General transducing phages like Salmonella phage P22 isolated using a smooth strain of Escherichia coli as host.

abstract：:The choline-containing teichoic and lipoteichoic acids play an important part in cell wall metabolism of Streptococcus pneumoniae. We propose that a choline kinase enzyme has a role in the synthesis of these antigens. The presence of this enzyme was demonstrated in cell free extracts of S. pneumoniae by measuring the ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Whiting GC,Gillespie SH

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now well established that physicochemical properties of exopolysaccharides (EPS) can vary between strains of a given species and according to growth conditions. The EPS production of four strains of Lactobacillus bulgaricus was monitored during growth in milk and in a chemically defined media. All strains, inclu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Petry S,Furlan S,Waghorne E,Saulnier L,Cerning dagger J,Maguin E

更新日期：2003-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial specific primers were used to amplify 23S rRNA genes from a representative strain from each of the 23 serogroups of the pathogenic Leptospira interrogans and 8 strains from 6 serogroups of the non-pathogenic Leptospira biflexa. Only regions of extreme variability, which had been identified on the basis of ho...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Woo TH,Smythe LD,Symonds ML,Norris MA,Dohnt MF,Patel BK

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA uptake in competent Streptococcus pneumoniae was strongly dependent on intracellular pH. Ionophore treatments that either acidified or alkalinized the cytoplasm reduced DNA transport. This indicates that the optimum pH for DNA uptake corresponds to the intracellular pH of competent bacteria which is 8.3 +/- 0.2. I...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Clavé C,Trombe MC

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical and molecular mechanism of toxicity of nitrite towards food-spoilage bacteria such as Clostridium botulinum or Clostridium sporogenes is not well understood. In order to discover the active species and explore its chemistry, a number of compounds related to nitrite were synthesized. Their bacteriocidal ef...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cui X,Joannou CL,Hughes MN,Cammack R

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetracycline resistance in Mycoplasma hominis and Ureaplasma urealyticum has been associated with the tetM determinant and has recently been increasing in incidence. We report here a rapid method for detection of the tetM determinant based on the use of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify a 397-bp DNA fragm...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Blanchard A,Crabb DM,Dybvig K,Duffy LB,Cassell GH

更新日期：1992-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tagging of two cell wall mannoproteins, Cwp1p and Cwp2p, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae with the green fluorescent protein from Aequorea victoria resulted in incorporation of fluorescent fusion proteins into the cell wall. Both living cells and isolated cell walls became brightly labeled. Intriguingly, the incorporation ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ram AF,Van den Ende H,Klis FM

更新日期：1998-05-15 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：:In the present study, strains of 17 reference Acinetobacter genospecies were investigated by using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). We used primers to amplify spacer regions between the 16S and 23S genes in the prokaryotic rRNA genetic loci. When the spacer amplification products were resolved by electrophoresis, ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nowak A,Burkiewicz A,Kur J

更新日期：1995-02-15 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：:Trichothecenes are an important family of mycotoxins produced by several species of the genus Fusarium. These fungi cause serious disease on infected plants and postharvest storage of crops, and the toxins can cause health problems for humans and animals. Unfortunately, there are few methods for controlling mycotoxin ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ismail Y,McCormick S,Hijri M

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：: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：:The epidemic community-associated methicillin-resistant clone Staphylococcus aureus USA300 is a major source of skin and soft tissue infections and involves strains with a diverse set of resistance genes. In this study, we report efficient transduction of penicillinase and tetracycline resistance plasmids by bacteriop...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Varga M,Kuntová L,Pantůček R,Mašlaňová I,Růžičková V,Doškař J

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The FIS protein (factor for inversion stimulation) is known to activate the transcription of rRNA and tRNA operons in Escherichia coli. In this report the growth behaviour of a fis bacterium was studied under steady-state conditions and in competition experiments with a wild-type bacterium in a chemostat. The growth r...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nilsson L,Verbeek H,Hoffmann U,Haupt M,Bosch L

更新日期：1992-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports on the antifungal activities of statins combined with an antifungal compound secreted by Penicillium chrysogenum, PAF. Several species belonging in the class Zygomycetes are considered to be agents of human or animal mycoses; other species have significance as postharvest plant pathogens. In the pre...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Galgóczy L,Papp T,Lukács G,Leiter E,Pócsi I,Vágvölgyi C

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The miniplasmid profiles of 18 Bacillus thuringiensis strains belonging to 8 different serotypes were determined using an alkaline hydrolysis method for isolation of low molecular mass plasmids. Nearly all the strains contained covalently closed circular (CCC) DNA species ranging from 2 to 5 species per strain and fro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Marin R,Tanguay RM,Valéro J,Letarte R,Bellemare G

更新日期：1992-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The DnaK chaperone system is involved in various cellular processes such as the control of the folded and oligomeric state of proteins under stress and non-stress conditions. In this study we functionally characterised the homologues of the DnaK system from Clostridium acetobutylicum DnaK, DnaJ, GrpE and OrfA were het...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Rüngeling E,Laufen T,Bahl H

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila, the aetiologic agent of legionnaires' disease, contains a single, monopolar flagellum which is composed of one major subunit, the FlaA protein. Expression studies using a reporter gene fusion of the flaA promoter with the luxAB gene revealed that the flaA expression is not only temperature regu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Heuner K,Brand BC,Hacker J

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lysC-lac'Z fusion plasmid was constructed to study the regulatory region of the lysC gene. Analysis by deletion mutations confirmed the existence of an alternative promoter, P2, located upstream of the previously identified promoter, P1. The transcription start site of promoter P2 was located 85 base pairs upstream ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Liao HH,Hseu TH

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris (Xcc) is the causal agent of black rot disease in cruciferous plants. The synthesis of known virulence factors in this organism, such as extracellular enzymes and biofilm, is strictly regulated in response to environmental stimuli. Two-component signal transduction systems sense e...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tao J,He C

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenylate kinase isoenzymes localised in the mitochondria and in the cytosol have been detected in extracts of glucose-grown Aspergillus nidulans using specific staining after electrophoresis on cellulose acetate. The isoenzymes have similar Km values for AMP, ADP and MgATP2- but may differ in the mechanism used for i...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hoang VQ,Jaklitsch W,Scrutton MC

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computational comparative techniques were applied to analysis of the aromatic amino acid regulon in Gram-positive bacteria. A new candidate transcription regulation signal of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate-7-phosphate synthase and shikimate kinase genes was identified in Streptococcus and Lactococcus species. New T-b...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Panina EM,Vitreschak AG,Mironov AA,Gelfand MS

更新日期：2003-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The major heat shock proteins from Thiobacillus ferrooxidans were identified as DnaK and GroEL equivalents by Western blotting and analysis of the N-terminal amino acid sequence of spots isolated from dried 2-D polyacrylamide electrophoresis gels. The T. ferrooxidans chaperonins showed 70% and 80% identity with the Es...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Varela P,Jerez CA

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, genes involved in thiamin pyrophosphate (TPP) synthesis (THI genes) and the pyruvate decarboxylase structural gene PDC5 are transcriptionally induced in response to thiamin starvation. Three positive regulatory factors (Thi2p, Thi3p, and Pdc2p) are involved in the expression of THI genes, ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nosaka K,Esaki H,Onozuka M,Konno H,Hattori Y,Akaji K

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cryopreservation of an anaerobic rumen fungus, Piromyces communis OTS1, was examined at -84 degrees C using dimethyl sulfoxide, propylene glycol or ethylene glycol as cryoprotectants. Ethylene glycol was the most effective agent, combining high survival and low toxicity, followed by dimethyl sulfoxide and propylen...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sakurada M,Tsuzuki Y,Morgavi DP,Tomita Y,Onodera R

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two actinomycete strains, CHR3 and CHR28, were isolated from metal-contaminated sediments from Baltimore Inner Harbor. The isolates were classified as Streptomyces spp. Agar diffusion assays showed both isolates to be resistant to mercuric chloride and phenylmercuric acetate. Hybridization experiments indicated that g...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ravel J,Amoroso MJ,Colwell RR,Hill RT

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus bovis HC5 cultures released a broad spectrum lantibiotic, bovicin HC5, into the cell-fee culture supernatant after they reached stationary phase, but most of the antibacterial activity remained cell-associated. Cell-associated bovicin HC5 was more resistant to degradation by Pronase E than the cell-free ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Xavier BM,Houlihan AJ,Russell JB

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the nisZ gene sequence, a non-radioactive digoxigenin-labeled DNA probe, was tested for detection of nisin-producing strains using polymerase chain reaction amplification. The digoxigenin-labeled DNA probe clearly discriminated between nisin-producing and non-producing strains with a high degree of sensitivity an...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Meghrous J,Fliss I,Bouksaim M,Lacroix C

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The AbGst1 gene encoding a glutathione transferase from the necrotrophic pathogen Alternaria brassicicola was cloned from a benzyl isothiocyanate-treated conidial culture using differential display reverse transcription. The deduced amino-acid sequence of AbGst1p showed a significant degree of similarity to glutathion...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sellam A,Poupard P,Simoneau P

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00