abstract：:In our recent screen for soil-induced genes, the expression of andA operon (andAcAdAbAa) for anthranilate catabolism in Burkholderia multivorans ATCC 17616 was found to increase dramatically in a soil sample (Nishiyama et al., Environ Microbiol 12: 2539, 2010). The operon was preceded by andR encoding a putative trans...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nishiyama E,Ohtsubo Y,Yamamoto Y,Nagata Y,Tsuda M

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, genes involved in thiamin pyrophosphate (TPP) synthesis (THI genes) and the pyruvate decarboxylase structural gene PDC5 are transcriptionally induced in response to thiamin starvation. Three positive regulatory factors (Thi2p, Thi3p, and Pdc2p) are involved in the expression of THI genes, ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nosaka K,Esaki H,Onozuka M,Konno H,Hattori Y,Akaji K

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of antibiotic resistance has necessitated new therapeutic approaches for combating persistent bacterial infection. An alternative approach is regulation of bacterial virulence instead of growth suppression, which can readily lead to drug resistance. The virulence of the opportunistic human pathogen Pseud...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lee JH,Kim YG,Cho MH,Kim JA,Lee J

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for improved rapid diagnostic tests for tuberculosis disease has prompted interest in the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted by Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex bacteria. We have investigated VOCs emitted by Mycobacterium bovis BCG grown on Lowenstein-Jensen media using selected ion flow tube mass sp...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： McNerney R,Mallard K,Okolo PI,Turner C

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both ThyA and ThyX proteins catalyze the transfer of the methyl group from methylenetetrahydrofolate (CH(2) H(4) -folate) to dUMP, forming dTMP. To estimate the relative steady state expression levels of ThyA and ThyX, Western blot analysis was performed using ThyA or ThyX antiserum on total protein from the wild-type...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cho S,Yang S,Rhie H

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of bacterial strains formerly known as CDC group M-5 are opportunistic pathogens to humans. In 1993, a name, Neisseria weaveri, was proposed by two independent studies to harbor CDC group M-5 strains, namely N. weaveri Holmes et al. 1993 and N. weaveri Andersen et al. 1993, with two different 'type' strains. H...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yi H,Cho YJ,Yoon SH,Park SC,Chun J

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel aerobic, Gram-negative bacterial strain, designated KU41E(T), which degrades p-n-nonylphenol, was isolated from seawater obtained from the coastal region of Ishigaki Island, Japan. Cells are motile, curved rods with a single polar flagellum. Strain KU41E(T) grew at 20-35 °C, pH 7.0-8.0, in the presence of 1.0-...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Iwaki H,Takada K,Hasegawa Y

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes is a Gram positive pathogen that is ubiquitous in the environment. It is a facultative anaerobic rod that causes listeriosis, a disease with potentially lethal consequences for susceptible individuals. During infection, the pathogen is capable of sequestering metal ions to act as vital biocataly...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Dowd GC,Casey PG,Begley M,Hill C,Gahan CG

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus niger represents a promising host for the expression of recombinant proteins, but only a few expression systems are available for this organism. In this study, the inducible catalase promoter (PcatR) from A. niger was characterized. For this, constructs were developed and checked for the expression of the ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sharma R,Katoch M,Govindappa N,Srivastava PS,Sastry KN,Qazi GN

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cryptic plasmid from Arthrobacter rhombi PRH1, designated as pPRH, was sequenced and characterized. It was 5000 bp in length with a G+C content of 66 mol%. The plasmid pPRH was predicted to encode six putative open reading frames (ORFs), in which ORF2 and ORF3 formed the minimal replicon of plasmid pPRH and shared 5...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Stanislauskiene R,Gasparaviciute R,Vaitekunas J,Meskiene R,Rutkiene R,Casaite V,Meskys R

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dissimilatory metal-reducing bacteria (DMRB), such as Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, are of great interest for their importance in the biogeochemical cycling of metals and utility in biotechnological processes, such as bioremediation and microbial fuel cells. To identify genes necessary for metal reduction, this study co...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kouzuma A,Hashimoto K,Watanabe K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mycobacterium tuberculosis murG gene, Rv2153, was expressed in Escherichia coli murG(Ts) strain OV58 on a plasmid under the control of the arabinose-inducible araBAD promoter. Mycobacterium tuberculosis murG rescued the growth of E. coli murG(Ts) at the nonpermissive temperature: transformants were only obtained i...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Jha RK,Katagihallimath N,Hota SK,Das KS,de Sousa SM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae 287-w carries three small narrow host range (NHR) plasmids (pIGMS31, pIGMS32, and pIGRK), which could be maintained in several closely related species of Gammaproteobacteria, but not in Alphaproteobacteria. The plasmids contain different mobilization systems (MOB), whose activity in Escherichia c...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Smorawinska M,Szuplewska M,Zaleski P,Wawrzyniak P,Maj A,Plucienniczak A,Bartosik D

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Pycnoporus forms a group of four species known especially for producing high redox potential laccases suitable for white biotechnology. A sample of 36 Pycnoporus strains originating from different geographical areas was studied to seek informative molecular markers for the typing of new strains in laboratory...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Lesage-Meessen L,Haon M,Uzan E,Levasseur A,Piumi F,Navarro D,Taussac S,Favel A,Lomascolo A

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the genus Actinoplanes are considered to be representative of motile actinomycetes. To infer the flagellar diversity of Actinoplanes species, novel degenerate primers were designed for the flagellin (fliC) gene. The fliC gene of 21 Actinoplanes strains was successfully amplified and classified into two grou...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Yamamura H,Hanawa K,Kusunoki M,Nakamura K,Nakagawa Y,Ishida Y,Hamada M,Otoguro M,Tamura T,Fujita N,Hayakawa M

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mercury (II) ion is toxic and is usually detoxified in Bacteria by reduction to elemental mercury, which is less toxic. This is catalysed by an NAD(P)H-dependent mercuric reductase (EC 1.16.1.1). Here, we present strong evidence that Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath) - a methanotrophic member of the Gammaproteobacte...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Boden R,Murrell JC

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of this work were to characterize the 16S-23S internal spacer region of the fish pathogen Tenacibaculum soleae and to develop a PCR assay for its identification and detection. All T. soleae strains tested displayed a single internal spacer region class, containing tRNA(I) (le) and tRNA(A) ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： López JR,Hamman-Khalifa AM,Navas JI,de la Herran R

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deferoxamine (DFO), an FDA-approved iron chelator used for treatment of iron poisoning, affects bacteria as iron availability is intimately connected with growth and several virulence determinants. However, little is known about the effect on oral pathogens. In this study, the effect of DFO on Porphyromonas gingivalis...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Moon JH,Herr Y,Kim SW,Lee JY

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhamnolipids are biosurfactants produced by the soil bacterium P seudomonas aeruginosa. In addition to their high industrial potential as surface-active molecules, rhamnolipids also have antimicrobial properties. In densely populated habitats, such as the soil, production of antimicrobial compounds is important to inh...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wecke T,Bauer T,Harth H,Mäder U,Mascher T

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enrichment culture which completely degraded fenoxaprop-ethyl (FE) was acquired by using FE as sole carbon source. An efficient FE-degrading strain T1 was isolated from the enrichment culture and identified as Rhodococcus sp. Strain T1 could degrade 94% of 100 mg L(-1) FE within 24 h and the metabolite fenoxaprop a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hou Y,Tao J,Shen W,Liu J,Li J,Li Y,Cao H,Cui Z

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we were interested in the association of attenuated mutants of Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis with subpopulations of porcine white blood cells (WBC). The mutants included those with inactivated aroA, phoP, rfaL, rfaG, rfaC and fliC genes and a mutant with five major pathogenicity islands remove...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Stepanova H,Volf J,Malcova M,Matiasovic J,Faldyna M,Rychlik I

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the phylum Bacteroidetes, the gyrB gene, encoding for the B subunit of the DNA gyrase, has been used as a phylogenetic marker for several genera closely related to Flavobacterium. The phylogenies of the complete 16S rRNA gene and the gyrB gene were compared for 33 Antarctic Flavobacterium isolates and 23 type s...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Peeters K,Willems A

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcriptional repressor Rex has been implicated in the regulation of energy metabolism and fermentative growth in response to redox potential. Streptococcus mutans, the primary causative agent of human dental caries, possesses a gene that encodes a protein with high similarity to members of the Rex family of pro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bitoun JP,Nguyen AH,Fan Y,Burne RA,Wen ZT

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular microbial ecology studies are heavily reliant on 'Universal' 16S rRNA gene primers for elucidating microbial community structure and composition, and yet primer design and optimization is often overlooked. Primers that exhibit minor biases due to primer-template mismatches can substantially alter the pool of...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Thomas MC,Thomas DK,Selinger LB,Inglis GD

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chrysene-degrading bacterium Pseudoxanthomonas sp. PNK-04 was isolated from a coal sample. Three novel metabolites, hydroxyphenanthroic acid, 1-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid and salicylic acid, were identified by TLC, HPLC and MS. Key enzyme activities, namely 1-hydroxy-2-naphthoate hydroxylase, 1,2-dihydroxynaphthalen...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Nayak AS,Sanjeev Kumar S,Santosh Kumar M,Anjaneya O,Karegoudar TB

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Phoma sp. was isolated and characterized as endophytic and as a pathogen of Larrea tridentata (creosote bush) growing in the desert region of southern Utah, USA. This fungus produces a unique mixture of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), including a series of sesquiterpenoids, some alcohols and several reduced napht...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Strobel G,Singh SK,Riyaz-Ul-Hassan S,Mitchell AM,Geary B,Sears J

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cold shock domain (CSD)-containing protein, CspD, of molecular mass ~7.28 kDa in a psychrotolerant Antarctic Janthinobacterium sp. Ant5-2 (ATCC BAA-2154) exhibited constitutive expression at 37, 22, 15, 4 and -1°C. The cspD gene encoding the CspD protein of Ant5-2 was cloned, sequenced and analyzed. The deduced prot...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Mojib N,Andersen DT,Bej AK

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A species of Dechlorospirillum was isolated from an Fe(II)-oxidizing, opposing-gradient-culture enrichment using an inoculum from a circumneutral, freshwater creek that showed copious amounts of Fe(III) (hydr)oxide precipitation. In gradient cultures amended with a redox indicator to visualize the depth of oxygen pene...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Picardal FW,Zaybak Z,Chakraborty A,Schieber J,Szewzyk U

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumanii, which may be found in water, is an important emerging hospital-acquired pathogen. Free-living amoebae can be recovered from the same water networks, and it has been shown that these protozoa may support the growth of other bacteria. In this paper, we have studied potential relationships between...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cateau E,Verdon J,Fernandez B,Hechard Y,Rodier MH

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bradyrhizobium japonicum has two types of flagella. One has thin filaments consisting of the 33-kDa flagellins FliCI and FliCII (FliCI-II) and the other has thick filaments consisting of the 65-kDa flagellins FliC1, FliC2, FliC3, and FliC4 (FliC1-4). To investigate the roles of each flagellum in competition for nodula...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Althabegoiti MJ,Covelli JM,Pérez-Giménez J,Quelas JI,Mongiardini EJ,López MF,López-García SL,Lodeiro AR

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterization of genomic variation among different microbial species, or different strains of the same species, is a field of significant interest with a wide range of potential applications. We have investigated the genomic variation in mycorrhizal fungal genomes through genomic suppressive subtractive hybridizati...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Murat C,Zampieri E,Vallino M,Daghino S,Perotto S,Bonfante P

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pantoea ananatis accumulates gluconate during aerobic growth in the presence of glucose. Computer analysis of the P. ananatis SC17(0) sequenced genome revealed an ORF encoding a homologue (named gcd) of the mGDH (EC 1.1.99.17) apoenzyme from Escherichia coli and a putative pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) biosynthetic o...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Andreeva IG,Golubeva LI,Kuvaeva TM,Gak ER,Katashkina JI,Mashko SV

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial swarming motility is a flagella-dependent translocation on the surface environment. It has received extensive attention as a population behavior involving numerous genes. Here, we report that Citrobacter freundii, an opportunistic pathogen, exhibits swarming movement on a solid medium surface with appropriat...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cong Y,Wang J,Chen Z,Xiong K,Xu Q,Hu F

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial pathogens face constant challenges from DNA-damaging agents generated by host phagocytes. Although Borrelia burgdorferi appears to have much fewer DNA repair enzymes than pathogens with larger genomes, it does contain homologues of uvrA and uvrB (subunits A and B of excinuclease ABC). As a first step to expl...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Sambir M,Ivanova LB,Bryksin AV,Godfrey HP,Cabello FC

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriocins from gram-positive bacteria are potent antimicrobial peptides that inhibit pathogenic and food-spoilage bacteria. They are usually ineffective against gram-negative bacteria because they cannot penetrate the outer membrane (OM). Disruption of the OM of some gram-negative bacteria was reported to sensitize...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Martin-Visscher LA,Yoganathan S,Sit CS,Lohans CT,Vederas JC

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella Typhimurium harbors two Salmonella pathogenicity islands (SPIs), each encoding a type three secretion system for virulence proteins. Although there is increasing evidence of postinvasion roles for SPI-1, it has been generally accepted that SPI-1 genes are downregulated following the invasion process. Here, ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Giacomodonato MN,Sarnacki SH,Llana MN,Cerquetti MC

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carboxy (C)-terminal processing proteases (CTP) are a relatively new group of serine proteases. Found in a broad range of organisms - bacteria, archaea, algae, plants and animals - these proteases are involved in the C-terminal processing of proteins. In comparison with amino-terminal processing of bacterial proteins,...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hoge R,Laschinski M,Jaeger KE,Wilhelm S,Rosenau F

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brettanomyces/Dekkera yeasts have been identified as part of the grape yeast flora. They are well known for colonizing the cellar environmental and spoiling wines, causing haze, turbidity and strong off-flavours in wines and enhancing the volatile acidity. As the general practices applied to combat Brettanomyces/Dekke...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Comitini F,Ciani M

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous work, only one culture (strain TA12) from a pristine site was reported to utilize the xenobiotic compound p-toluenesulfonate (TSA) as a sole source of carbon and energy for aerobic growth. 'Strain TA12' has now been recognized as a community of three bacteria: Achromobacter xylosoxidans TA12-A, Ensifer adh...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Tralau T,Yang EC,Tralau C,Cook AM,Küpper FC

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of four electron acceptors on hydrocarbon-induced methanogenesis was studied. Methanogenesis from residual hydrocarbons may enhance the exploitation of oil reservoirs and may improve bioremediation. The conditions to drive the rate-limiting first hydrocarbon-oxidizing steps for the conversion of hydrocarbon...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Siegert M,Cichocka D,Herrmann S,Gründger F,Feisthauer S,Richnow HH,Springael D,Krüger M

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00