Identification of a human cDNA clone that mediates adherence of pathogenic Neisseria to non-binding cells.

abstract：:Haemophilus parasuis, the etiological agent of Glässer's disease in pigs, possesses iron acquisition pathways mediated by a surface receptor that specifically bind porcine transferrin. This receptor is composed of transferrin-binding protein A (TbpA) and TbpB. As it has been reported for other gram-negative organisms,...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Martínez S,Frandoloso R,Rodríguez-Ferri EF,González-Zorn B,Gutiérrez-Martín CB

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the dissemination of microbiology and science in general, social media is an underutilized but increasingly powerful tool, and one that transcends traditional avenues for scientific outputs. In order to reach and potentially inspire a deeply interested and general public, scientists should engage with platforms su...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hines HN

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In haloarchaea, a cluster of three genes is localized directly adjacent to the major replication origin, and, hence, the encoded proteins were annotated as 'origin-associated proteins' (Oap). However, prior to this study, no experimental data were available for these conserved hypothetical proteins. Bioinformatic anal...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wolters M,Borst A,Pfeiffer F,Soppa J

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monocytes and macrophages are an important host defense in humans infected with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi. Bacterial ability to survive in these cells is therefore a crucial virulence characteristic of this pathogen. In this study, we demonstrate that growth of a Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi enterochelin ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gorbacheva VY,Faundez G,Godfrey HP,Cabello FC

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface antigen one (Sao) is a newly identified protein from the major zoonotic pathogen, Streptococcus suis. In search of functional proteins related to the pathogenesis of Chinese S. suis 2 (SS2), unexpectedly, a variant of Sao protein was obtained. To test its prevalence in S. suis, PCR assay was adopted to address...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Feng Y,Zheng F,Pan X,Sun W,Wang C,Dong Y,Ju AP,Ge J,Liu D,Liu C,Yan J,Tang J,Gao GF

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The RcsCDB (Rcs) phosphorelay system regulates capsule synthesis, flagella production and other cellular activities in several enteric bacteria. This system consists of three proteins: the sensor RcsC, the cognate response regulator RcsB and the histidine-containing phosphotransfer protein RcsD (YojN), which is hypoth...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pescaretti Mde L,Morero R,Delgado MA

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the cause of the supersusceptibility of Branhamella catarrhalis to macrolide antibiotics, which are well-known to be inactive to most Gram-negative bacteria, we determined its cell surface hydrophobicity by the partition experiment between water and hydrocarbons. Its cell surface was found to be markedly mo...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gotoh N,Tanaka S,Nishino T

更新日期：1989-05-01 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：:To investigate the function of the pro-peptide (PP) region of the Staphylococcus hyicus exolipase, restriction sites were created in the lipase gene to facilitate the construction of deletions in this region. Lipase gene expression was carried out in Staphylococcus carnosus. In the presence of the entire PP region, th...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Demleitner G,Götz F

更新日期：1994-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A Deltalgt (Lgt, lipoprotein diacylglyceryl transferase) isogenic mutant was obtained which indicates that lgt is not essential for cell growth in vitro, like in the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis, but unlike in the proteobacteria Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium. The mutation was transduced to a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Petit CM,Brown JR,Ingraham K,Bryant AP,Holmes DJ

更新日期：2001-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The technique based on fluorescein-linked lectins used to determine the cell wall structure of anaerobic rumen fungi belonging to genera: Neocallimastix, Piromonas and Sphaeromonas, appears to be an interesting tool for distinguishing between strains. Furthermore this technique shows differences of cell wall compositi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Guillot J,Breton A,Damez M,Dusser M,Gaillard-Martinie B,Millet L

更新日期：1990-01-15 00:00:00

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：:The gene encoding the second enzyme of the 2C-methyl-D-erythritol 4-phosphate (MEP) pathway for isopentenyl diphosphate biosynthesis, 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate (DXP) reductoisomerase, was cloned and sequenced from Zymomonas mobilis. The deduced amino acid sequence showed the highest identity (48.2%) to the DXP re...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Grolle S,Bringer-Meyer S,Sahm H

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the gram-negative microorganisms with probiotic properties, Escherichia coli strain Nissle 1917 (briefly EcN) is probably the most intensively investigated bacterial strain today. Since nearly 100 years, the EcN strain is used as the active pharmaceutical ingredient in a licensed medicinal product that is distri...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sonnenborn U

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two plasmids, pEM4 (IncFI) determining virulence and pEM6 (IncI) determining colicine I production and resistance to tetracycline, have been found in a pathogenic strain of Citrobacter freundii. Even though pEM4 and pEM6 plasmids are conjugative and transfer themselves very efficiently during conjugation, a high cotra...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Morzejko E,Panek E,Cebrat S

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) is an oncogenic retrovirus that was isolated in 1980 from a patient with adult T-cell leukemia. From the numerous experiments using infected patient T-cells, transgenic mice and tissue culture transformation assays, the Tax protein has been determined to be the transforming ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ressler S,Connor LM,Marriott SJ

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have tested the expression of alkaline phosphatases in a mutant strain of Escherichia coli deficient in dipZ, a gene coding for a protein involved in cytochrome c biogenesis, and the isogenic wild-type strain. The yield of soluble and active human placental alkaline phosphatase was significantly reduced in the muta...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Beck R,Crooke H,Jarsch M,Cole J,Burtscher H

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In several bacterial species that show natural transformation, dprA has been described as a competence gene. The DprA protein has been suggested to be involved in the protection of incoming DNA. However, members of the dprA gene family (also called smf) can be detected in virtually all bacterial species, which suggest...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Smeets LC,Becker SC,Barcak GJ,Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM,Bitter W,Goosen N

更新日期：2006-10-01 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

abstract：:Synthetic oligonucleotide primers were used in a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) protocol to target a specific sequence in the gene coding for the A subunit of Escherichia coli verotoxin (VTe-variant, VTev). This PCR protocol permits the VTe-variant target sequence to be distinguished from closely related sequences in...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Johnson WM,Tyler SD,Wang G,Lior H

更新日期：1991-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of this work were to characterize the 16S-23S internal spacer region of the fish pathogen Tenacibaculum soleae and to develop a PCR assay for its identification and detection. All T. soleae strains tested displayed a single internal spacer region class, containing tRNA(I) (le) and tRNA(A) ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： López JR,Hamman-Khalifa AM,Navas JI,de la Herran R

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：:Attachment of soil bacteria to plant cells is supposedly the very early step required in plant-microbe interactions. Attachment also is an initial step for the formation of microbial biofilms on plant roots. For the rhizobia-legume symbiosis, various mechanisms and diverse surface molecules of both partners have been ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Rodríguez-Navarro DN,Dardanelli MS,Ruíz-Saínz JE

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular information suggests that there is a broad diversity of acetogens in the rumen, distinct from any currently isolated acetogens. We combined molecular analysis with enrichment culture techniques to investigate this diversity further. Methane-inhibited, hydrogenotrophic enrichment cultures produced acetate as ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gagen EJ,Padmanabha J,Denman SE,McSweeney CS

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma fermentans has been reported to be pathogenic for man. All fourteen strains tested contain an insertion sequence-like element (ISLE) which may be present in multiple copies. To determine whether ISLE copies are similarly distributed in different strains of M. fermentans, restriction enzyme digest fragments ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pitcher D,Hilbocus J

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A screening for hydrogen uptake (hup) genes in Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae isolates from different locations within Spain identified no Hup+ strains, confirming the scarcity of the Hup trait in R. leguminosarum. However, five new Hup+ strains were isolated from Ni-rich soils from Italy and Germany. The hup gene...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fernández D,Toffanin A,Palacios JM,Ruiz-Argüeso T,Imperial J

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scrA gene coding for sucrose EnzymeII of the phosphoenolpyruvate dependent phosphotransferase system previously isolated from Streptococcus mutans was fused in vitro to the promoterless lacZ' gene to monitor the expression of the scrA gene. The scrA::lacZ gene fusion was introduced back into S. mutans GS-5IS3 by t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sato Y,Yamamoto Y,Suzuki R,Kizaki H,Kuramitsu HK

更新日期：1991-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The extensively discussed idea of oxidative stress development under antibiotic treatment was confirmed using an antioxidant gene expression (soxRS-, oxyR-regulon) approach, including microaerobic cultivation conditions. The killing action of antibiotics and their ability to cause peroxide oxidative stress in Escheric...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Akhova AV,Tkachenko AG

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiological role of mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALD5) was investigated by analysis of the ald5 mutant (AKD321) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. K(+)-activated ALDH activity of the ald5 mutant was about 80% of the wild-type in the mitochondrial fraction, while the respiratory activity of the ald5 mutant was...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kurita O,Nishida Y

更新日期：1999-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of cultivating the biotechnologically important bacterium Streptomyces griseus in single-species and mixed-species biofilms using a tubular biofilm reactor (TBR). Streptomyces griseus biofilm development was found to be cyclical, starting with the initial ad...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Winn M,Casey E,Habimana O,Murphy CD

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00