abstract：:The distribution of the antiseptic-resistance genes qacE and qacE delta 1 was studied in a large number of Gram-negative bacteria by a method that included the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). A total of 117 strains of Gram-negative bacteria, isolated from clinical or environmental sources, was used in this analysis. ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kazama H,Hamashima H,Sasatsu M,Arai T

更新日期：1998-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphogluconate, the key intermediate of the Entner-Doudoroff pathway, has long been thought to inhibit growth of bacteria, but careful measurements of 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphogluconate accumulation by growing cells and the correlation of intracellular 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphogluc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fuhrman LK,Wanken A,Nickerson KW,Conway T

更新日期：1998-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes mphA and mphB encode macrolide 2'-phosphotransferases I and II, respectively, and they confer resistance to macrolide antibiotics in Escherichia coli. To study the expression of these genes in Gram-positive bacteria, we constructed recombinant plasmids that consisted of an mph gene and the pUB110 vector in B...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Noguchi N,Tamura Y,Katayama J,Narui K

更新日期：1998-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have re-examined the stringent response of Streptococcus rattus and Streptococcus pyogenes, two organisms that had originally been reported not to accumulate ppGpp following amino acid deprivation. We conclude that ppGpp does accumulate when S. rattus and S. pyogenes are deprived of isoleucine by mupirocin addition...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Whitehead KE,Webber GM,England RR

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xylose reductase catalyzes the NAD(P)H-dependent reduction of xylose to xylitol and is essential for growth on xylose by yeasts. To understand the nature of coenzyme binding to the Pichia stipitis xylose reductase, we investigated the role of the strictly conserved Lys270 in the putative IPKS coenzyme binding motif by...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kostrzynska M,Sopher CR,Lee H

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The replication region of plasmid pRA2 from Pseudomonas alcaligenes NCIB 9867 (strain P25X) was localized within a 5.9-kbp DNA fragment and its sequence was determined. An interesting feature of the sequence is the presence of a 1.3-kbp region containing seven, highly conserved, direct repeats of 72 bp in length. The ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kwong SM,Yeo CC,Chuah D,Poh CL

更新日期：1998-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Many antibiotic-producing actinomycetes possess at least one ABC (ATP-binding cassette) transporter which forms part of the antibiotic biosynthetic pathway and in most cases confers resistance to the drug in an heterologous host. Three types of antibiotic ABC transporters have been so far described in producer organis...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Méndez C,Salas JA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The insertion sequence ISRm8 was identified by sequence analysis of the cryptic plasmid pRmeGR4b of Sinorhizobium meliloti GR4. ISRm8 is 1451 bp in length and carries 22/24-bp terminal imperfect inverted repeats with seven mismatches and a direct target site duplication of 3 bp. ISRm8 carries a unique open reading fra...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zekri S,Toro N

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus cereus is becoming one of the more important causes of food poisoning in the industrialised world. It produces one emetic toxin and three different enterotoxins. The emetic toxin is a ring-shaped structure of three repeats of four amino and/or oxy acids: [D-O-Leu-D-Ala-L-O-Val-L-Val]3. This ring structure has...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Granum PE,Lund T

更新日期：1997-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus anthracis lethal toxin (PALF) stimulated the proliferation of human peripheral blood T-cells in vitro. Activation of T-lymphocytes by PALF required the presence of monocytes and did not result from a collaborative effect between T-cells and B-cells. PALF acted directly on monocytes and independently of T-cell...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Guidi-Rontani C,Duflot E,Mock M

更新日期：1997-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The main determinant of the plant pathogen Erwinia chrysanthemi virulence is the production of extracellular enzymes, mainly pectate lyases. Adjacent to a pectate lyase encoding locus, we identified the gene rotA supposed to encode a folding catalyst. Overproduction of the protein and assay of activity using a synthet...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pissavin C,Hugouvieux-Cotte-Pattat N

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to obtain functional expression of PHA synthase gene phaC2 from Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Escherichia coli, the coding region of phaC2 was subcloned, including the ribosomal binding site, into pBluescript SK- collinear to the lac promoter. This plasmid pBHR71-C2 enabled functional expression of phaC2 in E. co...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Qi Q,Rehm BH,Steinbüchel A

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anr gene of Pseudomonas aeruginosa encodes a transcriptional regulator of anaerobic gene expression, homologous to the Fnr protein of Escherichia coli. We report here that Anr has a role in regulating the activity of the aerobic respiratory chain of P. aeruginosa. Strains with internal deletions in their anr gene ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ray A,Williams HD

更新日期：1997-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The locus of enterocyte effacement pathogenicity island confers the attaching and effacing histopathology on epithelial cells infected with enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli. We investigated the site of insertion of the locus of enterocyte effacement in E. coli strains in relation to their evolut...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wieler LH,McDaniel TK,Whittam TS,Kaper JB

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple restriction fragments, homologous to the previously described Mycoplasma bovis vspA gene, were identified in the chromosome of Mycoplasma agalactiae. The vspA, a representative variable surface lipoprotein gene of the vsp gene family, and four synthetic oligonucleotides, representing sequences complementary t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Flitman-Tene R,Levisohn S,Rosenbusch R,Rapoport E,Yogev D

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An obligately anaerobic spirochete designated strain SEBR 4228T (T = type strain) was isolated from an oil field of Congo, Central Africa. The strain grew optimally with a sodium chloride concentration of 5% (sodium chloride concentration) growth range 1.0-10%) at 37 degrees C (growth temperature range 20-40 degrees C...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Magot M,Fardeau ML,Arnauld O,Lanau C,Ollivier B,Thomas P,Patel BK

更新日期：1997-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella usually carry two highly homologous genes (omp2a and omp2b) for porin-like proteins. In several B. abortus biovars the omp2a gene has a large deletion compared to other Brucella omp2's. In this study we have measured Omp2 pore activity in planar bilayers. Omp2b exhibits well-defined trimeric channel activity ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mobasheri H,Ficht TA,Marquis H,Lea EJ,Lakey JH

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter sp. strain 20B was isolated based on the ability to utilize dimethyl sulfide as the sole sulfur source. Since strain 20B oxidized indole as well as dimethyl sulfide, indigo production by recombinant Escherichia coli clones carrying Acinetobacter DNA was used as a selection for cloning genes encoding dime...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Horinouchi M,Kasuga K,Nojiri H,Yamane H,Omori T

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bananas contain large quantities of neurochemicals. Extracts from the peel and pulp of bananas in increasing stages of ripening were prepared and evaluated for their ability to modulate the growth of non-pathogenic and pathogenic bacteria. Extracts from the peel, and to a much lesser degree the pulp, increased the gro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lyte M

更新日期：1997-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The galE gene of Pasteurella multocida has been isolated by complementing galE-defective mutants of Salmonella typhimurium with a plasmid library of this organism. The complete nucleotide sequence of the P. multocida galE gene consists of 1017 nucleotides, encoding a predicted polypeptide of 339 amino acids. The deduc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fernández de Henestrosa AR,Badiola I,Saco M,Perez de Rozas AM,Campoy S,Barbé J

更新日期：1997-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the alpha-subunit of methanol dehydrogenase (mxaF) and its flanking region was isolated from a methylotrophic bacterium, Hyphomicrobium methylovorum GM2. The deduced amino acid sequence of MxaF showed 80, 80, 74 and 66% identity with those of Methylobacterium extorquens AM1, M. organophilum XX, Parac...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tanaka Y,Yoshida T,Watanabe K,Izumi Y,Mitsunaga T

更新日期：1997-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequence analysis of the nadA gene of Ehrlichia chaffeensis revealed a 942 bp open reading frame with the capacity to encode 314 amino acids. The amino acid sequence of the E. chaffeensis quinolinate synthetase A (NAD/A) has 53.6% identity and 82% similarity to the NAD A of the cyanelle of Cyanophora paradoxa. Por...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yu XJ,Walker DH

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three (0140J, C197C and EF20) out of four strains of Streptococcus uberis exhibited high levels of bound plasmin activity following growth in the presence of bovine plasminogen. The remaining strain (C197) bound considerably less plasmin following growth in the same medium. In contrast to the others, this strain was u...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Leigh JA,Lincoln RA

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphologically similar species such as Chinese black truffles and Tuber melanosporum were typed by restriction length polymorphism of internal transcribed spacers. This analysis together with sequence comparison revealed the presence of high genetic variability among fruit bodies collected in China. Selection of prim...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Paolocci F,Rubini A,Granetti B,Arcioni S

更新日期：1997-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii strain A148, a clinical isolate resistant to imipenem (MIC = 32 mg l-1), synthesized two beta-lactamases with pIs 6.3 and > 9.2. The pI 6.3 enzyme hydrolyzed the penicillins, including isoxazoylpenicillins, first-, second- and, to a lesser extent, third-generation cephalosporins. It was inhibit...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hornstein M,Sautjeau-Rostoker C,Péduzzi J,Vessières A,Hong LT,Barthélémy M,Scavizzi M,Labia R

更新日期：1997-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was the production of the homopolyester poly(4-hydroxybutyric acid) (poly(4HB)) with recombinant strains of Escherichia coli. Wild-type strains and other widely used non-recombinant strains of E. coli are not able to produce polyhydroxyalkanoic acids (PHA) as storage compounds and cannot utilize ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hein S,Söhling B,Gottschalk G,Steinbüchel A

更新日期：1997-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enteritidis isolated from poultry infections generated a convoluted colonial morphology after 48 h growth on colonisation factor antigen (CFA) agar at 25 degrees C. A mutant S. enteritidis defective for the elaboration of the SEF17 fimbrial antigen, in which the agf gene cluster was inactivated by insertion...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Allen-Vercoe E,Dibb-Fuller M,Thorns CJ,Woodward MJ

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription of the sigA and sigB genes of Brevibacterium lactofermentum, encoding the principal sigma factors of RNA polymerase, has been investigated by Northern blot and primer extension analysis. Northern hybridizations revealed that sigA is transcribed as a monocistronic mRNA of 1.7 kb and sigB gives two transcr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Oguiza JA,Marcos AT,Martín JF

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five mutations in ccpA of Bacillus megaterium with impaired functions were analysed for carbon catabolite repression. The phenotypes support the hypothesis that CcpA assumes a PurR/LacI fold. The completely inactive mutants CcpA119GE and CcpA326am cause alterations which are incompatible with that fold. A mutation wit...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kraus A,Hillen W

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuraminidase (sialidase), a potential virulence factor in bacteria, was demonstrated in Haemophilus parasuis, an invasive swine pathogen, but not in four other pathogens of the Pasteurellaceae family: H. influenzae, H. somnus, H. paragallinarum, or Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae. H. parasuis neuraminidase had an aci...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lichtensteiger CA,Vimr ER

更新日期：1997-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of Helminthosporium solani, the cause of silver scurf in potato tubers, has been impaired by selection of benzimidazole-resistant strains as a result of repeated use of the fungicide thiabendazole. Identification of thiabendazole-resistant strains of H. solani by conventional techniques takes several weeks. Pr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： McKay GJ,Cooke LR

更新日期：1997-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:parD and chpA are homologous conditional killer systems of plasmid and chromosomal origin, respectively, encoding a killer protein (Kid and ChpAK) and an antidote (Kis and ChpAI). Here it is shown that these systems can functionally interact. A multicopy chpA recombinant partially complements two mutations in the anti...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Santos-Sierra S,Giraldo R,Díaz-Orejas R

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inoculation of soil with bacteria (a Gram-negative rod [PD2] and a 4-membered consortium [DC1]) accelerated mineralisation of phenanthrene and pyrene (but not naphthalene) added individually to a pristine sand and a pristine organic soil. The half-life of naphthalene was 3.5 days in both soils whether inoculated or no...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Smith MJ,Lethbridge G,Burns RG

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain Lactobacillus brevis strains are resistant to hop-derived compounds such as isohumulone and are able to grow in beer. In this study, we raised an antiserum against our beer spoilage laboratory strain L. brevis 578 which reacted with 23 of 24 beer spoilers and two of 13 non-spoilers in precipitation reactions u...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yasui T,Yoda K

更新日期：1997-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:L-allo-Threonine aldolase (L-allo-threonine acetaldehyde-lyase), which exhibited specificity for L-allo-threonine but not for L-threonine, was purified from a cell-free extract of Aeromonas jandaei DK-39. The purified enzyme catalyzed the aldol cleavage reaction of L-allo-threonine (K(m) = 1.45 mM, Vmax = 45.2 mumol m...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kataoka M,Wada M,Nishi K,Yamada H,Shimizu S

更新日期：1997-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We cloned and characterized the Neisseria meningitidis rfaC gene which encodes an enzyme, alpha-1,5 heptosyltransferase I, involved in the synthesis of the deep-core of the lipooligosaccharide. The N. meningitidis rfaC mutant, obtained by an allelic exchange, produced lipooligosaccharide which migrated faster in sodiu...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Stojiljkovic I,Hwa V,Larson J,Lin L,So M,Nassif X

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using natural rubber latex as the sole source of carbon and energy 50 rubber-degrading bacteria were isolated. Out of those 50 isolates, 33 were identified as Streptomyces species and 8 as Micromonospora species. Screening of 1220 bacteria obtained from different culture collections revealed 46 additional rubber-degra...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jendrossek D,Tomasi G,Kroppenstedt RM

更新日期：1997-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to generate highly specific serological reagents for the quantitative identification of Actinomyces naeslundii in clinical samples, in particular dental plaque. Balb/c mice were immunized with pasteurized human A. naeslundii strains representing different genospecies and serotypes. Ten hy...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Thurnheer T,Guggenheim B,Gmür R

更新日期：1997-05-15 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：:Growth of Prevotella ruminicola strains B(1)4 (subsp. brevis) and D31d (subsp. ruminicola), was inhibited by protamine, a polycationic, low molecular mass protein. Results showed that protamine has a bacteriocidal effect when present in concentrations exceeding 30 micrograms ml-1. Protamine exerted its toxic effects b...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Madeira HM,Morrison M

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00