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The crystal morphology and the profiles of genes encoding protein toxins (Cry and Cyt) were analyzed in 12 Bacillus thuringiensis strains isolated during epizootics in laboratory culture lines of Cydia pomonella, 2 isolates cultured from Leucoma salicis larvae, and 9 reference strains. Epizootic isolates produced crystals of the same bipyramidal shape; however, they revealed
a variety of number and type of cry genes. Genes cry1I, cry2Ab, and cry9B were the most frequently observed in epizootic strains. Gene cry1I was noted in of 50% epizootic isolates. Eighty-three percent of them harbored gene cry2Ab. Gene cry9B was found for 42% of strains isolated during epizootics. Three isolates showed the largest number of cry genes and their variety; hence, they were chosen for the toxicity assay of their crystals and spores on C. pomonella larvae. One of them had approximately sixfold higher insecticidal activity than the reference strain B. thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki BTK STANDARD. 相似文献
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Bacterial spores are the most resistant form of life and have been a major threat to public health and food safety. Nonthermal
atmospheric gas discharge plasma is a novel sterilization method that leaves no chemical residue. In our study, a helium radio-frequency
cold plasma jet was used to examine its sporicidal effect on selected strains of Bacillus and Clostridium. The species tested included Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus stearothermophilus, Clostridium sporogenes, Clostridium perfringens, Clostridium difficile, and Clostridium botulinum type A and type E. The plasmas were effective in inactivating selected Bacillus and Clostridia spores with D values (decimal reduction time) ranging from 2 to 8 min. Among all spores tested, C. botulinum type A and C. sporogenes were significantly more resistant to plasma inactivation than other species. Observations by phase contrast microscopy showed
that B. subtilis spores were severely damaged by plasmas and the majority of the treated spores were unable to initiate the germination process.
There was no detectable fragmentation of the DNA when the spores were treated for up to 20 min. The release of dipicolinic
acid was observed almost immediately after the plasma treatment, indicating the spore envelope damage could occur quickly
resulting in dipicolinic acid release and the reduction of spore resistance. 相似文献
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Changlong Shu Hong Yu Rongyan Wang Shuliang Fen Xudong Su Dafang Huang Jie Zhang Fuping Song 《Current microbiology》2009,58(4):389-392
Two novel cry8-type genes, cry8Ea1 and cry8Fa1, obtained from a Holotrichia parallela–specific Bacillus thuringiensis strain, BT185, were characterized. Findings showed that cry8Ea1 and cry8Fa1 encoded polypeptides of 1164 and 1174 amino acid residues, respectively. The deduced amino acid sequences of both Cry8Ea1
and Cry8Fa1 polypeptides are the most similar to that of Cry8Ba1. Eight conserved blocks (blocks 1–8) exist in Cry8Ea1 and
Cry8Fa1 polypeptides compared with known Cry proteins. Cry8Ea1 and the Cry8Fa1 toxins could form spheric crystals when they
were expressed in the acrystalliferous mutant strain HD73−. The spores and crystals from the recombinant strain containing cry8Ea1 were toxic to Holotrichia parallela, with an LC50 of 0.0875 × 108 colony-forming units (CFU)/g. However, Cry8Fa1 expressed in the recombinant strain was not toxic to H. parallela, Anomala corpulenta, or H. oblita. 相似文献
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The Streptomyces coelicolor genome contains 17 TerD domain-encoding genes (tdd genes) of unknown function. The proteins encoded by these genes have been presumed to be involved in tellurite resistance
on the basis of their homology with the protein TerD of Serratia marcescens. To elucidate the role of a Tdd protein (Tdd8), both a deletion mutant for the corresponding gene tdd8 (SCO2368) and a recombinant strain over-expressing tdd8 were produced in S. coelicolor M145. The deletion mutant (Δtdd8), like the wild strain, was not resistant to potassium tellurite. The deletion was not lethal but had a marked effect on
differentiation. The deletion strain showed more rapid growth in liquid medium and produced long chains of short spores with
a dense and non-spherical spore wall on agar plates. The strain over-expressing tdd8 had a growth delay in liquid medium and produced very few spores of irregular shapes and sizes on solid medium. The results
of this study demonstrated that Tdd proteins might have a function other than tellurite resistance and this function seems
to be of crucial importance for the proper development of the actinomycete S. coelicolor. 相似文献
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The htpG null mutant was obtained by inserting a chloramphenicol resistance cassette (Cm
r) in the htpG coding sequence. The htpG null mutant (htpG), hsp16.6, and the double mutant, htpG::hsp16.6 cells showed little growth disadvantage at 30°C and 37°C, but not at 40°C. This suggests that HtpG and HSP16.6 proteins do not have an essential role during growth at normal and mildly elevated temperatures. Cell growth, cell survival rate, and oxygen electrode measurements demonstrated that htpG, hsp16.6, and htpG::hsp16.6 cells were sensitive to heat stress. Decreased basal and acquired thermotolerance was observed when mutants were heat shocked, with htpG::hsp16.6 being the most sensitive. A comparison of mutants showed that hsp16.6 was more sensitive to heat shock than htpG.
Received: 19 November 2002 / Accepted: 19 December 2002 相似文献
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The maT clade of transposons is a group of transposable elements intermediate in sequence and predicted protein structure to mariner and Tc transposons, with a distribution thus far limited to a few invertebrate species. We present evidence, based on searches of publicly available databases, that the nematode Caenorhabditis briggsae has several maT-like transposons, which we have designated as CbmaT elements, dispersed throughout its genome. We also describe two additional transposon sequences that probably share their evolutionary history with the CbmaT transposons. One resembles a fold back variant of a CbmaT element, with long (380-bp) inverted terminal repeats (ITRs) that show a high degree (71%) of identity to CbmaT1. The other, which shares only the 26-bp ITR sequences with one of the CbmaT variants, is present in eight nearly identical copies, but does not have a transposase gene and may therefore be cross mobilised by a CbmaT transposase. Using PCR-based mobility assays, we show that CbmaT1 transposons are capable of excising from the C. briggsae genome. CbmaT1 excised approximately 500 times less frequently than Tcb1 in the reference strain AF16, but both CbmaT1 and Tcb1 excised at extremely high frequencies in the HK105 strain. The HK105 strain also exhibited a high frequency of spontaneous induction of unc-22 mutants, suggesting that it may be a mutator strain of C. briggsae. 相似文献
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A new species from the Bolivian highlands is described as Elaphoglossum cristatum. It is very similar to E. engelii but is characterized by a (for subsect. Muscosa unique) cristate perispore structure with irregular deposits (versus papillate spores), more densely ciliate petiole scales
(50–80 versus 10–30 cilia per scale), somewhat thicker blade texture, denser scale cover, and paler, more reddish rhizome
scales. 相似文献
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We have investigated the floral ontogeny of Arillastrum, Allosyncarpia, Stockwellia and Eucalyptopsis (of the eucalypt group, Myrtaceae) using scanning electron microscopy and light microscopy. Several critical characters for establishing relationships between these genera and to the eucalypts have been determined. The absence of compound petaline primordia in Arillastrum, Allosyncarpia, Stockwellia and Eucalyptopsis excludes these taxa from the eucalypt clade. Post-anthesis circumscissile abscission of the hypanthium above the ovary in Stockwellia, Eucalyptopsis and Allosyncarpia is evidence that these three taxa form a monophyletic group; undifferentiated perianth parts and elongated fusiform buds are characters that unite Stockwellia and Eucalyptopsis as sister taxa. No floral characters clearly associate Arillastrum with either the eucalypt clade or the clade of Stockwellia, Eucalyptopsis and Allosyncarpia.We gratefully acknowledge Clyde Dunlop and Bob Harwood (Northern Territory Herbarium) for collecting specimens of Allosyncarpia, and Bruce Gray (Atherton) for collecting specimens of Stockwellia. The Australian National Herbarium (CANB) kindly lent herbarium specimens of Eucalyptopsis for examination. This research was supported by a University of Melbourne Research Development Grant to Andrew Drinnan. 相似文献
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Plasmodiphora brassicae is a soil-borne obligate parasite. The pathogen has three stages in its life cycle: survival in soil, root hair infection,
and cortical infection. Resting spores of P. brassicae have a great ability to survive in soil. These resting spores release primary zoospores. When a zoospore reaches the surface
of a root hair, it penetrates through the cell wall. This stage is termed the root hair infection stage. Inside root hairs
the pathogen forms primary plasmodia. A number of nuclear divisions occur synchronously in the plasmodia, followed by cleavage
into zoosporangia. Later, 4–16 secondary zoospores are formed in each zoosporangium and released into the soil. Secondary
zoospores penetrate the cortical tissues of the main roots, a process called cortical infection. Inside invaded roots cells,
the pathogen develops into secondary plasmodia which are associated with cellular hypertrophy, followed by gall formation
in the tissues. The plasmodia finally develop into a new generation of resting spores, followed by their release back into
soil as survival structures. In vitro dual cultures of P. brassicae with hairy root culture and suspension cultures have been developed to provide a way to nondestructively observe the growth
of this pathogen within host cells. The development of P. brassicae in the hairy roots was similar to that found in intact plants. The observations of the cortical infection stage suggest that
swelling of P. brassicae-infected cells and abnormal cell division of P. brassicae-infected and adjacent cells will induce hypertrophy and that movement of plasmodia by cytoplasmic streaming increases the
number of P. brassicae-infected cells during cell division. 相似文献
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Studying Pneumocystis has proven to be a challenge from the perspective of propagating a significant amount of the pathogen in a facile manner.
The study of several fungal pathogens has been aided by the use of invertebrate model hosts. Our efforts to infect the invertebrate
larvae Galleria
mellonella with Pneumocystis proved futile since P. murina neither caused disease nor was able to proliferate within G. mellonella. It did, however, show that the pathogen could be rapidly cleared from the host. 相似文献
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The inhibition of mycelial growth of Lagenidium giganteum by neem oil was lower than that of Metarhizium anisopliae in PYG and Emerson’s YpSs agar media. However, neem oil did not inhibit the mycelial growth of L. giganteum in sunflower seed extract agar medium, but did it inhibit the mycelial growth of M. anisopliae. The minimum inhibitory concentration of neem oil for L. giganteum was higher than that for M. anisopliae. The minimum fungicidal concentration of neem oil in PYG medium was lower than in YpSs for both fungi. The spores of L. giganteum grown in SFE medium could be used with neem oil for vector control. 相似文献
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A genetic transformation system has been developed for callus cells of Crataegus
aronia using Agrobacterium
tumefaciens. Callus culture was established from internodal stem segments incubated on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with
5 mg l−1 Indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) and 0.5 mg l−1 6-benzyladenine (BA). In order to optimize the callus culture system with respect to callus growth and coloration, different
types and concentrations of plant growth regulators were tested. Results indicated that the best average fresh weight of red
colored callus was obtained on MS medium supplemented with 2 mg l−1 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and 1.5 mg l−1 kinetin (Kin) (callus maintenance medium). Callus cells were co-cultivated with Agrobacterium harboring the binary plasmid pCAMBIA1302 carrying the mgfp5 and hygromycin phosphotransferase (hptII) genes conferring green fluorescent protein (GFP) activity and hygromycin resistance, respectively. Putative transgenic calli
were obtained 4 weeks after incubation of the co-cultivated explants onto maintenance medium supplemented with 50 mg l−1 hygromycin. Molecular analysis confirmed the integration of the transgenes in transformed callus. To our knowledge, this
is the first time to report an Agrobacterium-mediated transformation system in Crataegus
aronia. 相似文献
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Tanino T Aoki T Chung WY Watanabe Y Ogino C Fukuda H Kondo A 《Applied microbiology and biotechnology》2009,82(1):59-66
Previous studies have demonstrated the efficacy of our Bacillus cereus isolate (NRRL 100132) in reducing concentrations of nitrogenous wastes and inhibiting growth of fish pathogens. In vivo efficacy
and tolerance to a range of physiological conditions in systems used to rear Cyprinus carpio make this isolate an excellent candidate for aquaculture applications. Production cost is an important consideration in development
of commercially relevant biological products, and this study examines the optimization of nutrient supplementation, which
has an impact on high-density production of spores by fermentation. Corn steep liquor (CSL) was identified as a lower cost
and more effective nutrient source in comparison to conventional nutrient substrates, in particular yeast extract and nutrient
broth. The improved sporulation performance of B. cereus could be related to the increased availability of free amino acids, carbohydrates, and minerals in CSL, which had a positive
effect on sporulation efficiency. The impact of nutrient concentration on spore yield and productivity was modeled to develop
a tool for optimization of nutrient concentration in fermentation. An excellent fit of the model was confirmed in laboratory
fermentation studies. A cost comparison revealed that production using liquid phytase and ultrafiltered-treated CSL was less
expensive than spray-dried CSL and supported cultivation of B. cereus spores at densities higher than 1 × 1010 CFU ml−1. 相似文献
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M. Gomathy M. Thangaraju S. Gunasekaran N. O. Gopal 《Indian journal of microbiology》2007,47(3):259-262
Sporulation in Bacillus megaterium var phosphaticum (PB — 1) was induced using modified nutrient media. This modified medium induced sporulation within 36 h. After spore induction
the spores were kept under refrigerated (5°C) and room temperature (32°C) for five months and survival of spores was studied
at 15 days intervals by plating them in nutrient agar medium. It was observed that there was not much variation in the storage
temperature (5°C & 32°C). The spore cells of Bacillus megaterium var phosphaticum (PB — 1) were observed up to five months of storage under refrigerated (5°C) and room temperature (32°C). Regeneration of
spore cells into vegetative cells was studied in tap water, rice gruel, nutrient broth, sterile lignite and sterile water
at different concentrations of spore inoculum. The multiplication of sporulated Bacillus megaterium var phosphaticum culture was fast and reached its maximum (29.5 × 108 cfu ml−1) in nutrient broth containing 5 per cent inoculum level. 相似文献
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Imed Sbissi Mohamed Neffati Abdellatif Boudabous Claude Murat Maher Gtari 《Antonie van Leeuwenhoek》2010,98(4):429-436
The molecular phylogeny and comparative morphological studies reported here provide evidence for the recognition of the genus
Picoa, an hypogeous desert truffle, in the family Pyronemataceae (Ascomycota, Pezizales). Picoa juniperi and Picoa lefebvrei were reassigned to the genus Picoa based on large subunit (LSU) sequence (28S) rDNA and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) rDNA (including the partial 18S, ITS1,
ITS2, 5.8S gene, and partial 28S of the nuclear rDNA) data. Morphological studies of spores, asci, perida, and gleba revealed
high similarities between P. lefebvrei and P. juniperi, thereby confirming the membership of both species in the genus Picoa. These two species were primarily distinguishable based on ascospore ornamentation. 相似文献
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Stefanie Kimbacher Ingrid Gerstl Branko Velimirov Sylvia Hagemann 《Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG》2009,282(2):165-172
P transposons belong to the eukaryotic DNA transposons, which are transposed by a cut and paste mechanism using a P-element-coded transposase. They have been detected in Drosophila, and reside as single copies and stable homologous sequences in many vertebrate species. We present the P elements Pcin1, Pcin2 and Pcin3 from Ciona intestinalis, a species of the most primitive chordates, and compare them with those from Ciona savignyi. They showed typical DNA transposon structures, namely terminal inverted repeats and target site duplications. The coding
region of Pcin1 consisted of 13 small exons that could be translated into a P-transposon-homologous protein. C. intestinalis and C. savignyi displayed nearly the same phenotype. However, their P elements were highly divergent and the assumed P transposase from C. intestinalis was more closely related to the transposase from Drosophila melanogaster than to the transposase of C. savignyi. The present study showed that P elements with typical features of transposable DNA elements may be found already at the base of the chordate lineage.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献
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Nobuo Mitsui Hisashi Murasawa Junichi Sekiguchi 《Applied microbiology and biotechnology》2009,82(4):741-748
The effects of cortex-lysis related genes with the pdaA, sleB, and cwlD mutations of Bacillus subtilis (natto) NAFM5 on sporulation and germination were investigated. Single or double mutations did not prevent normal sporulation, but
did affect germination. Germination was severely inhibited by the double mutation of sleB and cwlD. The quality of natto made with the sleB cwlD double mutant was tested, and the amounts of glutamic acid and ammonia were very similar to those in the wild type. The possibility
of industrial development of natto containing a reduced number of viable spores is presented. 相似文献
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The cry8C-type gene designated cry8Ca2, which was cloned and sequenced from a Bacillus thuringiensis isolate HBF-1 in China, consisted of an open reading frame of 3483 bp encoding a protein of 1160 amino-acid residues. Sequence
analysis showed that the Cry8Ca2 protoxin of 130.5 kDa had 99.9% sequence homology with the previously reported Cry8Ca1 protein,
with one mismatch between the two amino-acid sequences. When the Cry8Ca2 toxin was expressed in a crystal-negative strain
of B. thuringiensis (HD-73−), elliptical crystals were produced. Cell extracts from this recombinant strain showed insecticidal activity against Anomala corpulenta larva. Mutant cry8Ca2 genes, produced by polymerase chain reaction amplification with Taq DNA polymerase, were used to develop recombinant B. thuringiensis strains. Mutants producing higher levels of insecticidal activity were identified by bioassay. Thirty-five mutants forming
crystals were characterized, and two of them showed significantly increased insecticidal activity against A. corpulenta larva. The 50% lethality concentrations (LC50) of the two mutants were 0.2334 × 108 and 0.2591 × 108 colony-forming units g−1, considerably lower than the LC50 of the wild-type strain HBF-1 (0.9583 × 108 CFU g−1) and that of B. thuringiensis serovar japonensis strain Buibui (1.0752 × 108 CFU g−1). 相似文献
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Kenneth M Noll Pascal Lapierre J Peter Gogarten Dhaval M Nanavati 《BMC evolutionary biology》2008,8(1):7
Background
The mal genes that encode maltose transporters have undergone extensive lateral transfer among ancestors of the archaea Thermococcus litoralis and Pyrococcus furiosus. Bacterial hyperthermophiles of the order Thermotogales live among these archaea and so may have shared in these transfers. The genome sequence of Thermotoga maritima bears evidence of extensive acquisition of archaeal genes, so its ancestors clearly had the capacity to do so. We examined deep phylogenetic relationships among the mal genes of these hyperthermophiles and their close relatives to look for evidence of shared ancestry. 相似文献20.
Analía Álvarez Eduardo G. Virla Licia M. Pera Mario D. Baigorí 《Biotechnology letters》2009,31(12):1899-1903
Twelve Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) strains, isolated from larvae and soil samples in Argentina, were molecularly and phenotypically characterized and their
insecticidal activities against Spodoptera frugiperda and Peridroma saucia were determined. One isolate—Bt RT—produced more than 93% mortality on first instar larvae of both species, which was higher than that produced by the reference
strain Bt 4D1. Bt RT carried a different cry gene profile than Bt 4D1. Scanning electron microscopy showed the presence of bipyramidal and cuboidal crystals. Phenotypic characterization revealed
lytic enzymes that could contribute to Bt pathogenicity. 相似文献