The ABC of ABCS: a phylogenetic and functional classification of ABC systems in living organisms.

abstract：:The psychotrophic strain Pseudomonas fluorescens MFO is known to express several enzymatic activities in milk, including extracellular proteolytic activity, optimally when cells are grown at 17.5 degrees C. In order to study the nature of the mechanisms controlling the production of the extracellular protease, we devi...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Hellio FC,Orange N,Guespin-Michel JF

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence of increasing resistance to antibiotics in soil and other natural isolates highlights the importance of horizontal transfer of resistance genes in facilitating gene flux in bacteria. Horizontal gene transfer in bacteria is favored by the presence of mobile genetic elements and by the organization of bacterial...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Nwosu VC

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of fluoroquinolone (FQ)-susceptible methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the presence of sub-MIC FQ has been shown to enhance methicillin resistance in traditional nosocomial MRSA isolates. We aimed to confirm this phenomenon in nine community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) clinical isolates, and to...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Tattevin P,Basuino L,Chambers HF

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sub-MIC antibiotics differentially modulate transcription of subsets of genes by unknown mechanisms. Paradoxically, the RNA polymerase inhibitor rifampicin is able to both upmodulate as well as downmodulate transcription when present at sub-MIC levels. In this study, we analyzed DNA sequences required for transcriptio...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Yim G,Spiegelman GB,Davies JE

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecologists have documented the process of plant succession for centuries, yet the successional patterns exhibited by microbial communities have received relatively little attention. We examine recent work on microbial succession and show how, despite some key differences, studies of plant succession can serve as a tem...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Fierer N,Nemergut D,Knight R,Craine JM

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The understanding of biofilm formation by bioleaching microorganisms is of great importance for influencing mineral dissolution rates and to prevent acid mine drainage (AMD). Thermo-acidophilic archaea such as Acidianus, Sulfolobus and Metallosphaera are of special interest due to their ability to perform leaching at ...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Castro C,Zhang R,Liu J,Bellenberg S,Neu TR,Donati E,Sand W,Vera M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the effects of the composition of different media (i.e., Tryptic soy broth (TSB), Brain heart infusion (BHI), Listeria enrichment broth (LEB), Fraser broth (FB) and University of Vermont medium (UVM)) on the detection of a short peptide fragment PepD specific to the p60 protein (p60) of L. monocyto...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Etty MC,D'Auria S,Fraschini C,Salmieri S,Lacroix M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus species as a group offer several advantages over other bacteria for protection against root pathogens because of their ability to form endospores, and because of the broad-spectrum activity of their antibiotics. The objectives of this work were to determine the ability of strains of Bacillus to inhibit Fusari...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Cavaglieri L,Orlando J,Rodríguez MI,Chulze S,Etcheverry M

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus laterosporus is a spore-forming bacterium characterized by its ability to produce a canoe-shaped lamellar parasporal inclusion, adjacent to the spore. In some B. laterosporus strains crystalline inclusions of various shapes and sizes, which are released separately from spores during the lysis of the sporangiu...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Smirnova TA,Minenkova IB,Orlova MV,Lecadet MM,Azizbekyan RR

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FliA is known to be a sigma factor that regulates bacterial flagella gene expression. Accumulating evidence suggests that FliA is involved in bacterial behavior other than motility. To elucidate the contribution of FliA to Pseudomonas aeruginosa pathophysiology, we analyzed the biological properties and gene expressio...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Lo YL,Chen CL,Shen L,Chen YC,Wang YH,Lee CC,Wang LC,Chuang CH,Janapatla RP,Chiu CH,Chang HY

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(51)V NMR spectroscopy was used for detection and identification of cell-associated vanadate (V(5+)) species after exposure of Phycomyces blakesleeanus mycelium, in exponential phase of growth, to sodium orthovanadate. Complete disappearance of monomer and dimer signals and decreased intensity of the tetramer signal w...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Žižić M,Miladinović Z,Stanić M,Hadžibrahimović M,Živić M,Zakrzewska J

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An aerotolerant, psychrotolerant anaerobe, anNAG3, was isolated from an acidic forest floor solution (in situ pH of 4.5). Cells of anNAG3 stained Gram-positive did not form spores, and were not motile. Cells were ovoid, approximately 1 microm long and 0.7 microm wide, mostly in pairs, and contained a multi-layered cel...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Matthies C,Gössner A,Acker G,Schramm A,Drake HL

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three Salmonella strains isolated from a lizard (Gallotia simoni) in the "Isla del Hierro" (Canary Islands, Spain) were serotyped as Salmonella bongori serotype 13,22:z39:-, which has not been described in the Kauffmann-White scheme of Salmonella serovars. In order to shed light on the assignment of those strains to t...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Herrera-León S,Saco M,Martínez Silvestre A,Silveira L,Echeita A,Usera MA

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer membrane of gram-negative bacteria acts as a barrier against harmful lipophilic compounds and larger molecules unable to diffuse freely through the porins. However, outer membrane proteins together with the Tol-Pal and TonB systems have been exploited for the entry of macromolecules such as bacteriocins and ...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Lloubès R,Cascales E,Walburger A,Bouveret E,Lazdunski C,Bernadac A,Journet L

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:KlADH4 is a gene of Kluyveromyces lactis encoding a mitochondrial alcohol dehydrogenase activity, which is specifically induced by ethanol and insensitive to glucose repression. In this work, we report the molecular analysis of UAS(E), an element of the KlADH4 promoter which is essential for the induction of KlADH4 in...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Mazzoni C,Santori F,Saliola M,Falcone C

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of effective strategies for treatment of candidiasis and other fungal diseases has posed a challenge, considering the increase in opportunistic fungal infections in HIV-positive and immunocompromised patients. The in vitro antifungal activity of essential oil from Ocimum gratissimum was investigated in ord...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Nakamura CV,Ishida K,Faccin LC,Filho BP,Cortez DA,Rozental S,de Souza W,Ueda-Nakamura T

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DegS and DegU make up a two component system belonging to a class of signal transduction systems that play important roles in a broad range of bacterial responses to the environment. However, little study has been done to explore the physiological functions of DegS-DegU in mosquitocidal Lysinibacillus sphaericus. In t...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Hu Y,Cai Q,Tian S,Ge Y,Yuan Z,Hu X

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scedosporium apiospermum, a recently isolated phenol-degrading hyphomycete, was shown to be able to productively utilise the diaryl ester phenylbenzoate as its sole source of carbon and energy. The characterisation of degradation intermediates together with the detection of the corresponding catabolic enzymes in crude...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Claussen M,Schmidt S

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interest of probiotics as remedies for a broad number of gastrointestinal and other infectious diseases has gained wide interest over the last few years, but little is known about their underlying mechanism of action. In this study, the probiotic activities of a human isolate of Lactobacillus casei subsp. rhamnosu...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Forestier C,De Champs C,Vatoux C,Joly B

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial transformation of arsenic species and their interaction with the carbon cycle play a major role in the mobility of this toxic metalloid in the environment. The influence of simple or complex organic substrates on arsenic bio-oxidation was studied using two bacterial strains: one - the arsenivorans strain of ...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Lescure T,Joulian C,Charles C,Ben Ali Saanda T,Charron M,Breeze D,Bauda P,Battaglia-Brunet F

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although great strides have been made in the development of recombinant attenuated Vibrio cholerae vaccine strains, the task has not been as simple as once imagined. The initial vaccine candidates proved to be unexpectedly reactogenic but further derivatives, such as CVD103-HgR, are well-tolerated, immunogenic and pro...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Kaper JB,Levine MM

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of aerobactin has been reported to be a virulence factor in members of the family Enterobacteriaceae. To investigate the protection afforded by humoral immunity directed towards aerobactin in infectious diseases caused by aerobactin-producing strains, we tested the efficacy of mAbAERO1, a murine monoclonal ...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Le Roy D,Crouzier C,Dho-Moulin M,Dumont AS,Bouchet A,Lafont JP,Andremont A

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal dimorphism is the capacity of certain species of fungi to grow in the form of budding yeasts or mycelium depending on the environmental conditions. This characteristic is a complex phenomenon that involves modifications of the molecular machinery in response to different environmental signals. Through the use o...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Morales-Vargas AT,Domínguez A,Ruiz-Herrera J

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This communication describes the cloning of a 1.8-kb fragment from the genome of the corynephage phi AAU2, which aborts the phage lytic cycle when cloned on a high-copy shuttle vector. The associated phenotype, called Apld (aborting phage lytic development), was revealed by noting the reduced plaque size and lower eff...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Le Marrec C,Moreau S,Leret V,Schäffer A,Blanco C,Trautwetter A

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Neisseria gonorrhoeae, all penicillinase-specifying plasmids isolated so far share homology with each other and carry a 60% deleted sequence of TnA. Plasmid pHD131, an element isolated from Haemophilus ducreyi and carrying an intact copy of the ampicillin resistance transposable element, was introduced from Escheri...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Piffaretti JC,Soldati L

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal DNA fingerprints from 103 pathogenic Leptospira strains were examined using EcoRI restriction and fragment length polymorphisms of rRNA genes. Sixty-nine new leptospiral ribotypes were described, in addition to 49 previously observed. Except for 5 strains, a good correlation between DNA homology data and rib...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Perolat P,Lecuyer I,Postic D,Baranton G

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mrd1 is one of the trans-acting proteins and plays an important role in precursor ribosomal RNA processing. Here we characterized the Mamrd1 gene from Metarhizium acridum and studied its function in growth, conidiation and virulence using RNA interference. The Mamrd1 gene was identified as participating in the process...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Cao Y,Li K,Xia Y

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus intermedius, an oral commensal and a cause of systemic pyogenic disease, expresses fimbriae. To identify the gene(s) encoding these fimbriae, we used a serum raised against purified fimbriae to screen libaries of recombinant lambda phages. The cloned gene cluster encoding S. intermedius fimbriae, (saliva...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Yamaguchi T,Matsumoto M,Sugimoto Y,Soutome S,Oho T

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequences of the most conserved proteins encoded by transposable (pro)phages were used to search recently sequenced Firmicute genomes for candidate transposable prophages. One complete Mu-like prophage, SglyMu-1, was identified, in four copies, in the Syntrophobotulus glycolicus DSM 8271 chromosome sequence. Related p...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Toussaint A

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori possesses an enormous genomic plasticity and diversity that facilitates host adaptation. Despite the ancient association with its human host, this epsilon-proteobacterium can cause gastritis, ulcers and gastric cancer. Here we focus on multiple aspects of the genome level...

journal_title：Research in microbiology

authors： Linz B,Schuster SC

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00