03.09.2010 | William J. Hunter, Daniel K. Manter, Current Microbiology, 2010

A Gram-negative, yellow pigmented bacterium designated strain CA5T that reduced selenite to elemental red selenium was isolated from soil. 16S rRNA gene sequence alignment identified the isolate as a novel Pseudomonas species with P. argentinensis, P. flavescens, and P. straminea as its ...

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28.08.2010 | Mayumi Matsushita-Morita, Sawaki Tada, Satoshi Suzuki, Ryota Hattori, Junichiro Marui, Ikuyo Furukawa, Youhei Yamaga ..., Current Microbiology, 2010

Leucine aminopeptidase (LAP), an enzyme used in the food industry, is an exopeptidase that removes an amino acid residue, primarily leucine (Leu), from the N-terminus of peptides and protein substrates. In this study, we focused on the leucine aminopeptidase A (lapA) gene from Aspergillus ...

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24.08.2010 | Syed Imteyaz Alam, Sunita Bansod, Ajay Kumar Goel, Lokendra Singh, Current Microbiology, 2010

Bacillus anthracis, the etiological agent of anthrax, is responsible for a serious and often fatal disease of mammalian livestock and humans and is an important biological warfare agent. Bacillus sp. AKG was isolated from a hot spring in western Himalayas and species-specific primers ...

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20.08.2010 | M. K. Chattopadhyay, G. Raghu, Y. V. R. K. Sharma, A. R. Biju, M. V. Rajasekharan, S. Shivaji, Current Microbiology, 2010

Association between cold stress and oxidative stress was demonstrated by measuring the activity of two antioxidant enzymes and the level of free radicals generated in two batches of cells of an Antarctic bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens MTCC 667, grown at 22 and 4°C. Increase in oxidative ...

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18.08.2010 | Josefa Bezerra da Silva, Eneas Carvalho, Rudy A. Hartskeerl, Paulo L. Ho, Current Microbiology, 2010

Leptospirosis is an important epidemic zoonosis worldwide. Currently, there are more than 250 Leptospira pathogenic serovars known that can potentially infect humans. Conventional classification of leptospires with the serovar as the basic taxon, based on serological recognition of ...

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18.08.2010 | Munees Ahemad, Md. Saghir Khan, Current Microbiology, 2010

This study examines the effect of four herbicides, quizalafop-p-ethyl, clodinafop, metribuzin and glyphosate, on plant growth promoting activities like phosphate solubilization, siderophores, indole acetic acid, exo-polysaccharides, hydrogen cyanide and ammonia production by herbicide ...

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18.08.2010 | Alejandra Habarta, Patricia A. E. Abreu, Noelia Olivera, Pricila Hauk, Maia T. Cédola, María F. Ferrer, Paulo L. Ho, ..., Current Microbiology, 2010

Leptospirosis is one of the most widespread zoonosis in the world. The development of a recombinant leptospira vaccine remains a challenge. In this study, we cloned the Leptospira interrogans open reading frame (ORF) coding the external membrane protein LipL32, an immunodominant antigen found ...

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18.08.2010 | Ahmet Yilmaz Coban, Akif Koray Guney, Yeliz Tanriverdi Cayci, Belma Durupinar, Current Microbiology, 2010

In this study, the effects of 1-(1-naphtylmethyl)-piperazine (NMP), an efflux pump inhibitor, on antimicrobial drug susceptibilities of 42 clinical Acinetobacter baumannii isolates were investigated by the disc diffusion method. The inhibition zone diameters of antibiotic discs were tested in ...

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17.08.2010 | Ruisheng An, Parwinder S. Grewal, Current Microbiology, 2010

Association between bacteria Photorhabdus and their nematode hosts Heterorhabditis represents one of the emerging models in symbiosis studies. In this study, we isolated the bacterial symbionts of the nematode Heterorhabditis georgiana. Using gyrB sequences for phylogenetic analysis, these ...

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17.08.2010 | Hong Du, Xiumei Sheng, Haifang Zhang, Xin Zou, Bin Ni, Shungao Xu, Xueming Zhu, Huaxi Xu, Xinxiang Huang, Current Microbiology, 2010

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi z66 positive strain contains a fljBA-like operon on a linear plasmid. The operon contains the gene fljB:z66 which encodes the z66 antigen. RpoE is a sigma factor σE that initiates transcription of a series of genes in Escherichia and Salmonella under ...

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