Bactericidal activity of magainin 2: use of lipopolysaccharide mutants.

abstract：:The course of intranasal infection of Sendai virus in CBA and DBA mice was investigated in animals decomplemented with purified cobra venom factor. The mice were decomplemented either immediately before inoculation or at 4 days postinfection. Depletion of complement after the infection had been established had no appa...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Finnie JC,Aston WP,O'Shaughnessy MV,Stewart RB

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinomycetes DNAs were digested with restriction enzymes to study the presence of methylated bases. Analysis showed that the enterobacterial Dam and Dcm systems are absent. Methylation at the internal cytosine in CCGG sequences, typical of eukaryotes, was also absent. We also tested 18 restriction endonucleases recog...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Novella IS,Marín I,Sánchez J

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental scanning electron microscopic observations of Postia placenta grown on a defined medium and on red spruce wood allowed for the examination of the hydrated sheath of P. placenta. In the wood environment, mature hyphae that were not adhering to the substrate were observed to have a mycofibrillar morphology...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Connolly JH,Chen Y,Jellison J

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice immunized subcutaneously with 10(6) viable yeast cells of Histoplasma capsulatum exhibited host protection to a challenge infection and also exhibited concomitant manifestations of cellular immunity to a culture filtrate antigen (yeast extract dialysate (YED)-histoplasmin). Protective immunity was determined by q...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Burt WR,Smith RA

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to determine if direct cytotoxicity (DC) against herpes simplex virus infected cells, perhaps mediated by T cells, could be demonstrated in individuals subject to recurrent herpes labialis. The mononuclear cells from 7 out of 17 individuals with recurrent herpes expressed DC whereas no DC was...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Fujimiya Y,Babiuk LA,Rouse BT

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Passive protective activities of three different classes of monoclonal antibodies in mice against challenge with strain ATCC 31432 (capsular type I) of Staphylococcus epidermidis were examined. Monoclonal IgM antibody passively protected mice against challenge with the homologous strain, whereas monoclonal IgG1 and Ig...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Ichiman Y,Usui Y,Suganuma M,Yoshida K

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of the relationship between MVL 51 virus, of the Gourlay group L 1, and the Mycoplasma cells of A. laidlawii during the first 35 min of infection leads to the conclusion that a "carrier state" has been established, free virus as well as infected and noninfected cells being present at the same time in the cul...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Roger A

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total community DNA from 29 noncontaminated soils and soils impacted by petroleum hydrocarbons and chloro-organics from Antarctica and Brazil were screened for the presence of nine catabolic genes, encoding alkane monooxygenase or aromatic dioxygenases, from known bacterial biodegradation pathways. Specific primers an...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Luz AP,Pellizari VH,Whyte LG,Greer CW

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria associated with 6 habitats of groundnut were evaluated for their broad-spectrum antifungal activity and suppression of collar rot (Aspergillus niger) of groundnut. Three hundred and ninety-three strains were tested against 8 fungal pathogens of groundnut including 5 necrotrophic fungi, Aspergillus flavus, A. ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Kishore GK,Pande S,Podile AR

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium sp. strain KMS utilizes pyrene, a high-molecular weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH), as a sole carbon source. Bioinformatic analysis of the genome of isolate KMS predicted 25 genes with the potential to encode 17 pyrene-induced proteins identified by proteomics; these genes were clustered on b...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Zhang C,Anderson AJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain of Pseudomonas putida grew rapidly on cyclohexanecarboxylic acid as a sole source of carbon. A CoA-mediated beta-oxidation pathway was induced for the metabolism of the compound. The organism could not utilize 3-cyclohexenecarboxylic acid as a sole source of carbon for growth, but cells grown on gluconate in ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Blakley ER,Papish B

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our freshwater caulobacter collection contains about 40 strains that are morphologically similar to Caulobacter crescentus. All elaborate a crystalline protein surface (S) layer made up of protein monomers 100-193 kDa in size. We conducted a comparative study of S-layer secretion in 6 strains representing 3 size group...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Iuga M,Awram P,Nomellini JF,Smit J

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Habitat fragmentation affects the biodiversity and function of aboveground organisms in natural ecosystems but has not been studied for effects on belowground species. In this paper, we consider the diversity of the rhizobia associated with the indigenous legume Dalea purpurea in 3 residual prairie areas in Minnesota ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Tlusty B,van Berkum P,Graham PH

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine possible differences in the faecal microbiota of dairy cows infected with Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (Johne's disease) in comparison with noninfected cows from the same herds. Faecal samples from cows in 4 herds were tested for M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis by...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Kaevska M,Videnska P,Sedlar K,Bartejsova I,Kralova A,Slana I

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolism of cyclohexanecarboxylic acid by a bacterium, designated PRL W19, follows a pathway involving beta-oxidation of coenzyme A intermediates analogous to the classical oxidation of fatty acids. The organism appears to have the property for the constitutive metabolism of caproic acid, and cell extracts conta...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Blakley ER

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several restriction systems were detected in different strains of Streptomyces antibioticus by using actinophages as biological indicators. Adsorption of phages to the bacteria, together with the study of the efficiency of plating gave an initial indication of restriction in three strains. The alternation of efficienc...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Sànchez J,Barbès C,Hernandez A,de los Reyes Gavilàn CR,Hardisson C

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus were found to exhibit strain-specific heterogeneity to the growth-enhancing effects of human urokinase (UK), a proteinase with plasminogen activator activity. Nine out of fourteen (64%) methicillin-sensitive strains of S. aureus were responsive to UK in "in vitro" cultures. I...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Hart DA,Louie T,Krulicki W,Reno C

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes and Listeria innocua differ markedly in virulence but are indistinguishable by classical taxonomic criteria. Both species are actively motile and produce abundant flagellin at 22 degrees C. We have found, however, noticeable differences between L. monocytogenes and L. innocua in motility and fla...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Kathariou S,Kanenaka R,Allen RD,Fok AK,Mizumoto C

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research validates a novel approach for source tracking based on denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) analysis of DNA extracted from Escherichia coli isolates. Escherichia coli from different animal sources and from river samples upstream from, at, and downstream of a combined sewer overflow were subjec...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： D'Elia TV,Cooper CR,Johnston CG

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanol extracts were obtained from L. interrogans serovars icterohaemorrhagiae and canicola and L. biflexa serovar patoc. Human sera from 167 normal individuals and 40 patients with different infectious diseases tested by complement fixation tests showed negative reactions. Sera from 100 patients with a suspicion of...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Koury MC,Cisalpino EO,Rangel Hde A

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins were solubilized from cell wall fractions of Candida albicans and separated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Cell walls were isolated from 25 and 37 degrees C growing and stationary phase yeast cultures and from germ tubes. The 42 protein bands detected by dye binding were observed in all wall extracts,...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Chaffin WL,Stocco DM

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An alginate lyase gene of a newly isolated Pseudomonas sp. strain KS-408 was cloned by using PCR with the specific primers designed from homologous nucleotide sequences. A partial protein sequence of KS-408 alginate lyase was homology-modeled on the basis of the crystal structure of A1-III alginate lyase from Sphingom...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Kam N,Park YJ,Lee EY,Kim HS

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary exposure to heavy metals may have detrimental effects on human and animal health, even at low concentrations. Specific probiotic bacteria may have properties that enable them to bind toxins from food and water. We assessed the interaction of probiotic bacteria with cadmium and lead in vitro as an initial scree...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Ibrahim F,Halttunen T,Tahvonen R,Salminen S

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The B subunit of Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin (LTB), a nontoxic molecule with potent biological properties, is a powerful mucosal and parenteral adjuvant that induces a strong immune response against co-administered or coupled antigens. In this paper, the effect of LTB on the humoral immune response to rec...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： da Silva Ramos Rocha A,Conceição FR,Grassmann AA,Lagranha VL,Dellagostin OA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The search for new antimicrobial compounds involves finding novel sources of chemotherapeutic compounds or manipulating and combining structures from existing molecules. Small antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are components of innate immune defenses characterized in greatest detail in insect-derived AMPs. We have generat...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Plunkett RM,Murray SI,Lowenberger CA

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most prokaryotic chromosomes contain a number of toxin-antitoxin (TA) modules consisting of a pair of genes that encode 2 components, a stable toxin and its cognate labile antitoxin. TA systems are also known as addiction modules, since the cells become "addicted" to the short-lived antitoxin product (the unstable ant...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Syed MA,Lévesque CM

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dense populations of anaerobic bacteria were found sequentially layered below the thermocline in two eutrophic lakes in southwest Michigan. Phase and electron microscopy of whole cells and thin sections were used to reveal the in situ morphology of the dominant members of the community. The predominant chlorophyll-con...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Caldwell DE,Tiedje JM

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal cultures were grown by a new microslide method and by the traditional slide-culture method. Sporulation results were similar by both methods. The microslide method has the advantages of increased safety to the user and ease of storage. ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Hofherr L

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial flora of an experimental plant that processes liquid swine manure by an aerated compartmented (multistage) lagoon system has been studied. The total flora is characterized by a larger number of oligotrophic bacteria than eutrophic ones. Each compartment displays a specific flora, different from the flora...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Chikh G,Pourquié J,Kaiser P,Davila AM

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of various concentrations of monensin (1,5, and 10 micrograms/mL) to the culture medium inhibits the fungal growth and perturbs exopolysaccharides secretion, provoking a decrease of production in Botrytis cinerea and an increase in Sclerotium rolfsii. The ionophore induces also modifications in both polym...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Koulali Y,Talouizte A,Fonvieille JL,Dargent R

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00