díaz-Mejía JJ,Carbajal-Saucedo A,Amábile-Cuevas CF

更新日期：2002-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A search of the complete genome sequence of the halophilic archaeon Halobacterium salinarum failed to identify a gene homologous to the thymidylate synthase (thyA) gene present in the closely related Haloferax volcanii. To understand the source of thymidine synthesis in Hbt. salinarum, a genomic library of Hbt. salina...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Giladi M,Bitan-Banin G,Mevarech M,Ortenberg R

更新日期：2002-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:It is often claimed that Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was secretive about his methods. However, closer examination of his letters suggests that this reputation was not always deserved. Some letters were not published in the Royal Society Proceedings, and others were edited. This paper describes the repetition of his experim...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Robertson LA

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To increase knowledge on haem biosynthesis in filamentous fungi like Aspergillus niger, pathway-specific gene expression in response to haem and haem intermediates was analysed. This analysis showed that iron, 5'-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) and possibly haem control haem biosynthesis mostly via modulating expression of ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Franken AC,Lokman BC,Ram AF,van den Hondel CA,de Weert S,Punt PJ

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydophila pneumoniae infection is associated with a range of diseases including pneumonia, asthma and heart disease. Although an obligate intracellular pathogen, high levels of antigen-specific antibody are induced and serology is frequently used to diagnose these infections. Proteins targeted by the humoral respo...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cunningham AF,Ward ME

更新日期：2003-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic version of the ligA gene encoding the NAD-dependent DNA ligase from the Arctic bacterium Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis was substituted for its homolog in the chromosome of Mycobacterium smegmatis. The resulting recombinant strain grew identically to the parent strain at permissive temperatures but failed ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pinto CT,Nano FE

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila, an intracellular parasite of macrophages and protozoa, requires iron for extra- and intracellular growth. In a new screen of a mutant library of L. pneumophila for strains defective for growth on agar media lacking supplemental iron, seven mutants were obtained. All of the mutants had a disrupt...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Naylor J,Cianciotto NP

更新日期：2004-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We devised a screening method to obtain basidiomycetous fungi capable of degrading dioxins. About 200 fungal strains were selected from more than 1500 strains by their ability to decolorize Remazol brilliant blue R dye as an indicator. To attempt to eliminate the factor of dioxin sorption by mycelia, we prepared two s...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sato A,Watanabe T,Watanabe Y,Harazono K,Fukatsu T

更新日期：2002-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The stimulatory effect of heme on growth of Bacteroides fragilis, an anaerobic human pathogen, was strongly inhibited by hemopexin, an avid (Kd<1 pM) heme-binding plasma protein. Both rabbit and human hemopexins were bacteriostatic for a limited period of time, suggesting an adaptation by B. fragilis to heme-limited g...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Rocha ER,Smith A,Smith CJ,Brock JH

更新日期：2001-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The mercury (II) ion is toxic and is usually detoxified in Bacteria by reduction to elemental mercury, which is less toxic. This is catalysed by an NAD(P)H-dependent mercuric reductase (EC 1.16.1.1). Here, we present strong evidence that Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath) - a methanotrophic member of the Gammaproteobacte...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Boden R,Murrell JC

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated and characterized nodA genes from photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic rhizobia nodulating the legume genus Aeschynomene, and found that the nodA sequence from photosynthetic stem-nodulating bacteria was phylogenetically distant from the other already described nodA genes. Characterization of the photosyn...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Chaintreuil C,Boivin C,Dreyfus B,Giraud E

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria have the exquisite ability to maintain a precise diameter, cell length, and shape. The dimensions of bacteria size and shape are a classical metric in the distinction of bacterial species. Much of what we know about the particular morphology of any given species is the result of investigations of planktonic c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Justice SS,Harrison A,Becknell B,Mason KM

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis (S. suis) is an emerging zoonotic agent that exhibits high level resistance to classic antibiotics and a heavy burden in the swine industry. Therefore alternative antibacterial agents need to be developed. A novel endolysin derived from the S. suis temperate phage phi5218, termed Ply5218, was identi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhang H,Zhang C,Wang H,Yan YX,Sun J

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report for the first time the cloning and characterisation of a protozoal enzyme involved in plant cell wall polysaccharide degradation. A cDNA library was constructed from the ruminal protozoan Polyplastron multivesiculatum and a stable clone expressing xylanase activity was isolated. The encoded enzyme belongs to...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Devillard E,Newbold CJ,Scott KP,Forano E,Wallace RJ,Jouany JP,Flint HJ

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-six strains of S. thermophilus were examined for their plasmid content. Thirteen strains were found to contain one or two plasmids ranging in size from 2.1 to 7.4 kb. DNA-DNA hybridization analysis revealed the presence of five distinct groups of DNA homology. The complete nucleotide sequence of plasmid pST1 (A...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Janzen T,Kleinschmidt J,Neve H,Geis A

更新日期：1992-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:There are no published methods on plasmid isolation from Peptostreptococcus spp., therefore two methods of plasmid isolation from this genera were analysed: the boiling and alkaline-SDS methods. Plasmid DNA was not recovered by the boiling method, however, with the alkaline-SDS method, cryptic plasmid DNA was detected...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ng LK,Dillon JA

更新日期：1989-10-01 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：:To determine whether the luxA-luxB reporter system is suitable as a sensitive reporter for rapid real-time measurements of alpha-toxin gene (cpa) expression in Clostridium perfringens, and to widen the range of alpha-toxin-producing C. perfringens strains examined with respect to cpa expression during growth, the repo...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Phillips-Jones MK

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetotactic bacteria are microorganisms that respond to magnetic fields. We studied the surface ultrastructure of uncultured magnetotactic cocci collected from a marine environment by transmission electron microscopy using freeze-fracture and freeze-etching. All bacteria revealed a Gram-negative cell wall. Many bact...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Freitas F,Keim CN,Kachar B,Farina M,Lins U

更新日期：2003-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactic acid bacteria were screened for methional production from 4-methylthio-2-ketobutanoate. Only Lactococcus lactis IFPL730 produced high amounts of methional. It was demonstrated that production of this compound was an exclusively enzymatic reaction. The present work describes for the first time that L. lactis can...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Amárita F,Fernández-Esplá D,Requena T,Pelaez C

更新日期：2001-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:CheY, the response regulator of the chemotaxis system in Escherichia coli, can be regulated by two covalent modifications - phosphorylation and acetylation. Both covalent modifications are involved in chemotaxis, but the mechanism and role of the acetylation are still obscure. While acetylation was shown to repress th...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Li R,Chen P,Gu J,Deng JY

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00