abstract：:Integrons are bacterial genetic elements capable of capturing and expressing potentially adaptive genetic material. Class 1 integrons constitute the most intensely studied group of these elements to date, mainly due to their well-established role in the acquisition and dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes in c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hardwick SA,Stokes HW,Findlay S,Taylor M,Gillings MR

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The benzimidazole fungicide thiophanate-methyl is commonly applied to control leaf mould of tomato caused by Cladosporium fulvum in China. In this study, 32 isolates of C. fulvum were examined for their sensitivities to thiophanate-methyl, and two benzimidazole-resistant (BenR) phenotypes BenR1 and BenR2 were identifi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yan L,Chen J,Zhang C,Ma Z

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of candidate affinity proteins in a soluble form, for downstream characterization, is often a time-consuming step in combinatorial protein engineering methods. Here, a novel approach for efficient production of candidate clones is described based on direct cleavage of the affinity protein from the surfa...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kronqvist N,Löfblom J,Severa D,Ståhl S,Wernérus H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia mallei, the etiologic agent of the disease known as glanders, is primarily a disease affecting horses and is transmitted to humans by direct contact with infected animals. The use of B. mallei as a biological weapon has been reported and currently, there is no vaccine available for either humans or animal...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Whitlock GC,Estes DM,Torres AG

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella flexneri, which causes shigellosis in humans, evolved from Escherichia coli. The sequencing of Shigella genomes has revealed that a large number of insertion sequence (IS) elements (over 200 elements) reside in the genome. Although the presence of these elements has been noted previously and summarized, more ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zaghloul L,Tang C,Chin HY,Bek EJ,Lan R,Tanaka MM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The c-type cytochrome (OmcB) and the multicopper protein (OmpB) required for Fe(III) oxide reduction by Geobacter sulfurreducens were predicted previously to be outer membrane proteins, but it is not clear whether they are positioned in a manner that permits the interaction with Fe(III). Treatment of whole cells with ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Qian X,Reguera G,Mester T,Lovley DR

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of a methodology to identify the origin of fecal pollution is important both for assessing the degree of risk posed to public health and for developing strategies to mitigate the environmental loading of pathogens associated with waterborne disease transmission. Five rep-PCR genomic fingerprinting meth...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mohapatra BR,Broersma K,Mazumder A

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Na(+)/H(+) antiporter gene was isolated from alkaliphilic Bacillus sp. G1. The full-length sequence of the Na(+)/H(+) antiporter gene was obtained using a genome walking method, and designated as g1-nhaC. An ORF preceded by a promoter-like sequence and a Shine-Dalgarno sequence, and followed by a terminator-like seq...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Liew CW,Illias RM,Mahadi NM,Najimudin N

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to screen two cheese starter cultures and cheese-borne microbial communities with the potential to produce biogenic amines in cheese during ripening. Bacteria of the genera Enterococcus and Lactobacillus and coliform bacteria were isolated from Dutch-type semi-hard cheese at the beginning of ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Burdychova R,Komprda T

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The small noncoding RNA RyhB is a regulator of iron homeostasis in Escherichia coli. During iron limitation, it downregulates the expression of a number of iron-containing proteins, including enzymes of the tricarboxylic acid cycle and the respiratory chain. Because this infers a potential for RyhB to limit energy met...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bollinger CJ,Kallio PT

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent reports have indicated that cholesterol plays a crucial role during the uptake of mycobacteria by macrophages. However, the significance of cholesterol modification enzymes encoded by Mycobacterium tuberculosis for bacterial pathogenicity remains unknown. Here, the authors explored whether the well-known choles...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Brzostek A,Dziadek B,Rumijowska-Galewicz A,Pawelczyk J,Dziadek J

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The natural life cycle of Vibrio cholerae involves the transitioning of cells between different environmental surfaces such as the chitinous shell of Crustaceae and the epithelial layer of the human intestine. Previous studies using static biofilm systems showed a strict dependence of biofilm formation on the vps and ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Müller J,Miller MC,Nielsen AT,Schoolnik GK,Spormann AM

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serratia entomophila and Serratia proteamaculans cause amber disease of the grass grub Costelytra zealandica (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Three genes required for virulence, sepABC, are located on a large plasmid, pADAP. The translated products of the sep genes are members of the toxin complex (Tc) family of insecticid...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hurst MR,Jones SM,Tan B,Jackson TA

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：:Tritrichomonas foetus is a venereal pathogen of cattle, which causes infertility, early embryonic death or abortion. In order to evaluate the potential trichomonicidal activity of benzimidazoles, the effects of thiabendazole, mebendazole and albendazole were analyzed on the multiplication, general morphology and ultra...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Carvalho KP,Gadelha AP

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), rifampicin resistance is almost invariably due to mutations in the rpoB gene, whose function is critical for cell viability. Most of these mutations, at least initially, impair the fitness of the bacteria but confer a selective advantage when antibiotic pressure is exerted. Subsequ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bergval IL,Klatser PR,Schuitema AR,Oskam L,Anthony RM

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditional gene expression systems are useful tools for studying the role of essential or toxic gene products in bacterial systems. There is a paucity of such systems available for use in the mycobacteria. The utility of the Escherichia coli arabinose-inducible system was looked into, since it is tightly controlled i...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Carroll P,Brown AC,Hartridge AR,Parish T

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast two-hybrid and Far Western analyses were used to detect interactions between Bacillus subtilis spores' nutrient germinant receptor proteins and proteins encoded by the spoVA operon, all of which are involved in spore germination and located in the spores' inner membrane. These analyses indicated that two subunit...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Vepachedu VR,Setlow P

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was shown that virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv induces necrosis of infected RAW264 cells at 24 h post infection while avirulent H37Ra and an attenuated H37Rv mutant that is deficient for RD1 region (H37RvDeltaRD1) cause less necrosis of the infected cells. While H37Rv caused damage of the mitochondrial in...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kaku T,Kawamura I,Uchiyama R,Kurenuma T,Mitsuyama M

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of virulence markers related to cytolethal distending toxin-V (CDT-V), subtilase cytotoxin (SubAB), the enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli factor for adherence (Efa1), the adhesin similar to IrgA (Iha), the long polar fimbriae (LpfO113), the autoagglutinating adhesin (Saa), and the protein required fo...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cergole-Novella MC,Nishimura LS,Dos Santos LF,Irino K,Vaz TM,Bergamini AM,Guth BE

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ammonium transporters form a conserved family of transport proteins and are widely distributed among all domains of life. The genome of Nitrosomonas europaea codes for a single gene (rh1) that belongs to the family of the AMT/Rh ammonium transporters. For the first time, this study provides functional and physiologica...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Weidinger K,Neuhäuser B,Gilch S,Ludewig U,Meyer O,Schmidt I

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A two-step enzymatic synthesis process of 4-hydroxyisoleucine is suggested. In the first step, the aldol condensation of acetaldehyde and alpha-ketobutyrate catalyzed by specific aldolase results in the formation of 4-hydroxy-3-methyl-2-keto-pentanoate (HMKP). In the second step, amination of HMKP by the branched-chai...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Smirnov SV,Samsonova NN,Novikova AE,Matrosov NG,Rushkevich NY,Kodera T,Ogawa J,Yamanaka H,Shimizu S

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus lipase (SAL) is known to possess broad substrate specificity for triacylglycerides. We found that a sub-minimum inhibitory concentration of farnesol (1000 mg L(-1)) inhibits this lipase activity on a Mueller-Hinton agar containing 1% Tween substrates. A quantitative lipase assay using p-nitrophen...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kuroda M,Nagasaki S,Ito R,Ohta T

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A red-pigmented, Gram-negative, motile, strictly aerobic, mesophilic, oval- or short rod-shaped bacterium (TDMA-17(T)) was isolated from fresh water collected at Misasa, a radioactive site in Japan. TDMA-17(T) was slightly tolerant against gamma-ray irradiation, and effectively produced carotenoids (2.8 mg g(-1) dry c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Asker D,Beppu T,Ueda K

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：:Streptococcus mutans and certain other oral lactic-acid bacteria were found to have the ability to carry out malolactic fermentation involving decarboxylation of L-malate to yield L-lactic acid and concomitant reduction in acidity. The activity was inducible by L-malate in S. mutans UA159 growing in suspensions or bio...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sheng J,Marquis RE

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect feeding antibiotics has on the bacterial population of the rabbit caecum was investigated. No changes in total volatile fatty acid production or total bacterial counts were observed compared with nonantibiotic treated controls. However, treatment with chlortetracycline resulted in an increase of propionate ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Abecia L,Fondevila M,Balcells J,Edwards JE,Newbold CJ,McEwan NR

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TBF-1 is an 11.9-kDa fruiting body specific protein of the Ascomycetes hypogeous fungus Tuber borchii Vittad. found in aqueous extract and the hyphal cell wall. The tbf-1 gene codes a 12-amino acid N-terminal stretch not present in mature protein. This sequence does not match with any homologous signal sequences s...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Palma F,Cerigini E,Stocchi V

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) comprise an important group of paediatric pathogens. Atypical EPEC have reservoirs in farm and domestic animals where they can be either commensal or pathogenic; serogroup O26 is dominant in humans and animals. Central to intestinal colonization by EPEC is the transloc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ooka T,Vieira MA,Ogura Y,Beutin L,La Ragione R,van Diemen PM,Stevens MP,Aktan I,Cawthraw S,Best A,Hernandes RT,Krause G,Gomes TA,Hayashi T,Frankel G

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome sequence of Roseovarius sp. strain 217 indicated that many pathway enzymes found in other organisms for the degradation of taurine are represented, but that a novel, apparently energy-dependent pathway is involved in the conversion of acetyl phosphate to acetyl CoA. Thus, an ABC transporter for taurine coul...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Baldock MI,Denger K,Smits TH,Cook AM

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most Moraxella catarrhalis isolates express a highly-conserved outer membrane protein of 453 residues designated OMPCD, which has been previously shown to mediate binding to A549 human lung cells. Here, it is reported that two distinct domains of the M. catarrhalis strain O35E OMPCD protein specify adherence. Truncate...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Akimana C,Lafontaine ER

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

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：:The primary structure of a bacteriocin produced by Enterococcus hirae DCH5 was determined by combined amino acid and DNA sequencing. Nucleotide analysis of a 2838-bp DNA fragment of E. hirae DCH5 revealed five putative ORFs. The first orf (hirJM79) encodes a 74-amino-acid peptide containing an N-terminal signal peptid...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sánchez J,Diep DB,Herranz C,Nes IF,Cintas LM,Hernández PE

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：: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：:A Tn5 transposon mutant was isolated of the alkylphenol degrader Pseudomonas sp. KL28 that showed increased growth at higher levels of m-cresol on solid and in liquid cultures. The transposon was inserted at the 5'-terminus of rpoS, which encodes a stationary-phase sigma factor. When grown on agar plates, the rpoS mut...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yun JI,Cho KM,Kim JK,Lee SO,Cho K,Lee K

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An expressed sequence tag database of the freshwater fish parasite, Ichthyophthirius multifiliis (Ciliophora) was analyzed to seek for proteases potentially involved in the invasion and degradation of host tissues during infection. The translation of the database revealed two cathepsin L cysteine proteases (Icp1 and I...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jousson O,Di Bello D,Donadio E,Felicioli A,Pretti C

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OMIZ-W68, a chemically defined medium that contains no long-chain fatty acids and yet supports in vitro proliferation of a wide range of fastidious oral anaerobes, is described. The type strains of Treponema denticola, Treponema lecithinolyticum, Treponema maltophilum, Treponema pectinovorum, Treponema socranskii, and...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wyss C

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA microarray technology was used to survey changes in gene expression in Pseudomonas fluorescens after mitomycin C treatment. As expected, genes associated with the SOS response were upregulated, such as those encoding the recombination protein RecA, DNA repair protein RecN, excinuclease ABC subunit A UvrA, and the ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jin H,Retallack DM,Stelman SJ,Hershberger CD,Ramseier T

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of RNase P RNA from anammox bacteria 'Candidatus Brocadia anammoxidans' and 'Candidatus Kuenenia stuttgartiensis' with that from other Planctomycetes was investigated. Newly identified rnpB gene sequences were aligned against existing planctomycete RNase P RNA sequences and secondary structures deduce...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Butler MK,Op den Camp HJ,Harhangi HR,Lafi FF,Strous M,Fuerst JA

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00