abstract：:Microbial production of acetone and butanol was one of the first large-scale industrial fermentation processes of global importance. During the first part of the 20th century, it was indeed the second largest fermentation process, superseded in importance only by the ethanol fermentation. After a rapid decline after t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sauer M

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Horizontal gene transfer plays a significant role in bacterial evolution and has major clinical importance. Thus, it is vital to understand the mechanisms and kinetics of genetic transformations. Natural transformation is the driving mechanism for horizontal gene transfer in diverse genera of bacteria. Our study intro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Santala V,Karp M,Santala S

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emergence of races in Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici (Fol) is caused by loss or mutation of at least one avirulence (AVR) gene. The product of AVR1 is a small protein (Avr1) secreted by Fol in tomato xylem sap during infection. This protein triggers Fol race 1 specific resistance (I) in tomato, indicating that ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kashiwa T,Suzuki T,Sato A,Akai K,Teraoka T,Komatsu K,Arie T

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wood-rotting fungi possess remarkably diverse extracellular oxidation mechanisms, including enzymes, such as laccase and peroxidases, and Fenton chemistry. The ability to biologically drive Fenton chemistry by the redox cycling of quinones has previously been reported to be present in both ecologically diverging main ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Krueger MC,Bergmann M,Schlosser D

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation is a metabolic process of clostridia that produces bio-based solvents including butanol. It is enabled by an underlying metabolic reaction network and modulated by cellular gene regulation and environmental cues. Mathematical modeling has served as a valuable strategy to faci...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Liao C,Seo SO,Lu T

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to understand the pathogenesis of motile aeromonas septicemia caused by an emergent, high virulent Aeromonas hydrophila (vAh) in channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus Adipose fin clipped catfish were challenged with vAh using a waterborne challenge method, and the distribution of vAh over a ti...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Zhang D,Moreira GS,Shoemaker C,Newton JC,Xu DH

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bacteria are capable of accumulating intracellular granules of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA). In this work, we developed confocal microscopy analysis of bacterial cells to study changes in the diameters of cells as well as PHA granules during growth and PHA accumulation in the bacterium Cupriavidus necator H16 (for...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mravec F,Obruca S,Krzyzanek V,Sedlacek P,Hrubanova K,Samek O,Kucera D,Benesova P,Nebesarova J

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans is an acidophile implicated in low-temperature biomining for the recovery of metals from sulfide minerals. Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans obtains its energy from the oxidation of inorganic sulfur compounds, and genes encoding several alternative pathways have been identified. Next-generati...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Christel S,Fridlund J,Buetti-Dinh A,Buck M,Watkin EL,Dopson M

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) dominated discussions of online learning and higher education in the news media and in universities between 2012 and 2015. However, fashions pass, needs change and technology evolves. This Commentary looks back, pauses on the present, and then looks forward. Whilst MOOCs are a signi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Daniel J

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of an educational board game developed to teach the pharmacology of antimicrobial drugs to medical students was compared with the lecture-based seminar as a supplemental tool to improve short- and long-term knowledge retention and the perception of the learning method by students. A group of 124 stud...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Karbownik MS,Wiktorowska-Owczarek A,Kowalczyk E,Kwarta P,Mokros Ł,Pietras T

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The marine foodborne enteropathogen, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, has four putative catalase genes. Function of the katG-homologous genes, katG1(VPA0768) and katG2(VPA0453), was examined using gene deletion mutants, and compared with those of the katE-homologous genes, katE1(VPA1418) and katE2(VPA0305). Bacterial growth o...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yu SC,Fen SY,Chien CL,Wong HC

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Culture medium from an isolate of the fungus Aspergillus candidus was extracted, fractionated and examined to discover compounds antagonistic to plant-parasitic nematodes that are important pathogens of agricultural crops. Column, thin layer and preparative chromatographies and spectral and elemental analyses, were us...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Shemshura ON,Bekmakhanova NE,Mazunina MN,Meyer SL,Rice CP,Masler EP

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photorhabdus (Enterobacteriaceae) bacteria are pathogenic to insects and mutualistic with entomopathogenic Heterorhabditis nematodes. Photorhabdus luminescens subsp. akhurstii LN2, associated with Heterorhabditis indica LN2, shows nematicidal activity against H. bacteriophora H06 infective juveniles (IJs). In the pres...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Qiu X,Wu C,Cao L,Ehlers RU,Han R

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria carry a number of genes that cause cell growth arrest or cell lysis upon expression. Notably, defective prophages retain many lysis proteins. Here, we identified a novel lytic gene, ydfD, on the Qin prophage segment of the Escherichia coli genome. YdfD lyses 99.9% of cells within 2 h of its induction. The co-...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Masuda H,Awano N,Inouye M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The commercialization of the n-butanol bioprocess is largely dependent on the price of feedstocks. Renewable cellulose appears to be an appealing feedstock. The microbial production of n-butanol still remains challenging because of the limited availability of intracellular NADH. To address this issue, an Escherichia c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Saini M,Chiang CJ,Li SY,Chao YP

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type II toxin-antitoxin systems (TAs) are small autoregulated bicistronic operons that encode a toxin protein with the potential to inhibit metabolic processes and an antitoxin protein to neutralize the toxin. Most of the bacterial genomes encode multiple TAs. However, the diversity and accumulation of TAs on bacteria...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Ramisetty BC,Santhosh RS

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichomonas vaginalis is a protozoan that parasitizes the human urogenital tract causing trichomoniasis, the most common non-viral sexually transmitted disease. The parasite has unique genomic characteristics such as a large genome size and expanded gene families. Ectonucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase (E-NTPD...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Frasson AP,Dos Santos O,Meirelles LC,Macedo AJ,Tasca T

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the diversity and roles of Gram-positive and pigmented bacteria in Antarctic environments, especially those associated with marine macroorganisms. This work is the first study about the diversity and antimicrobial activity of culturable pigmented Gram-positive bacteria associated with marine Anta...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Leiva S,Alvarado P,Huang Y,Wang J,Garrido I

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis requires an integrated analysis of strain lineages, mutations and gene expression. Previously, we reported the differential expression of esxG, esxH, infA, groES, rpmI, rpsA and lipF genes in a sensitive M. tuberculosis strain and in a multidrug-resistant cli...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： González-Escalante L,Peñuelas-Urquides K,Said-Fernández S,Silva-Ramírez B,Bermúdez de León M

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Academic work at different career stages has changed and a broadened portfolio of expertise enables academics to adapt, maintain and advance their career. Development related to research activity is naturally driven by methodology and technology. Institutions and peers largely support development in the contexts of di...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Fahnert B

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) are common bacterial colonizers of the human skin. They are often involved in nosocomial infections due to biofilm formation in indwelling medical devices. While biofilm formation has been extensively studied in Staphylococcus epidermidis, little is known regarding other CoNS sp...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Oliveira F,Lima CA,Brás S,França Â,Cerca N

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coxiella is a genus of obligate intracellular bacteria engaged in a variety of interactions with eukaryotes. The type species, Coxiella burnetii, infects several vertebrate species, including humans, and is the causative agent of Q fever. Multiple copies of a specific transposable element, the insertion sequence IS111...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Duron O

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic version of the ligA gene encoding the NAD-dependent DNA ligase from the Arctic bacterium Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis was substituted for its homolog in the chromosome of Mycobacterium smegmatis. The resulting recombinant strain grew identically to the parent strain at permissive temperatures but failed ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pinto CT,Nano FE

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endpolygalacturonase I from Stereum purpureum has been identified as a causative substance for the silver-leaf disease in apples. It possesses a unique pro-sequence in the C-terminal region that lacks endpolygalacturonases from any other origin. In this study, we analyzed and compared enzymatic characteristics between...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hamada S,Toda K,Ogawa S,Kubota K,Miyairi K

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autotrophic fixation of carbon dioxide into cellular carbon occurs via several pathways but quantitatively, the Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle is the most important. CbbR regulates the expression of the cbb genes involved in CO2 fixation via the Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle in a number of autotrophic bacteria. A gene pote...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Esparza M,Jedlicki E,Dopson M,Holmes DS

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prebiotics are non-digestible feed ingredients that are metabolized by specific members of intestinal microbiota and provide health benefits for the host. Fermentable oligosaccharides are best known prebiotics that have received increasing attention in poultry production. They act through diverse mechanisms, such as p...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Pourabedin M,Zhao X

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the dental caries pathogen Streptococcus mutans, an MarR-like transcriptional regulator (RcrR), two ABC efflux pumps (RcrPQ) and two effector peptides encoded in the rcrRPQ operon provide molecular connections between stress tolerance, (p)ppGpp metabolism and genetic competence. Here, we examined the role of RcrRPQ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Shields RC,Burne RA

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogenotrophic methanogens live in a synthrophic relationship with the human gut microbiota as the terminal part of the anaerobic food chain. Methanobrevibacter smithii of the Methanobacteriales is the prevailing archaeal species. Recently, methylotrophic archaea of the novel order Methanomassiliicoccales were isola...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Vanderhaeghen S,Lacroix C,Schwab C

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：:This study focused on the alanine racemase gene (alr-2), which is involved in the synthesis of d-alanine that forms the backbone of the cell wall. A stable alr-2 knockout mutant of Aeromonas hydrophila HBNUAh01 was constructed. When the mutant was supplemented with d-alanine, growth was unaffected; deprivation of d-al...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Liu D,Zhang L,Xue W,Wang Y,Ju J,Zhao B

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) have been extensively studied in natural and agricultural ecosystems, but little is known about their diversity and community structure in highly petroleum-polluted soils. In this study, we described an unexpected diversity of AMF in a sedimentation basin of a former petrochemical pl...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： de la Providencia IE,Stefani FO,Labridy M,St-Arnaud M,Hijri M

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we describe a Lactobacillus fermentum 3872 plasmid (pLF3872) not previously found in any other strain of this species. The analysis of the complete sequence of this plasmid revealed the presence of a gene encoding a large collagen-binding protein (CBP), as well as the genes responsible for plasmid maint...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lehri B,Seddon AM,Karlyshev AV

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cronobacter sakazakii is associated with severe and often fatal cases of infant meningitis and necrotizing enterocolitis. The form of meningitis differs from that due to Neisseria meningitidis and Streptococcus spp., in that it is highly invasive and destructive towards human brain cells. However, there is relatively ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Alzahrani H,Winter J,Boocock D,De Girolamo L,Forsythe SJ

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa uses quorum-sensing systems to regulate collective behaviour in response to the environment, by linking the expression of particular genes to population density. The quorum-sensing transcription factors LasR and RhlR and their cognate N-acyl-homoserine lactone (HSL) si...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Miklavič Š,Kogovšek P,Hodnik V,Korošec J,Kladnik A,Anderluh G,Gutierrez-Aguirre I,Maček P,Butala M

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The core metabolism of microorganisms has a major influence on the hydrogen isotopic composition of their fatty acids. Heterotrophic microorganisms produce fatty acids with a deuterium to hydrogen (D/H) ratio either slightly depleted or enriched in D compared to the growth water, while photo- and chemoautotrophic micr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Heinzelmann SM,Chivall D,M'Boule D,Sinke-Schoen D,Villanueva L,Damsté JS,Schouten S,van der Meer MT

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a food-borne pathogen and a leading cause of gastroenteritis in humans. Recently, we sequenced a phage-type DT108 strain (L945) and found reads with high similarity to both Salmonella typhi strain CT18 plasmid pHCM2 and bacteriophage SSU5. In this study, we completely sequenc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Octavia S,Sara J,Lan R

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different genes encoding pyridine nucleotide transhydrogenases (pntAB, udhA) and acetoacetyl-CoA reductases (phaB) were heterologously overexpressed in Rhodospirillum rubrum S1. A recombinant strain, which harbored the gene encoding the membrane-bound transhydrogenase PntAB from Escherichia coli MG1655 and the phaB1 g...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Heinrich D,Raberg M,Steinbüchel A

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the impacts of bacterial DNA extraction methodology on downstream analysis of fish gut microbiota. Feces and intestine samples were taken from three sympatric freshwater fish species with varying diets. Samples were processed immediately (approximately 4 h after capture; fresh), stored at -20 °...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Larsen AM,Mohammed HH,Arias CR

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the draft genome sequence from Aeromonas salmonicida sp. strain CBA100, which was characterized as an antibiotic-resistant bacterium isolated from infected rainbow trout. The total size of the genome is 4,788,109 bp, with a G + C content of 60.55%. Comparison of its open reading frames shows that the closest...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Valdes N,Espinoza C,Sanhueza L,Gonzalez A,Corsini G,Tello M

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, PCR fingerprinting using the universal primer T3B was applied to distinguish among clinical and environmental species of the Sporothrix complex, Sporothrix brasiliensis, S. globosa, S. mexicana, S. pallida, S. luriei and S. schenckii sensu stricto. The T3B fingerprinting generated clearly distinct bandi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Oliveira MM,Franco-Duarte R,Romeo O,Pais C,Criseo G,Sampaio P,Zancope-Oliveira RM

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00